Hello and welcome to the page where I rant about TV-shows.

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The two first things I'm adding is of course my two comfort/guilty pleasure shows:

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The first time I watched Teen Wolf was in 2016. I binged it when I was supposed to study for my German oral exam – a stupid move since I was and still am very bad at speaking German.

The exam started okay having to translate a relatively easy text but quickly started going downhill once we switched to speaking German. I stammered through a single sentence before stopping – my mind totally blank, my heart racing and the two teachers staring intensely at me. That was when I started crying.

The teachers, probably unsure of what two do, just kept staring. My mind was blank. It was going terribly and a close friend of mine had already failed this exam the day before. They were for sure going to fail me too.

One of my teachers left to get me some water leaving me alone with the other teacher. In what felt like an eternity we sat in complete silence except of course for my sniffling. The silence made me want to cry harder but at the same time I was fighting to regain control of myself. When the other teacher finally came back, I manage to stumble my way through a few questions in German.

When it came time to give me my grade the teachers tried there best to be gentle. They told me; “You did really well on the translation part but we sadly didn’t have that much time to evaluate your conversation skills so we can only give you a C-.”

I think they expected me to be disappointed maybe even feared that I would start crying again but I almost burst out laughing. I was over the moon! Like I said I had never been very good at German and even without the crying I had never expected the exam to go well so I had essentially cried myself to a C-. I had a spring in my step and a giddy smile on my lips alle the way home.

For better or for worse those two events – watching Teen Wolf for the first time and my disastrous German exam – will forever be linked in my mind.

Just like my disastrous German exam Teen wolf have some great parts in the first half and some rough parts in the second half but ultimately manages to be something I look back on fondly – with a giddy joy even. But unlike the German exam I can revisit all the great parts of Teen Wolf as often as I want.

Now that that story is out of the way, and you truly understand the almost spiritual connection I have to this show let me actually tell you about it! (Spoilers obviously)

If you ask me and many other the true beauty of Teen Wolf lies in how it seamlessly changes and grows. The tone of the show shifts and bends like a river almost changing the entire genre at points and the characters grows yet stay recognizable.

When the first season start the show is just another teen drama ~ but with a werewolf twist ~. The cast is mostly made of clichés. You have the mean popular girl, Lydia; the love interest who is new to the town and self-proclaimed “not a girly girl”, Allison; the main duo consisting of the funny best friend, Stiles; and the main character, Scott, who is supposed to be ‘the nerd’ (we know this because Stiles says so in the first episode but Scott is conventionally attractive, in to sports and have seemingly no nerdy hobbies so really he is just kind of unpopular) and the two main obstacles is the popular jock, Jackson, who will do anything to stay on top and Allison’s disapproving dad.

It starts of simple but over the course of the 3 first seasons we see these characters be completely turned upside down Lydia goes from being an shallow popular girl to being a genius, a banshee and not least a social outcast; Jackson loses everything in his pursuit for power and end up being nothing more than a tool for other villains to use; Stiles who constantly jokes around ends up being at the center of some of the most heart wrenching plotlines the show has to offer (seriously Dylan O’Brien has the range and the show lives or dies with him); and Scott goes from being a looser to being a true leader, a true alfa.

Season one has some horror elements when focused on the werewolf parts, like Scott being attacked after finding a corps in the woods at night or almost hunting down and eating Stiles around the full moon. But it manages to be mostly cheesy and funny in tone either but failing to make some of the horror parts scarry like Derek always goofily staring at Scott from behind a tree or by being genuinely cheesy-romantic like the thought of Allison being the only thing that can calm Scott down when he is in his werewolf state, Scott clumsily trying to hide his werewolf-ness from everyone but his best friend or Stiles concerned googling ‘Werewolf’. This season is just a good introduction to all the characters and the most basic parts of the lore.


More thoughts on Teen Wolf comming soon... (hopefully)


Teen Wolf: The Movie (2023)

I am nowhere near done reviewing the actual show but the Teen Wolf movie just came out (as of the time of writing this) and I need to talk about it.

First of all, no one can deny that this movie is full of fan service/nostalgia bate but with it being years since we last got any new Teen Wolf content I’ll be dammed if it isn’t working on me. This movie feels like an episode of the show and a good episode of that. It feels like watching season one again and it is no doubt thanks to the characters they chose to include: Scott, Allison, Derek, Lydia, Jackson, and so on. The only character that are missing is Stiles (which is a crime that I will get back to later) but you don’t even miss him that much because they made a new character, Derek’s son Eli, who have most of the same character traits.

The writers really said who are the most beloved characters? You will have them. Who was the best villain from the original show (the nogitsune)? He is back. Who was the best ship? They will be together by the end. And when they just made a movie about that.

I will admit that the plot isn’t the most inspired: The nogitsune, the chaos spirit, decides that the best way to create chaos is to bring Allison back to life but erase enough of her memories so that she thinks that she is a ruthless werewolf hunter. She then try to kill the rest of the characters until Scott (and Lydia) helps her remember through the power of love and friendship. The plot is mostly an excuse to bring all our favorite characters back to Beacon Hills (except for Stiles. He was busy.) and have some great callbacks and character moments.

Now I think I have made it clear that I had a great time watching this movie however it is not without its faults (wouldn’t be a true Teen Wolf project without it).

Worst of all, like I have said twice already, there is no Stiles. It’s probably because Dylan O’Brien either demanded to much money to be in the movie or because he is done being associated with something as trashy (said with all my affection) as Teen Wolf. Nonetheless it is still a crime and not just because Stiles is my favorite character. The nogitsune was his antagonist. It spent an entire season tormenting and possessing him. Out of all the characters Stiles had the closes relationship with the nogitsune. He knows the way it thinks. To the nogitsune everything is a game. It should have been Stiles who played the game. They try to make Scott fill this role. Having him point out that the nogitsune wins if Scott dies in Alison’s arms like Alison died in his but it would have just been more meaningful if it was Stiles who figured it out. They just loss so much storytelling potential by Stiles not being there.

Other than that, I only have a few nitpicky issues I feel compelled to talk about:

1) Why does Perrish always have to be is a weird relationship with a younger woman? They are all aged up from the show so it is not as creepy this time but still why? You are making it hard for me to enjoy by favorite unpopular character.

2) Why is Jackson even there? I know we all like him and he has some funny lines her and there but the movie claims that Lydia explicitly asked for him to come help and he ends up doing two (2) kind of smart things on accident and nothing else. He doesn’t even do anything related to him being a kanima! They mention it twice, but he doesn’t use it. There was even a perfect moment near the end of the movie when the chemistry teacher is threatening Lydia where he could have easily reached out and used his PARALYZING VENOM to save her. Couldn’t the costume department find his claws or something?

3) If it was endgame for Scott to adopt Eli, they should have build on their relationship a little more in my opinion. Or just mentioned that Scott wanted kids more than once at the beginning of the movie. I had completely forgotten about it when they brought it up again during the last two minutes.

Anyways that’s enough complaining! I had a lovely time watching the movie and I kind of hope they make more!

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Also comming soon i hope

SECOND OF I wouldn’t say that I’m obsessed with superheroes – I mean I barely read any comics – but I definitely have some sort of fascination with them. As a result, I have tried (key word here is tried) watching all the modern live-action superhero shows out there. As a results, I have watched way too many superhero shows. I don’t think I’m the only one feeling a little burned out from them.

So let me tell you what I think about them!

The CW shows (mostly Arrowverse):

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The Flash (2014-) ★★☆☆☆ How far I watch: s4e17 Episodes I keep returning to: s1e1, s3e21 and s4e1

I remember genuinely enjoying the first three seasons of The Flash when I first watched it though to be honest most of that must have been because I was in love with Grant Gustin. Looking back on it now the first season it really the only one you could describe as good.

The shows really suffer from having a way too overpowered protagonist that succeeds at being a hero way too quickly. As a result, they have to make Barry really stupid (you can seriously find so many compilations on youtube of him just letting villains get away for no reason) which we establish in the pilot that he isn’t OR keep making the villains faster than him. Neither of these are fun in the long run.

There is a reason that the episodes I keep coming back to is the genuinely great pilot and the memory loss episodes where Barry have a reason to act like an idiot.
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Superman & Lois (2021-) ★★★★☆ How far I watch: s2e4 (but I will watch the rest when I get to it!) Episodes I keep returning to: s1e1

The thing that Superman & Lois gets right that The Flash just doesn’t understand is that when you have an overpowered character the entire show just can’t be about their superhero journey, fighting supervillains and learning to become a better hero. Superman is already a good hero! He has been doing this for 30 years or something!

So Superman & Lois isn’t about Superman fighting supervillains (but there is also a little bit of that don’t get me wrong). It is about Clark and Lois learning to be parents and raising two teenagers, something that they aren’t immediately amazing at. It is about their kids learning to deal with their dad being a superhero and an alien, about them clumsily learning to control their own powers and the responsibilities that follow.

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Arrow (2012-2020) ★★☆☆☆ How far I watch: s3 Episodes I keep returning to: N/A

I remember that it was kind of interesting and different in the beginning. It was almost like a soap opera or something, but I ended up becoming bored of it for some reason…

I remember surprisingly little about this show.

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Legends of Tomorrow (2016-) ★★★☆☆ How far I watch: s5 (and I will watch more once I get to it) Episodes I keep returning to: N/A

Considering that this is an ensemble show of all the rejected superheroes from the other failed arrowverse shows Legends of Tomorrow is actually surprisingly good! (At least once you get through the pilot)
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Supergirl (2015-2021) ★★☆☆☆ How far I watch: s2 ? Episodes I keep returning to: N/A

It is one of those shows where I was more interested in some of the side characters than the main character. Kara is just so boring and likeable to the point of having no edge at all?
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Stargirl (2020-) ★☆☆☆☆ How far I watch: s1e12 Episodes I keep returning to: N/A

Dog ass!

The plot is boring, and the acting is bad! I was so bored that I stopped watching halfway through the two-part season finally!

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Swamp Thing (2019) ★★★★☆ How far I watch: COMPLETED Episodes I keep returning to: ALL OF IT

I truly genuinely honestly love this cringy af show. Reading my critiques of the other CW shows you might wonder what I see in this one, but I can’t explain it. This one is just for me.
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Naomi (2022) ★★★☆☆ How far I watch: COMPLETED Episodes I keep returning to: N/A

This show was probably as average as you can get. Even though it wasn’t bad per say and it had some enjoyable moments I’m not surprised it was canceled after one season.

My personal biggest issue with the show is that the dialog is so bad. These teenagers do not talk like teenager. And I don’t mean in the ‘haha they are using the slang wrong’ kind of way. I mean in the ‘wow all these teens really always have a fully prepared speeches for every occasion’ kind of way.

The other ones:

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Doom Patrol (2019-)

N/A I haven’t made up my mind about this show yet…

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Smallville (2001-2011) ★★★☆☆ How far I watch: s5e14 Episodes I keep returning to: N/A

Fun but I lost steam once he moved to the city.
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Constantine (2014-2015) ★★★☆☆ How far I watch: COMPLETED Episodes I keep returning to: N/A

I like Constantine as a character. There isn’t a lot to say about the show.
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Peacemaker (2022-)

N/A havent watched it yet but I am going to!

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Watchmen (2019) ★☆☆☆☆ How far I watch: s1e4 ? Episodes I keep returning to: N/A

Based on the IMDB score I think a lot of people like this show…

I just thought it was pretentious, hard to follow and as a result not at all fun to watch.

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Titans (2018-)

N/A I'll get back to this one...

The Natflix era:

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Daredevil (2015-2018) ★★★★☆ How far I watch: COMPLETED Episodes I keep returning to: s1e10

Come on, everyone knows this is a great show! The only thing holding it back in my opinion is that the villains aren’t that interesting.
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Iron Fist (2021-) ★★★☆☆ How far I watch: COMPLETED Episodes I keep returning to: N/A

I AM THE iRON fIST. PROTECTOR OF k'UN-LaN. swORN ENEMY OF THE hAND.

Yea, this show is really stupid, and Danny is a moron, but I somehow found myself enjoying this show way more than the later seasons of Jessica Jones and Luke Cage.

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Jessica Jones (2015-2019) ★★★☆☆ How far I watch: s2e7 ? Episodes I keep returning to: N/A

It isn’t bad, but I got bored…
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Luke Cage (2016-2018) ★★★☆☆ How far I watch: s2e3 ? Episodes I keep returning to: N/A

Also wasn’t bad but I still got bored.
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The Defenders (2017) ★★★☆☆ How far I watch: COMPLETED Episodes I keep returning to: s1e4 and s1e6

This show came out at the perfect time. People (me included) were loving the Netflix marvel shows, most of them still only hade one season and hadn’t gone stale yet. It was so fun to watch a crossover where all these characters could interact with each other!

I still regularly rewatch the restaurant episode where they just get to sit and talk together and get to know each other. If the show had had more of those moments, it would have been truly great.

The Disney+ era:

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Loki (2021-) ★★★☆☆ How far I watch: s1 Episodes I keep returning to: N/A

This show managed to make Loki likeable! I’m interested in seeing where it’s going to go next.
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WandaVision (2021) ★★★☆☆ How far I watch: COMPLETED Episodes I keep returning to: N/A

The first few episodes of this show deserve 5 stars. It was so interesting and fresh. It worked so well as a horror-mystery show with a sitcom twist! I was so disappointed when the show devolved into standard CGI fights at the end.
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Hawkeye (2021) ★★★★☆ How far I watch: COMPLETED Episodes I keep returning to: s1e3

This one was just good old fun from a hero who haven’t had much time to shine in the MCU.
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Moon Knight (2022) ★★★★☆ How far I watch: COMPLETED Episodes I keep returning to: N/A

I really liked it! The DID aspect made it feel really fresh!

Other:

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Legion (2017-2019) ★★☆☆☆ How far I watch: s2e1 Episodes I keep returning to: N/A

I have tried getting through this show twice, but it is just not my thing.
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The Gifted (2017-2019) ★★★★☆ How far I watch: COMPLETED Episodes I keep returning to: s1e1,

The Gifted doesn’t get a lot of love online and it isn’t revolutionary in any way, but I really like it. I think I have watched it twice now and it is just everything you want from an x-men related story.
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Runaways (2017-2019) ★★★☆☆ How far I watch: COMPLETED Episodes I keep returning to: N/A

It’s fine.
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Inhumans (2017-2019) ★★☆☆☆ How far I watch: COMPLETED Episodes I keep returning to: N/A

Some of you are maybe going to judge me for this, but I had a lot of fun watching this show.

I can’t in good conscience say that it is a good show but Inhumans definitely caught a case of ‘it’s-so-bad-it’s-good’.

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Cloak & Dagger (2018-2019) ★☆☆☆☆ How far I watch: s1e3 ? Episodes I keep returning to: N/A

Ass! Very boring!

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The Umbrella Academy (2019-) ★★★★☆ How far I watch: s3 Episodes I keep returning to: s1e1

Great show with lots of wacky characters and a lot of heart! I cant wait to see what they are going to do next!
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The Nevers (2021-) ★★★☆☆ How far I watch: s1 Episodes I keep returning to: N/A

Calling this a superhero show might be stretching the definition a little but all the different powers remind me of the x-men. Also, f*** you it’s my list I can do what I want haha!
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Raising Dion (2019-) ★★☆☆☆ How far I watch: s1 Episodes I keep returning to: N/A

Idk I just didn’t find it that interesting.
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Misfits (2009-2013)

N/A I will try and give it another chance before reviewing it.

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I Am Not Okay with This (2020) ★★★★☆ How far I watch: COMPLETED Episodes I keep returning to: N/A

Great show that was cancelled way to early.
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