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shapinglightI feel like I've completely lost the knack of writing about anything wittily or intelligently (which may not be an actual word) but better than not posting at all, I guess?
First, for The Last Kingdom fans among you, it seems there is to be a season 3, but it will air on Netflix only. This doesn't bother me, of course, as I have access to Netflix, but the possibility of there not being a DVD release afterwards bothers me quite a lot. :(
More behind cut, with slight spoilers for Altered Carbon, Jessica Jones 2, The Americans season 6 and Legion season 2. Also some grousing about Lucifer scheduling.
I know the days of DVD/Blu-ray etc are probably coming to an end, and I suppose there can't be any profit for Netflix in releasing their original productions on disc or they would surely do it, but I really wish they would anyway. Otherwise, I know there'll come a time when something I've really enjoyed on Netflix, like Sense 8 or Altered Carbon will just vanish as if it had never existed, and that...would make me very sad.
I think I already said that I've watched Altered Carbon twice now? I might well watch it again soon. I love it. Which I suppose I should fess up and admit is because, high concept be damned, at heart it's a big, soppy love story.
What can I say? I have a Thing for love stories that aren't meant to be love stories - which is possibly why I (almost inevitably) end up 'shipping the 'wrong' relationships.
I did actually think of starting a third re-watch of Altered Carbon the minute I finished the second one, but on reflection I decided to watch something else first so I've started Jessica Jones season 2. I've watched two episodes so far. It's okay, but as of where I've got to the sense of menace that David Tennant's Kilgrave brought to season 1 is missing. I do like Jessica herself, though, and her relationship with Trish. Also amuses me slightly that Rebecca De Mornay, as Trish's pushy mother, is playing essentially the same character she plays as Chloe's pushy mother in Lucifer.
Otherwise, I''m still ploughing my way through season 1 of Mozart in the Jungle on Amazon, because I decided to save the new (fourth) series until I'd re-watched the entire thing. Not getting on very fast but still enjoying it a lot. Then, by other means, watching the final season of The Americans which is brilliant so far and making very good use of some of my favourite Talking Heads songs. Am fairly certain that at least one of the two main characters will die by the end of the season. Sad about it, but at the moment it feels sort of inevitable. On the other hand, with this show, who knows?
And last night I watched the first episode of the new series of Legion, which is already even more surreal and bonkers than anything in the first series. At least in season 1 there wasn't a man with a basket on his head and three moustached female lieutenants. Now there is.
Anyway, it's great. I just wish I'd got around to re-watching season 1 again first.
Finally, there's Lucifer and its annoying scheduling. I don't mean the three week hiatus we're currently in the middle of. Was expecting something like that. It's the confusion over how many episodes there are in the season. I'm mostly getting my info from co-showrunner Joe Henderson on Twitter. Firstly, he said there would be 24 episodes. Then he said that two of those episodes would be standalones. Now he's saying that those standalones will be shown in season 4 (assuming there is one, there's no word on renewal as yet, and I saw Henderson tell a jittery fan on Twitter that they might not know till early May) so there will only be three more episodes when the show comes back from hiatus and the current season will end with episode 22. That's the traditional length of a network series anyway, I know, but because four of this season's episodes have been standalones left over from season 2, that means the actual story arc of season 3 will only have been 18 episodes long, same as season 2. I don't get it. Is this normal? To make more episodes than are needed and hold some over, I mean?
And what happens if the show isn't renewed? Do they show the two standalones or just shelve them for good?
I'm kind of assuming that they wouldn't make those two new standalones at all if they hadn't been secretly reassured that they will be renewed, but for some reason no announcement can be made yet. However, who knows?
First, for The Last Kingdom fans among you, it seems there is to be a season 3, but it will air on Netflix only. This doesn't bother me, of course, as I have access to Netflix, but the possibility of there not being a DVD release afterwards bothers me quite a lot. :(
More behind cut, with slight spoilers for Altered Carbon, Jessica Jones 2, The Americans season 6 and Legion season 2. Also some grousing about Lucifer scheduling.
I know the days of DVD/Blu-ray etc are probably coming to an end, and I suppose there can't be any profit for Netflix in releasing their original productions on disc or they would surely do it, but I really wish they would anyway. Otherwise, I know there'll come a time when something I've really enjoyed on Netflix, like Sense 8 or Altered Carbon will just vanish as if it had never existed, and that...would make me very sad.
I think I already said that I've watched Altered Carbon twice now? I might well watch it again soon. I love it. Which I suppose I should fess up and admit is because, high concept be damned, at heart it's a big, soppy love story.
What can I say? I have a Thing for love stories that aren't meant to be love stories - which is possibly why I (almost inevitably) end up 'shipping the 'wrong' relationships.
I did actually think of starting a third re-watch of Altered Carbon the minute I finished the second one, but on reflection I decided to watch something else first so I've started Jessica Jones season 2. I've watched two episodes so far. It's okay, but as of where I've got to the sense of menace that David Tennant's Kilgrave brought to season 1 is missing. I do like Jessica herself, though, and her relationship with Trish. Also amuses me slightly that Rebecca De Mornay, as Trish's pushy mother, is playing essentially the same character she plays as Chloe's pushy mother in Lucifer.
Otherwise, I''m still ploughing my way through season 1 of Mozart in the Jungle on Amazon, because I decided to save the new (fourth) series until I'd re-watched the entire thing. Not getting on very fast but still enjoying it a lot. Then, by other means, watching the final season of The Americans which is brilliant so far and making very good use of some of my favourite Talking Heads songs. Am fairly certain that at least one of the two main characters will die by the end of the season. Sad about it, but at the moment it feels sort of inevitable. On the other hand, with this show, who knows?
And last night I watched the first episode of the new series of Legion, which is already even more surreal and bonkers than anything in the first series. At least in season 1 there wasn't a man with a basket on his head and three moustached female lieutenants. Now there is.
Anyway, it's great. I just wish I'd got around to re-watching season 1 again first.
Finally, there's Lucifer and its annoying scheduling. I don't mean the three week hiatus we're currently in the middle of. Was expecting something like that. It's the confusion over how many episodes there are in the season. I'm mostly getting my info from co-showrunner Joe Henderson on Twitter. Firstly, he said there would be 24 episodes. Then he said that two of those episodes would be standalones. Now he's saying that those standalones will be shown in season 4 (assuming there is one, there's no word on renewal as yet, and I saw Henderson tell a jittery fan on Twitter that they might not know till early May) so there will only be three more episodes when the show comes back from hiatus and the current season will end with episode 22. That's the traditional length of a network series anyway, I know, but because four of this season's episodes have been standalones left over from season 2, that means the actual story arc of season 3 will only have been 18 episodes long, same as season 2. I don't get it. Is this normal? To make more episodes than are needed and hold some over, I mean?
And what happens if the show isn't renewed? Do they show the two standalones or just shelve them for good?
I'm kind of assuming that they wouldn't make those two new standalones at all if they hadn't been secretly reassured that they will be renewed, but for some reason no announcement can be made yet. However, who knows?