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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Halloween Edition - The Weird
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October 4 - Halloween Edition: Home Invasion
October 11 - Halloween Edition: The Dark/Night
October 18 - Halloween Edition: Technology
October 25 - Halloween/Television Edition: The Weird
So we've come to the final Halloween edition and as it is the last Thursday it is also the TV edition. This week I'm picking TV series that mixes all sorts of genre making them all weird messy messes that also have a lot of weird stuff happening too.
Hemlock Grove (2013 - 2015)
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it's October again and it's time for the Halloween
Edition. Take a look at what's in store for the rest of the month.
October 11 - Halloween Edition: The Dark/Night
October 18 - Halloween Edition: Technology
October 25 - Halloween/Television Edition: The Weird
So we've come to the final Halloween edition and as it is the last Thursday it is also the TV edition. This week I'm picking TV series that mixes all sorts of genre making them all weird messy messes that also have a lot of weird stuff happening too.
Hemlock Grove (2013 - 2015)
I like vampire/werewolf shows and this one had a very striking poster so I gave it a try. I did end up watching all three seasons, only because the Netflix library was very limited then. I would say only the first season which had a stronger mystery element to it was decent. The other seasons added more science fiction to the show which just didn't make it as good.
Legion (2017 - )
Legion is about David Haller the son of Professor X of the X-Men, who has multiple personalities and each of his personality has its own superpower. That does sound awesome doesn't it? To an extent it is. Weird and crazy stuff happens and the series has this really interesting look that is both retro trippy but also a little futuristic which I do like. However the series is just so inconsistent. To get one brilliant episode, you'd have to sit through like two to three episodes that were just misses. I watched the entire season one, but after seeing the first episode of season two, I gave up. The season seemed it was going to be plagued by the same unevenness.
Fortitude (2015 - )
The setting, a town on the edge of the Arctic Circle, attracted me to the series. It sort of reminds me of White Out, 30 Days of Night and other horror/thrillers set in a similar sort of setting that has a small local police force who have to battle the harsh weather and solve a crime. Fortitude is a mix of crime thriller, science fiction and the supernatural and like my other picks today it has so much weird crazy stuff: man-eating polar bears, weird insects, mastodon remains, witch doctors and that is just what I remember. I would say I enjoyed season one better. I thought season two overstretched itself with all the different stuff that was going on.
Legion (2017 - )
Legion is about David Haller the son of Professor X of the X-Men, who has multiple personalities and each of his personality has its own superpower. That does sound awesome doesn't it? To an extent it is. Weird and crazy stuff happens and the series has this really interesting look that is both retro trippy but also a little futuristic which I do like. However the series is just so inconsistent. To get one brilliant episode, you'd have to sit through like two to three episodes that were just misses. I watched the entire season one, but after seeing the first episode of season two, I gave up. The season seemed it was going to be plagued by the same unevenness.
Fortitude (2015 - )
The setting, a town on the edge of the Arctic Circle, attracted me to the series. It sort of reminds me of White Out, 30 Days of Night and other horror/thrillers set in a similar sort of setting that has a small local police force who have to battle the harsh weather and solve a crime. Fortitude is a mix of crime thriller, science fiction and the supernatural and like my other picks today it has so much weird crazy stuff: man-eating polar bears, weird insects, mastodon remains, witch doctors and that is just what I remember. I would say I enjoyed season one better. I thought season two overstretched itself with all the different stuff that was going on.
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100% agree about Legion. Season 2 was an absolute slog and they really got a bit up their own ass in their weirdness. It ended up being really pretentious.
ReplyDeleteThanks for telling me. Looks like I made the right decision to not waste any more time on it. I wonder if it will get renewed.
DeleteI have not watched any of these which is typical. Legion sounds like a good idea but what a shame it didn’t turn out. The 3rd one sounds pretty good and maybe I will give it a shot..if it’s on regular tv
ReplyDeleteWell Legion has its fans, I'm just no longer one.
DeleteI guessing Fortitude would be on cable in Canada. It is not really network TV kind of material.
I wanted to watch Legion but then I forgot about it.
ReplyDeleteYeah it is no longer a must watch. The first season was very hyped up, there was a lot of ads, season two just like came and went without much ads, not that I'd watch anyway.
DeleteUnfortunately, I haven't seen a single minute of any of these. I do want to watch Legion since I'm a superhero fan.
ReplyDeleteI think Legion was pitched as a villain origin story, which sounds interesting right? Anyway such a pity both the two X-men related series on TV right now, Legion and The Gifted are so lacklustre.
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