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Comic TV Show Round Up

I realized we are a few months into the new season of TV shows and I have yet to talk about all the comic book based shows out there. I don't want to make this a long post, so I will just give some quick thoughts about the deep well of shows that are out there.

Flash - Continuing the fun of the first season.  They keep bringing in more villains from the DC Universe and are now already touching on Earth-2 stuff. Also, the core team is still very likeable. It remains one of my favorite shows.

Arrow - This show has already having a much stronger showing than what we saw in Season 3. The team is now a fully costumed, functioning unit. This show has already brought in other DC characters. We just had an episode with Constantine! There has also been a teasing of Mr. Terrific. I still do not like the Felicity/Oliver relationship. I never would have shipped that, but there's nothing I can do about it.

Supergirl - I covered my thoughts on this in a previous post. I very much enjoy this show so far, but we're only two eps in.

Walking Dead - This show still frustrates me. I feel like every episode is built on what "cool" zombie effect they want to use and then they write a story around some contrived way to use it. Carol is a certifiable bad ass and holds the title of best character. This sounds like a weird complaint, but I am so tired of forests. At this point, I'm going to be hard to please no matter what they do. The shock value of this show is what keeps me coming back.

Fear the Walking Dead - I bring this up here because it is a spin off show of a comic book based show. Long story short, this first season was hot garbage. It was full of unlikeable characters doing stupid things.

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - The sooner Marvel stops trying to cram Inhumans down our throats, the happier I will be. This show has been better this season. I still think a lot of the sets look cheap and I don't like the way this show is filmed.  It looks like it was filmed on cheap cameras. That distracts from my enjoyment of the show. If I'm being honest, if this wasn't a Marvel show, I would have given up already.

iZombie - I have yet to watch this show. I want to, but you can see I already have a full plate as it is. Given my love of Veronica Mars, I will have to in the future.

Gotham - I have not watched the second season at all, nor do I plan to. I suffered through season one and I figured it was best to not make myself suffer through something I was not enjoying.

In a few weeks, we'll have Jessica Jones and I will do my best to binge watch that and share my thoughts.




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