Into the Longbox

I know this is super late, but I wanted to give a few thoughts on the new Watchmen HBO show before it completely fades from memory. You may have noticed put this show as my honorable mentions for my favorite TV show of the year when I actually posted my best of 2019 . There is a reason for that. This show is pretty good. I'll get into more details, but there are two things that are really shocking about this show. First off, it's a show by Damon Lindelof. The ups and downs of the TV Show Lost still sit with me and my dissatisfaction with his work has stuck with me for a while. Everything from the aesthetics of the show (scenery, costumes, title cards) to the writing of the show were top notch. The other thing that surprised me about this show is that it starts by showing the Tulsa Massacre  and that incident is the basis for the entire show. They do not shy away from it. Also, the fact that this show focused on black people and the main character is black was something I...

I've taken a couple of weeks since finally watching Birds of Prey, to let it sit with me before I wrote about it. Also, that thing called life. My hot take immediately upon finishing the movie at the time was, "Hey, that was way better than I thought it would be." Followed by, "I think I liked that more than Wonder Woman". A few weeks later, I still feel that way. Let's dig into it. At the very top, my biggest endorsement of this movie is that it is a lot of fun. When I saw the trailers, I thought Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn was going to be super annoying. I definitely wanted no part of any of this. Sure she was fun in Suicide Squad, but I did not want an entire movie devoted to her. Turns out I was wrong. She was totally fine and actually enjoyable. The movie uses the unreliable narrative, where we jump back and forth in time to introduce some of the characters until the story all lines up halfway through. If you saw Deadpool, this was exactly...