Reviews

The story structure is a little strange, felt episodic almost, not necessarily a bad thing just different. Other than that though, this movie is the perfect send off for an amazing trilogy that never misses. Huge credit goes to Chukwudi Iwuji, his performance is phenomenal and he is so well written too. A villainized perfectionist control freak, with a cold calculated nature, slowly unravels as the movie progresses and everything slowly becomes out of control and Chukwudi performs this spiral into madness perfectly. A villain so mad, even his henchmen turn on him because he's just that crazy. Chukwudi has a bright future after this performance, but enough raving about him, there is plenty more to love here, or to cry about I guess, because goddamn, James Gunn fully wound up and threw a sucker punch directly into your heartstrings for this movie and it is amazing.

This isn't just another marvel movie... but you should know that by now, because it's the Guardians of the Galaxy, they never have been "just" another marvel movie.

This show was a gripping thriller/mystery while also perfectly balancing a religious deconversion story and shining some light on the blindness and ignorance there is in organized religion. Jeb's partner, Bill, really shines in this show, his ability to be Jeb's light in the tunnel in his deconversion was so powerful. Jeb had so many biases, and lies ingrained in him and his partner and best friend embodied many of the things Jeb was supposed to hate, according to his church, but he can't bring himself to do so, and in the end Jeb's humanity wins out over the vile and cruel lens of religious dogma, and he begins to see people as they are and not who he was taught they were supposed to be. My only complaint about this show is the ending, there wasn't enough time to wrap everything up satisfyingly. Overall though, this show is fantastic and if you grew up in a religious home, Mormon or not, extremist or not, this show will speak volumes to you.

This show kinda left me disappointed, the studio behind Castlevania has seemingly produced absolute bombshell season after season of awesome and this was just... Okay? There's way too many characters and they do not provide enough time to actually develop their relationships, honestly this season felt like Castlevania season 2 if they didn't make season 1 and just threw you into all those characters expecting you to be invested and connect with them, but it doesn't really click for me. I think this show has promise but, the main group of characters have very minimal interaction or character building and often their backstory comes up at super weird times with little to no effect. The smuggler guys, I forget their names, kept alluding to something bad they wanna repent for and it's often not pressed much further than that and then out of nowhere when the Giants are approaching Olympus in the final Battle they just make an offhanded comment about how they were the ones who sold the giants body to the demons and it is taken very lightly and is basically brushed aside. None of the characters really made me feel invested in them except for zeus and his sons, which we barely got story for but, Hermes was such a lovely character and I felt my heart cry a little when he was seemingly about to be killed because I really enjoyed his character, thank the gods they saved him. Anyways, this show is action packed, cool animation and some interesting characters, the plot is a bit all over the place, too many agendas and just all in all does not stand up to the quality of Castlevania's first season. This show is enjoyable and I hope they make more so they can fix the characters who are all very unique and interesting. Btw, the way the characters all kinda armoured up at the end and started showing off their cool new fighting abilities really felt undeserved like, the smuggler guy with the necklace using the magic whip like a badass was cool but, he really only used a whip situationally once in the show, while the other smuggler using the magic discus thing also felt so out of place and random, it would have made more sense if these characters had originally had these weapons and fighting styles incorporated into their character originally but, whatever, I guess I have a lot of complaints for this show. If you liked Castlevania you'll probably like this and, if you haven't seen Castlevania watch that instead.