TV Round Up: Stranger Tasks

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I'm back with a quick recap of what I've been catching up with on the small screen!


Stranger Things Season 5 (part 1)
Frankly, I think releasing season 5 in 3 parts is stupid on Netflix's part, but I get why they want to draw this show's final season out. We've been waiting for this for a LONG time. The first four episodes were very action packed, and they end with a pretty big cliffhanger, though it's something I expected to happen for a while now.

I am a bit wary of the next few episodes considering a certain character they brought back. The last time we saw them, we had one of the weakest episodes of the entire series, so I'm hoping the Duffers found a way to write them in a better way. I'm still looking forward to them, but I'm cautiously optimistic. 

If there's one thing I struggled with in the first four episodes, it's how distracting the recasting of Holly Wheeler is. I knew that was coming, and I didn't think it was going to bother me considering how little of a part she played in the previous seasons, but it's so obvious it's not the same girl and that she looks so much older than the character she is supposed to be playing. 

Still, the kids in this show continue to rock it. Stranger Things and Game of Thrones are really the gold standard is casting amazing children. I suppose most technically are not kids anymore, but their characters are, and I can't help but love them. 


Task
You know a show has truly lost you when you make it to the finale and you still take several weeks to finish it. I wanted to love Mark Ruffalo's mini series more, but I just couldn't. The problems I had in the first few episodes never went away. 


Long Bright River
I started this Amanda Seyfried lead mini series on Peacock recently and am about half way through. I find her character to be very frustrating, and it's impossible not to compare this to the superb Mare of Easttown considering the setting, BUT the central mystery has me intrigued. I'm going to keep chugging along with it. 


Monster: The Ed Gein Story
I started watching Netflix's newest "Monster" selection and while Charlie Hunnam is very creepy in the lead role, the choice to jump in between Ed Gein's actual story and a re-telling of Anthony Perkins getting the role in Psycho is a choice that just didn't work for me. It was so jarring, which is really saying something when the biggest hurdle I had with starting this show in the first place is I didn't want to see Ed Gein's story play out because it's gross. 

What have you been watching lately?

 

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