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Dec. 4th, 2021 08:10 pmStill trying to find TV series that have a reasonable number of short episodes that I can share with ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jack. So far our best success has been rysmiel's recommendation of Over the garden wall. It's one season of 10 episodes that form a complete story arc, and it's really not like anything much else.
( Over the garden wall )
We did end up watching all the way through She-ra and the princesses of power, 5 x 10 episodes. I probably don't have anything new to say about it as it's hugely popular with just about everybody, but basically I really enjoyed the first and final seasons, the ones in the middle felt a bit too childish, which is not really a fair complaint given that it is in fact a children's show. Also, I do love that everybody gets some kind of redemption, and that lots of Queer characters get their happy-ever-after, but it was a bit much when every villain was redeemed by the power of friendship and every character ended up romantically paired.
This kind of underlines the big problem that we've been having, that we're struggling to find anything actually aimed at adults, which isn't full of more graphic violence than I can cope with. I probably am more than usually squeamish, but even so, I wish more stuff was PG without assuming the level of narrative sophistication of under 12s.
Apart from the utterly amazing We are Lady Parts, the closest we've come has been Ted Lasso. Thank youceb for finally convincing me to try it, because yes, everybody recommended it but it really didn't seem the kind of thing I'm interested in. We jumped straight in with Season 2 as jack had already seen Season 1. We're most of the way through and I'll talk about it properly once we've watched the whole season. Basically it's like a sitcom, but actually good, because although the characters are somewhat one-dimensional and there are endless jokes about people finding themselves in situations where they don't fit in, the show just really really cares about them. There are lots of gags that, if I described them, would seem to rely on cringe humour, but really I never once had to suffer second-hand embarrassment for more than a second.
jack. So far our best success has been rysmiel's recommendation of Over the garden wall. It's one season of 10 episodes that form a complete story arc, and it's really not like anything much else.( Over the garden wall )
We did end up watching all the way through She-ra and the princesses of power, 5 x 10 episodes. I probably don't have anything new to say about it as it's hugely popular with just about everybody, but basically I really enjoyed the first and final seasons, the ones in the middle felt a bit too childish, which is not really a fair complaint given that it is in fact a children's show. Also, I do love that everybody gets some kind of redemption, and that lots of Queer characters get their happy-ever-after, but it was a bit much when every villain was redeemed by the power of friendship and every character ended up romantically paired.
This kind of underlines the big problem that we've been having, that we're struggling to find anything actually aimed at adults, which isn't full of more graphic violence than I can cope with. I probably am more than usually squeamish, but even so, I wish more stuff was PG without assuming the level of narrative sophistication of under 12s.
Apart from the utterly amazing We are Lady Parts, the closest we've come has been Ted Lasso. Thank you
ceb for finally convincing me to try it, because yes, everybody recommended it but it really didn't seem the kind of thing I'm interested in. We jumped straight in with Season 2 as jack had already seen Season 1. We're most of the way through and I'll talk about it properly once we've watched the whole season. Basically it's like a sitcom, but actually good, because although the characters are somewhat one-dimensional and there are endless jokes about people finding themselves in situations where they don't fit in, the show just really really cares about them. There are lots of gags that, if I described them, would seem to rely on cringe humour, but really I never once had to suffer second-hand embarrassment for more than a second.