Epic: the Musical: the Curated Fanimatic Series (the continupocalypse)
Why is Telemachus even in this story?
Epic: the Musical: the Curated Fanimatic Series (continued moster than even the mostest)
If you don't spit it out soon, all that water will destroy you.
Epic: the Musical: the Curated Fanimatic Series (continued the mostest)
For the most part, Epic plays its allegory for war trauma in pretty abstract forms, rather than a direct one-to-one "Odysseus doing thing X is supposed to represent real world veterans doing thing Y." Calypso is an exception. She's drugs. She's just drug addiction.
Girls' Last Tour E1-2: "Starry Sky; War" and "Bath; Journal; Laundry" (part two)
Are they actually a pair of ghosts, haunting the lifeless ruins of their old city?
Girls' Last Tour E1-2: "Starry Sky; War" and "Bath; Journal; Laundry" (part one)
Post-apocalyptic slice-of-life is an increasingly prevalent little subgenre.
All of Us Are Dead S1E4
There's no freedom being brought about by the crushing. Just even more crushing.
All of Us Are Dead S1E3
It's almost like its own little French Surrealist-inspired artfilm intercut with the rest of the episode.
All of Us Are Dead S1E1
"All of Us Are Dead" isn't subtle in what it's allegorizing with it's zombies. To the point where it's honestly not even really allegory at all.
The Owl House S2E15-17: "Them's the Breaks, Kid," "Hollow Mind," and "Edge of the World" (continued more)
Too bad the only "answers" he can give at this point are hidden glyph-magic lessons encoded in weather events.
The Owl House S2E15-17: "Them's the Breaks, Kid," "Hollow Mind," and "Edge of the World" (continued)
This episode does two things. One is getting Luz and Hunter the information they need to make the next part of the plot happen. Which it does an annoyingly hamfisted, but technically sufficient, job of. The other is being a character study of Phillip Wittebane, and at that it does far better.
The Owl House S2E15-17: "Them's the Breaks, Kid," "Hollow Mind," and "Edge of the World"
It's honestly pretty prescient for a 2022 release. The trends were obviously already pointing in this direction, sure, but Tara's portrayal here is much more spot-on satire of the second Trump presidency than it is of the first.
Gaslight District (pilot)
I'm well aware that pilots - especially indy studio pilots - tend to be much weaker and more kludged together than the shows that ensue. I think that that's the case for this one. I hope it is. Because, while there's a lot that interested me in this pilot, there are also a couple of things that rendered it nearly unwatchable.
My Little Pony Fanworks: "Lullaby for a Princess" and "Children of the Night"
These two are interestingly oppositional takes on the same MLP backstory material.
Chainsaw Man V6 (part sharknado)
The entire volume, up until this final chapter, is one big fight scene. Reze stronk.
Chainsaw Man V6 (part three)
I mean, it's really just the obvious strategy for this situation.
Chainsaw Man V6 (part two)
Denji is living a lifestyle in which most of the people he meets, regardless of gender, will be trying to kill him. This is not conducive to developing a healthy social life, let alone a healthy love life.
Dungeon Meshi S1E1-3
This tickled my funnybone extra hard on account of me having had a similar idea a few years back.