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The Kill that Keeps On Killing

2026-05-13T14:15:40Z

Posted by: setsuled

Well, it was nice to get a little decent Marvel content in Punisher: One Last Kill last night, even if it did feel more like John Wick content. Perhaps the key was dialling the ambition way down from where it was on Daredevil and focusing on telling a simple vignette. It helps that Jon Bernthal seems very passionate about the character, enough that he co-wrote the teleplay with Reinaldo Marcus Green, who directed. Green is the director of the Academy Award nominated film, King Richard, which I haven't seen, but One Last Kill does come across as more competently directed and less sloppily edited than a lot of other recent Marvel TV content. And, thank Christ, the fight choreography is good.

( Spoilers for Punisher One Last Kill behind the cut )

Punisher: One Last Kill is available on Disney+.

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Dare to Write

2026-05-07T14:38:29Z

Posted by: setsuled

Last night's Daredevil: Born Again finale may have been the dumbest hour of television I ever watched. "The Southern Cross", written by Dario Scardapane and Jesse Wigutow, presented nonsensical, overly dramatic events driven by vague or utterly nonexistent character motives and weird, extremely hazy conceptions of legal process.

( Spoilers for the Daredevil Born Again season 2 finale )

Daredevil: Born Again is available on Disney+.

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Blank Page

2026-04-30T11:18:40Z

Posted by: setsuled

Yesterday, ahead of watching the new Daredevil: Born Again, I was seeing a lot of articles crop up about how dismal the ratings are for the series this season, much lower than for the first season. It doesn't surprise me. The show has kind of a cheap aesthetic, less unified and streamlined than in its previous incarnation, and it lacks the amazing action choreography that was a calling card of the old series. But primarily the problem is the writing. It's not the wokeness. Andor had progressive, revolutionary politics but now Andor is the benchmark of quality at Disney+. Daredevil: Born Again, meanwhile, makes me think there's some credence in the theory that Disney's secretly having AI write scripts. Last night's episode was credited to Heather Bellson, but it, and many other episodes, feels sort of like a theoretical model of what a show like this should be.

( Spoilers behind the cut )

Daredevil: Born Again is available on Disney+.

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A Modicum of Daring

2026-04-23T13:52:02Z

Posted by: setsuled

Last night's new Daredevil: Born Again was one of the better written of the Born Again series. It's kind of a low bar, though, and there were a few weak bits in the teleplay by Devon Kilger and Jesse Wigutow. But I appreciated how the story got weird at points.

( Spoilers behind the cut )

Daredevil: Born Again is available on Disney+.

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Daredevil: Watch Again

2026-04-16T12:03:49Z

Posted by: setsuled

Here comes the nostalgia. The new episode of Daredevil: Born Again, written by Jesse Wigutow, relied heavily on past content. If you like to linger thoughtfully over past episodes of TV series, you may enjoy this episode more than the less sentimental among us.

( Spoilers for Daredevil Born Again S02E05 )

Daredevil: Born Again is available on Disney+.

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This Fisk

2026-04-10T01:21:52Z

Posted by: setsuled

There was some exciting stuff in the new episode of Daredevil written by Chantelle M. Wells whose previous credits include Yellowjackets and Echo. I wonder how much of it will stick.

( Major spoilers for Daredevil Born Again S02E04 )

Daredevil: Born Again is available on Disney+.

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Double DD Day

2026-04-01T22:13:30Z

Posted by: setsuled

For some reason, two new episodes of Daredevil: Born Again were released on Wednesday, episodes two and three, written by Dario Scardapane and Heather Bellson, respectively. I have to say, the Heather Bellson episode was much stronger but I'm not feeling good about the writing on this season overall.

( Spoilers behind the cut )

Daredevil: Born Again is available on Disney+.

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I Wonder You

2026-03-27T23:39:50Z

Posted by: setsuled

I felt bad for casting aspersions on Wonder Man without watching it properly so I went back and watched the first two episodes. It's not as bad as I originally thought though it does fail the test, "Would I Watch This If It Weren't the MCU?"

( Extremely mild spoilers for the first two episodes of Wonder Man behind the cut )

Hollywood loves to make movies about itself but they're only occasionally successful at the box office. Here's my top ten list:

10. Tropic Thunder
9. The Other Side of the Wind
8. All About Eve
7. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
6. In a Lonely Place
5. Inland Empire
4. Sullivan's Travels
3. Sunset Boulevard
2. Singin' In the Rain
1. Mulholland Drive

Wonder Man is available on Disney+.

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The Devil's in His Kitchen

2026-03-25T23:11:54Z

Posted by: setsuled

The first episode of the new season of Daredevil: Born Again does feel more solid than season one. I don't know if this indicates a better season overall but the pacing felt more natural, conversations didn't feel oddly crammed into blocks of a few minutes. The action scenes are better but still nowhere near the level of the old Netflix series. The performances are good with one new supporting character being a standout.

( Mild spoilers behind the cut )

Daredevil: Born Again is available on Disney+.

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disneyplusshows @ 2025-09-23T08:22:00

2025-09-23T07:44:22Z

Posted by: goodbyebird

The wide spread objections won through, and Jimmy Kimmel is back on the air, making zero concessions/bullshit apologies.
Kimmel’s show to return Tuesday, but Sinclair will continue to keep it off its ABC stations.

But not all of ABC’s affiliated stations will be carrying Kimmel’s comeback show. Sinclair, one of the country’s biggest owners of local TV stations, said its ABC affiliates will preempt the show “beginning Tuesday night.” Sinclair said it will air news programming in the time slot instead.

“Discussions with ABC are ongoing as we evaluate the show’s potential return,” a Sinclair spokesperson told CNN.

Sinclair’s conservative owners condemned Kimmel last week and contributed to ABC parent Disney’s decision to pull the show from the airwaves.

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And then the trailer for The Mandalorian dropped!

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dang, they lost both Hulks, aunt May, and Mr Fantastic Space Papa.

2025-09-20T12:01:36Z

Posted by: goodbyebird

Marvel Stars Stand for Jimmy Kimmel: Pedro Pascal Defends Free Speech While Others Endorse Boycott

Pascal’s post came on the heels of other Marvel stars taking their support a step further by endorsing a boycott of the studio and its subsidiaries, including platforms that stream their work. Marisa Tomei, who played Aunt May opposite Tom Holland in the Spider-Man franchise (a Marvel property distributed by Sony, though she appears in Disney releases from the Avengers universe), reposted a call to “unsubscribe and boycott” platforms under the Walt Disney Company umbrella, including Marvel, ABC, ESPN, Fox Entertainment, Hulu, Pixar, Lucasfilm and Bamtech Media.

Tatiana Maslany, who starred in the title role of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, a Marvel series that debuted on Disney+, posted a behind-the-scenes photo of herself on set, urging her Instagram followers to “cancel your Disney+, Hulu, ESPN subscriptions!” Mark Ruffalo, who played the Hulk on the big screen, participated in a No Kings online event during which he weighed in. “My industry doesn’t really understand what’s happening right now, but what they do understand is our freedom of speech is being attacked.”

psa if you're going to delete your Disney+ account, cancel first. Deleting it doesn't cancel your subscription *shrug emoji*

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Iron Falls with a Thud

2025-06-28T05:04:38Z

Posted by: setsuled

I finally got through the first three episodes of Ironheart that premiered on Wednesday. I find it very dull. I think the main problems for me are the characters, performances, and plot. The special effects are okay. It's not, and I want to be emphatic about this, it's not bad because it's woke.

( Mild spoilers behind the cut )

Ironheart is available on Disney+.

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Andor Closes with a Tale of Two Women

2025-05-14T21:08:25Z

Posted by: setsuled

For the final three episodes of Andor, which were quite good, the curious decision to bring a new writer to the series, Tom Bissell, was made. It wasn't a bad idea, it turns out. Bissell is best known for writing video games, according to Wikipedia. Maybe that gave him a good instinct for kinetic suspense.

( Spoilers for the final three episodes of Andor behind the cut )

Andor is available on Disney+.

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Committed And/Or Damned

2025-05-07T21:01:57Z

Posted by: setsuled

Wow. Could there be anyone who wasn't pleased with last night's trio of new Andor episodes? I, for one, was captivated. They were written by Tony's brother Dan Gilroy who wrote the Aldani heist arc in the first season. Back then, I wondered if Dan was not a better writer than his brother. Now I really think he is.

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The show can coast now, these three did the job. But I'm eagerly looking forward to next week anyway.

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Festival of Dread

2025-05-01T20:57:22Z

Posted by: setsuled

Now I've watched "What a Festive Evening", episode six of Andor season two, a nice little symphony of suspense. As I noted yesterday, the writer of this arc, Beau Willimon, wrote the prison arc last season, which was stronger than this because it revolved around one man's life changing and it was done with an extraordinary performance by Andy Serkis. But "What a Festive Evening" was by no means bad.

( Spoilers for that episode behind the cut )

Andor is available on Disney+.

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Our Man on Gorman

2025-04-30T21:24:11Z

Posted by: setsuled

I only had time to watch two of the three new episodes of Andor last night but that sure wasn't a reflection of their quality. I thought the two I watched were better than the first three. Written by Beau Willimon, who wrote the prison story arc last season, this new one is the most the show has felt like a spy thriller.

( Spoilers for two out of three of the new episodes of Andor )

Andor is available on Disney+.

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Opening a Door to Andor

2025-04-24T08:17:37Z

Posted by: setsuled

I still have no internet in my apartment but I was excited enough for the new episodes of Andor that I trudged all the way to the manga cafe to watch them last night. Mostly, I was not disappointed, though nothing in the three episode premiere has approached the highest points of the first season. It's just nice watching a Disney+ show that feels real, like something writers sat down and thought about how to make a good story for rather than something produced by a committee from a venn diagram of corporate and political interests.

( Spoilers behind the cut )

Andor is available on Disney+.

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Daring and Punishing

2025-04-16T21:16:28Z

Posted by: setsuled

Last night's finale of Daredevil: Born Again felt largely like a setup for season two. I guess that's not surprising given the troubled production history that saw the show handed from one creative vision to another. There were aspects I liked about the finale but somehow it all added up to something less satisfying than the finales on the original Daredevil series.

( Spoilers behind the cut )

Daredevil: Born Again is available on Disney+.

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Daredevil's Blue Rose Case

2025-04-10T12:07:00Z

Posted by: setsuled

That's the jazz standard referenced by "Isle of Joy", the new Daredevil from Wednesday. The episode basically satisfied me, even when a few things happened I thought were silly.

( Spoilers behind the cut )

Daredevil is available on Disney+.

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What Art?

2025-04-05T00:57:28Z

Posted by: setsuled

Okay, I guess I can't put off writing about Wednesday's Daredevil any longer. I hate writing negative reviews but in for a penny, in for a pound. It's particularly disappointing because I had high hopes for this show. Vincent D'Onofrio's Wilson Fisk is truly one of the best things about not just the MCU but comic book film and television of the last thirty years. But once again, Disney was under the impression they could cut corners in one of the most essential aspects of any production: the writing.

"Art for Art's Sake" (Walter Pater is rolling in his grave) was written by Jill Blankenship who also wrote the abysmal episode three, "The Hollow of His Hand", so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

( Spoilers behind the cut )

Daredevil: Born Again is available on Disney+.

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Where the Show was Born Again

2025-03-27T01:12:10Z

Posted by: setsuled

Two new episodes of Daredevil: Born Again premiered on Disney+ last night and the contrast between the two of them most tellingly shows the difference between the show as it was originally filmed and the show as it was retooled. Episode five feels like it fits with the bulk of Marvel Disney+ content while episode six feels much closer in tone to the Daredevil Netflix series. You can as plainly see the reason for the retooling as episode six is far and away the superior of the two. But I found episode five's echos of Disney+'s previous Marvel content to be unexpectedly depressing. I imagined what could have been if that streaming universe had been of higher quality.

( Spoilers behind the cut )

Daredevil: Born Again is available on Disney+.

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Born Again Properly

2025-03-20T00:25:13Z

Posted by: setsuled

What a difference a week makes. The fourth episode of Daredevil: Born Again was so much better than the third, it was like night and day. Mind you, it wasn't perfect. The writing was good and the performances were very good but the direction felt odd at times and the music overenthusiastic. I suspect the problems here were due to this being a Frankenstein's monster episode, with pieces from the original incarnation of the series not quite fitting with the new version.

The episode has two credited writers, David Feige and Jesse Wigutow. I suspect David Feige (who, it seems, is not Kevin Feige's brother) was brought in after the show was restructured and that Wigutow was the original writer. This Feige has the distinction of being an actual lawyer and you can very quickly see the difference in quality. This is the kind of person both She-Hulk and Daredevil: Born Again ought to have hired from the beginning if they really had their hearts set on being lawyer shows.

( Spoilers behind the cut )

Daredevil: Born Again is available on Disney+.

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All the Excitement of Jury Duty

2025-03-12T20:53:27Z

Posted by: setsuled

Good grief, last night's Daredevil: Born Again was bad. It's no wonder even Disney realised the show needed to be drastically retooled--this was clearly an episode from before Dario Scardapane was brought in. It might be too little too late, though, given how weak the show's been in the ratings. Why, Disney? Why don't you value writing?

( Spoilers behind the cut )

Daredevil: Born Again is available on Disney+.

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Devil Again

2025-03-05T20:57:00Z

Posted by: setsuled

It's finally here; the first two episodes of Daredevil: Born Again premiered on Disney+ last night. It doesn't really hit the ground running, in fact these two episodes have a real swiss cheese quality with lots of holes. But showrunner Dario Scardapane, who came in to reconfigure the show after half of it had already been shot by a showrunning team Disney decided was inferior, may well fill those holes with--I don't know, brie, pimento, something good. Scardapane was a writer on Punisher, a show within the same formerly Netflix MCU universe. So he probably knows what he's doing and, by the way, don't watch Daredevil: Born Again until you've seen the first three seasons of the old Daredevil (I wouldn't read the rest of my review, either, if I were you).

( Major spoilers for Daredevil and Daredevil Born Again behind the cut )

Daredevil: Born Again is available on Disney+.

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TV Talk Friending Meme

2025-02-15T22:18:18Z

Posted by: yourlibrarian

This Valentine's Day, we're inviting everyone to "join the couch... and the conversation" in our tv_talk friending meme! Are you a binge-watching pro or casual viewer? There's a spot for everybody on our tv_talk couch! Get ready to cozy up and share your love for television.

To join in just subscribe to tv_talk and when the meme is launched, comment with some answers to the prepared prompts. Let us know at our announcement post if you have any questions.

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