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| To qualify for my Watch List every month, the following has to be something that I've watched that's new to me. It doesn't necessarily have to be a current show, but it can't be reruns or rewatches of something I've already seen. So if I'm including it in this list, it means this month is the first time I've watched it. I'll put "DNF" (Did Not Finish) next to anything that I stopped watching and have no immediate plans to finish. Movies  The Amateur The Bad Guys 2 Caught Stealing Freakier Friday Highest 2 Lowest Jurassic Park: Rebirth K-Pop Demon Hunters Relay The Smurfs MovieI've been seeing a lot more movies in theaters lately, thanks to a new Regal Crown Club Unlimited membership and a friend of mine who got one too, so now we see the late showing of a movie almost every weekend, after the kids are in bed one night. That's how I ended up seeing Caught Stealing, Highest 2 Lowest, Jurassic Park: Rebirth, and Relay, all of which I generally enjoyed for different reasons. Relay was probably my favorite of the bunch, which was a decent thriller starring Riz Ahmed about a corporate whistleblower mediator who gets in over his head, but Highest 2 Lowest (a Spike Lee remake of a Kurosawa film) was really engaging as well. There were also quite a few movies I saw with the kids and, other than The Smurfs Movie, they were all pretty good. The Bad Guys 2 was a great sequel to the first movie (which I really enjoyed), and Freakier Friday was a lot better and more heartfelt than I was expecting. But the real surprise was K-Pop Demon Hunters which was actually really, really good. The songs are incredible, and the movie itself is pretty good with a solid message. My kids are obsessed with it right now and have watched it a dozen times... and honestly, I'm right there with them rewatching it.  Television The Bear (Season 4) Better Caul Saul (Season 1) Countdown (Season 1) — DNF On Call (Season 1) Paradise Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (Season 1)I was pretty disappointed in the fourth season of The Bear, which didn't really work toward anything. The entire season was presumably about the restaurant trying to get a Michelin star... but then they spent the entire season on "character development" episodes and by the end of the season, there was no mention (let alone resolution) to the restaurant storyline. It felt kind of like they were just stalling for time and telling everyone "come back next season and maybe we'll move the story forward!" Countdown and On Call were a pretty generic action/thriller and procedural, respectively, and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man was a solid series from my employer that I finally got around to watching the finished episodes of, and I finally started watching Better Call Saul, which was really entertaining and well done. My favorite show of the month, though, was Paradise, a post-apocalyptic murder mystery from Dan Fogelman that was really well acted and well produced. TOP PICK: K-Pop Demon Hunters |
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