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January 14, 2020 by Talking Pulp	in Videos, Vids I Dig and tagged art, culture, Disney, DisneyPlus, history, Jon Favreau, Lucasfilm, Star Wars, The Critical Drinker, TV	| Leave a comment
From The Critical Drinker's YouTube description: Grab your pints of green milk and join me as I review Star Wars – The Mandalorian (Season 1).
January 12, 2020 by Talking Pulp	in Reviews, TV Review and tagged 2010s, 2019, art, comedy, culture, Disney, DisneyPlus, documentary, history, Jeff Goldblum, National Geographic, review, TV	| Leave a comment
Original Run: November 12th, 2019 – current
Created by: National Geographic
Directed by: various
Cast: Jeff Goldblum
National Geographic, Nutopia, Disney+, 12 Episodes (so far), 30 Minutes (per episode)
While the first season of The World According to Jeff Goldblum isn't done streaming yet, I didn't want to wait too long to review it, as it was part of Disney+'s launch two months ago.
Plus, I get the gist of it enough to review it at this point.
The show stars Jeff Goldblum, who also is an executive producer. It's made by National Geographic and I'm not sure if it was originally intended to be broadcast on Disney+ or if that became part of National Geographic's deal with the service after production had started.
Needless to say, Goldblum has found a home at Disney, especially after captivating fans with his performance in Disney/Marvel's Thor: Ragnarok.
Goldblum's special charm, charisma and unique panache is on full display in this show, as he dives into different things that are all a part of Americana. He looks at sneakers, barbecue, cycling, ice cream, tattoos, denim and more.
What makes the show kind of cool, other than it being hosted by Goldblum, is that he didn't study up on anything and pretty much deep dives into these things blindly and with just the knowledge from his own personal experiences.
I don't think that this is a show that's going to make or break Disney+ but Jeff Goldblum really gives it his all and entertains while informing the viewer. It's a cool show that's charming and amusing with a host whose energy and curiosity are infectious.
TV Review: The Mandalorian (2019- )
January 5, 2020 by Talking Pulp	in Reviews, TV Review and tagged 2010s, 2019, action, adventure, Bill Burr, Carl Weathers, Clancy Brown, Disney, DisneyPlus, Giancarlo Esposito, Gina Carano, Jason Sudeikis, Jon Favreau, Lucasfilm, Mark Boone Junior, Ming-Na Wen, Nick Nolte, Pedro Pascal, review, Richard Ayoade, sci-fi, Star Wars, Taika Waititi, TV, Werner Herzog, western	| Leave a comment
Created by: Jon Favreau
Written by: various
Based on: Star Wars by George Lucas
Music by: Ludwig Göransson
Cast: Pedro Pascal, Carl Weathers, Werner Herzog, Nick Nolte (voice), Taika Waititi (voice), Gina Carano, Ming-Na Wen, Mark Boone Junior, Bill Burr, Clancy Brown, Natalia Tena, Richard Ayoade (voice), Giancarlo Esposito, Emily Swallow, Jason Sudeikis
Lucasfilm, Walt Disney Studios, Disney+, 8 Episodes (so far), 31-46 Minutes (per episode)
While I haven't been too happy with Disney's handling of Star Wars, this was still one of the television shows that I was anticipating the most.
I assumed that after the Boba Fett movie was cancelled, following the lackluster performance of Solo, that this show would end up taking some of that planned film's ideas, reworking them into a new character and story. I'm not a hundred percent sure that's what they did but this feels close to what Boba Fett could've been.
The first few episodes of this show were mostly okay but they didn't blow me away, if I'm being honest. However, it did feel good to have someone seemingly taking Star Wars seriously once again, which I didn't feel was the case since Rogue One, the only Disney Star Wars film I actually liked.
The middle few episodes were low points but everything really started to pickup with episode six. Episodes seven and eight were then quite awesome and they brought everything that happened over the course of the season together in a way that justified the episodes that felt more like filler than part of the larger story.
Season one of The Mandalorian was more about world building and introducing the audience to these new characters. In that regard, it succeeds greatly. But ultimately, it feels like the first act of a much larger story and not necessarily its own self-contained arc.
In any event, I'm more excited for season two than I was season one and I hope that the momentum continues to build and that this stays on the right trajectory, especially after the terrible sequel films just concluded, leaving most people with a really bad taste in their mouth. I still haven't seen The Rise of Skywalker and I'm really not that enthused about taking time out of my schedule to go see it in theaters.
I used to be a massive Star Wars fan: massive. But until this show mostly impressed me, this gigantic force in my life was dwindling away. Granted, The Mandalorian alone isn't enough to bring me back and, at this point, I don't think I'll ever have a love for Star Wars like I once did.
But so far, so good. Don't fuck this up.
Rating: 7.75/10
Pairs well with: any Mandalorian heavy Star Wars Expanded Universe books, comics and video games.