Hey, why hasn't this thread migrated to the Streaming->HBO Max section!
I put this show down for a while. It got pretty CGI gory at times and my GF wasn't into it. I picked it back up, but I can't remember what happened in. IIRC:
Ep 7 - "I Am" - WTF? story is all over the place. The titular character has the largest afro. One wonders why this episode is here.
Ep 8 - The episode opens with Emmet Till's funeral. Dee gets a curse and the haunting ghouls are very Jordan Peele, but pretty damn scary! The furry tentacle lady makes an appearance, but then is gone again.
Ep. 9 - Time travel! They gang has to go back to the Tulsa Massacre to get something to save Dee. Hippolyta's Ep.8 journey makes more sense, but still, WTF?
Ep. 10 - Heading down to the showdown at Arkham - why did Jordan Peele decide to put a cast roadtrip song moment here? That seemed unnecessarily cheery and out of character. (also tentacles!)
After I watched the opening of EP. 1 again to see if it made any more sense (not much, and it's such a bait-and-switch to get Cthulhu here and no were else in the series), but I did notice that Ep. 9 had a subtle callback to that Jackie Robinson bit int he dream sequence which I didn't catch (having lapsed watching for so long, I guess). Also, when Tic wakes up on the bus from that dream sequence, the roadtrip song from Ep. 10 is playing, so I suspect there are more clever/subtle callbacks peppered throughout, but I'm not inspired to go back and find them.
--tg
PS: The sets for end-episode Arkham seemed kinda amateur. The broken wall debris piles had a fakeness to them. I complained about the sets in EP 4 above, too.
PPS: I hadn't intended it, but I was aware of the coincidence of watching the latter episodes during Black History month. The Emmett Till episode was powerful. The Tulsa Massacre episode could have been more so. The Watchmen Series's take on that was stronger, but that was also the first time I was exposed to the story and I was really angry (with America) that I'd never heard about it before. Here, I wasn't surprised, and the presentation (like the rest of this series) was a little clumsy.
PPPS: In Ep 9, you'd think the gang would try to be expeditious in their quest, but no...they're just strolling along, taking their time. I guess when you're time traveling, time is no object.
I put this show down for a while. It got pretty CGI gory at times and my GF wasn't into it. I picked it back up, but I can't remember what happened in. IIRC:
Ep 7 - "I Am" - WTF? story is all over the place. The titular character has the largest afro. One wonders why this episode is here.
Ep 8 - The episode opens with Emmet Till's funeral. Dee gets a curse and the haunting ghouls are very Jordan Peele, but pretty damn scary! The furry tentacle lady makes an appearance, but then is gone again.
Ep. 9 - Time travel! They gang has to go back to the Tulsa Massacre to get something to save Dee. Hippolyta's Ep.8 journey makes more sense, but still, WTF?
Ep. 10 - Heading down to the showdown at Arkham - why did Jordan Peele decide to put a cast roadtrip song moment here? That seemed unnecessarily cheery and out of character. (also tentacles!)
After I watched the opening of EP. 1 again to see if it made any more sense (not much, and it's such a bait-and-switch to get Cthulhu here and no were else in the series), but I did notice that Ep. 9 had a subtle callback to that Jackie Robinson bit int he dream sequence which I didn't catch (having lapsed watching for so long, I guess). Also, when Tic wakes up on the bus from that dream sequence, the roadtrip song from Ep. 10 is playing, so I suspect there are more clever/subtle callbacks peppered throughout, but I'm not inspired to go back and find them.
--tg
PS: The sets for end-episode Arkham seemed kinda amateur. The broken wall debris piles had a fakeness to them. I complained about the sets in EP 4 above, too.
PPS: I hadn't intended it, but I was aware of the coincidence of watching the latter episodes during Black History month. The Emmett Till episode was powerful. The Tulsa Massacre episode could have been more so. The Watchmen Series's take on that was stronger, but that was also the first time I was exposed to the story and I was really angry (with America) that I'd never heard about it before. Here, I wasn't surprised, and the presentation (like the rest of this series) was a little clumsy.
PPPS: In Ep 9, you'd think the gang would try to be expeditious in their quest, but no...they're just strolling along, taking their time. I guess when you're time traveling, time is no object.