FINISHED Miraculous: Tales Of Ladybug & Cat Noir Season 3
I know I'm like 2 months late on this review but Netflix didn't upload the second half of season 3 until this week which sucked cause I had to try so hard to avoid spoilers which was the struggle guys. Eventually I decided to just rewatch all of season 3 even though I had watched the first half of season 3 earlier cause you know the deal with Miraculous Ladybug and the Netflix order being different from their production order so I followed
this to get the right watch experience. So overall I had a blast with this season although the end really left me feeling bittersweet! We technically won against Hawk Moth but at what cost? Master Fu had his mind wiped, every single Miraculous holder was exposed to Hawk Moth except for Ladybug and Cat Noir and he got exactly what he needs to decrepit the grimoire. I can't imagine where we'll go now cause I totally thought that Marinette would figure out a way to mind-wipe Hawk Moth but she didn't so does that mean none of our main cast can be Miraculous holders anymore? I also don't love that now that Marinette is the Guardian of the Miraculous that once she passes the Guardianship on that she'll lose all her memories cause that gives me a tragic ending vibe! On an even sadder note not only did we basically learn that there's no chance that this show will ever let Marinette and Adrien find out who each other are cause apparently that leads to an apocalypse (Gabriel is the worst father in the world) but even worse Adrien is definitely moving from Ladybug to Kagami which destroys my last hope that maybe Ladybug and Cat Noir could date without exposing their identities. I do love Luka though so that part of the new love square isn't so bad.
I'm super looking forward to season 4 which I know is already in production. I still want Marinette and Adrien to figure out who each other are despite the show all but telling me and I really want Adrien to find out either that his father is Hawk Moth or that his plan is to bring his mother back. I'm also really curious as to what Felix wants!
Welcome To Demon School Iruma-Kun Episode 18
A part of me was right in claiming that the conclusion to Kiriwo's evil plan was going to be a bit lame but the rest of me was impressed in how Iruma dealt with it cause though it still wasn't as exciting as I would have wished it to be, it didn't go down the way I thought it would so in that case it worked. Iruma didn't even bother to talk down Kiriwo once he realized what was happening which is totally what I thought he would do and instead used his own willpower to destroy Kiriwo's machine. It was such a badass moment when Kiriwo was like no one but Sullivan himself could destroy my barrier but what he didn't know was that Iruma had that power in his ring and it was everything to see him smirk before unleashing all that power! It does suck so hard that no one will know how close they were to dying and how Iruma saved the day but I suppose Iruma himself knows so that was great. It was hilarious that Kiriwo is a bit of a sadist in that he enjoys other people's despair but Iruma broke him cause he's constantly used to despairing so he doesn't wallow anymore. We also got a bit of Kiriwo's backstory and it's the same as any other villain's out there in that bad childhoods don't force you to become bad. It was interesting though in the context of Kiriwo and Baal being demons cause it seems that demons in the past used to be all about enjoying the pain in others but the demons have evolved now so they don't feel the same.
ID: Invaded Episode 6
For all that I talked about how Hondoumachi feels like a younger version of Sakaido and that we'd probs be following her journey into madness like him, I didn't expect the payoff to happen so quickly. I had been getting a vibe for a while now that Hondoumachi was a little too reckless in her pursuit of murders and seemed a bit too excited by them but apparently I wasn't the only one cause her partner noticed it too. He was clearly freaked out by it enough to want to recommend her to be a well jumper and while she saw it as a promotion of sorts, he felt it was a demotion in order to not only protect the other officers from being thrown into her recklessness but also to protect Hondoumachi herself from diving off the deep end like Sakaido did. If she was no longer in the field, then she wouldn't feel the need to kill or hurt anymore. I'm not sure if this will entirely stop her cause unless they're planning on forcing her to live in prison like Sakaido, when she's out and about she could still decide to hunt down a criminal on her own or something. On another note I definitely agree with the idea that John Walker probs owns a version of Mizuhanome cause it makes a lot more sense than him having met all these serial killers in person. Maybe he is the creator after all and he's figured out a way to enter people's minds without needing cognitive particles. I don't know if I believe the theory that he's a cop though cause we haven't spent any time shading in all our cop characters so it wouldn't have the impact the show wants if it was one of them.
The Flash Season 6 Episode 10
We're finally back after having a bit of a delayed return after Crisis due to Arrow needing the time slot to wrap up not only its season but the series as a whole and this was actually the one show I was most interested in dealing with post-Crisis stuff since Flash was the only show that was so involved in Crisis beforehand and I was excited to see what changes would be brought about! To my immense pleasure this episode was a blast and what I'm hoping is a renewed energy for this show which really struggled to get to Crisis in the first half. First of all I want to say I love love loved the new intro card and it was super fun to have Diggle in this episode even though it was super unexpected cause I really thought after the Arrow finale last week it would be a long time before we saw any Arrow cast member again and honestly I will never get tired of the Diggle hates getting sped around by Flash gag. Barry's entire arc was very Spiderman: Far From Home in that he was struggling to decide how to live in a world without Oliver and how he felt the pressure to keep everyone safe after Oliver sacrificed himself. It made so much sense to have it be Diggle who helped him move on cause Diggle went through the same struggle in the Arrow finale. I also really loved the Iris storyline cause this is everything I ever wanted from her and since it definitely seems like Black Hole will be the villain for this back half of the season, her reporting will be important to the overarching story as Karen was on Daredevil. As for Cisco, it looks as though he's leaving the show which if it's true was a pretty terrible sendoff for him cause Barry didn't even get to say goodbye! We also reinforced what we knew that Nash somehow knows Allegra but whether she's a daughter or a girlfriend we still don't know.
The promo for next week looks amazing! After Iris got pulled into that mirror at the end of this week's episode it looks like maybe a mirror version of her came out that might have the opposite qualities as the normal Iris?
Legends Of Tomorrow Season 5 Episode 3
This episode of Legends was a complete blast and I definitely missed having it last week! We got Zari back a lot faster than I expected to tbh and it was a completely different version of Zari who's a social media influencer and I'm fascinated though I'm sure that since she's not in 2044 anymore that the more annoying part of that persona might be moot now. I like the new take in terms of personality changes but I'm definitely hoping that the whole filming everything thing might be tossed aside now that we got it for laughs in one episode. I also love how Nate is completely mesmerized and that girl barely had to do anything more than look at him. I was dying for when she was seducing him and he was one second away from spilling all the beans. Ava was also hilarious this week cause she was struggling to find her place now that she went from running the Time Bureau to being just another member of the Legends and I loved her dynamic with Mick but I especially loved the joke of fantasy/reality where she thought she was killing it on stage when in actuality she was drunken screaming all over. The whole era was also a lot of fun cause I love the wild time period and I loved Benjamin played by Jonathan Sadowski from Young & Hungry but I'm not the hugest fan of Astra as a character tbh so I kind of hope we don't spend all that time with her. It would have been so easy for Johnny to fix the season if he killed Astra at the end but he wants to redeem her cause of his guilt.
The promo for next week looks like we'll be hunting down a serial killer at prom and if that's not hilarious I don't know what is. It also looks like Zari might be making out with Mick which is totally weird but I might just have seen someone that looked like Zari in that second long clip.
Riverdale Season 4 Episode 12
This was actually a pretty good episode of Riverdale despite the massive shifts in emotional tone from character to character but we're still nowhere close to finding out what in the seven hells is happening with Jughead's death. What did happen was that though Jughead first challenged Bret to a duel, starting with a fencing match that Bret won and a fistfight which Jughead won, eventually he decided that enough was enough and that he was sick of Stonewall so he threw the final part of the duel in a chess match and returned to Riverdale High. I'm assuming that he's still going to write the Baxter books cause the duel was for honor and not the ghost-writer though it's possible that leaving Stonewall is an automatic dismissal. Betty and Alice tried to find proof of Bret's misdoings but eventually found out that maybe instead of Bret being the evil mastermind it might have been Donna. We know that Betty got suspended from Riverdale and ousted as the editor-in-chief of the Blue & Gold but we don't know if Yale rescinded their offer or not. Veronica went to NYC and met up with Katy Keene as a soft introduction to the newest Riverdale spinoff character and though we find out that she got into Barnard, the bigger reveal is that Hiram is sick and honestly I don't know how much I believe it cause it feels like another evil plot by the Lodges to get Veronica on their side. Archie and Frank went through the weirdest storyline of the week with a mercenary out to kill Frank but eventually he was arrested and Frank ran away leaving me to wonder what's next for Archie this season. Toni got revenge on Nick for Cheryl who had the heaviest story with struggling with her sexual assault trauma but I couldn't even take this storyline seriously cause it ended in that horrible tickle storyline that we're giving to Kevin and Fangs.
Next week's promo showed us that Veronica is super struggling with finding out her father is ill and it does make me believe Hiram is ill more than I did before but I still don't know if I believe it or not...
The Vikings Season 6A
Despite not doing weekly reviews for this show, I have been keeping up with this final season and because Vikings was going to be splitting it's final season into 2 parts, I decided that rather than waiting until the series finale to write a review that I should do a midseason finale review since both half seasons are usually just so different in terms of story that I thought that I couldn't do justice to this wonderful show if I didn't. This whole season has been about the downfall of the Vikings themselves and their culture and I'm honestly horrified by what I'm watching cause it has been so hard to be dealt failure after failure after failure. It began with the loss of my favorite character Lagertha and ended with the death of Bjorn who wasn't my favorite of the Ragnarssons (that's Ubbe tbh) but always had a special place in my heart for being the only child of Lagertha and Ragnar (oh how I still ship them.) I really wish the rest of the season was coming now cause I can't wait months until we see who finally takes Ivar down though I assume it has to be Ubbe with the help of France and Rollo or more likely England and Alfred who we know is best friends with Ubbe and despises Ivar. I can't even blame Bjorn for this loss cause he did everything in his power to fight and predict Ivar's moves but only lost cause most of the Vikings of Norway didn't heed Harald's call for battle. Maybe after the others find out what happened they'll be more open to it. Ironically Ivar isn't even my most hated character this season cause that award goes to Hvitserk the turncoat who spent the entire season high and hating Ivar but then suddenly he kills Lagertha, refuses to feel guilty and gets amnesia long enough to love Ivar again.
We're going to be getting 10 more episodes of season 6 to wrap up this season and this series but we don't officially have an airdate yet though I'd guess November again as Vikings usually airs around that time each year. I do know that Vikings finished filming before season 5 even finished airing so part of me is so pissed that they couldn't just air all 20 episodes at once like most shows do!
The Magicians Season 5 Episode 4
I had a blast with this week's episode of The Magicians. This season is finally settling in and I'm all on board for every storyline! So Eliot and the Dark King have been flirting up a storm while Margo works the Centurians cause until this episode we really didn't know what kind of person the Dark King was. There were allusions to him not being great but it wasn't until we saw that he's hunting down fairies that the nail in his coffin appeared. I had said last week that the Takers looked like fairies but now it seems that maybe the Dark King is so powerful cause he's been killing and stealing the magic of fairies? Either way I need to know what happened to the Fairy Queen too. Back on Earth Julia tried to summon a God to help with the whole harmonic convergence thing (which I will never not hear and think of Legend Of Korra) but eventually she had to choose saving Penny 23's life over saving the world cause the God would only help once which took away Penny 23's psychic powers and his traveling in an interesting parallel to when Penny 23 made the same choice for Julia in choosing her to become mortal instead of a God. Kady and Fogg went on an acid trip to go to a special world so they could figure out where the library depository was now and it ended with Fogg basically having to live in this world forever but the fact that Kady relapsed is really and truly horrible and I don't know why she couldn't ask Julia or one of the others to do it for her. Over in the Library Alice and Zelda had to burn all the books of people's lives in order to keep them from getting to the barbarians in a heartbreaking moment and for a second I was worried that we might lose Zelda too but thankfully she made it and she came back to Earth with a possible fix for the upcoming crisis.
It looks like we'll be getting two episodes of the Magicians next week and I'm not entirely sure why cause we literally just started the season so it can't be cause it's a finale. The weirder part seems to be that we're going to be all hands on deck in order to fix the harmonic convergence but it feels too early in the season for that! I suppose that with magic at insane levels that if we did like last season and get everyone to do the same spell all over Earth that we'll be able to move the moon. Perhaps doing that will cause a different problem to occur that we need to fix?
Harley Quinn Season 1 Episode 11
This was a blast and a half of an episode cause it gave me everything I wanted in terms of plot and character development. I've said before that Ivy might be my favorite character on this show (though King Shark is definitely the funniest) and she was honestly such a badass this week. She didn't manage to escape on her own but she did get really far while still dizzy and sick. We ended up finding out that Scarecrow wanted her so that he could steal her pheromones and mix them with his fear toxin to control plants like Ivy and send them on a rampage but like I'm still so confused about why he's trying to steal Ivy's shtick. I mean evil plants seriously? It's a plot by the Legion apparently but like what's their goal? If they want Ivy to join them why do all this? Maybe they'll be like if you join us we'll give you the antidote so you can save all those trees from being killed? On another note we do see Harley rolling up to save Ivy with the crew who really didn't want to help Harley until they found out that it was Ivy in danger but the bigger take away was the reveal that Harley is actually Ivy's biggest fear. Ivy grew up struggling to make friends and she so was always terrified that Harley who was her only friend would leave her and the real kicker is that exact fear happened a few weeks ago and it was heartbreaking to see it dawn on Harley.
xoxo Allie
