What Dramas Did I Finish This Week?

Hello and welcome back! These are the dramas I finished this week. If you're interested in previous reviews, click here and if you want to see a list of my Favorite Asian OTPs and Ships, click here!

KDRAMA

FINISHED Lost (16/16): Lee Boo Jung has hit rock bottom. She has a thankless job, her marriage is in shambles, and now she has a possible criminal record hanging over her head. At forty years old, she feels like she has reached the end of her potential and has amounted to absolutely nothing. Her elderly father is the very last thing she cares about in the world. Lee Kang Jae is only twenty-seven and has his own successful stand-in escort business but he is so ashamed of the person he has become and is so far beyond caring about himself or life that he wears apathy as a second skin to the point that he becomes unrecognizable even to himself. The two of them have lived at the threshold of each other's lives without ever truly intercepting the other. Then one faithful day, both moved by personal loss and grief, Kang Jae sees Boo Jung and recognizes a familiar lost soul in her. "Lost" is the story of these ordinary people struggling to find their footing in life.

Wow talk about an intense show that's also super depressing you guys. This is a show that I would never have watched normally cause I like my tv and movies to lift me up rather than put me down cause life is hard enough sometimes that tv and movies are my escape but something about this show kept dragging me back week after week. I think a major part of it has to do with how this show managed to deconstruct the typical drama tropes. I mean I totally expected Boo Jung's ex to be a cheating abusive monster only to find out that he actually tries his hardest to be what she needs despite there not being any love between them. And truly this was the case for the entire cast of this show. They were all painfully human and the mistakes they made really were just mistakes. I also adored the intense chemistry between the leads and my inability to figure out if the show wanted them to be lovers or mother/son or friends. A lot of people compared this to My Mister which was another show in this vein that I never watched but I had heard that there was no romance or even any hint of it so that's why I was low key shocked to find the leads find love with each other but once I wrapped my brain around it, everything fit perfectly. I could see exactly what they saw in each other and though I wish that the ending hadn't been so vague, I'd like to imagine that they found the courage to be together in the end. 8.5 / 10

FINISHED Yumi's Cells (14/14): Controlled by a complex network of cells, each and every human on the planet is kept running by an unseen operating system that is, for the most part, completely ignored. Though humans never give much thought to how they manage to function, day in and day out, the cells within the human body are constantly at work, doing their part to keep their human alive and well. Which is why on the outside, Kim Yoo Mi may appear to be just like every other single working woman in the world, but underneath that ordinary exterior lies something truly extraordinary. Having recently suffered a painful breakup, Yoo Mi’s love cells have fallen into a deep coma. While the surrounding cells work hard to revive their fallen compatriots, Yoo Mi spends her days stuck in the grind of everyday life. With a heart still broken and no romantic prospects, Yoo Mi’s love cells might have been in serious trouble had it not been for the sudden appearance of Goo Woong. An emotionally stunted game developer, Goo Woong has no idea how to express his true feelings, but after meeting Yoo Mi, he finds himself wanting to try. With his own love cells unexpectedly sparking Yoo Mi’s back to life, things between the two start to get interesting. With both Yoo Mi and Goo Woong’s cells working overtime, the two find themselves drawing ever closer. But will the efforts of this small collection of cells really be enough to bring two hearts together forever?

When I say that I've never seen such a unique kdrama before I'm totally serious on so many fronts. Not only is the whole internal animated cell concept something I haven't seen before I also really adored the way this show depicted relationships. Like sometimes I need the cutesy soulmate dramas but other times I get a little exasperated by the idea that one person defines your whole love life which is why I'm not entirely sure that I can make a fully informed decision on what I thought of the show yet. Like okay so this show was based on a webtoon right in which Yu Mi is our main character and her love interests come and go but I'm worried that like a lot of other webtoon adaptations this show will take it's liberties on the plot and make Yu Mi stick with Woong cause kdramas need a male lead rather than having Yu Mi be the star and everyone else be there to make her look good. I do have a little hope based on the one scene this show had where Yu Mi was told that Woong wasn't her leading man. Now don't get me wrong, Woong isn't the worst male lead I've seen but because this show was so good at depicting characters with real flaws I find myself loving the moments when he's sweet especially at the start (and of course he's handsome) but then hating him for always putting his pride first and wanting better for Yu Mi. On the whole I'd give this season a 8 / 10!

xoxo Allie

What Shows Am I Watching This Week?

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Stargirl Season 2 Episode 11

So leaving the Shadowlands was a lot easier than I expected and though I actually really liked this episode on the whole, part of me feels like we didn't spend enough time delving into all the angst of what could have been with Courtney's Purgatory. Like imagine if we started the episode with that sad reunion scene at the house and then had a full episode with Courtney getting tortured by Eclipso and her demons only to start next week's episode with the family going to find Shade and Courtney finding her inner light only to run into Dr Midnite and Cindy and escaping. Having said all that since that's not what we got let's talk about what we did get. I liked that we brought Dr Midnite back though I'm not sure what role he will play going forward given that we have a baby JSA and no need for an adult but maybe he'll like wander off to find his wife or whatever family is left. I bet Rick and Jenny probs aren't thrilled that the one JSA member that survived wasn't their parent! Cindy's also back which I expected from the moment she was sucked into the Shadowlands but now maybe she'll be good? I'm still wondering where Artemis snuck off to. The other important thing is that Shade seems to have died which super sucks cause I liked him and I wonder if he's actually alive and actually just returned to the Shadows to heal. 

FINISHED Titans Season 3 Episode 13

Well this was a finale I suppose no matter how rushed it all felt. I will never not hate what they did to Jason but like I guess I've made my piece with it as I did with everything that went down with Bruce. I mean fine whatever I guess in this world Batman kills the Joker and moves on with his life? Jason also peaced out in order to find redemption while Tim took his place on the Titans as the new Robin and I can't wait to see his costume! The cast is for sure being mixed up like I thought with Blackfire and Donna leaving and I wonder if all the name drops of Roy Harper means that maybe we'll see him next season. Honestly though I'm surprised the show didn't seed anything for next season leaving me wondering if there even will be a season 4 and what it will be about. I mean we already hit all the big notes with Trigon, Blackfire, and Deathstroke in terms of Titans arcs so what's left? Terra? I mean there's no Deathstroke to be behind the wheel but you could always replace him with Cadmus or something and we know this show loves love triangles so Gar, Terra, and Rachel could be a thing too.

xoxo Allie

What Shows Am I Watching This Week?

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Pretty Smart Season 1

Okay so look I'm not always the hugest fan of sitcoms cause something about them just lacks stakes and I tend to find their humor is not for me or that the whole episodic nature of them prevents me from caring about the characters but I wanted to check this one out cause of Emily Osment and Gregg Sulkin who are two Disney actors that I've adored since I was younger. I even watched and enjoyed Emily's last sitcom Young & Hungry (even if the last season kinda fell apart for me) so I dived in not sure what I would find. The pilot was rough I have to admit cause it went really hard on the stereotypes that each character was embodying but as the season went on the characters all mellowed and started to feel like real people rather than caractures so I was definitely recommend at least waiting until episode 3 before you choose whether to drop it or not. Yes there were some episodes that were a bit boring given the nature of a sitcom but on the whole I really enjoyed every one of the wacky adventures our cast went on. I even fell in love with Chelsea and Grant and their chemistry though I did think their interest in each other started off a bit fast cause if these two already have feelings in season 1 then we're clearly in for the long haul in terms of the will they/won't they dating and breakup relationship carousel that sitcoms are known for. Having said that I totally called the cliffhanger of the season and I'm really left wondering if there will be more!

Stargirl Season 2 Episode 10

As much as hate the nonsense with Courtney and Mike mistrusting Barbara and Pat now for "their lies" this show still slays me every week with how good it is!! Shade showed up again and told our heroes that the only way to stop Eclipso is to fix the Black Diamond but he lied and actually said that in order to return his shade powers to him and instead fixing the Diamond brought Eclipso to them and Courtney was sucked into the Shadowland. I'm assuming that she's going to meet up with Cindy and the original Dr Midnite who are also there and then eventually they'll return. I also really liked seeing Jenny again though her whole side plot with her brother really feels like it could be a backdoor pilot cause I know Berlanti wants to make a Green Lantern show and what if this it that? Honestly I'm not that thrilled about it cause I wanted a show with more aliens and a focus on the Lantern Core instead of a singular Earthly Green Lantern cause god knows we have enough of the same old same old superhero stuff and I wanted something different! 

Titans Season 3 Episode 12

For some reason I went into this episode thinking it was supposed to be the finale so I was a bit surprised to find out that it's actually the penultimate and I'm still not sure what I'm supposed to be feeling or how. Dick was thrown into the Lazarus Pit and he's come back supposedly a new person or whatever and it literally just took him asking Jason to help him for Jason to be like yeah okay I'll be good again therefore I will never not be bitter at how this show ruined Jason though like the show I have a pretty short attention span so maybe by the time next season comes around I'll be like murderer who? Rachel is also continuously making me laugh with how she still feels like she's not back yet with how zen she is and uninterested in anything that's happening in Gotham. Like maybe it's the actress struggling to act next to Gar who's emoting his butt off but it's hilarious to see them be complete opposites in the same scene. Donna is also reminding me why I don't love this version of her with how she tries to force her opinions on others though Tim wanting to be Robin is so hamfisted that I'm just rolling my eyes. It also looks like Connor is becoming more like Lex with how he refused to listen to what Blackfire wanted and destroyed her ship in order to keep her with him though really why he thinks she'll forgive him for this is up in the air. I'm assuming that next week being the finale that obviously we'll defeat Crane and maybe the Titans will return to California though I'm not sure if any of the cast will be changing.

xoxo Allie

What Shows Am I Watching This Week?

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Stargirl Season 2 Episode 9

So the big secret that Barbara and Pat were keeping from Courtney is the fact that the JSA stopped Eclipso back in the day by killing the host and I'm sitting here like okay so it was as dumb of a secret as I expected it to be which is why I need Courtney to build a bridge and get over it. I mean what was she going to do if she knew this at the start of the season? Eclipso didn't have a host back then and I actually still don't know if he has one now (or is it Cindy?) so that advice is useless not to mention the fact that I don't see her stepping up to murder someone after she saw how killing Brainwave affected Yolanda. On the plus side we did see that Shade is somewhat okay though confused and I wanna shout out the fact that on this Earth Jay Garrick is also played by John Wesley Shipp cause it makes my heart smile whenever I see him play another Flash! Poor Mike was also tormented by Cameron and the fact that despite what he's said I think a part of him does feel guilty about accidentally killing Jordan though I also think this was definitely a preview for what's to come cause there's no way that Cameron lets his father's death go.

FINISHED What If Season 1 Episode 9

With this final episode What If has come to an end. I don't think anything could beat the horror that I felt watching Ultron rule the world last week but I had a fun time watching how our team of Avengers beat him. It ended up being all of the heroes we met over the past 7 episodes and a Gamora from a world we actually didn't experience. Zola did end up being the lynchpin to save the day though it was also heavily in part due to Dr Strange who caught Killmonger and Zola in a pocket dimension fighting to capture the Infinity Stones. I'm still left a little discombobulated in terms of the overall story cause we never really got answers as to who the Watcher was or why he couldn't interfere but I guess we're not meant to cause this was just supposed to be a quick pop into this world. Maybe next season we'll see him being punished for interfering? 

Titans Season 3 Episode 11

As penultimate episodes go this really wasn't a great one. I don't know why in the world this show is so adamant on separating the Titans all the time. If the showrunners/writers wanted to write a show for Nightwing that's what they should have done rather than pretend like they wanted to write an ensemble show about a team of heroes. Like don't get me wrong the Batfamily is for sure my favorite part of DC but I also have a soft spot for the Titans and Young Justice and the Justice League so I wanted a show like that! We never actually see the team be a team and I'm exhausted by it. Starfire found out that she never actually had fire powers and that they were stolen from Blackfire as a child so Tamaran didn't fall into a civil war. I wonder if this means that we'll get more comic accurate starbolts now? Dick was a dick and took out Connor and Krypto using Kryptonite in order to fight Jason but was shot by a civilian instead. Jason is still all over the place in terms of writing but I think him seeing Crane having lost his mind will probs have been the last straw. It also appears like Dick will be going into the Lazarus Pit that Gar and Rachel found given that he is practically dead at the end. I'm still kinda wondering where Bruce is after Donna found him trying to kill himself. She meanwhile has teamed up with Tim as they arm more civilians to fight the cops on Crane's payroll. 

FINISHED Leverage: Redemption Season 1B

Back in July when I originally watched the first half of this Leverage revival I think I knew that it was actually only going to be part 1 of 2 for this season but somewhere along the way I totally forgot that there was a second part coming so when I realized this week that it was airing, I cannot describe to you how excited I was! I absolutely adore this show and I was ready to jump back into the world it built. 1B was just as good as 1A which like I said in my previous review was just as good as the original Leverage. The Jackal Job actually made me cry and I always live for cases like the Hurricane Job and the Golf Job which separates some parts of the team from the rest so we can see them shine in new ways. I also had a soft spot for the Train Job cause like Parker and Sophie I adore trains and the romanticism of them and movies like Murder On The Orient Express! Mr Wilson was still working for me as the new Nate and though I still prefer Hardison over Breanna, I was used to her presence in this back half so she didn't bother me as much either. Having said all that I do have to say that the overarching season villain of RIZ did feel a bit like a James Bond type of villain trying to come up with this absurdly complicated take-over-the-world plan but I did like that they connected back to Mr Wilson who started off this whole Redemption arc at the top of the season through Ethan and I had fun watching the Leverage team take them down anyway. I really really really do hope that this show gets a season 2 and we get this same cast back again but if this was just a one and done type of revival I would be happy enough too given that I never thought that I would get a chance to see more of this world in the first place!!

xoxo Allie

What Dramas Did I Finish This Week?

Hello and welcome back! These are the dramas I finished this week. If you're interested in previous reviews, click here and if you want to see a list of my Favorite Asian OTPs and Ships, click here!

KDRAMA

FINISHED Police University (16/16): Hacking was the only way out of Kang Sun Ho’s miserable life ever since his parents passed away from an accident when he was just ten. He eventually puts his genius hacking skills into practice in an attempt to steal illegal gambling funds to pay for his adoptive father’s cancer surgery. One day, Sun Ho bumps into a charismatic judo girl, Oh Kang Hee, and falls in love at first sight. Just to be with her, he sets a goal to get an acceptance letter from the same university as Kang Hee’s and eventually gets accepted. However, he does not expect a familiar face from his previous misdemeanor, Yoo Dong Man, to greet him as his professor. At first, he’s not very pleased to see him again, but he gradually grows fond of Dong Man, the man of justice, to the point where he respects Dong Man’s philanthropic and brave nature as they continue to bicker with one another. Just like that, what started as love at first sight becomes Sun Ho’s life goal, a police officer.

I'm not entirely sure where to start this review off cause the finale for this show which aired this week left me feeling mostly meh. There was nothing fantastic about this show but there was also nothing that annoyed me so I'm left treading water like yeah this is a show that existed. The main focus of this show ended up not being kids attending a police academy but wannabe cops working with actual cops to solve a gambling ring case and uncover police corruption. On paper this should have been up my alley cause I do prefer my cop shows to have crimes being solved in them but I ended up thinking the main case was kinda boring so I didn't connect with the show. Like maybe it was the mystery that didn't seem mysterious enough or maybe it was the romance that didn't spark enough chemistry but either way I just watched this show on autopilot. I guess I did like the way all the main characters were a team and the comedy worked for me sometimes but the reveal that the ultimate bad guy was the head of the police academy did nothing for me. All in all this is a very mid show and I'd give it a 7 / 10.

CDRAMA

FINISHED Upcoming Summer (1/1): It tells the story of a girl who failed the college entrance exam and a young man who's a free soul. Chen Chen failed the gaokao (National College Entrance Examination) while Zheng Yu Xing had to return to school because he missed the exams. The two ended up meeting because of a lie Chen Chen said and had to come up with a way to quell the doubts of their teachers and parents. Having met in their youth, they hold hands as they face different problems growing up and forge a deep friendship.

You ever start a movie expecting one thing only to be blown away by how it's actually another? Well that's exactly what happened to me with this movie! I expected the whole thing to be super depressing and focus on kids struggling to get into college only to end up laughing my ass off for the first half and then feeling all melty and soft inside at the second half as the movie gave us a beautiful look into one-sided love! I blame the synopsis entirely. Like I don't even have the words to describe how I connected with this movie. The characters are all fantastic as is the acting. I love the relationships between all the character and I both love and hate the open ending! On the one hand my brain is like it makes it more realistic that Yuxing doesn't fall in love with Chenchen after his injury if he didn't love her before but my heart is like buuuuut happily ever after! 9.5 / 10

xoxo Allie

What Shows Did I Watch This Week?

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Stargirl Season 2 Episode 8

Darkness is the name of the game and I really really really feel bad for poor Rick who started the episode thinking about colleges and now might be going to jail for assault! Like I don't know why exactly I thought that Eclipso would only target Beth and not both at the same time other than maybe a meta reason thinking that it would be better to spread out the mayhem over 3 episodes rather than 2 but he's for sure getting exactly what he wants. With Yolanda quitting and now Rick destroying the Hourglass, it's just Beth and Courtney now. I did like that Beth dug deep and found her courage rather than succumbing to her fears like Yolanda and Rick did though all the race commentary was a little heavy-handed of the show given how little it clearly wants to actually touch on race. In the end though her goggles might be the only thing able to see through Eclipso's visions making her a trump card. I'm also still waiting for the Green Lantern to come back! It does look like Mike and Barbara might be next on Eclipso's list though which kinda sucks.

What If Season 1 Episode 8

Good god guys this episode should have been named Anxiety for all that it made my heart palpitate the whole time! Ultron was so so so much scarier in this show than he ever was in the Age Of Ultron movie and I spent the whole time biting my nails worried out of my mind over Ultron's power even though I knew well and clear that I should be hyped cause his taking over the universe and the multiverse meant that we would see all the What If heroes we followed for the last 7 episodes come together to fight in a new Avengers lineup! Talk about good storytelling! The fact that he could see the Watcher was one thing cause so could Dr Strange but jumping into the Watcher's world was a whole other! I also can't help but wonder if the fact that he so easily defeated big dogs like Captain Marvel and Thanos and even the Watcher himself makes it a little unbelievable that Party Thor and Captain Carter can but then again we already have a built in way to win with Natasha and Zola next week!

Titans Season 3 Episode 10

Color me not at all surprised to find out that this show is making Jason turn bad all over again. If it couldn't have shit on him any more then here we are. After tricking the Titans into poisoning Gotham's water supply, Crane convinced the city it was the Titans who did it and made them fugitives. He also paid off the cops to kill them and I'm left here like maybe they should just wash their hands of Gotham's hot as mess. We end the episode with all of the Titans split up. Dick and Connor are together as are Starfire and Blackfire who speaking of ended up switching powers with one another somehow though I wouldn't be surprised if this show ends with both of them having half of Starfire's powers. Also important is that Donna is in Gotham now as is Raven who found Gar and I guess that is the most exciting thing about this show to see them all come together again. I do wonder what is up with everyone constantly talking about being more than a soldier cause not only did Blackfire give that talk to Starfire but Donna got one too. I know in some incarnations Starfire runs the Titans while Dick's off doing his Batfamily thing but if that's where this show wants to go then why Donna?

xoxo Allie

What Dramas Did I Finish This Week?

Hello and welcome back! These are the dramas I finished this week. If you're interested in previous reviews, click here and if you want to see a list of my Favorite Asian OTPs and Ships, click here!

KDRAMA

FINISHED Argon (8/8): Kim Baek Jin is a popular anchor, reporter, and leader of investigative reporting program Argon. He does not tolerate unverified reports and requires facts he can personally stand behind. He also demands this standard of journalistic integrity from his team, who often call him "the Psycho" behind his back. After Kim Baek Jin's team reports on a story that Argon's broadcast station's higher-ups disapprove of, the program is bumped to the midnight slot and Kim loses of his senior reporter. Lee Yeon Hwa is a rookie contract reporter who's assigned to the team to replace him, and she works hard as she's always looked up to Kim Baek Jin as a role model from afar. The team at Argon grows through many trials as they struggle to tell true and meaningful news stories that the public needs to hear—all while the broadcast company tries to undermine their goals at every turn.

I decided to check out this show pretty much cause I saw it on Netflix and I was actually really blown away by this show and how it was clearly everything Hush that kdrama about reporters from earlier this year wanted to be. I wonder if it's expert writing and tight story can be linked to it's shorter episode count cause that meant there was no time to dawdle around. I really enjoyed that the show actually focused on reporting and the news rather than the politics of the media cause I've seen a million of those types of shows and the only show about reporting that I had watched to this day that was actually about reporting was Pinocchio even if that one was a little more rose-colored than the world actually is. All that to say that there was some politics in this show but it felt like the perfect amount. I really enjoyed all of the main characters and I especially loved that Yeon Hwa was super competent and badass cause she actually was able to bring news stories behind her drive and for once it was totally obvious why a veteran like Baek Jin would approve of her outside of her being the female lead (I'm looking at you Hush and the extremely childish female lead.) The ending didn't actually answer all of our questions or wrap things in a nice bow but I guess it makes sense since the world isn't perfect. 9.5 / 10

xoxo Allie

Summer 2021 Anime Awards

Hey guys! The Summer 2021 Anime Season has officially come to a close this week and I have to say that this season was definitely one of the weaker ones so unlike the previous ones where I struggled to choose from many good options, this season I struggled to choose from many poor choices.

(Original) Anime Of The Season

Tokyo Revengers is my pick for the anime of the season which is probs no surprise to anyone that watched this show. Technically this is a show that aired over two seasons but I think that since it finished airing in Summer 2021 that it fit into this season! Every week when I was watching the new episodes I was always left shocked when the 30 minutes flew by cause it never felt long enough and if that's not clearly evidence of how much I loved this show then I don't know what is! I loved the idea of this show being about a weakling who time travels to infiltrate a gang to save the love of his life and whereas from a distance it looks like he gets lucky every time he succeeds with a mission, if you look closer you can see how his kind nature and loyalty effects all those around him into doing what he wants them to do. I also think it's fun that he can jump back and forth through time so that he can make small changes and jump ahead to see how they worked out before going back again to fix whatever else he needs to. 

Runner Up - The Case Study Of Vanitas

Hidden Gem 

The Aquatope On White Sand is my pick for hidden gem of the season. I feel like people are both watching and not watching this show enough cause those who are see it's potential but I don't hear a lot about it. I think part of the thing is that it's such a quiet show that takes a look at dreams and how far a person should go to chase them rather than something with big action or a widespread world. I love the setting and the characters and I'm so excited to see where the show takes us from here cause the big thing that I thought the show was about seems to be fading away. 

Runner Up - Peach Boy Riverside

Best Sequel 

My Next Life As A Villainess: All Routes Lead To Doom Season 2 is definitely the best sequel of this season and honestly it had no competition with how poorly the other sequel this season did in my opinion. The funny thing about this show is the fact that I didn't realize how much I was going to enjoy this sequel until I was almost halfway through. I did really enjoy the first season of this show but I was a little confused about where this second season would go cause like most reverse harems I didn't expect Katarina to ever actually choose a person from her harem to love not to mention the fact that I thought that Katarina was too dumb to realize that any of her harem loved her in the first place which is why I was shocked as all hell to see that both Gerald and Keith confessed. The shipper in me that ships Katarine and Gerald was so fed and that might be part of the reason this season worked so hard for me! I also really liked all the storylines we got from Katarina's kidnapping to Nicol's possible future love interest to Keith's kidnapping and I can't wait for more!

Runner Up - My Hero Academia Season 5

Greatest Animation/Character Design

The Case Study Of Vanitas had the best animation this season. I absolutely adored the bright colors and the fantastical world the show built but I also adored the way it went from sweeping to chibi in moments that the show wanted to bring special attention to! I loved that there was a human world and a magical world and that the show very clearly showed us which one was which through color!

Runner Up - Tsukimichi Moonlit Fantasy

Best OP 

Merry Go Round by Man With A Mission from My Hero Academia Season 5 is definitely my favorite OP of the season. I swear I listened to it a million times even if part of me felt like it didn't really vibe with the second half of this season once the villain arc came around! 

Runner Up - Andante ni Koi wo Shite by Angela from My Next Life As A Villainess: All Routes Lead To Doom Season 2

Protagonist(s) Of The Season

Noé and Vanitas from The Story Of Vanitas are actually my protagonists of the season and maybe that's cheating cause I picked two but that's how I feel! Noé and Vanitas are close friends who respect and look out for each other but would die before saying anything other than they hate each other and honestly the show would not be the same without the two bouncing off of each other. They're almost direct opposites of one another on the surface but as the show slowly peels back layer after layer of our leads we learnt that they might be two sides of the same coin after all. Both seem to be goofy and laid back but hide dark sides and dark backstories. 

Runner Up - Kukuru Misakino from The Aquatope On White Sand

Antagonist(s) Of The Season

Tetta Kisaki from Tokyo Revengers is my antagonist of the season and there was no competition in my eyes. Kisaki was fascinating cause when this show started we didn't actually know who he was or how much he would be affecting the lives of every character we cared about but as the show went on we saw that not only did he have his hand in almost every pie but he was also the puppetmaster. Every horrible thing that happened in this show was connected back to him and once we got the whole picture I couldn't help but salute him for how well thought out and planned it was. Every piece fell into place perfectly even despite the fact that time travel was involved!

Runner Up - League Of Villains from My Hero Academia

Ship Of The Season

Katarina and Geordo from My Next Life As A Villainess: All Routes Lead To Doom Season 2 are my ship of the season and this second season really did keep us fed! I honestly do think if and when this show ends that these two will be endgame and that's not just my hope given that Geordo is my favorite of Katarina's harem! I mean beyond the fact that I'm just a sucker for tropes in which arranged marriages or fake dating leads to real love, I really love that Katarina was the one to bring light to Geordo's world and that he would literally give her the moon if she asked for it. They have kissed so many times now and I adore how flustered Katarina gets every time and yet she doesn't exactly pull away or is horrified by it like she was with Keith!

Runner Up - Sally and Mikoto from Peach Boy Riverside

And with that I'll see you all in the Fall 2021 Season!!

xoxo Allie

What Shows Am I Watching This Week?

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Stargirl Season 2 Episode 7

Okay so I seriously love that like the characters themself we the audience really can't tell if what's happening with Yolanda's headaches is Eclipso or Brainwave or Yolanda's guilt. Like it's been going on longer than Eclipso has been freed and I know a ton of people theorized that Brainwave really did put himself in Yolanda's brain but I think that if I had to make a guess I would say that it started out as Yolanda's guilt and now it's Eclipso expanding on that fear. It looks like he knows who to target one by one and it's clear that next is Beth. On that note it was interesting that Yolanda and Courtney finally told everyone what happened in the tunnels and it sucks that though Beth was the only one to not understand why Yolanda did what she did, one negative opinion was enough to convince Yolanda that she was a sinner. I hate that all this has just pushed Yolanda back into her terribly abusive family cause before this she was doing so well! She had friends and a job and was living her life! In other news I do have to say that maybe it's the Superman & Lois stan in me but I think my favorite part of this show might also be the family kicking ass part. I adored that final scene when the four were sitting around the dining table discussing JSA problems!

What If Season 1 Episode 7

In the midst of depressing episode after depressing episode it was nice to finally watch a low stakes episode that was actually funnier than expected! In this world Loki was not adopted by Odin so Thor grew up alone and spoiled and so never really grew out of his party stage. When Odin entered his Odinsleep, Frigga went off to visit her sister and Thor descended to Earth to party the planet away which SHIELD did not appreciate. I thought the whole thing was super fun and I liked seeing that Thor and Jane would fall for each other no matter who they were. I also thought that SHIELD was a little extreme in deciding that they needed to drop a nuke on Thor to get him to stop as if they wouldn't be bringing a whole ass alien race to war and really maybe it's my dislike of Captain Marvel but her whole vibe was really no fun. The end was absolutely hilarious though with Jane calling Frigga to tattle on Thor and that everyone was terrified of her enough to clean up Earth and pretend that they were all just studying. I'm not entirely sure what arrived at the end but it looked like Thanos with the Infinity Stones several years too early.

Titans Season 3 Episode 9

Truly I will never understand Titans both as a show and a concept. Like we spent all episode in the Afterlife where we followed Donna, Tim, and Hank as they attempted to return to the living and I don't understand what's happening for real. I thought this would be the perfect way to bring Hank back and then in turn negate whatever real evil Jason did so he could return to being a Titan but then Hank sacrificed himself to let Donna and Tim return and now I'm confused again. Maybe the fact that Hank chose to move on or let go or whatever will make the other Titans less inclined to hate Jason for killing him? I did like the idea that he found Donnie again though cause that made my heart soft. Also confusing is whatever mess Bruce is in. I have hated this show's version of Bruce Wayne since he was introduced but like now it's an even weirder. Like okay so apparently he wrote up his will and then killed Joker and then fled Gotham and tried to kill himself? And where in the hell did Donna appear from cause her body was definitely supposed to be on Themyscira? 

FINISHED My Hero Academia Season 5 Episode 25

We returned to what feels like the normal My Hero shenanigans and man was it a breath of fresh air. I'm truly so excited to see what I think will be the actual big arc that changes everything in this world next season! We've jumped forward 4 months to April in which our heroes have gone from first years to second years and at the same time Tomura will have completed whatever experiment is being run on him. The doctor did mention the fact that he's studying quirk singularities too and that got my attention given that's what Deku was told too. Like All Might said One For All had been slowly strengthened over time through the multiple quirk holders that wielded it and now it's reached peak performance inside Deku. Maybe he should have gone through Tomura's evil training too cause I'm starting to wonder if he's anywhere near the League in terms of strength!

xoxo Allie

What Shows Am I Watching This Week?

Hello everyone and welcome back! Let's dive right in shall we?

Stargirl Season 2 Episode 6

Well shit guys everything that happened this week was unexpected! So Eclipso is officially out of the black diamond and ready to paint the town red. His powers work by absorbing the souls of others especially children and I think we're meant to believe that he's actually from another dimension or parallel world or something given that he told Shade that Shade is weaker than him cause he only siphons powers from Eclipso's world while Eclipso is from that world. In one foul swoop he destroyed whatever was budding with the baby Injustice League by killing Isaac for sure and possibly Cindy though I can't imagine that a perfectly ripe nemesis for Courtney in Cindy is gone from this show forever! Like maybe Shade snuck in and took her into his shadows to protect her? I mean why else didn't Eclipso suck her soul in like he did with Isaac? Also I'm still waiting for poor dumb Cameron to be let in on the joke cause right now he's wandering around all angst ridden though I really shouldn't expect him to struggle with the idea of his dad being a bad man cause it's clear this show has no need for nuance. I mean just look at Artemis. Her parents are complex cause they did lots of horrible things but they did love her more than anything else and yet she is acting like they're the most innocent flowers who were trampled on so I imagine that Cameron will react similarly in ignoring the fact that his dad was ready to murder millions and focus on the fact that he loved him and his mom and Courtney and co killed him.

What If Season 1 Episode 6

Honestly guys I'm not sure how I felt about this one! Like part of the struggle is in the fact that I was the dumb one and expected this to be a story of Killmonger being a good guy rather than a story of Erik playing 4D chess against everyone to get revenge on everyone! The thing is though that this episode felt a bit regressionary in terms of Erik's ideals when compared to Black Panther cause in that one his whole thing was that Wakanda had the ability to help but stood back while in this one he seemed more interested in conquering for fun. Like as dope as his plan was, what did he ultimately want? I did like the idea that unlike other worlds this one had a chance of surviving with Shuri and Pepper being clear that Erik was behind everything. I'd imagine that they'd expose his motivations and all the evidence of him doing terrible things but once again I'm left thinking of the future and the fact that if Iron Man wasn't there to do the ultimate snap and defeat Thanos maybe we'd be in a world with the population halved though still alive.

Titans Season 3 Episode 8

Honestly I believe Jason when he says he's sorry for everything he's done though it really brings up my problem with this show and it's beyond shitty writing. Like how in the actual hell does Jason go from ready to kill Dick to remorseful in one episode? Also how are we ever supposed to forgive Jason for killing Hank? I was right in guessing that Crane's drug was the thing that was causing Jason to go crazy but I feel like the show didn't push it far enough in terms of Jason's freewill. Gar brought up the fact that Jason's situation is like his with Cadmus but in that scenario Gar was really and truly mind controlled while Jason felt more like he lost impulse control and honestly besides the fact that I adore the Batfamily and the actor who plays Jason, I'm not entirely sure if this version of Jason can be forgiven. We saw more of Tim this week too and I loved how similar he was to the comics Tim Drake with his detective work and though I'm surprised that he was shot this week I'm sure he'll be fine cause unlike Barbara or Jason, Tim never actually gets hurt for real. We also really went from 0 to 60 with Blackfire and Connor and dudes the amount I hate it is so real. 

My Hero Academia Season 5 Episode 24

As the penultimate episode of the season it looks like we've pretty much wrapped up the My Villain Academia arc. I'm still not happy with this whole thing cause it really wasn't what I expected from the supposed arc that changes My Hero forever but at the same time I think I've finally figured out the timeline for this season despite the way it jumped around. I'm fairly certain that this fight went down and the Liberation Army became the Paranormal Liberation Front first followed by Hawks infiltrating the organization which happened at the same time as the Class A v Class B thing. After this the kids went on their work studies and Hawks warned Endeavor about the upcoming fight against the Liberation Army. I bet the fight is going to be next and will probs start season 6 and honestly I think that's the arc that I am more looking forward to. I mean yeah yeah it's great that the villains have all leveled up and whatever but I really didn't need a full arc to tell me that when the show could have just fit it into one episode or even told me they powered up while we were watching the heroes do the same.

xoxo Allie