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DC Super Hero Girls (2019)
Masterpiece. I am sad this show doesnt have more seasons.
My 4-year-old daughter and I watched this show together, and it quickly became her favorite.
Why is it fantastically good?
- the episodes are just short enough to be perfect for children. There are stories spanning episodes, usually just when it would be really impossible to tell something in 10 minutes.
- The animation style is excellent. Each character has an interesting and characterful design. After a while, I started looking at the characters in the background, and even they are so detailed that you can infer their personalities from a hint or two.
- The fight scenes are very good. They are not very violent. What I especially liked was that the supergirls often have to solve fights creatively. The series cleverly sometimes takes the heavy-hitters out of the team (e.g. Wonder Woman or Supergirl), so everyone has a chance to shine.
- Empowering. The members of the team are sometimes funny, sometimes clownish, but mostly they can be role models for the younger generation. I would especially highlight my two favorites, Wonder Woman and Tatsu Yamashiro (Katana), who become friends in one part because they both strive for physical and mental perfection and push each other in this direction.
- The moral messages are very good. It would be impossible to describe everything that the two seasons are about, but it's about camaraderie, honor, perseverance, honesty, love and breakup, self-acceptance and I could go on and on. These are mostly not served in a mouth-watering way.
- The series is trendy and current in its own way. The supergirls talk on the phone, there is a section about online bullying, the harmful effects of video recordings, the negative effects of social media, and I could list more. I particularly liked the fact that Jessica Cruz (Green Lantern) talks about environmental protection and animal protection, and this is also presented elegantly.
- Lots of superheroes and supervillains appear, and for a children's show, they are quite true to their personalities generally accepted in comics. There isn't a single character that doesn't have some characteristic.
- The selection of voice actors is very strong: Tara Strong, Gray Griffin, Liam O'Brien are just a few of my favorites.
All in all, it's very sad that this series didn't get more seasons, I think it's great fun for children, and it's one of those children's series in which adults also find interesting things.
The Regime: Victory Day (2024)
It's pretty boring
The first episode is not easy for any series. You have to show the world, the characters, but you still have to grab the viewers with some kind of interesting plot hook.
Although I was looking forward to it, the first episode was terribly boring for me. It feels a bit like they tried to copy a movie, "The Death of Stalin", but less funny. Unfortunately, there wasn't a part of the first episode where I even smiled.
I love Kate Winslet, but watching her fear various imaginary diseases for 15 minutes is just not fun. The secondary characters are not so interesting for now, I don't see how interesting drama could be made out of it. The opening of the series "Succession" was much stronger and more characters were established there.
Unfortunately, the country itself that the series is trying to portray is not very interesting so far, and basically imagining a modern-day fascist country in Central Europe feels terribly strange, especially since it is negotiating with real countries like the USA. It might have been a better decision to create completely fantasy countries, as for example the game called Contraband Police did, and just hint at which country is the real world equivalent of that country.
Justice League Action (2016)
Perfect for kids.
I watched it with my three-year-old daughter and she loved it, even though she only knew Batman.
- the imagery is uniform and beautiful
- the characters are interesting, their abilities are used
- the message of the episodes are positive (teamwork, forgiveness, perseverance, friendship)
- the plot is usually well explained, for example what happens to the villains, what their plan is, what happens to them when they lose
- the episodes are short, so I think they can be consumed by the younger age group in terms of complexity
- the whole title is Justin League Action and well the action scenes are fun and well choreographed.
Squid Game: The Challenge (2023)
I liked Squid Game: The Challenge, but in the next season I hope we get more children's games.
I don't know how fake the show was, but I think it was extremely enjoyable. However, apart from a few minor problems, the biggest problem with the show in my opinion was that the vast majority of the games were more of a kind of backstabbing emotional games than games of skill where everyone starts with the same odds. With the exception of Red Light, Green Light, the chances were almost nowhere equal, even in the cookie-cutter part, it was basically a life-and-death decision as to who could suppress the other in the selection.
You have to somehow simulate the fact that people kill each other in the original show, but there was too much of that here, and the whole thing went in the direction that the best chance to win was not for the "interesting" people, but for the friendly, but not very exciting characters.
The dice game, box opening, warship (to a certain extent, since the others, apart from the captains, were only observers, and the bad guy of the season was also eliminated here, in a lackluster way), Circle of Trust, the voting game are just a few examples that now I suddenly remember where the elimination was essentially completely random, or based on who could be the grayer nobody in the background. It's no wonder that the winner of the series(is a pretty smart woman, but) was essentially unnoticeable until the second half of the season.
They also have their place in the series, but like the original show, it wouldn't hurt if there was some kind of balance, and the games alternated between skill and the sneaky social skills fwould be in the next season.
Ahsoka (2023)
This is the way.
I think the Ahsoka series shows a very good direction of where the Star Wars franchise should go. Personally, I'm hoping that at this point they'll take the Sequel to Legends and continue that line.
The main positives:
- the series skillfully uses the old characters, like Anakin or Thraw. Doesn't screw them up like the sequels (cough cough Luke)
- skillfully introduces new interesting characters. Baylan, Shin, Enoch are all characters we haven't met yet and have potential.
- skillfully expands the world. It is completely believable how the little crustaceans who are Ezra's friends survive on such a planet, yet they are interesting, cute, and not just in the series to sell plushies.
- great family-friendly cinema: I watched it with my three-year-old daughter, and she also enjoyed it, because the humor and the lessons are at a level that is not horribly silly, but enjoyable for everyone.
- it has some smart ideas. The zombie stromtroopers, the philosophical gray jedi who is completely uninterested in the whole plot and has a completely different goal, the master-padawan relationship which is neither toxic nor over-idealized, the villains who finally cooperate instead of fighting like kindergarteners against each other.
In my opinion, although it is not perfect, the Ahsoka series is perfect for a new direction.
Gólkirályság (2023)
Not a bad idea, but a bad direction.
When I first saw how this series was being made, I was very enthusiastic. Ted Lasso is my favorite, so I was happy that perhaps a similar series is finally being made in Hungarian. What I got is quite different now than I expected.
I definitely liked the first episode. With the mayor who cheated on his corrupt wife, the conceited farmer who supports the team, the wise club president, the player archetypes who made up the team and I could go on and on. The basic idea of a female coach taking over the management of a team could have brought completely new things. For those who don't know, in the series Ted Lasso, the newly arrived coach becomes the head of the team almost out of the blue, but he gets to know the team better episode by episode, and we get deeper into the story layer by layer. On the other hand, the characters here are extremely static, they have the sameone-dimensional character all the way through, which is frustrating, considering that they still seemed promising during the first episode.
The series could be described as "A mi kis falunk" but football. Simple characters, simple jokes, etc. It could be a pleasant experience, but there is a huge problem with the series: it doesn't really know what it wants to show. During the fifth episode, we got to the point where several minutes of the show is about:
- Dóra Sztarenki, who plays the pretty secretary, tries to hide from the mayor's wife's relative in her underwear,
- the grumpy farmer is tied up, and his girlfriend to do to some dirty things while she dressed as a cleaning lady
- if the coach loses, she has to dress hot.
In my opinion, a series like this (even if it tries to keep this humorous line) could be more about how the cocky young star player becomes a real "professional", how the veteran passes the baton, how the female coach copes with headwinds etc.
Instead, we're watching some kind of weird burlesque, which is not terrible but not as good as it could be.