Just an FYI that my wife is consuming Doom Patrol (maybe only on HBO Max in the US?) At an alarming rate. She tried Umbrella Academy and finds this way better.

She just compared it to Doctor Who in terms of the line it walks that happily hits super weird, heartwarming, and funny.

I watched the pilot with her but she has left me in the dust now.

Also it has a character called Danny Street who is a sentient, genderqueer, teleporting street. Just seems like a Buffista kinda show.

Also it has a character called Danny Street who is a sentient, genderqueer, teleporting street.

Do what now? Non-human sentient character is totally my jam. I have to check that one out.

Did I say how much I liked The Witcher? I figured out it was multiple timelines about halfway through the second episode. I love that sort of thing, and it was done really well. Everything came together in the end with no plot holes or dropped balls or shit that didn't make any sense. Most multiple-timeline stories get tangled up by writers who can't juggle all the moving parts.

Was anyone else ultimately disappointed by DEVs? I wanted it to be the story I initially thought it was, and what it turned out to be was predictable and unsatisfying. But I don't want to turn anyone off from watching it. Someone who isn't me might be happy with it.

There are also rats and cockroaches that go on revenge missions and think they are prophets of Ezekiel (respectively) on Do Patrol, all with funny subtitles. And Meg says it's doing a great job tackling interesting sexuality issues. Definitely seems worth a try by most Buffista types.

The great part is, Danny the Street is actually from the comics. That's probably less surprising if you know Grant Morrison wrote that run.

Apparently it's actually pretty loyal to the comics, if modernized.

Was anyone else ultimately disappointed by DEVs?

No, but only because I'd run out of fucks to give about three episodes in? It was so so pretty and so so serious and so so not as clever as it thought it was.

so so not as clever as it thought it was.

That sums it up.

Plus. DEVs was another story driven by a rich white man's pain and in the end rewarding him by giving him exactly what he wanted, never mind the awful things he did to get there or the people who died in his wake. I wish I hadn't gotten my hopes up in the beginning.

We just finished ep 6 of The Witcher. I'm really enjoying it. I mean, there is stuff that is obviously missing and that if this were a long series it could be fleshed out more. Like how much time is going by between the episodes (not in relation to the different timelines). There are a few things like when Yen talks about decades or makes a crack about Jaskier's crows feet but that doesn't really show you time moving and why Ciri and Dara went from just seeming to meet to being family to each other, that seemed quick.

Oh and I'm confused about how long Yennifer and Geralt had known each other by the time the dragon hunt happened.

I'm reading fanfic so I'm seeing things referenced (or rewritten) showing up in the show but I read this really long sort of AU world building thing that has colored my preception of the characters. (An Accidental Warlord and His Pack.. which doesn't have any werewolf elements to it)

Also does anyone have any recs for The Witcher? Fic or vids.