Madness That is March

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It’s not just the Ides of March this year, nor is it the tournament that leaves this March feeling madder than the old hatter. Winter tattering out to make way for spring as we change clocks to enjoy some sunlight after six pm again. Television is peaking which feels like sensory overload to a certain extent.

Severance has garnered the masses but Paradise, Invincible, and White Lotus are all making their names in the conversation known. On the docket are The Last of Us and The Boys finale in June for new seasons of television. Might check out that new Seth Rogen show I saw advertised while at it.

I’ll start with Severance; the concept of the show is fascinating, execution is unequivocally deliberate and stunning, while the storylines leave you questioning a lot but not too much. I was worried midway through season two we were going to lose what made season one great but was happily proven wrong. One thing about the ending of season two; “Helly R would never be that cruel” to Gemma. I am joining that crowd of thinking but have no issue with being proven wrong if season three delivers like this one did.

Also, the day we get a Milchick background episode the internet will have enough memes to last a lifetime. Drummond got what I expected and the goats were stupid. That is my only real issue through two seasons - the goats were a failed subplot and all we got out of it was Brienne from Tarth going apeshit which was awesome but the reasoning felt silly for a company engaged with the use of a brain surgery beyond the mind, body, and soul. Unrelatedly related, what do we think Ricken been up to this whole time? Love how he was a nonfactor toward the end of this season, nothing against the actor just the character is so strange to the plot.

Pivoting to Paradise, a different dystopian story of what happens after the most likely way the world will end. Episode 7 - the Janitor will take you out emotionally to lunch and beat those emotions in the kneecaps like a loan shark you owe $35k. Sterling K Brown delivers, James Marsden… delivers. They are positioned nicely for a season two that will have me watching every week it releases probably on the dot.

Invincible just hits the adult cartoon comic book in me that is needed. The storylines are powerful, it does not sugar coat damage done to the world. It has flawless line delivery from a voice acting cast that is beyond words talented. There’s nothing more I can say other that go watch it and tell me you’re not entertained.

White Lotus is a social commentary that truly makes you say “what the fuck” from season to season. Not much really happens in the build up of some episodes, but then you’re sitting there like “these dinners and conversations are real, wait have I been in this conversation or dynamic before and now I am viewing it from the outside?”. While I would prefer to binge the hell out of this show because it flows better as one, 8 hour movie… but guessing theories week to week has been interesting nonetheless. Season one was their best so far in my opinion but I have enjoyed what the show offers. Unsure it will need a season four per se but let’s see how three finishes out.

This is incredibly unrelated but if you read this far can someone explain to me F1. It’s fancy NASCAR with the reality TV of Housewives. It’s 80% of hinge profiles I have seen and I genuinely do not understand what is compelling about it. Car goes vroom vroom fast around corners. Additionally, I would like to lodge a formal complaint against both because we as people cannot honestly say we are looking to not destroy our environment when we burn fossil fuels for sport. It’s just such a blatant contradiction to the point I cannot take it seriously anymore.