I don't frequent it enough to have an opinion, but that was far from the point I was trying to make with this post. I have better things to do than go online to validate my contrarianism.

It's a beloved show that, thus far, hasn't had the same impact on me, so I wanted to ask people who've watched it if the reasons for that are prevalent during its whole runtime, and most of all, consistent and stationary. They seem to not be, so I'll keep watching.

The fact that it moves away is enough for me, regardless of the amount or the speed at which it does that. What I feared is that it's gonna be the same thing throughout. But yeah, if by the back half of S2 nothing has changed for me I'm gonna re-evaluate it then. Skipping episodes is for sure out of the question for me though, because if I care little enough for what I'm watching so as to skip an entire season, I might as well drop it altogether, there's no point in half-assing it. Thanks regardless!

Yeah that's more or less where I'm at right now, but I think I'll give it a shot at least for a bit more, judging by some comments in the thread. And if nothing changes for me in the next season, that's probably where I'll drop it.

The comments swayed me on at least giving it a shot for a bit more, so I'm gonna do that. I get what you're saying though

The show leaning a bit more on the technical business side of things will be a welcome change of pace for sure. I much prefer that backdrop for character development to occur instead of the expected (and aforementioned) 50s reasons.

Yeah that's the exact reason my interest for the show sparked back up again the moment I realized it isn't gonna stay in the 50s

My concern was more akin to "is this gonna be it for 7 seasons?" but from most of the comments here I can see that this isn't the case. That's enough for me to give it a chance. Thanks!

Even from the 9 episodes I've watched I can definitely see the novel comparison, in the way it's paced. Let's hope what it builds to ends up wowing me like it wowed everyone else. Thanks!

Yeah my main concern was that all the show has to offer is well-written dialogue and pretty sets, hence the post. The other comments along with yours made me hopeful for it again, I'll stick with it. Thanks a lot!

Aight yeah I'm gonna give it a shot then. Thanks!

To be honest this is all I wanted to hear. I got the vibe of the possibility of the entire show being "it's the 50s so men are assholes, women are slaves, ads ads ads, corporate drama, also don draper is cool but troubled" and I feared that I wouldn't be able to keep engaging with it. But what you're saying makes it promising again for sure. Gonna stick with it and see where that leads me then, thanks!

The one when she's in the parked car, it's in the very end of the trailer iirc

I don't remember having a "click" moment with the show, the premise was intriguing and then I watched it, and I felt like it delivered and I'm now eagerly waiting for season 2. If you didn't find anything to latch onto thus far I don't think there is a point in forcing yourself to like it.

Yeah it sucked. Worst movie I saw in 2022. It's crammed so full of 2000s horror tropes it's unwatchable. Anything good in this movie is ripped out of better ones, like the general premise being It Follows but worse, and the visual style heavily "borrowing" from genuinely good directors like Ari Aster. The rest is so "generic homogenized jumpscare flick" it's painful. Trope after trope after trope. Plus even though I loathe jumpscares it'd be nice if they didn't fucking spoil the only one worth being startled by right in the fucking trailer.

A few weeks after I watched it I popped over at a gathering at a friends house and they'd started watching it like 20 minutes before I arrived. Initially I was like "oh man not this shit again" but after a while it was very affirming watching 4 different people getting more and more angry, disappointed and bored with the movie after each scene.

The only new show in recent memory where the first season was more than enough for me to know that it's gonna be one of my absolute favorite series by the time it wraps up. Amazing show.

I enjoyed it far more than I expected I would going into it. Colorful, fun, stylish, and the concept of the whole thing being self-contained in a train made it cozy on top of all the rest.

Definitely not a masterpiece, but I don't get how it got mid reception overall, while people praise stuff like John Wick which are basically the same thing, dumb action movies. Or a movie like Nobody which is always getting its dick sucked in every comment section as a great action movie, while in reality apart from the 10/10 bus fight scene the movie is mediocre at best.

I put off delving into Lynch stuff for years because while I very much crave for the offbeat weird/creepy/anxiety-inducing/dreamlike/surreal vibe, David Lynch is praised everywhere for that, and partly I was afraid that his work wouldn't live up to the expectations that I'd formed, while another part of me was kind of "saving them" for when I felt I'd reached a level of emotional maturity and media literacy, so that their meaning and purpose wouldn't be lost on me, in a sense. I'm 28 years old and I finally made the jump some months ago.

I started with Blue Velvet because everyone was saying that it's by far one of his most accessible projects (not counting the Straight Story of course). And while I liked it, my initial impression was that it was way goofier and more mundane than I expected. Getting into Twin Peaks right after kinda gave power to that opinion as well. But all the while, there was a reoccurring sensation. Not dread, not anxiety, something that I couldn't quite put my finger on.

Having now seen the entirety of Twin Peaks plus the biggest chunk of his filmography, I revised my opinion on Blue Velvet, because the man is pure genius and I cannot fathom how he consistently achieves the effect he does on my psyche through his movies. Mulholland Drive being the absolute pinnacle.

The closest way I can describe it is that when I watch something made by David Lynch, it feels like I've already lived the emotions it conveys, and I've already been in all the liminal rooms and locations it shows. I'm not watching a movie for the first time. I'm just unlocking the memory by watching it. No other piece of media apart from Lynch's works has ever done this to me, and I can truly say that I feel his brand of surrealism and horror now.

TL;DR I heavily second looking into Lynch's work, OP.

No no no you're supposed to shit on it because it's Rings of Power. Everything it did was bad and also a crime, because it isn't the PJ movies. How thoughtless of you, jeez.

It's not even that it's very episodic. It's that it reminds me of cartoons I was getting annoyed with when I was a kid (I'm 28) without knowing why. With the reason being that they were all very cookie-cutter, predictable, zero-stakes lowest-common-denominator shows as far as the writing went. And if you're making something like that in the 2020s and dressing it up as an homage, it should at least pick up the slack in most other aspects, and it very obviously doesn't.

yeah the only reason I didn't mention that is because it's a very obvious flaw that everyone complained about when they first showed a trailer for the show.

I'd be fine with the bland as fuck writing if the show was true to the artstyle. I'd also be fine with the bland as fuck artstyle if the show had bothered to be at least 1% innovative and engaging. With the way it is, I see zero reason even for a kid to watch this instead of other animated projects that are at least fun or visually pleasing.

Gonna sound a bit harsh but I expected to like this show and ended up actively disliking it. I get that it's made predominantly for kids, but it's so irritatingly banal and predictable it's kinda unwatchable. Every tiny bit of "comedy" is given so much pause after it's shown, when there's absolutely nothing to digest. I feel that I can't put it entirely into words but, like, the 10th time Mugman went "haha yes, I am not noticing the obvious danger!" [PAUSE... PAUSE... PAUSE...] "Jeepers creepers!!!!" I kinda gave up.

I gave S2 a try but decided to drop it altogether after half an hour. You can have a kids' show that's an homage to older cartoons without it being 101% derivative in its storytelling.