Review Day

There are no major spoilers in these reviews.

The Expanse, Season Six:
The final season of The Expanse waffles on how final it wants to be. While there is a great conclusion for the main characters of the show, there are many other scenes that see no resolution and are completely wasted (such as every scene on the planet of Laconia). I also got really tired of the character of Filip Inaros, who constantly looked like he was trying to boil a kettle of water with his stare. I enjoyed the show for the most part and would probably give the series as a whole a B-. It's worth struggling past the super-slow first season to get to some of the later good stuff. Free on Amazon Prime.

Final Grade: B

Silicon Valley, Season Six:
The formula for this show hasn't changed a bit (crass, over-the-top skewerings of Big Tech and West Coasters), but this is a really fun wrap-up for the series. The way the writers tied everything together was wonderful, and the "flash-foward mockumentary" style used in the series finale worked really well. This is a series I might watch again on the treadmill some day.

Final Grade: B+

Happy Endings, Season Two:
The second season of this show was uniformly awful, feeling like every other shallow sitcom out there. We only made it about 8 episodes in before promptly forgetting about it, and it's now collecting dust on top of the DVD player. Free on Netflix.

Final Grade: Not Graded

As We See It, S1:
This is a new show about three roommates on the autism spectrum navigating life. It balances the funny stuff and the heartwarming stuff very well. I told Rebecca that it was kind of like an anti This Is Us, a show that exists only to melodramatically tug at your heart strings -- here, the emotion feels real and well-earned. Free on Amazon Prime.

Final Grade: A-