Tom Hopper, Luther's actor, pointed out in an interview that Luther's gorilla body was caused by the gorilla serum, not by the marigold. When even the actors are openly questioning the writing decisions, you know that it's a stinker. Not to mention, Luther inexplicably forgives Allison for almost sexually assaulting him, as do the other siblings, for betraying them.
@@MomotakuTheGreat I wouldn't be surprised if they had, or hired a completely new team who had never watched a single episode of the show before. Or maybe it was one of the Riverdale writers, by how little actually made sense.
Lila's actress was also saying she thought the screenwriters were joking when they told her about Five and Lila, the actors were def just as disappointed as the audience
The worst part about The Umbrella Academy's final season is that they took a show that was initially about a group of adults who were trying to get over their childhood trauma and find a way to move forward together and left us with the message "actually, you can't overcome that trauma and the world's a better place without you." Not only is it a bad season, it's wild to imagine anybody thought that was a good ending.
I really want to hear the behind the scenes story to the last season because it is just so bad there just has to be a story there as to how it was that bad.
YES. my favorite part of the show was each of the characters carving out their own little place in the world and working on themselves and their relationships with each other. identity, and figuring out what you want from life was always such a strong theme. everybody kind of found their something over season 3… and then they lose it all and die. what a message.
I am still shocked by that season and I was a day 1. I was sickk man😂 Cause like...why are you writing like that?😂 I need an explanation from them directly
Umbrella academy ending on such a horrendous note was personal. Leaving the horrendous ending and cgi across the season aside, reducing key characters like klaus and luther to absolute jokes and stripping them of all their development was just so fucking painful to watch. Also the sheer number of plot holes was just hilarious and dont even get me started on 5 and lila's romance. Disgraceful the way the writers ruined the show.
I don't think the dimwits running Amazon Prime even realise that "Cruel Intentions" was a 90s High School update of "Dangerous Liaisons". Much like how they would be unaware that "10 Things I Hate About You" was a 90s retelling of "The Taming of the Shrew" (by Shakespeare) and "Clueless" the 90s re-telling of "Emma" (by Jane Austen)
When one of your actors is the best part to come out of an absolute *excrement* of a show, even by Disney Star Wars standards, you know you kriffed up badly.
The final message of Umbrella Academy is wild. The logic of whoever wrote it was basically that people who have been abused all their lives are what is wrong with the world and that they should eliminate themselves from existence...
The discourse around the Acolyte made me realise why I stopped caring about Star Wars. I never see people who like Star Wars anymore: I see people who hate Star Wars, and people who hate the people who hate Star Wars
It's not that I hate Star Wars... I hate Disney. It is what it is though. I don't see much point in talking about it when they keep doing the same shit.
When it comes to Star Wars they just don’t write actual stories or characters anymore. They completely rely on nostalgia and fan service to drive the plot.
@@eatatjoe Well Disney star wars has failed and is dead. Turns out the pissants complaining about DEI were 100% right and anyone saying otherwise is just 100% wrong. Anyone who says "we need another person of color in this movie" is clearly just a shitty and terrible writer.
Still so salty about umbrella academy. Not that it’s on the list, but it kinda feels like the writers just didn’t know what to do. Edit: the fact that this comment has like 3 times more likes than I have subscribers is hilarious to me
@ I agree! Also, (imo) they totally assassinated Allison’s character. She’s just a massive ahole in the end . Don’t get me wrong, in past seasons she had her moments, but it didn’t feel so one note, if that makes sense
Disney never should have been handed the Star Wars franchise. They quite literally ruin everything they touch now, it's about profits, not the story; and even then, they can't seem to get that story equals profits through their thick skulls.
I mean before Disney Star Wars while not quite dead was close to it. And since then there's been lot of shows, movies, games, etc. Sure some of them suck, but some of them don't. So overall as much as I dislike Disney it's a net positive if you like Star Wars.
Star wars has just an... interesting sea of dead projects. Its like someone trying to message someone else but kept deleting and changing the message over and over again to the point they just never sent a message at all.
I feel bad for Josh Trank; I don’t know how his cut would’ve turned out but man, Fox really destroyed his career just so they could keep a franchise from a studio they knew would treat it so much better! As much I don’t endorse Disney monopolizing everything, they had it coming when Disney bought them.
The Umbrella Academy HURT me. I wouldn't say I was a huge fan of the show, but I enjoyed it quite a bit, especially the second season, and many of the characters became very dear to me. To say I was upset is an understatement. The first 2 episodes are more or less okay compared to the rest of the season and by the time Lila and Five thing happened I was just screaming at the screen. And the fact that we've known for a while that this would be the final season only makes it worse, because all of these were choices that weren't rushed. I'm still upset when I think about what they've done to this show and I'd much rather forget this season ever existed.
As a Star Wars fan, that rant about The Acolyte was so cathartic. I mean, imagine bringing Carrie Ann Moss to Star Wars as a Jedi master, and doing NOTHING with that? Unforgivable. But not only that, the way they went against the established lore in order to tell the story they wanted to tell really pissed me off. However, I still consider myself a Star Wars fan, there is still fun to be found in this franchise if you step away from Disney+ and pick up a book or a comic.
I was also surprised that there wasn't really any mention of the animated star wars shows. Rebels, Bad Batch, and Visions were fantastic. There have been some missteps for sure, but I don't think it's quite as much doom and gloom as depicted in the video. Edit: also not forgetting Clone Wars, but that one has been around longer.
I knew it was gonna be bad lore-wise when Leslie proudly stated that her show 'was not going to be kind to the Jedi'; aside from the originals paying honor to an Order we the viewers didn't know anything about yet, has *any* Star Wars been kind to the Jedi? And then it turns around and, actually, the Jedi weren't in the wrong, but the writers wanted them to feel guilty so bad they made a bunch of illogical decisions???? I'm still salty, thank god any future seasons got firmly canceled.
@@flexhead The Force, the Jedi Order, and the Sith, mostly. There's an interview with the showrunner where she explains a lot of her motives behind certain characters, scenes and themes in her show. She wanted to portray the Dark Side as freedom to be who you are, in contrast to the Jedi being a religious institution with strict rules where that's not possible. A character turning to the Dark Side and literally murdering someone is meant to be viewed as a moment of victory for that character. But that's not how the Force works! (insert Han Solo meme here). The Dark Side is a corruption that will eat your soul, basically. It will always lead to suffering, never freedom. The Sith are not a misunderstood and repressed minorty, no matter how hard they try to paint them that way. They are power hungry, they are self-centered, they are ruthless. In order words: They are the bad guys. They always have been.
"The Umbrella Academy" making the worst list honestly makes me sad. I started off really adoring this show, and you could relate to the characters, and their pain. Due to the final season being truncated, it was extremely rushed. Characters like Klaus and Allison were underutilsed, others, like Five and Lila, were written so out of character, and the ending renders the entire show pointless. The only things I enjoyed were the campy villains, and Elliot Page's compelling performance as Viktor.
I enjoyed Viktor in the last season, it felt like he was the only character that kind of was going through trauma from the past. They butcher Luther and make him into a complete dumb meathead, he seemed to even forget his wife. Diego became one note, Ben was not interesting to watch. They ruined all the characters and then made it so none of it mattered.
I liked season one. LOVED season two. Fell off about halfway through season 3.. not sure why. I've been meaning to return to it, but after what I've heard about season 4......
@@TrulyZer0 i totally get you falling off on season 3 tbh, it's not nearly as good as s1 and s2. but it does have some pretty adorable and heartwarming moments, so i do recommend checking it out if you're a big fan of the characters and the broken family dynamic like i am. season 4 however does not have a single redeeming quality, the characters are butched and horrible, and so is the plot. i am a big fan of tua and was honestly so disappointed, i've watched it for so long and it sucks to have to see it end like this. watch s3, imagine the kugelblitz really did end the universe and everyone is gone forever, and don't step on s4 imo LMAO
38:47 I feel this sooo much. I hate when I agree with the “Anti-woke” crowd. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League didn’t suck because it was “Woke”, it sucked because it was an awful game, with awful gameplay, awful story, awful UI, and awful monetization.
Literally the anti woke crowd frustrates me so much. They are capable of making good points now and again but most of their criticism is simply about women, POC, female empowerment and saying that that is the reason why the show is bad. When in reality, shows or movies are bad because of the usual same thing: the writing.
Yeah, the Anti-Woke often say that they hate how much the media constantly pushes an agenda… While also pushing their own agenda about how minorities ruin everything.
The activists in hollywood aren't very good at writing interesting stories, so copious amounts of wokeness is a pretty good sign if product is going to be good or not.
@@karenwang313there have been plenty of movies that came out before the 2010s that I guarantee you that if they came out today, they would be crying "woke" until the cows came home. And calling the writers "Hollywood activists" have always been funny to me because they literally do not care about activism. They work for an industry that cares about money. It's their job to write shit and move on to the next to pay their taxes. The people saying that are either anti-woke morons, conspiracy lunatics, or people that don't understand the industry at all. Edit: also you have an anime profile. Your opinion is immediately invalid
@@crimsoneclipse0618 Netflix: ok we need a new Character to assassinate the essence of. Ideas? Exec: Ummm… Katara, a beloved character? People definitely won’t notice! Netflix: Genius!
It genuinely ASTOUNDS me that people will criticize and despise the 2010 movie and then go on to praise the Netflix live action which makes every mistake that movie made other than the casting and the bending animation.
The only part I remember liking was when that old lady hit Zuko with a broom. Otherwise I’m sick of Aang. There’s hundreds of avatars tell someone else story.
@@sophieamandaleitontoomey9343 well, let's not use the show being disappointing to elevate that atrocity of a movie. That movie was a bigger piece of shit than even the live action show, at least the show got the visuals right.
im glad you mentioned dead boy detectives about cancelling good shows! it was so full of creativity and had a genuine story and character growth but the writing felt on the wall about it never getting far unfortunatly.
@@issaperson2628 I agree, Dead Boy Detectives only gets one season, yet Emily in Paris keeps on getting greenlit?! There's clearly no sense of justice in Hollywood.
@@inkweedandlizards no, it neil gaiman had absolutely no involvement in the show, and netflix said it was because of 'low viewership', even though the second season had already been written. it was already due to be canceled before the neil gaiman stuff
3:55 - Number 10; The Sopiderwick Chronicles (Season 1) 6:56 - Number 9; The Regime (Season 1) 9:28 - Number 8; The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (Season 1) 12:53 - Number 7; Pretty Little Liars Summer School (Season 2) 15:42 - Number 6; Velma (Season 2) 19:14 - Number 5; The Umbrella Academy (Season 4) 23:27 - Number 4; Orphan Black Echoes (Season 1) 27:23 - Number 3; Emilet In Paris (Season 4) 29:50 - Number 2: The Acolye (Season 1) 43:00 - Dishonorable Mentions 45:01 - Number 1: Cruel Intentions (Season 1)
Dude do you sleep? The grind you have been on has truly been incredible to witness. Talk about a great way to close out the year. Looking forward to what 2025 brings for the channel!
@@999JWforeverI mean it’s not the hardest job, but it’s can be tedious or at least time consuming. His videos are long so imagine scripting, recording and editing one video probably takes at least a whole day, let alone he put out like 4 videos back to back
@@999JWforever it takes even less time to watch them. Script writing, editing, actually watching the show? It takes time, escpecially for quality content like this. I work full time and I still release videos everyday and yeah burnout is real. Plus there aren’t any vids on your channel so how would you know how easy/ hard it is to make quality content?
This intro made me want to hear you talk more about music on this channel! Is that something you ever considered ? Like an album review or a top/flop at the end of the year ?
Pains me to see Umbrella Academy on this list even though I agree that S4 was absolute dogshit. The season killed the fandom so quickly, it's remarkable (and super sad for those of us who were invested in the characters and their journey). What a waste of an otherwise great show. Would love to see a deep dive from you at some point, TUA fits right in with other shows you've covered that were ruined by their show runners. (Like, I'm not kidding. Steve Blackman literally said in interviews pre release of S4 that he absolutely expected "some fans" to dislike the "big swings" he'd gone for this season. He said he was looking forward to the feedback and then proceeded to delete even slightly negative comments and to block tons of people on Instagram. We also found out that they scrapped like two weeks of filming despite supposed budget cuts and the shorter season order, they deleted scenes that would have actually added to/completed character arcs, and "did not have time" to answer some very important questions like what happened to Sloane, despite wasting so much time on unnecessary scenes that could have easily been cut instead. Truly baffling decisions were made in the production of this season, none of which were good.)
Yes. I was wondering where Sloan was too. Where did she go? I Started watching the show cause I'm huge fan of Genesis Rodriguez, and I was so excited about her having more Roles like this. I grew up watching telenovelas she was staring in so yeah, super sad she didn't get to be in season 4. I just wasted my time and they ruin number 5 storyline. And Why do they do Diego dirty like that, I liked Diego
Could be worse. At least the entire fandom hates season 4 instead of “some fans”. We all hate the Five and Lila romance. No defenders except Blackman. No controversy, unlike Star Wars and the MCU.
@@theshire9173 You'd think so but there's actually quite a few defenders of the Five/Lila storyline, and plenty of people who think S4 "wasn't that bad actually". To each their own I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Cutting out Sloane and Luther; An already established romance that was set up to be advanced by Luther's search for her in favour of shoehorning a new romance plot with Five & Lila, was such a ludicrous decision to make for a rushed final season.
the “woke” issue with the acolyte goes both ways tho. everyone involved in the production blamed the show’s failure on the audience by calling them sexist, racist, misogynistic, instead of having any accountability for their awful writing.
Speaking as someone who adored the umbrella academy from the start I can tell you I was devastated. It was like watching a minor fender bender turn into a twenty car pileup in slow motion. I kept thinking “it can’t get worse than this. Wait, why is that pedestrian carrying a gasoline tank? What are they….. no. They couldn’t, who would do something so…. Oh god. Why would someone knowingly… the school bus was already on fire!” I posted on social that the biggest tell was the cast didn’t even perform their seasonal dance number, and from that it just felt like no one was having fun making the show anymore and they just wanted to be done as fast as possible.
39:00 this is always my greatest fear, especially in the Star Wars fandom which is SO toxic towards people of color and especially women of color. Like, as a brown lady who has stubbornly been a fan since the 80s despite the terrible attitudes of fandom, I want to support!!! And not say anything bad because I don’t want to feed the trolls!!! But it’s so hard when the shows/movies are so mediocre. 😢
It’s entirely reasonable to say the Acolyte sucks while also denouncing the idiots that never got over the fact that the black main actress dared to express an opinion
Ever think at least some of the people who complain about Star Wars and some of the bad characters/story choices that get called racist, aren't actually racist? Like sure, there are racist people and hateful, illegitimate reactions to diverse projects, etc, but if you notice how frequently these days the claimed-to-be-racist-by-people-paid-to-support-the-studios (or by people who listen to them) turn out to be right about projects not being good...maybe listen in full to what they actually say and not what other people say they say.
“Female lead makes show woke. Minority lead makes show woke. LGBT character existing in show makes show woke.” That’s pretty much what these people complaining about woke say. And if the show turns out to be great, these people pretend that they never said this crap or say “show makes woke Hollywood seethe” or something dumb like that.
@@augment96case in point: both Fallout and Blue Eyed Samurai was woke, but since both were done supremely well, very little chatter from the anti woke crowd. Which tells me, it isn’t the woke characters that’s the problem, it’s the badly written woke characters that’s the problem.
yayyy :D glad to hear it. i watched it at the start of 2024 and i was sooooo hyped to see it on FSN's list!! really glad to hear other ppl are discovering it and liking it!!!! :D
As a big fan of the umbrella academy from the very beginning I cannot begin to describe the absolute shock I felt watching the final season. It was like being backstabbed by the show runner and I genuinely cried of just pure frustration. It ruined some of my favourite characters in the most spectacular way I have ever seen. I have chosen to pretend that the final season just does not exist ;-;
I canceled my Netflix membership because of how awful The Umbrella Academy S4 was. When it asked on the survey why I was canceling I put “Other - Ya’ll ruined S4 of The Umbrella Academy”. It was almost like whoever came up with the story had never watched a single minute of the show prior. I didn’t even recognize these characters and the amount of unanswered setups was egregious.
Bad TV is weird because unlike movies where you might as well finish a 2 hour movies, it's just easy to stop after a bad episode. Life's too short to watch a 10 hour thing you hate nowadays.
The fact that Star Wars, saying this as a huge fun, continues to use interesting concepts and destroy them even before the first episodes reaches its end
@@tatersalad76 Oh no, I fully agree with you. Andor absolutely rules. And like Friendly Space Ninja, I too am excited Andor S2... And absolutely nothing else.
@@liamphibia As we saw with Arcane, and as the G-man said once, "Prepare for unforeseen consequences." Now that the eyes of the Disney higher ups are on Andor, do not be surprised if it gets meddled with.
I literally hate steve blackman so much. There's a lot i hated about s4 of tua but five and lila's relationship? Disgusting as fuck. Why can't people enjoy platonic relationships? Five and Lila's dynamic is so good. The constant bickering but recognising that at the end of the day, they are family is great! The fact that they do wanna kill eachother sometimes but their love for Diego holds them back. And i particularly blame Steve for this because in an interview he said that Aidan (five's actor) was already 18/19 so it was okay for lila and five to be together, and that lila has always loved five. He basically discarded all the writing for the previous seasons (2 and 3, where they develop lila and diego's relationship), the creepy age gap of the actors AND the characters, the fact that Five literally killed Lila's biological parents causing 'the handler' to adopt her and take her childhood away by training her to be an assassin, Lila's relationship with Diego and her kids, Fives relationship with Diego, Five's feelings towards Delores. ALL OF THIS just so they could market Aidan as a love interest.
The part about Star Wars was heartbreaking because of how much I agreed with it. When Disney bought the franchise everyone was making jokes about Star Wars musicals or Leia being considered a Disney princess now but I don't think anyone could've predicted this level of cultural irrelevance. People straight up don't care for it anymore and it's so sad man.
@@suzygirl1843 I've heard that a lot, but was it really like that? After the prequels, Lucas developed The Clone Wars, which, although it initially had its detractors, little by little gained a fair amount of acclaim and formed a very solid fandom.
When asked why he didn’t make any more Star Wars movies, george said “why should I make any more, when everyone yells at you all the time and says what a terrible person you are?”
@aboxinspace It's not worse than the movies, most people find it better than the movies, i find it as bad as the movies. The show failed at different things the movies failed tho. While the movies failed at being faithful to the books, the series is a little more faithfull, the issue is that all the things that made the book great, like all the iconic moments were changed into boring scenes. Instead of following percy on this journey and discovering this new world and rules WITH him, he somehow already knows everything and the problems that appear are solved in the most boring ways(some are even solved off screen) instead of just following what the book did and make them the iconic scenes we all know and love, they decide to change it and turn it into something so unnecessarily boring. the monsters are the same, and the plot supposely is the same, but the way that they do it is not. Also annabeth's character and grover's, in terms of personality, are very different from the books, and it's not for the better
@@aboxinspace personally whilst i can finish the 1st film (not the 2nd one) percy jackson as of now has me dropping it twice due to how off the tone of the show is it feels like IT is gonna jump percy at any moment, i was going to give it a 3rd chance but after i show how dirty they did the ares fight (ares lost to a wave 💀) i will 99% not pick it up a 3rd time except if the 2nd season gets an 11/10 review by everyone
I have loved umbrella academy since season 1 came out. Season 2 was amazing! Season 3 already felt a bit off to me... but i never expected season 4 to be this bad! They had to finish the season with less episodes but I still don't get how they could make such a bad season! They must have smoked something when they came up with the five-Lila storyline (This is the kind of storyline that happens when TV producers think that every character absolutely needs a love interest)... If I ever rewatch this show, i will only rewatch the first 2 seasons. Great video by the way! Happy 2025 to everyone :)
Steve Blackman actually said the romance happened because he wanted to give Five a love interest. He didn’t want to add a new character (didn’t stop him from creating Jennifer and making a nothing romance plot with Ben) and Lila was the only one who “made sense”. He absolutely forced a romance plot because God forbid a character not have a love interest. Amatanormativity at its finest.
100% agree with your Star Wars rant, word for word. The Acolyte was also my breaking point, although I was already dropping Star Wars media left and right by then. Didn't watch Boba Fett, stopped Mandalorian after season 2, Kenobi was a MASSIVE disappointment that I tried to watch but couldn't go past a few episodes. Ahsoka's only good moments were callbacks to better shows (which is essentially what the whole of Star Wars has turned into). Heck, I recently dropped the game Jedi Survivor because I couldn't care less about these characters and this obsession with this narrow time period in a universe that should have millennia of stories to tell. I miss Knights of the Old Republic. I miss Clone Wars. I miss the Yuuzhan Vong and the Infinite Empire. Damn, I even miss the prequels, at least those movies were trying something new. Star Wars today is just nostalgia bait, with no substance whatsoever. Disney can do something good once in a while, but it's like they say: even a broken clock is right twice a day. There's very little good buried in a sea of disappointment. And I'm tired, chief. (It also pisses me off that disliking Star Wars nowadays puts me adjacent to those neckbeards who've never seen a woman in their entire life and every time I criticize something about the franchise I gotta preface it with "I'm not talking about the casting, I'm not racist.")
Star Wars: The Acolyte main problem was that Leslye Headland was the showrunner and was also Harvey Weinstein's personal assistant. And she would and still won't say anything bad about Harvey Weinstein. She keeps saying he was a good man. I couldn't care less that she is a lesbian, she still defends Harvey Weinstein.
The most frustrating thing about Acolyte is that it could have been a cool show. I actually like the idea about a show focusing the origin of the Sith and it was cool seeing a show not having to rely on the Skywalkers for its narrative like Andor. But instead, it just is a textbook example on how not to write a tv show. Nothing is well written. The dialogue is awful. The show looks so cheap. Nothing is consistent. No character is likable other than Master Sol. And the blatant levels of hypocrisy in regard to its characters is insanely frustrating, especially when it comes to the twins and what happened to their mother. Lee Jung Jae truly gave this show a performance it did not deserve.
I genuinely enjoyed it, I’m not a Star Wars fan and have only watched the 7/9 movies in order. Never got the hype but this show was the first time I was interested in the universe. Funny that.
I went into it with high expectations and wanted it to prove the haters wrong. A SW show in a new era with new characters but does nothing interesting. What a waste of potential
My best friend and I were huge fans of the Umbrella Academy. I got her into it as Season 2 was coming out and we waited eagerly for Season 3. We didn't even finish *that*. I finished it by myself and hoped Season 4 would be better. Then I started hearing whisperings that it was even worse, so honestly, I haven't even touched it and frankly I'm scared to.
Same, I got my mom to watch The umbrella academy because I told her it was one of my favorites. She hated Klaus and then loved him and when they released the last season and I watched it. She asked me “was the last season good? Should I watch it?” I straight up told her “no, it is garbage. They ruined it.”
honestly i don’t know how they managed to screw up VELMA. Like the material is right thereeee. Instead every character sucks besides scooby, and that’s only because he wasn’t THERE
@azurai3934 everything about this comment is incorrect and I hate that 9 people have already seen it and believe it just bc a comment on UA-cam says so
29:50 As someone who also grew up with Star Wars, I couldn’t co-sign this statement any more. I’ve fallen so far out of interest with Star Wars, I’m not sure I could consider myself a fan anymore. Disney has truly sucked any enjoyment out of that franchise for me.
So, there is an episode of The Blacklist where Krysten Ritter plays two characters who are twins. That ONE EPISODE is so much better than this entire series of Orphan Black: Echoes.
As someone who knows nothing about this industry, I'm consistently baffled how it manages to produce terrible products one after another. Like, it's not a bad book that one person writes, another proofreads/edits, than it goes through physical production cycle and goes on to enrage booktubers. Groups of writers work on these things, than people show up on stage and do their thing, than there's editing and at no point does anyone pause and think 'wait, this is embarrassing'? I'm sure there's an explanation, but it's hard to wrap my head around it. P.S. always here for TUA finale hate, shun them, shame them, mock them, may they never know peace.
its because producers and execs (who dont have a creative bone in their body) are the ones greenlighting these shows and often have final say over scripts. they are not interested in making art, they just want to make the most money as possible.
@@realmothchu I wanted to object that good art sells better, but then remembered Emily in Paris and reconsidered. You'd think at least people who do the writing would care but alas.
Watching the drop of Umbrella Academy was like: S1 = Amazing S2 = Great! Kinda... S3 = You guys do realize Victor was also your sibling, right? So, Five threatened Victor was also... right? S4 = 💩
I highly concur. It's sad how a show with huge potential, a compelling premise and stellar cast, could quickly go off the rails. In my opinion, the second season was even better than the first.
This is why I love the end of the year. While I do enjoy FSN’s videos on the best movies and TV shows of the year, I love hearing him lose his mind about stupid shows and movies and talk about how the writers fumbled the bag! It’s always so entertaining
Blame David Fincher, he was too busy and didn't care enough about Mindhunter. Since it was his show of course Netflix wouldn't continue the show when he was the marketing. Netflix gave him a show and he didn't care enough to continue.
I was so shocked that you included The Umbrella Academy in your list. As someone who has been watching the show since after season 2 was released, it has been one of my favorite shows in a long time. But when Season 3 was released, it was when I realized that the show was starting to become so bad, with the choice to make Allison sexually assault Luther and Luther instantly forgiving her for that felt so out of left field. However I was willing to wait for Season 4 as it was the final season. And holy shit, it was so atrocious that it somehow made Season 3 look better in comparison. From the character assasinations, the plot holes to the inconsistencies of the lore was so jarring to witness as a whole. There were so many unanswered questions than answered ones in general. I'm still bitter over the fact that The Umbrella Academy ended with the worst final season that I have seen as of now. Steve Blackman wasted this show's potential and ruined the season for the fandom.
32:35 Glover actually didn't say that lando was cancelled outright, just that it pivoted from a show to a movie and is being worked on by him personally instead of just starring.
After fumbling GoT, the BIGGEST bag of the millennium so far, D.B. Weiss made Metal Lords, which I personally think was an attempt to remind himself that he could still make something GOOD, and honestly I loved it. It is a very lovely little coming of age movie! It has comedy, romance, music, and I really liked the dialogue. Definitely worth a watch.
The Bear season 3 was so unbelievably boring and pointless (yes the Tina episode was good but that was one episode that could’ve been in season 2). That’s my biggest disappointment of the year.
The Spiderwick Chronicles was one of my favourite childhood movies, so much so that I rewatch it every few years as an adult, and I still had no idea the show aired this year...
Most of the Acolyte actors got what they deserved. I feel bad that they wasted Manny Jacinto and Sol's actor but if Amandla isn't in anything ever again because she tried real hard to out-obnoxious Rachel Zegler, nothing of value will be lost. Most of the acting was sub-par, though I do attribute that to the godawful writing and lack of direction
@@SpiderNightcrawlerI can’t imagine hating women this much lmfao. Nothing those two said was even that bad. I’m surprised you’re not still screeching about Brie Larson 😂
I just ended up finishing Pantheon based on your recommendation... Never felt so empty in life. Also, I cried. And also Maddie is such a strong character. Thank you for introducing me to the show! Edit: I too watched the Spiderwick Chronicles, I needed a show while doing my treadmill run. I gave up after 3 episodes, yes it was boring AF!
YESSSSSS THIS IS GREAT TO HEAR!!!!! ive been a pantheon fan for like a year now and i was SOOO excited to see it on FSN's list a few days ago!! :D really glad to hear ppl are checking it out and liking it! and yea the s2 ending destroyed me too lol
When you listen Leslie Headland the Acolyte showrunner talk about good and evil and moral relativism, you realize this person should be on a watchlist.
Disney will literally fire people for expressing a political opinion on Instagram (I say this as a liberal) and then hire Harvey weinstein’s personal assistant… make it make sense Disney.
@vladimiradidas1945 That squid game guy allowing himself to be force choked by Osha takes away from Osha's agency, sort of mansplaining in a way. A bunch of other stuff how dark side is the way to go, being selfish and evil. General sociopath stuff.
@@rebel_diamonds bruh. She sounds like a straightforward supervillain. The fact she used to work with Weinstein makes it even more hilariously dreadful.
If you have never watched Dangerous Liaisons (1988) starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich and Michelle Pfeiffer. I HIGHLY recommend it is all three at their very best. The costumes are perfect, the film is beautiful. The ensemble cast is glorious, Uma, Keanu, Swoosie and Mildred Natwick.
Most people also don’t know that Milos Forman released yet another movie based on the same book, around the same time, called Valmont. Reminds me of the two Prefontaine movies that came out in the early 00s.
I am hurting with you about Star Wars. It makes me so sad that I am falling out of love with something that I have worshipped since I was a young boy in the eighties.
Hollywood's trend of re-adapting old, outdated books and series no one cares about anymore, instead of adapting stuff that is popular and well liked today, is getting real tiring.
Ironically, we wouldn't mind if they actually put in effort and made good stuff with these projects, but since they didn't, this is where we are. If they suck at making original content, it forces us to watch all the reboots and sequels they're churning out instead.
Daylen, my friend, on behalf of us all as fans of your channel, we appreciate you taking one for the team and sparing us the pain of watching these hot garbage TV shows. Salute to you, buddy.
Manny Jacinto and Lee Jung Jae carried The Acolyte, I will die on this hill. Unfortunately the writing didn't do the duality of them justice. Still hope we get Qimir on something, I really liked him. Also, the fighting scenes were the best we had in a long time, which isn't that impressive when you remember the lightsaber fights of the past decade. But I still liked the fight and the brutally of the Sith.
I loathed the Acolyte after trying to give it a chance. No one talks about it, but the fact they used a Bury your Gays trope in 2024 made me sick. I was willing to let them cook with one episode devoted to an unframed flashback, but when they did an entire second episode I was fully pissed. All that said, I liked Ahsoka, and I'm still ride or die for Andor season 2, so I'm not quite over Star Wars yet.
It feels like the Umbrella Academy writers took notes from the Hemlock Grove writers, i.e. how to ruin an excellent show in 2 seasons. I was so excited to see the brella gang one last time, and I convinced myself that they’d do ‘em justice for the send off. Instead they facilitated some intense character/plot assassination.
Umbrella Academy Season 1: Slow start, dumb fun, 7/10, good show. Season 2: Overall really good, even dumber fun, 9/10, love it Season 3: Slightly below average, could have been rewatchable as a filler arc to S4, 4/10, meh Season 4: F*ck you and you and you and everyone and especially the idiots who decide to ruin Five of all people, the best character in the show and one of my favourites of all time, played to perfection by a very talented young man called Aidan Gallagher, 0/10, it ruined even the first two seasons
I noticed the shift in quality for Umbrella Academy by season 2 and stopped watching after that. To see how far it fell…it’s insane bc season 1 was genuinely such a great season
Same, when they jumped to another timeline at the end of S2, I was like "oh, so they're never getting home. Nope, not gonna watch the goalposts get moved every season. Thanks, have a nice life." No offense to anyone that enjoyed it past that point, but if they're going to make the whole season about getting home, and then take it away at the last minute, I have no reason to believe they are going to pay off anything.
Thank you for your service this year Dylan. It has been a blast, you’re honestly my favorite UA-camr. Wish you all the best and better for 2025. Coeur sur toi❤❤❤❤
Thank you so so much Dylan for voicing out why The Acolyte sucks and for being honest about it. Because even the Honest trailers channel was too much of a pussy to make fun of this show
I'm convinced Orphan Black Echoes is a spite project from AMC. They hated that the show runners for OB held firm and refused to extend the series beyond the endpoint they planned.
I’m a fan of the original series and even listened to the podcast followup that I surprisingly enjoyed and I purposely avoided the show because it didn’t look interesting from the promos in the slightest and no one talked about it. Nice to know I didn’t really miss anything.
I had no problem with the Acolytes casting, but I will admit, when Amandla Stenberg made that song to “get back at the haters” I immediately disliked her after that. There were people that disliked the show for racist reasons, but the way she tried to call everyone who disliked the show racist just made me not want to watch her in anything ever again.
I do not think anyone disliked it for the race. Do not know what Space Ninja is talking about. Most people disliked that the promotion consited of 'yas yas girl power most gay star wars' narraton. What does this narrative tells you about quality of the media? Usualy if they are making such points it means that the focus is wrong. Not plot quality, but a social political browny points.
Hey man :D I rarely write, but I've recently found your channel and proceeded to watch literally every video, even on shows I know fuck all about. You have a really amazing way of breaking down and narrating, and I love your sense of humour. Just wanted to say that. Cheers for filling many of my hours with excitement and laughs!
34:24 There was also an animated movie called A Droid Story that was meant to focus on R2 and C-3P0 going on a solo adventure made by the Clone Wars studio announced back in 2020, never happened
The only part of the video I disagreed with was the part where you were criticizing people for being exhausted with WOKE Hollywood & their non-stop racial & gender pandering. I’m a black woman & it’s not as simple as “There are black or gay people in this. I hate it. Let me go complain.” There are plenty of projects with mostly black casts or queer people that I adore. I love your channel but what you said was an oversimplification of the issue that implies that people who have these criticisms of Hollywood are racist or dumb. Sure, some people might be but I don’t think that’s the case for the majority of fans. The issue is not that we are racist or silly but that people like me can immediately recognize when we are being politically pandered to through a project versus genuine attempts at entertaining fans or telling a moving story that positively impacts people of all races, backgrounds & political sides, like Hollywood used to do in prior decades. Most fans of film can tell when the establishment messages are the priority over a good story & characters. The Hollywood of today seems to push activism through an over-saturation of very selective casting. And the thing is, they aren’t good at it. They constantly attempt to push their political messages about diversity, LGBT activism & feminism, only to fall flat on their faces every time. We’ve seen how when they prioritize being woke, they end up with things like a girl boss over a strong female character, for instance. Or they end up with embarrassing woke writing or story choices that couldn’t be more transparent or eye-rolling to the audience. Or for example, they end up with projects where they’ve race swapped most characters for “diversity” sake but made little to no effort at making the world they are in & what we know about that world or its characters make sense AT ALL. It’s all so insulting. And that’s because we know the entire point was the race of the casting & not the characters or story. And what makes it all worse is that Hollywood’s attempt at diversity casting is disingenuous & forced since we all know Disney & other studios will remove black & LGBT cast members from their posters & trailers in China & other places globally in a heartbeat if it means losing any money whatsoever. So no one is even buying their diversity messaging. Hollywood needs to go back to just entertaining fans & audiences…. And if some of those projects just so happen to include a lot of people of color or LGBT members, great. But fans are tired & not racist for wanting to watch things to escape the real world stresses & political BS, only to be flooded with more of it in our entertainment non-stop by a disingenuous Hollywood who couldn’t be more obvious & blatant in the messages they are trying to push. It’s not that politics can’t be a theme at all in your movie or show but Hollywood should know that TRUE art makes audiences think, political propaganda makes audiences feel preached at. And what Hollywood is currently doing, for the most part, is political propaganda, not art. So until they figure that out, they need to just relax on the woke messaging. It’s a turn off. Other than that, I agreed with your list.
As a fan of The Spiderwick Chronicles there is already a show that captures a very similar vibe and will scratch that itch for you: it's called Locke and Key. If Netflix was able to pull it off Disney should've been able to do it too.
Honestly… you can’t do orphan black without Tatiana Maslany, she really IS orphan black. I didn’t even hear about this spin off. And the creators did not want to have a franchise. They told their contained story, and they were happy with that!!
As a dedicated star wars hater since i was young, i personally couldnt be happier about the absolute state of the franchise. Complete garbage, the amount of good or even okay star wars is now so vastly outnumbered by the amount of pure shit that its insane. I always knew it deserved this
Talking seriously, the first season of The Umbrella Academy had so, so much potential. They had good actors and a decent original source, comfortable budget that helped them getting amazing CGI and soundtrack, and overall one of the best productions I've seen from any streaming platform. But even in that season, we were able to see some cracks on the script that left questions in the air, and I also believe that the tone of the TV show could've been a little darker to make the comedy and drama moments stand out some more. I was hoping they did that with the second season, but we already know what happened 😢
The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story was a unique mess. What really got me steamed was Ryan Murphy portraying the brothers as having an incestuous relationship. Like, what? Why would you do that?! Ryan Murphy is a weird dude and I've always thought so, even back to the Glee days. He has some weird fetish for incest.
As an Umbrella Academy fan from the start, oh yes, waiting so long for this atrocity of a final season was one of the biggest letdowns of any genre TV show.
Tom Hopper, Luther's actor, pointed out in an interview that Luther's gorilla body was caused by the gorilla serum, not by the marigold. When even the actors are openly questioning the writing decisions, you know that it's a stinker. Not to mention, Luther inexplicably forgives Allison for almost sexually assaulting him, as do the other siblings, for betraying them.
@@trinaq did they completely change writing teams? I don’t understand!
@@MomotakuTheGreat I wouldn't be surprised if they had, or hired a completely new team who had never watched a single episode of the show before. Or maybe it was one of the Riverdale writers, by how little actually made sense.
@ this is actually funny.
Lila's actress was also saying she thought the screenwriters were joking when they told her about Five and Lila, the actors were def just as disappointed as the audience
Tom’s new veneers were insanely distracting. Lol
The worst part about The Umbrella Academy's final season is that they took a show that was initially about a group of adults who were trying to get over their childhood trauma and find a way to move forward together and left us with the message "actually, you can't overcome that trauma and the world's a better place without you." Not only is it a bad season, it's wild to imagine anybody thought that was a good ending.
Agreed, the message is ultimately "The world would be better off if you never existed at all" , which is problematic to say the least.
I really want to hear the behind the scenes story to the last season because it is just so bad there just has to be a story there as to how it was that bad.
YES. my favorite part of the show was each of the characters carving out their own little place in the world and working on themselves and their relationships with each other. identity, and figuring out what you want from life was always such a strong theme. everybody kind of found their something over season 3… and then they lose it all and die. what a message.
Yeah the ending feels like a flip off to the viewers
I am still shocked by that season and I was a day 1. I was sickk man😂 Cause like...why are you writing like that?😂 I need an explanation from them directly
Umbrella academy ending on such a horrendous note was personal. Leaving the horrendous ending and cgi across the season aside, reducing key characters like klaus and luther to absolute jokes and stripping them of all their development was just so fucking painful to watch. Also the sheer number of plot holes was just hilarious and dont even get me started on 5 and lila's romance. Disgraceful the way the writers ruined the show.
I lost interest in the show after Ellen Page's transition.
Having Klaus be a hooker and have his SA played for laughs was so out of pocket?? Who the heck thought any of that was okay?
@@liampatrick3110 There are a lot of things to dislike of Umbrella Academy. That is not one of them. And it's Elliot*.
It's silly, but I still haven't seen season 4. I like the show too much to ruin it by watching how it ended. 😕
@@akikom1331 I genuinely hope I'd done that instead.
I don't think the dimwits running Amazon Prime even realise that "Cruel Intentions" was a 90s High School update of "Dangerous Liaisons". Much like how they would be unaware that "10 Things I Hate About You" was a 90s retelling of "The Taming of the Shrew" (by Shakespeare) and "Clueless" the 90s re-telling of "Emma" (by Jane Austen)
We also did get a 'Liaisons Dangereuses' show in 2022... For a single season.
That was a stinker too....I didn't even get through 2 episodes.
Lee Jung Jae learnt English for an absolutely horrendous script. I feel so bad for the man😭too good for this shit
When one of your actors is the best part to come out of an absolute *excrement* of a show, even by Disney Star Wars standards, you know you kriffed up badly.
@@limdoo6473 Ditto, the poor man had his efforts wasted for a mediocre, disappointing project.
@@liamphibia Manny Jacinto was good as well
Don't worry there's no need to ever feel bad for that man
He literally has no bad lines idk what people are talking about
The final message of Umbrella Academy is wild. The logic of whoever wrote it was basically that people who have been abused all their lives are what is wrong with the world and that they should eliminate themselves from existence...
WHAT☠️
Was that also a thing in the comics or was that just something the showrunners pulled?
@@AGK1999FEthe ending is „everything is and will be better off without you“. Exactly like the comment above stated. What do you not understand?
The discourse around the Acolyte made me realise why I stopped caring about Star Wars. I never see people who like Star Wars anymore: I see people who hate Star Wars, and people who hate the people who hate Star Wars
Skeleton Crew made me like Star Wars again.
I like star wars. but the fandom has been toxic since the 70s so i dont fw them
It's not that I hate Star Wars... I hate Disney. It is what it is though. I don't see much point in talking about it when they keep doing the same shit.
That people that like star wars are "dissapearing" because of what Disney has done to it
I still like Star Wars. But I actually liked The Acolyte, so…shrugs.
When it comes to Star Wars they just don’t write actual stories or characters anymore. They completely rely on nostalgia and fan service to drive the plot.
And the revolving door of pissants whining about DEI.
@@eatatjoe Well Disney star wars has failed and is dead. Turns out the pissants complaining about DEI were 100% right and anyone saying otherwise is just 100% wrong. Anyone who says "we need another person of color in this movie" is clearly just a shitty and terrible writer.
Still so salty about umbrella academy. Not that it’s on the list, but it kinda feels like the writers just didn’t know what to do.
Edit: the fact that this comment has like 3 times more likes than I have subscribers is hilarious to me
Agreed, it started off so strongly, but ended with a definite whimper, not a bang.
@ I agree! Also, (imo) they totally assassinated Allison’s character. She’s just a massive ahole in the end . Don’t get me wrong, in past seasons she had her moments, but it didn’t feel so one note, if that makes sense
It’s actually really sad how pathetic the writing is for that show.
Right? Like what happened to this show?
I stopped after season 1..I'm scared to continue watching it now
Disney never should have been handed the Star Wars franchise. They quite literally ruin everything they touch now, it's about profits, not the story; and even then, they can't seem to get that story equals profits through their thick skulls.
Well, Star Wars fans made George Lucas sell in the first place
Star Wars was bad before Disney
They aerent handed it they bought it
I mean before Disney Star Wars while not quite dead was close to it. And since then there's been lot of shows, movies, games, etc.
Sure some of them suck, but some of them don't. So overall as much as I dislike Disney it's a net positive if you like Star Wars.
look at what they’re doing to their original LPs.
"Tate McRae continues to make music for white people who think water is too spicy" hard to recover from that. LOL
And Tyler Perry continues to make movies for black people who think Kwanzaa is older than Thanksgiving.
😂😂😂😂
@@liampatrick3110brother, chill 💀
@@liampatrick3110what black folks think that 🤨 - this is weird energy I’m ngl
As a white person, I am DYING at the accuracy...
Star wars has just an... interesting sea of dead projects. Its like someone trying to message someone else but kept deleting and changing the message over and over again to the point they just never sent a message at all.
I feel bad for Josh Trank; I don’t know how his cut would’ve turned out but man, Fox really destroyed his career just so they could keep a franchise from a studio they knew would treat it so much better! As much I don’t endorse Disney monopolizing everything, they had it coming when Disney bought them.
Except Andor, obviously.
The Umbrella Academy HURT me. I wouldn't say I was a huge fan of the show, but I enjoyed it quite a bit, especially the second season, and many of the characters became very dear to me. To say I was upset is an understatement. The first 2 episodes are more or less okay compared to the rest of the season and by the time Lila and Five thing happened I was just screaming at the screen. And the fact that we've known for a while that this would be the final season only makes it worse, because all of these were choices that weren't rushed. I'm still upset when I think about what they've done to this show and I'd much rather forget this season ever existed.
It felt like the writers were punishing me for caring.
As a Star Wars fan, that rant about The Acolyte was so cathartic. I mean, imagine bringing Carrie Ann Moss to Star Wars as a Jedi master, and doing NOTHING with that? Unforgivable. But not only that, the way they went against the established lore in order to tell the story they wanted to tell really pissed me off. However, I still consider myself a Star Wars fan, there is still fun to be found in this franchise if you step away from Disney+ and pick up a book or a comic.
Curious what lore?
I was also surprised that there wasn't really any mention of the animated star wars shows. Rebels, Bad Batch, and Visions were fantastic. There have been some missteps for sure, but I don't think it's quite as much doom and gloom as depicted in the video.
Edit: also not forgetting Clone Wars, but that one has been around longer.
I knew it was gonna be bad lore-wise when Leslie proudly stated that her show 'was not going to be kind to the Jedi'; aside from the originals paying honor to an Order we the viewers didn't know anything about yet, has *any* Star Wars been kind to the Jedi? And then it turns around and, actually, the Jedi weren't in the wrong, but the writers wanted them to feel guilty so bad they made a bunch of illogical decisions???? I'm still salty, thank god any future seasons got firmly canceled.
@@flexhead The Force, the Jedi Order, and the Sith, mostly. There's an interview with the showrunner where she explains a lot of her motives behind certain characters, scenes and themes in her show. She wanted to portray the Dark Side as freedom to be who you are, in contrast to the Jedi being a religious institution with strict rules where that's not possible. A character turning to the Dark Side and literally murdering someone is meant to be viewed as a moment of victory for that character. But that's not how the Force works! (insert Han Solo meme here). The Dark Side is a corruption that will eat your soul, basically. It will always lead to suffering, never freedom.
The Sith are not a misunderstood and repressed minorty, no matter how hard they try to paint them that way. They are power hungry, they are self-centered, they are ruthless. In order words: They are the bad guys. They always have been.
@@MsIvalane I want more nuanced stories about the Jedi, but I thought they were space monks, not cops.
"The Umbrella Academy" making the worst list honestly makes me sad. I started off really adoring this show, and you could relate to the characters, and their pain. Due to the final season being truncated, it was extremely rushed. Characters like Klaus and Allison were underutilsed, others, like Five and Lila, were written so out of character, and the ending renders the entire show pointless. The only things I enjoyed were the campy villains, and Elliot Page's compelling performance as Viktor.
Ellen Page
I'm sorry but in my opinion Eliot's performance was just awful this season
I enjoyed Viktor in the last season, it felt like he was the only character that kind of was going through trauma from the past. They butcher Luther and make him into a complete dumb meathead, he seemed to even forget his wife. Diego became one note, Ben was not interesting to watch. They ruined all the characters and then made it so none of it mattered.
I liked season one. LOVED season two. Fell off about halfway through season 3.. not sure why. I've been meaning to return to it, but after what I've heard about season 4......
@@TrulyZer0 i totally get you falling off on season 3 tbh, it's not nearly as good as s1 and s2. but it does have some pretty adorable and heartwarming moments, so i do recommend checking it out if you're a big fan of the characters and the broken family dynamic like i am. season 4 however does not have a single redeeming quality, the characters are butched and horrible, and so is the plot. i am a big fan of tua and was honestly so disappointed, i've watched it for so long and it sucks to have to see it end like this. watch s3, imagine the kugelblitz really did end the universe and everyone is gone forever, and don't step on s4 imo LMAO
38:47 I feel this sooo much. I hate when I agree with the “Anti-woke” crowd. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League didn’t suck because it was “Woke”, it sucked because it was an awful game, with awful gameplay, awful story, awful UI, and awful monetization.
Literally the anti woke crowd frustrates me so much. They are capable of making good points now and again but most of their criticism is simply about women, POC, female empowerment and saying that that is the reason why the show is bad. When in reality, shows or movies are bad because of the usual same thing: the writing.
Yeah, the Anti-Woke often say that they hate how much the media constantly pushes an agenda…
While also pushing their own agenda about how minorities ruin everything.
The activists in hollywood aren't very good at writing interesting stories, so copious amounts of wokeness is a pretty good sign if product is going to be good or not.
@@karenwang313there have been plenty of movies that came out before the 2010s that I guarantee you that if they came out today, they would be crying "woke" until the cows came home. And calling the writers "Hollywood activists" have always been funny to me because they literally do not care about activism. They work for an industry that cares about money. It's their job to write shit and move on to the next to pay their taxes. The people saying that are either anti-woke morons, conspiracy lunatics, or people that don't understand the industry at all.
Edit: also you have an anime profile. Your opinion is immediately invalid
You should see these people going up in flames when being told Malcolm in the Middle would be considered woke by today's standards. It's so funny.
Live action Avatar still pisses me off, what a disappointment. Only thing I loved is how good the bending looked.
@@crimsoneclipse0618 Netflix: ok we need a new Character to assassinate the essence of. Ideas?
Exec: Ummm… Katara, a beloved character? People definitely won’t notice!
Netflix: Genius!
It genuinely ASTOUNDS me that people will criticize and despise the 2010 movie and then go on to praise the Netflix live action which makes every mistake that movie made other than the casting and the bending animation.
@@sophieamandaleitontoomey9343 honestly (hot take) I think kataras character is worse in the Netflix series
The only part I remember liking was when that old lady hit Zuko with a broom. Otherwise I’m sick of Aang. There’s hundreds of avatars tell someone else story.
@@sophieamandaleitontoomey9343 well, let's not use the show being disappointing to elevate that atrocity of a movie. That movie was a bigger piece of shit than even the live action show, at least the show got the visuals right.
the worst part about the umbrella academy is that it retroactively made everything that came previously worse with that ending
im glad you mentioned dead boy detectives about cancelling good shows! it was so full of creativity and had a genuine story and character growth but the writing felt on the wall about it never getting far unfortunatly.
Yes! Haven't watched the video yet but I'm so glad to see this comment. Dead Boy Detectives deserved so much better
@@issaperson2628 I agree, Dead Boy Detectives only gets one season, yet Emily in Paris keeps on getting greenlit?! There's clearly no sense of justice in Hollywood.
Dead Boy Detectives was interesting to me, even though I didn’t get around to watching it, because it was directly connected to The Sandman
I loved Dead boy detectives! It was so fun!
@@inkweedandlizards no, it neil gaiman had absolutely no involvement in the show, and netflix said it was because of 'low viewership', even though the second season had already been written. it was already due to be canceled before the neil gaiman stuff
3:55 - Number 10; The Sopiderwick Chronicles (Season 1)
6:56 - Number 9; The Regime (Season 1)
9:28 - Number 8; The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (Season 1)
12:53 - Number 7; Pretty Little Liars Summer School (Season 2)
15:42 - Number 6; Velma (Season 2)
19:14 - Number 5; The Umbrella Academy (Season 4)
23:27 - Number 4; Orphan Black Echoes (Season 1)
27:23 - Number 3; Emilet In Paris (Season 4)
29:50 - Number 2: The Acolye (Season 1)
43:00 - Dishonorable Mentions
45:01 - Number 1: Cruel Intentions (Season 1)
Emily*
Thank you for these timestamps
Emilet is canon
dont list the name of he show thats just giving spoilers xD
thank goodness i was looking for the comment hero 🙏
Thank goodness, I was done with the vid and wanted a short recap
Dude do you sleep? The grind you have been on has truly been incredible to witness. Talk about a great way to close out the year. Looking forward to what 2025 brings for the channel!
Lol making youtube videos is not hard 😂 that's so disrespectful to people that actually work their ass off 10 plus hours a day
@@999JWforeverI mean it’s not the hardest job, but it’s can be tedious or at least time consuming. His videos are long so imagine scripting, recording and editing one video probably takes at least a whole day, let alone he put out like 4 videos back to back
@@999JWforever it takes even less time to watch them. Script writing, editing, actually watching the show? It takes time, escpecially for quality content like this. I work full time and I still release videos everyday and yeah burnout is real. Plus there aren’t any vids on your channel so how would you know how easy/ hard it is to make quality content?
@@999JWforever bet, make one then shouldn't take you long.
december cpm he’s making BAGS rn. as he should btw his vids are goated
This intro made me want to hear you talk more about music on this channel! Is that something you ever considered ? Like an album review or a top/flop at the end of the year ?
Pains me to see Umbrella Academy on this list even though I agree that S4 was absolute dogshit. The season killed the fandom so quickly, it's remarkable (and super sad for those of us who were invested in the characters and their journey). What a waste of an otherwise great show.
Would love to see a deep dive from you at some point, TUA fits right in with other shows you've covered that were ruined by their show runners.
(Like, I'm not kidding. Steve Blackman literally said in interviews pre release of S4 that he absolutely expected "some fans" to dislike the "big swings" he'd gone for this season. He said he was looking forward to the feedback and then proceeded to delete even slightly negative comments and to block tons of people on Instagram. We also found out that they scrapped like two weeks of filming despite supposed budget cuts and the shorter season order, they deleted scenes that would have actually added to/completed character arcs, and "did not have time" to answer some very important questions like what happened to Sloane, despite wasting so much time on unnecessary scenes that could have easily been cut instead. Truly baffling decisions were made in the production of this season, none of which were good.)
Yes. I was wondering where Sloan was too. Where did she go? I Started watching the show cause I'm huge fan of Genesis Rodriguez, and I was so excited about her having more Roles like this. I grew up watching telenovelas she was staring in so yeah, super sad she didn't get to be in season 4. I just wasted my time and they ruin number 5 storyline. And Why do they do Diego dirty like that, I liked Diego
Could be worse. At least the entire fandom hates season 4 instead of “some fans”. We all hate the Five and Lila romance. No defenders except Blackman. No controversy, unlike Star Wars and the MCU.
@@theshire9173 You'd think so but there's actually quite a few defenders of the Five/Lila storyline, and plenty of people who think S4 "wasn't that bad actually". To each their own I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Cutting out Sloane and Luther; An already established romance that was set up to be advanced by Luther's search for her in favour of shoehorning a new romance plot with Five & Lila, was such a ludicrous decision to make for a rushed final season.
@@LikeARo55 I Know Right! It pisses me off to this day.
the “woke” issue with the acolyte goes both ways tho. everyone involved in the production blamed the show’s failure on the audience by calling them sexist, racist, misogynistic, instead of having any accountability for their awful writing.
Speaking as someone who adored the umbrella academy from the start I can tell you I was devastated. It was like watching a minor fender bender turn into a twenty car pileup in slow motion.
I kept thinking “it can’t get worse than this. Wait, why is that pedestrian carrying a gasoline tank? What are they….. no. They couldn’t, who would do something so…. Oh god. Why would someone knowingly… the school bus was already on fire!”
I posted on social that the biggest tell was the cast didn’t even perform their seasonal dance number, and from that it just felt like no one was having fun making the show anymore and they just wanted to be done as fast as possible.
39:00 this is always my greatest fear, especially in the Star Wars fandom which is SO toxic towards people of color and especially women of color. Like, as a brown lady who has stubbornly been a fan since the 80s despite the terrible attitudes of fandom, I want to support!!! And not say anything bad because I don’t want to feed the trolls!!! But it’s so hard when the shows/movies are so mediocre. 😢
It’s entirely reasonable to say the Acolyte sucks while also denouncing the idiots that never got over the fact that the black main actress dared to express an opinion
Ever think at least some of the people who complain about Star Wars and some of the bad characters/story choices that get called racist, aren't actually racist? Like sure, there are racist people and hateful, illegitimate reactions to diverse projects, etc, but if you notice how frequently these days the claimed-to-be-racist-by-people-paid-to-support-the-studios (or by people who listen to them) turn out to be right about projects not being good...maybe listen in full to what they actually say and not what other people say they say.
“Female lead makes show woke. Minority lead makes show woke. LGBT character existing in show makes show woke.” That’s pretty much what these people complaining about woke say. And if the show turns out to be great, these people pretend that they never said this crap or say “show makes woke Hollywood seethe” or something dumb like that.
@@augment96case in point: both Fallout and Blue Eyed Samurai was woke, but since both were done supremely well, very little chatter from the anti woke crowd. Which tells me, it isn’t the woke characters that’s the problem, it’s the badly written woke characters that’s the problem.
I watched Pantheon since your last vid, instantly became one of my favorite shows ever. Thank you so much for the discovery Space Ninja!!
yayyy :D glad to hear it. i watched it at the start of 2024 and i was sooooo hyped to see it on FSN's list!! really glad to hear other ppl are discovering it and liking it!!!! :D
Same!😂 Just finished Pantheon and Arcane. I love it!
Oh yeah! I binged the seasons in two days it was fantastic.
Pantheon is incredible
Also watched it since the last video and continue to think about that show every day since!
As a big fan of the umbrella academy from the very beginning I cannot begin to describe the absolute shock I felt watching the final season. It was like being backstabbed by the show runner and I genuinely cried of just pure frustration. It ruined some of my favourite characters in the most spectacular way I have ever seen. I have chosen to pretend that the final season just does not exist ;-;
I canceled my Netflix membership because of how awful The Umbrella Academy S4 was. When it asked on the survey why I was canceling I put “Other - Ya’ll ruined S4 of The Umbrella Academy”. It was almost like whoever came up with the story had never watched a single minute of the show prior. I didn’t even recognize these characters and the amount of unanswered setups was egregious.
Bad TV is weird because unlike movies where you might as well finish a 2 hour movies, it's just easy to stop after a bad episode. Life's too short to watch a 10 hour thing you hate nowadays.
The fact that Star Wars, saying this as a huge fun, continues to use interesting concepts and destroy them even before the first episodes reaches its end
Disney Star Wars is not Star Wars.
@@liamphibia Hey, Andor is peak and I stand by it
@@tatersalad76 Oh no, I fully agree with you. Andor absolutely rules. And like Friendly Space Ninja, I too am excited Andor S2... And absolutely nothing else.
Acolyte was still a better love story than Ep9 I guess
@@liamphibia As we saw with Arcane, and as the G-man said once, "Prepare for unforeseen consequences." Now that the eyes of the Disney higher ups are on Andor, do not be surprised if it gets meddled with.
I literally hate steve blackman so much. There's a lot i hated about s4 of tua but five and lila's relationship? Disgusting as fuck. Why can't people enjoy platonic relationships? Five and Lila's dynamic is so good. The constant bickering but recognising that at the end of the day, they are family is great! The fact that they do wanna kill eachother sometimes but their love for Diego holds them back. And i particularly blame Steve for this because in an interview he said that Aidan (five's actor) was already 18/19 so it was okay for lila and five to be together, and that lila has always loved five. He basically discarded all the writing for the previous seasons (2 and 3, where they develop lila and diego's relationship), the creepy age gap of the actors AND the characters, the fact that Five literally killed Lila's biological parents causing 'the handler' to adopt her and take her childhood away by training her to be an assassin, Lila's relationship with Diego and her kids, Fives relationship with Diego, Five's feelings towards Delores. ALL OF THIS just so they could market Aidan as a love interest.
*NO BULLSHIT* Scott Gimple FR ran ‘The Walking Dead’ into the ground and it *NEEDS* to be studied
The guy has ONLY ever be rewarded by amc, probably cause he never pushes back against theyre bs decisions.
WD was murdered with Coral
Ending Velma on a cliffhanger, like if anyone would want to know what happens next is ironically the best joke on that show. 😂😂😂😂😂
0:22 the epic highs and lows of high school football
Still traumatizing isn’t it ? 😆
Society will never recovery from Riverdale
Incredible that Riverdale missed the list.
I was just gonna !!!
The part about Star Wars was heartbreaking because of how much I agreed with it. When Disney bought the franchise everyone was making jokes about Star Wars musicals or Leia being considered a Disney princess now but I don't think anyone could've predicted this level of cultural irrelevance. People straight up don't care for it anymore and it's so sad man.
The fans were the ones who made George Lucas quit and sell the rights, though.
@@suzygirl1843 I've heard that a lot, but was it really like that? After the prequels, Lucas developed The Clone Wars, which, although it initially had its detractors, little by little gained a fair amount of acclaim and formed a very solid fandom.
When asked why he didn’t make any more Star Wars movies, george said “why should I make any more, when everyone yells at you all the time and says what a terrible person you are?”
Ready to trash some shows I’ve never even heard of 🍿😊
Percy jackson deserved to be on the list, i have never been more dessappointed in my whole life. Percy jackson's books deserved so much better
is it that much worse than the movies?? Haven't had time to see it yet
@aboxinspace It's not worse than the movies, most people find it better than the movies, i find it as bad as the movies. The show failed at different things the movies failed tho. While the movies failed at being faithful to the books, the series is a little more faithfull, the issue is that all the things that made the book great, like all the iconic moments were changed into boring scenes. Instead of following percy on this journey and discovering this new world and rules WITH him, he somehow already knows everything and the problems that appear are solved in the most boring ways(some are even solved off screen) instead of just following what the book did and make them the iconic scenes we all know and love, they decide to change it and turn it into something so unnecessarily boring. the monsters are the same, and the plot supposely is the same, but the way that they do it is not. Also annabeth's character and grover's, in terms of personality, are very different from the books, and it's not for the better
@@aboxinspace personally whilst i can finish the 1st film (not the 2nd one) percy jackson as of now has me dropping it twice due to how off the tone of the show is it feels like IT is gonna jump percy at any moment, i was going to give it a 3rd chance but after i show how dirty they did the ares fight (ares lost to a wave 💀) i will 99% not pick it up a 3rd time except if the 2nd season gets an 11/10 review by everyone
i think animation would be the only way for them to make an actual decent adaptation
@@real.pubgmobile for sure
I have loved umbrella academy since season 1 came out. Season 2 was amazing! Season 3 already felt a bit off to me... but i never expected season 4 to be this bad! They had to finish the season with less episodes but I still don't get how they could make such a bad season! They must have smoked something when they came up with the five-Lila storyline (This is the kind of storyline that happens when TV producers think that every character absolutely needs a love interest)... If I ever rewatch this show, i will only rewatch the first 2 seasons.
Great video by the way! Happy 2025 to everyone :)
Steve Blackman actually said the romance happened because he wanted to give Five a love interest. He didn’t want to add a new character (didn’t stop him from creating Jennifer and making a nothing romance plot with Ben) and Lila was the only one who “made sense”. He absolutely forced a romance plot because God forbid a character not have a love interest. Amatanormativity at its finest.
100% agree with your Star Wars rant, word for word. The Acolyte was also my breaking point, although I was already dropping Star Wars media left and right by then. Didn't watch Boba Fett, stopped Mandalorian after season 2, Kenobi was a MASSIVE disappointment that I tried to watch but couldn't go past a few episodes. Ahsoka's only good moments were callbacks to better shows (which is essentially what the whole of Star Wars has turned into). Heck, I recently dropped the game Jedi Survivor because I couldn't care less about these characters and this obsession with this narrow time period in a universe that should have millennia of stories to tell.
I miss Knights of the Old Republic. I miss Clone Wars. I miss the Yuuzhan Vong and the Infinite Empire. Damn, I even miss the prequels, at least those movies were trying something new.
Star Wars today is just nostalgia bait, with no substance whatsoever. Disney can do something good once in a while, but it's like they say: even a broken clock is right twice a day.
There's very little good buried in a sea of disappointment. And I'm tired, chief.
(It also pisses me off that disliking Star Wars nowadays puts me adjacent to those neckbeards who've never seen a woman in their entire life and every time I criticize something about the franchise I gotta preface it with "I'm not talking about the casting, I'm not racist.")
Man, I feel your frustration!
This is Andor erasure tho
that recap of music this year was amazing
what timeline?
Beginning of the video @@filipberes319
@@filipberes319in the intro !
Star Wars: The Acolyte main problem was that Leslye Headland was the showrunner and was also Harvey Weinstein's personal assistant. And she would and still won't say anything bad about Harvey Weinstein. She keeps saying he was a good man. I couldn't care less that she is a lesbian, she still defends Harvey Weinstein.
Damn, I had no idea about that. How can there be so many people defending her work?
The most frustrating thing about Acolyte is that it could have been a cool show. I actually like the idea about a show focusing the origin of the Sith and it was cool seeing a show not having to rely on the Skywalkers for its narrative like Andor.
But instead, it just is a textbook example on how not to write a tv show. Nothing is well written. The dialogue is awful. The show looks so cheap. Nothing is consistent. No character is likable other than Master Sol. And the blatant levels of hypocrisy in regard to its characters is insanely frustrating, especially when it comes to the twins and what happened to their mother.
Lee Jung Jae truly gave this show a performance it did not deserve.
Agreed, so much lost potential, and a waste of a wonderful cast.
I'm pretty sure Lee even learnt English for the show.
I genuinely enjoyed it, I’m not a Star Wars fan and have only watched the 7/9 movies in order. Never got the hype but this show was the first time I was interested in the universe. Funny that.
Even people positive say its not good but it would be intreresting where it goes, so even people liking it, like the potential not the show.
I went into it with high expectations and wanted it to prove the haters wrong. A SW show in a new era with new characters but does nothing interesting. What a waste of potential
My best friend and I were huge fans of the Umbrella Academy. I got her into it as Season 2 was coming out and we waited eagerly for Season 3. We didn't even finish *that*. I finished it by myself and hoped Season 4 would be better. Then I started hearing whisperings that it was even worse, so honestly, I haven't even touched it and frankly I'm scared to.
Ditto! I finished S3, but it felt limp. Never bothered with S4 once the first feedback leaked.
Same, I got my mom to watch The umbrella academy because I told her it was one of my favorites. She hated Klaus and then loved him and when they released the last season and I watched it. She asked me “was the last season good? Should I watch it?” I straight up told her “no, it is garbage. They ruined it.”
Friendly Space Ninja actually works so well as a pop music commentator, I wonder if he branches off even more in that direction in the future
If that happens, I want the obligatory video about daddy Kendrick Lamar
He only listens what’s on the American radio he still has a lot to grow up in that regard if he ever does
He's also a musician
@@Realunmakergo get some sleep
@@Realunmaker he's French and he makes his own music. I highly doubt he only listens to 'American radio' in his spare time lmao
Cannot wait for the dune prophecy video!!! I am so happy you’re going to cover it. I’ll be waiting patiently.
honestly i don’t know how they managed to screw up VELMA. Like the material is right thereeee. Instead every character sucks besides scooby, and that’s only because he wasn’t THERE
It sucked because Mindy made it all about her and the fact that she is kind of a female Harvey Weinstein and admitted as such in TV interviews.
@@azurai3934 oh that’s gross
@azurai3934 everything about this comment is incorrect and I hate that 9 people have already seen it and believe it just bc a comment on UA-cam says so
I feel so bad for Scooby-Doo fans.
Mindy Kaling has the reverse midas touch. She shouldn't be allowed near TV or film
29:50 As someone who also grew up with Star Wars, I couldn’t co-sign this statement any more. I’ve fallen so far out of interest with Star Wars, I’m not sure I could consider myself a fan anymore. Disney has truly sucked any enjoyment out of that franchise for me.
So, there is an episode of The Blacklist where Krysten Ritter plays two characters who are twins. That ONE EPISODE is so much better than this entire series of Orphan Black: Echoes.
Omg I remember this episode. I was so shocked back then when i figured out it was an evil twin situation 😂
@@discardme222 Yeah... That was an awesome episode. Too bad the series ended in such an aweful way.
I thought you meant The mentalist for a second and was trying to remember when she showed up 😂
As someone who knows nothing about this industry, I'm consistently baffled how it manages to produce terrible products one after another. Like, it's not a bad book that one person writes, another proofreads/edits, than it goes through physical production cycle and goes on to enrage booktubers. Groups of writers work on these things, than people show up on stage and do their thing, than there's editing and at no point does anyone pause and think 'wait, this is embarrassing'? I'm sure there's an explanation, but it's hard to wrap my head around it.
P.S. always here for TUA finale hate, shun them, shame them, mock them, may they never know peace.
its because producers and execs (who dont have a creative bone in their body) are the ones greenlighting these shows and often have final say over scripts. they are not interested in making art, they just want to make the most money as possible.
@@realmothchu I wanted to object that good art sells better, but then remembered Emily in Paris and reconsidered. You'd think at least people who do the writing would care but alas.
Watching the drop of Umbrella Academy was like:
S1 = Amazing
S2 = Great! Kinda...
S3 = You guys do realize Victor was also your sibling, right? So, Five threatened Victor was also... right?
S4 = 💩
Who's Victor?
I highly concur. It's sad how a show with huge potential, a compelling premise and stellar cast, could quickly go off the rails. In my opinion, the second season was even better than the first.
@@liampatrick3110vanya
@@liampatrick3110 did you not watch the show?
basicall stop at season 2 where the show still had good writing
This is why I love the end of the year. While I do enjoy FSN’s videos on the best movies and TV shows of the year, I love hearing him lose his mind about stupid shows and movies and talk about how the writers fumbled the bag! It’s always so entertaining
I'll forever be salty about Mindhunter
Blame David Fincher, he was too busy and didn't care enough about Mindhunter. Since it was his show of course Netflix wouldn't continue the show when he was the marketing. Netflix gave him a show and he didn't care enough to continue.
@@4X4StudiosHRYeah, this one wasn't actually Netflix's fault for once!
I was so shocked that you included The Umbrella Academy in your list. As someone who has been watching the show since after season 2 was released, it has been one of my favorite shows in a long time. But when Season 3 was released, it was when I realized that the show was starting to become so bad, with the choice to make Allison sexually assault Luther and Luther instantly forgiving her for that felt so out of left field. However I was willing to wait for Season 4 as it was the final season. And holy shit, it was so atrocious that it somehow made Season 3 look better in comparison. From the character assasinations, the plot holes to the inconsistencies of the lore was so jarring to witness as a whole. There were so many unanswered questions than answered ones in general.
I'm still bitter over the fact that The Umbrella Academy ended with the worst final season that I have seen as of now. Steve Blackman wasted this show's potential and ruined the season for the fandom.
oh how i was WAITING for this video
And it was *worth* the wait. I love this guy.
Disney+ is ruining big franchises like the MCU and Star Wars
32:35 Glover actually didn't say that lando was cancelled outright, just that it pivoted from a show to a movie and is being worked on by him personally instead of just starring.
Have you seen his Mr and Mrs Smith? Absolutely incredible.
After fumbling GoT, the BIGGEST bag of the millennium so far, D.B. Weiss made Metal Lords, which I personally think was an attempt to remind himself that he could still make something GOOD, and honestly I loved it. It is a very lovely little coming of age movie! It has comedy, romance, music, and I really liked the dialogue. Definitely worth a watch.
Did they make Three body problem as well or am I trippin
The Bear season 3 was so unbelievably boring and pointless (yes the Tina episode was good but that was one episode that could’ve been in season 2). That’s my biggest disappointment of the year.
Ugh it was so boring like watching paint dry and it way 2 much focus on Claire
Hell, the first episode was probably my favorite episode of the season, the entire rest of the season just felt so aimless
The Spiderwick Chronicles was one of my favourite childhood movies, so much so that I rewatch it every few years as an adult, and I still had no idea the show aired this year...
I found out I'm about it, a month after it wrapped up. I stopped watching after episode 3... I just lost interest.
Same! It was one of my favorites as a kid, I love whimsical fantasy like that
WHEN I TELL YOU I AM GIDDY
Me too, it's always a glorious day when Friendly Space Ninja uploads.
I feel bad for Acolyte's Actors. They were great but the story is really dumb
Most of the Acolyte actors got what they deserved. I feel bad that they wasted Manny Jacinto and Sol's actor but if Amandla isn't in anything ever again because she tried real hard to out-obnoxious Rachel Zegler, nothing of value will be lost.
Most of the acting was sub-par, though I do attribute that to the godawful writing and lack of direction
@@SpiderNightcrawlerCarrie Anne moss def deserved a better script too because what was she doing in that show
@@SpiderNightcrawlerI can’t imagine hating women this much lmfao. Nothing those two said was even that bad. I’m surprised you’re not still screeching about Brie Larson 😂
Amandla is pretty good in other projects. She’s great in bodies, bodies, bodies and the hate you give.
@SpiderNightcrawler I can't imagine how salty you gotta be to comment what you did, lol.
I just ended up finishing Pantheon based on your recommendation... Never felt so empty in life. Also, I cried. And also Maddie is such a strong character. Thank you for introducing me to the show!
Edit: I too watched the Spiderwick Chronicles, I needed a show while doing my treadmill run. I gave up after 3 episodes, yes it was boring AF!
YESSSSSS THIS IS GREAT TO HEAR!!!!! ive been a pantheon fan for like a year now and i was SOOO excited to see it on FSN's list a few days ago!! :D really glad to hear ppl are checking it out and liking it!
and yea the s2 ending destroyed me too lol
When you listen Leslie Headland the Acolyte showrunner talk about good and evil and moral relativism, you realize this person should be on a watchlist.
Yea, Harvey Weinstein's former assistant should be on a watchlist
Disney will literally fire people for expressing a political opinion on Instagram (I say this as a liberal) and then hire Harvey weinstein’s personal assistant… make it make sense Disney.
What did she say specifically?
@vladimiradidas1945 That squid game guy allowing himself to be force choked by Osha takes away from Osha's agency, sort of mansplaining in a way.
A bunch of other stuff how dark side is the way to go, being selfish and evil.
General sociopath stuff.
@@rebel_diamonds bruh. She sounds like a straightforward supervillain. The fact she used to work with Weinstein makes it even more hilariously dreadful.
Wait, wait wait. How did Addison Rae Re-Brand herself? She is kinda irrelevant besides her Spotify Numbers. What did I miss?
That surprised me too I was so confused 😭
I thinking he’s talking about Diet Pepsi (I think that’s the name of the song), which performed surprisingly well
If you have never watched Dangerous Liaisons (1988) starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich and Michelle Pfeiffer. I HIGHLY recommend it is all three at their very best. The costumes are perfect, the film is beautiful. The ensemble cast is glorious, Uma, Keanu, Swoosie and Mildred Natwick.
It’s great. I love Michelle
Most people also don’t know that Milos Forman released yet another movie based on the same book, around the same time, called Valmont. Reminds me of the two Prefontaine movies that came out in the early 00s.
Dylan: *proceeds to list what happened in pop music this year*
Me, a metalhead: no thoughts, just Gojira at the Olympics
And Blood Incantation, and Judas Priest
I am hurting with you about Star Wars. It makes me so sad that I am falling out of love with something that I have worshipped since I was a young boy in the eighties.
I echo your feelings on no longer being a Star Wars fan. I just don't care anymore about the franchise's new offerings beyond Andor Season 2.
Hollywood's trend of re-adapting old, outdated books and series no one cares about anymore, instead of adapting stuff that is popular and well liked today, is getting real tiring.
Ironically, we wouldn't mind if they actually put in effort and made good stuff with these projects, but since they didn't, this is where we are. If they suck at making original content, it forces us to watch all the reboots and sequels they're churning out instead.
STFU THIS CAME OUT AT THE PERFECT TIME
Daylen, my friend, on behalf of us all as fans of your channel, we appreciate you taking one for the team and sparing us the pain of watching these hot garbage TV shows. Salute to you, buddy.
Manny Jacinto and Lee Jung Jae carried The Acolyte, I will die on this hill. Unfortunately the writing didn't do the duality of them justice. Still hope we get Qimir on something, I really liked him. Also, the fighting scenes were the best we had in a long time, which isn't that impressive when you remember the lightsaber fights of the past decade. But I still liked the fight and the brutally of the Sith.
They are severely wasted on this show.
Carrie Anne was also great in her regrettably brief appearance
I feel really bad for Manny. You could tell that he was so excited to work in a Star Wars project.
@ plus he’s hot!
Absolutely need Qimir in something else, Manny Jacinto was soooo good.
One of my favourite parts of the year was Lindsay lohan and Pamela Anderson having comebacks like Brendan Fraser did last year!
I loathed the Acolyte after trying to give it a chance. No one talks about it, but the fact they used a Bury your Gays trope in 2024 made me sick. I was willing to let them cook with one episode devoted to an unframed flashback, but when they did an entire second episode I was fully pissed.
All that said, I liked Ahsoka, and I'm still ride or die for Andor season 2, so I'm not quite over Star Wars yet.
How was Skeleton Crew? Was thinking of checking it out cause of the Daniels directing an episode.
@purplecoffinman8510 no glaring flaws so far. I reserve final judgement until it's done
It feels like the Umbrella Academy writers took notes from the Hemlock Grove writers, i.e. how to ruin an excellent show in 2 seasons. I was so excited to see the brella gang one last time, and I convinced myself that they’d do ‘em justice for the send off. Instead they facilitated some intense character/plot assassination.
Omg I had totally deleted hemlock grove from my mind! The last season was so terrible that it ruined absolutely everything that came before it.
Umbrella Academy
Season 1: Slow start, dumb fun, 7/10, good show.
Season 2: Overall really good, even dumber fun, 9/10, love it
Season 3: Slightly below average, could have been rewatchable as a filler arc to S4, 4/10, meh
Season 4: F*ck you and you and you and everyone and especially the idiots who decide to ruin Five of all people, the best character in the show and one of my favourites of all time, played to perfection by a very talented young man called Aidan Gallagher, 0/10, it ruined even the first two seasons
I noticed the shift in quality for Umbrella Academy by season 2 and stopped watching after that. To see how far it fell…it’s insane bc season 1 was genuinely such a great season
Same, when they jumped to another timeline at the end of S2, I was like "oh, so they're never getting home. Nope, not gonna watch the goalposts get moved every season. Thanks, have a nice life." No offense to anyone that enjoyed it past that point, but if they're going to make the whole season about getting home, and then take it away at the last minute, I have no reason to believe they are going to pay off anything.
Thank you for your service this year Dylan. It has been a blast, you’re honestly my favorite UA-camr. Wish you all the best and better for 2025. Coeur sur toi❤❤❤❤
Thank you so so much Dylan for voicing out why The Acolyte sucks and for being honest about it. Because even the Honest trailers channel was too much of a pussy to make fun of this show
I'm convinced Orphan Black Echoes is a spite project from AMC. They hated that the show runners for OB held firm and refused to extend the series beyond the endpoint they planned.
I’m a fan of the original series and even listened to the podcast followup that I surprisingly enjoyed and I purposely avoided the show because it didn’t look interesting from the promos in the slightest and no one talked about it. Nice to know I didn’t really miss anything.
Your Acolyte rant was word for word how I feel, I'm done with Star Wars but I will watch Andor S2.
I have no idea how ANDOR managed to get created AND renewed, under Disney.
So you’re telling me we’re not getting a top best and top worst 2024 for music too?
as someone who doesnt care about star wars, but did like the acolyte for the performances and fights, i feel like a strange middle ground lol
I had no problem with the Acolytes casting, but I will admit, when Amandla Stenberg made that song to “get back at the haters” I immediately disliked her after that. There were people that disliked the show for racist reasons, but the way she tried to call everyone who disliked the show racist just made me not want to watch her in anything ever again.
I do not think anyone disliked it for the race. Do not know what Space Ninja is talking about. Most people disliked that the promotion consited of 'yas yas girl power most gay star wars' narraton. What does this narrative tells you about quality of the media? Usualy if they are making such points it means that the focus is wrong. Not plot quality, but a social political browny points.
it just hit 2025 in my country and this is the first video i'm watching. happy new year, dylan! thanks for a great 2024
Hey man :D I rarely write, but I've recently found your channel and proceeded to watch literally every video, even on shows I know fuck all about. You have a really amazing way of breaking down and narrating, and I love your sense of humour. Just wanted to say that. Cheers for filling many of my hours with excitement and laughs!
Welcome to the crew!
“Time to listen to the angry French Canadian guy foam at the mouth about terrible teen shows again”
Isn’t he from Paris ?
@ I’m not sure 🤔 I took a gamble.
@@Tusisvrivhinghe recommended a niche horror book from Quebec once so I agree with Mr Chicken
My favourite sentence you've ever said: "All of this blah blah." Gold.
_The Chronicles of Spiderwick_ came out this year?! That show was so forgettable it feels like it premiered ages ago!
34:24 There was also an animated movie called A Droid Story that was meant to focus on R2 and C-3P0 going on a solo adventure made by the Clone Wars studio announced back in 2020, never happened
The only part of the video I disagreed with was the part where you were criticizing people for being exhausted with WOKE Hollywood & their non-stop racial & gender pandering. I’m a black woman & it’s not as simple as “There are black or gay people in this. I hate it. Let me go complain.” There are plenty of projects with mostly black casts or queer people that I adore. I love your channel but what you said was an oversimplification of the issue that implies that people who have these criticisms of Hollywood are racist or dumb. Sure, some people might be but I don’t think that’s the case for the majority of fans. The issue is not that we are racist or silly but that people like me can immediately recognize when we are being politically pandered to through a project versus genuine attempts at entertaining fans or telling a moving story that positively impacts people of all races, backgrounds & political sides, like Hollywood used to do in prior decades. Most fans of film can tell when the establishment messages are the priority over a good story & characters. The Hollywood of today seems to push activism through an over-saturation of very selective casting. And the thing is, they aren’t good at it. They constantly attempt to push their political messages about diversity, LGBT activism & feminism, only to fall flat on their faces every time. We’ve seen how when they prioritize being woke, they end up with things like a girl boss over a strong female character, for instance. Or they end up with embarrassing woke writing or story choices that couldn’t be more transparent or eye-rolling to the audience. Or for example, they end up with projects where they’ve race swapped most characters for “diversity” sake but made little to no effort at making the world they are in & what we know about that world or its characters make sense AT ALL. It’s all so insulting. And that’s because we know the entire point was the race of the casting & not the characters or story. And what makes it all worse is that Hollywood’s attempt at diversity casting is disingenuous & forced since we all know Disney & other studios will remove black & LGBT cast members from their posters & trailers in China & other places globally in a heartbeat if it means losing any money whatsoever. So no one is even buying their diversity messaging. Hollywood needs to go back to just entertaining fans & audiences…. And if some of those projects just so happen to include a lot of people of color or LGBT members, great. But fans are tired & not racist for wanting to watch things to escape the real world stresses & political BS, only to be flooded with more of it in our entertainment non-stop by a disingenuous Hollywood who couldn’t be more obvious & blatant in the messages they are trying to push. It’s not that politics can’t be a theme at all in your movie or show but Hollywood should know that TRUE art makes audiences think, political propaganda makes audiences feel preached at. And what Hollywood is currently doing, for the most part, is political propaganda, not art. So until they figure that out, they need to just relax on the woke messaging. It’s a turn off. Other than that, I agreed with your list.
Bro is going crazy, he posted 5 videos in 3 days😂 gotta love the grind
Isn't it more like 3 Videos in 5 days ?
As a fan of The Spiderwick Chronicles there is already a show that captures a very similar vibe and will scratch that itch for you: it's called Locke and Key. If Netflix was able to pull it off Disney should've been able to do it too.
Star Wars could take the easiest W by adapting beloved comic stories instead of making up bs fans never wanted to watch. It's baffling.
Honestly… you can’t do orphan black without Tatiana Maslany, she really IS orphan black. I didn’t even hear about this spin off. And the creators did not want to have a franchise. They told their contained story, and they were happy with that!!
As a dedicated star wars hater since i was young, i personally couldnt be happier about the absolute state of the franchise. Complete garbage, the amount of good or even okay star wars is now so vastly outnumbered by the amount of pure shit that its insane. I always knew it deserved this
Talking seriously, the first season of The Umbrella Academy had so, so much potential. They had good actors and a decent original source, comfortable budget that helped them getting amazing CGI and soundtrack, and overall one of the best productions I've seen from any streaming platform.
But even in that season, we were able to see some cracks on the script that left questions in the air, and I also believe that the tone of the TV show could've been a little darker to make the comedy and drama moments stand out some more. I was hoping they did that with the second season, but we already know what happened 😢
The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story was a unique mess. What really got me steamed was Ryan Murphy portraying the brothers as having an incestuous relationship. Like, what? Why would you do that?! Ryan Murphy is a weird dude and I've always thought so, even back to the Glee days. He has some weird fetish for incest.
Yeah, Ik that was gonna be bad
As an Umbrella Academy fan from the start, oh yes, waiting so long for this atrocity of a final season was one of the biggest letdowns of any genre TV show.