After yesterday’s post in which I expressed my disappointment in Deadpool & Wolverine, it occurs to me I tend to spend more time reviewing movies and TV shows I don’t like while not even mentioning shows I do like. Shows I’ve enjoyed recently include Evil, The Penguin, Agatha All Along, and Dune: Prophecy, but I don’t have much to say about them other than I like them. I think this is because when I love a show, I simply go along for the ride, but when I don’t like a show, my brain has to do something to keep from being bored, so I start to analyze it and pick it apart.

While I loved The Penguin overall, I hated when a good guy gets killed towards the end. However, it was at least treated as a serious moment and not played for laughs as when good guys die in Deadpool & Wolverine. Dune: Prophecy is still in the process of airing, but when people die in it, it’s not treated like a joke either. In Agatha All Along, Agatha does joke about the death of a good character, however, she’s a villain and Teen treats the death with respect, so I’ll give it a pass.

I really loved Agatha All Along. Like WandaVision (which it’s a spin-off from) each episode has a different style. Most episodes of WandaVision were based on sitcoms from different decades. In Agatha, each trial on the Witch’s Road takes place in different locations such as an 80s sleepover, a Disney castle, or a morgue. Both WandaVision and Agatha All Along have something profound to say about grief and both are better the second time you watch them since you can see the surprise twists are hinted at all along. Also, both have a catchy song that was created for the series (they didn’t just recycle songs that are already popular like most TV shows and movies do.)

I liked Evil overall, but I do have one complaint with how the series ended. Towards the end, Kristen discovers that Andy is having an affair. Since Kristen has cheated on Andy multiple times in the past (flirting with a man at a bar, kissing Father Acosta, and having sex with the guy from the Satanic church), you’d think she’d be less judgmental of him. Also, when Andy thought Kristen was having an affair with Ben, he was cool with it. So it seems a bit out of character for her to storm over to his room, wreck the place, act like she’s perfectly innocent, and forbid him from seeing his kids again. Really? Why is it ok for Kristen to cheat on Andy, but not the other way around?

She’s not even willing to hear his side of things or consider going to therapy which is weird because she’s a therapist. Later, Kristen sees a message from her mother explaining that since Leland messed with Andy’s brain, Andy is more open to suggestion and being manipulated now. So we know the only reason Andy cheated on her is because his mind isn’t all there anymore. But instead of being sympathetic and trying to help him not get taken advantage of, Kristen is willing to throw away twenty years of marriage and leave poor brain-damaged Andy to fend for himself. How does she go from caring about him deeply to instantly not caring about him at all? Nobody in real life acts this way.

She acts like someone (besides herself) having an affair (regardless of whether they were in full control of their faculties or not) is reason enough to completely cut ties with that person. Never mind the twenty years of history and four children they had together. The fumbling of this storyline makes Kristen look really bad. The show got cancelled before the showrunners were expecting it to and had to wrap things up quickly, so that’s why this storyline was so sloppy. Too bad they didn’t have another season to make the Kristen-Andy breakup more realistic.