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Koala Man (2023)

It was since the first two Seasons of Rick and Morty that I didn't found a so good TV Show

[9/10 · 9 January 2023]

"Everybody got to evelate from the norm" (Vital Signs by Rush)

The Big Lez Show, Danger 5, Italian Spiderman, Smiling Friends, Bushworld Adventures, Yolo, Solar Opposites.

These are just some of the title of the people behind this new TV Show, created by the prolific mind of Australian animator Michael Cusack.

Koala Man is a tv show about a regular mid-age family dad that try his best to make the right thing, even if there is no reason to do that and even if his family is experiencing a crisis. There is honesty in the frustration lived by Kevin Williams/Koala Man and episode after episode you start to understand that his obsession with the justice is just to cover other kind of issues. All the supernatural events connected to the routine of the simple town of Depto are just the norm, a metaphor to analyze the Australian society (Australia that could be the Netherlands, the UK, or every random not so big country of the Europe) in the era post covid, an era self-aware of his own unselfishness and inadequacy, envy of the illusion of the America dream.

The Australian Time zone: The narrative of the alternative story backround created because of Australia Time zone (no spoiler don't worry) is probably the most superb part of this not so silly cartoon, something similar to the alternate storyline written by Alan Moore in Watchmen. I'm not joking.

Excellent Acting with a really great cast.

A great music direction composed by Brendan Caulfield Oustanding Animations (The Emu episode have one of the greatest animation and music I ever saw for a first season tv show episode).

If you like only one of the title I wrote at the beginning of this review, you will love this show.

Clerks III (2022)

The most logical sequel possible to this great trilogy

[9/10 · 5 January 2023]

If this review was a song from Tenacious D , the lyrics presumably would sounds like this:

This is not the greatest movie in the world, no. This is just a tribute.

Everything in the movie is a sequel that we don't expected, and we probably don't deserve. Callbacks and Nostalgia are used not to make the public happy, are just there for a specific purpose that you will discover after the first half of the movie. This is not even Meta in the common sense. This is just the only sequel possible. If you don't want to know nobody will force you, because this movie will hurt you.

You don't laugh a lot, you probably cry a lot especially if you think what is happened in the time between clerks 2 and Clerks 3.

Kevin Smith end his saga in the most heart breaking way possible.

Ash vs Evil Dead: El Jefe (2015) Season 1, Episode 1

I re-watched the Pilot after The Season 2 Finale

[9/10 · 12 October 2017]

So, waiting for the beginning of Season 3 I decide to write a technical review of the Pilot of the Series. It will be short and divided by categories.

DIRECTION It's pure Raimi at his best. Long sequences, slow motions, action, suspense and dosed humor. In the next 19 episodes rarely this timing has been respected (also because this Pilot is 40 minutes and episodes are 25-30 minutes).

SFX The only bad point of the Pilot are the special effects. The Post production work doesn't fit well and make the intense Fisher/Carson scene so lame. A cheaper and hasty work, but just for this episode because next episodes are truly better (just for example in 1x03 The Host). So AVED is a series that have both bad and good special effects at the same time. And this is wonderful

PLOT and PLOT EVOLUTION In this pilot Ash is serious, Ash is scared about what he avoid for 30 years. And at the same time he laugh and act to show that he can handle it.

The evil dead speaks to the characters has it know their victims creating a shadow of mystery behind what evil wants.

The Catchphrase "We know who you are" scared a lot and also the other things form the other Deadites. These demons know a mystery and the real origins of everyone fears. They scares people not with blood or bad words, but because they knew them.

During the series we didn't see the evolution of the Evil, because of a lazy scripts that prefers jokes to expand the mythology behind the book.

IN CONCLUSION This Pilot is what every pilots need to have.. and much more. I don't know why Raimi don't make at least an episode per season. Because the directors of the series (that are also into it and extremely masters) need to breathe more and focus on what this series can unleashed in history of television. Hope that the new Showrunner is better than DiGregorio that he just forgot what to do as Showrunner. Maybe he just needed to re-watch the Pilot overtime before wrote a new episode.