New show on DVD time
Mar. 5th, 2025 07:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessNow that I’ve finished rewatching The West Wing, I returned to my pile of TV shows to watch on DVD, and the next up was Killjoys, which I never got to watch on TV, but figured might be something I’d enjoy and so got.
1.1 Bangarang - did enough to set up the main three characters, the world and mise en scene. I felt like the show didn’t trust my attention span sufficiently, but gave me enough information to be getting along with and hooks to follow – like who wants D’avin killed. It’s unfortunate (as someone from the UK) that the company the killjoys (basically space bounty hunters) work for has the acronym RAC, even if they pronounce it ‘Wrack’ because I kept thinking of the motorists lobby group.
But it had a cage fighting scene, and Dutch is very much in the lineage of cool action ladies on TV, as proved by the corridor scene. She was also a thousand times more sympathetic when we found out she’d been trained from childhood to be an assassin and had responded in adulthood by refusing missions to kill. The ‘verse seems a bit shallow – it’s grunged up Canada, with some twists on 2010s clothes. The rich are rich, the Company is a monopoly, and there’s either a war or a revolution coming. Yes, they fly in a spaceship, but she’s no Moya or Galactica or Serenity.
The brothers, who don’t look all that much like brothers (especially when one knows IRL one of them has a twin), had a difficult relationship. I accepted the platonic vibes to Dutch and Johnny’s relationship, although John seems very trusting and accepting of her boss status, while there was UST to go along with the mistrust between Dutch and D’avin, so that’s going to be an interesting triamic. (Is that a word?) I felt like I knew Luke MacFarlane from something, but all I think I’ve seen him in from checking imdb is one episode of POI.
[Edited for typos 6/4/25.]
1.1 Bangarang - did enough to set up the main three characters, the world and mise en scene. I felt like the show didn’t trust my attention span sufficiently, but gave me enough information to be getting along with and hooks to follow – like who wants D’avin killed. It’s unfortunate (as someone from the UK) that the company the killjoys (basically space bounty hunters) work for has the acronym RAC, even if they pronounce it ‘Wrack’ because I kept thinking of the motorists lobby group.
But it had a cage fighting scene, and Dutch is very much in the lineage of cool action ladies on TV, as proved by the corridor scene. She was also a thousand times more sympathetic when we found out she’d been trained from childhood to be an assassin and had responded in adulthood by refusing missions to kill. The ‘verse seems a bit shallow – it’s grunged up Canada, with some twists on 2010s clothes. The rich are rich, the Company is a monopoly, and there’s either a war or a revolution coming. Yes, they fly in a spaceship, but she’s no Moya or Galactica or Serenity.
The brothers, who don’t look all that much like brothers (especially when one knows IRL one of them has a twin), had a difficult relationship. I accepted the platonic vibes to Dutch and Johnny’s relationship, although John seems very trusting and accepting of her boss status, while there was UST to go along with the mistrust between Dutch and D’avin, so that’s going to be an interesting triamic. (Is that a word?) I felt like I knew Luke MacFarlane from something, but all I think I’ve seen him in from checking imdb is one episode of POI.
[Edited for typos 6/4/25.]
