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Cobra Kai: Match Point (2021)
Everything you could ask for in a CK episode
Great episode that pretty much nails the tone of the series. Daniel vs Jonny, flashbacks to the films and previous seasons, training montage, this one has it all.
This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist (2021)
A fantastic overview on a very unique case
This series goes over the known details of the crime, the missing pieces from the museum, and the likely suspects and evidence that potentially ties them to the heist. Episode 3 was a real highlight for me, and it seemed that everyone who was allegedly connected to the crime ended up dead. That episode does a great job of showing the connections each mobster had to each other and potentially to the robbery as well.
More than 30 years later and the case is still unsolved, which makes the documentary a little more open ended and speculative than some may like, but overall this is an excellent overview of what is known and how the the authorities came to form their theories.
Hamilton (2020)
Lin-Manuel Miranda's masterpiece
The musical is fantastic and the casting perfect, but what really stands out to me is that Miranda wrote the ENTIRE thing. Story, music, and lyrics. An absolutely monumental achievement.
Dark: Die Überlebenden (2020)
The plot is slowly building...
The first two episodes definitely feel like they are setting the stage for what's to come. The season so far feels like a puzzle and we are only connecting the first few pieces, but you can tell it is unfolding in to something bigger.
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
An extremely underrated Bond film that has aged well.
Tomorrow Never Dies has a lot going for it, and for me is an easy thumbs up in the Bond catalog.
Brosnan is really good in this one, pulling off both darker more gritty moments (his scene with the assassin in the hotel room is one of my favorites) and classic Brosnan-era one liners.
Michelle Yeoh as Wai Lin is fantastic as a Bond girl who can more than hold her own.
Jonathan Pryce as Eliot Carver is a great Bond villain, and his plot is definitely more unique than most Bond films. In the era of "fake news" this film seems to almost be ahead of it's time.
The film features two solid action sequences that are almost polar opposite of each other. In one Bond and Lin are handcuffed to each other while riding a motorcycle, and in the other Bond controls his car via a cellphone and has to escape a parking garage. One takes place out in the open and the other in a more cramped location, providing a nice contrast between the two.
The secondary characters are solid as well, and at only two hours the film never seems to drag. Overall a very solid outing in the franchise and one that feels even more relevant as time moves on.
Floor Is Lava (2020)
With the right expectations it's not bad
Nothing groundbreaking, but not a total dud either so 5/10 feels appropriate. It's mindless entertainment and can be pretty fun with the right expectations.
There is plenty of cringe from the contestants, but the show is fairly entertaining once they actually get going.
I don't mind the host, though it seems others really dislike him.
I think this is designed to be a not so serious obstacle course style game show, and it does a pretty good job at that.