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Star Trek: Discovery: Coming Home (2022)
Average Finale to an Awful Season
I want to give this episode 5 stars, because it was okay, worth a watch. But it's not a standalone episode, and we had to sit through the worst Star Trek season of all time to get here. Season 4 of Discovery is worse than season 1 of TNG. The entire season could've been episodes 1,12 & 13. From the last 10 minutes of the episode, it looks like they were preparing for the show to be cancelled, making season 4 the final season of Discovery. However that isn't the case, it's going to be back for another season.
Here's a suggestion for the show runners for season 5, give each of the extended crew/cast an episode where the story is focused around them. Plonk Culber in a problematic medical scenario, do a Stamets, backed up by Reno scientific conundrum episode, a secondary bridge crew adventure with Nilsson, Owokesun, Detmer, Bryce and Rhys, without the main crew this could be a cool double episode. By this stage if we're still watching, it isn't for the over arching season storylines, which for season 3 and 4 are widely accepted as being dreadful, we're watching because we've become invested in the characters. In season 5 give them a chance to shine.
Star Trek: Discovery: Rubicon (2022)
S-1 of TNG Has Been Topped for Worst Season of Star Trek
This episode was better than the previous 4 or 5 or 10 episodes, and that's not saying much. We're supposed to write what like 100 words or something? What's that 30 damn... So we're in the run up to the season finale, the extended bridge crew all got called by their names, which was nice. Still can't remember 1/2 of their names though, which for Star Trek after nearly 4 seasons is bizarre. The crew were childishly fighting with each other in the middle of a life or death situation. The bit about solving division was cheesy but not terrible. Appreciated Dr Culbers greater screen time. Give him an entire episode where he has to solve an actual medical conundrum, not one that entails therapy or monologing though! How many words is that now?
Star Trek: Discovery: ...But to Connect (2021)
Season 4 Pretty Much Disliked By Everyone.
I mean what can you say? If you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all? Discovery season 4 has a Rotten Tomato audience score of 19! Which probably makes it one of the most disliked TV shows ever. As we can see average ratings on IMDB are also continually falling, as are reviewer numbers. Which obvs translates to people switching off. I'd also argue that if it weren't for people with an agenda consistently giving the show 10 stars, the IMDB rating for episodes would be much lower, probably down in the 3 region.
The first 2 seasons while messing with canon generally weren't difficult to watch, but mid season 3 something happened and episodes became just that, painful to sit through. I doubt the rest of season 4 will get any better. Due to the drop in viewing figures I was wondering if Discovery would get renewed for season 5, but it has been, although clearly not eagerly by the network, who seem to have put renewing it off right to the last minute. Let's hope some serious conversations were had behind closed doors, and the mistakes made in season 3 and 4 will be addressed for season 5. Because I honestly like most of the characters, by this stage we're invested, they just need/deserve much better writing.
However I suspect Discovery has gone so far off the rails and lost so many viewers it's become un-saveable.
Star Trek: Discovery: Choose to Live (2021)
Not Excited for New Discovery Anymore
Now when I see there's a new episode to watch, I'm like shall I bother? As much as I appreciate attempts by showrunners to acknowledge fans criticisms, the claims they just don't understand Star Trek keep being proven right. This episode was just generic filler, I mean what was the aim of it? Books entire planet and people were destroyed... He's never going to get over it, none of us would. And yet at the end of the episode we're supposed to believe he's accepted the situation and is able to move on? Life just doesn't work like that, extremely badly handled subject. Picard's crippling remorse over Data's passing was handled in a much more realistic way. Tilly lacks confidence? We already know! The Vulcans, sorry Ni'var, are allies but can be complete A*Holes? Again we know! Don't even get me started on Burnhams relationship with her mother, they should remain as far away from each other as possible, until they've had some serious counselling. On the other hand I quite enjoyed the Trill person Grays rebirth as an android. But that alone wasn't enough to pull the episode above poor in my humble subjective opinion. If the show carries on as it is, I foresee a potentially successful attempt to write it out of canon and ignore it. Is that really what the showrunners want?
Star Trek: Discovery: Kobayashi Maru (2021)
One of the most traditional Star Trek episodes to date.
I don't understand all the overly emotional complaints and 1 star reviews of the episode. It's actually more painful to see than season 3's monologing, crying and whispering.
After the total disappointment that was season 3 this episode is an improvement. The ensemble cast/crew were mainly represented and got screen time. Captain Burnham did not have the solutions to everything, people died. The focus being on the crew working together and solving said problems. Also no monologues or crying, HURRAY! I enjoyed it, however we all know how quickly Discovery can go off the rails, so my hopes aren't too high. But as a season opener, this was probably the best one so far. It actually felt like Star Trek.
Dune (2021)
Watch Lynch's Version
Like a really pretty oil painting, good to look at but no forward momentum. For some reason the heavy dialogue of the books, where all the disparate things are connected has been replaced with slow motion scene's, lots and lots and lots of slow motion scenes. Having read the books I understood what was going on, but at times I was like, what's the point of this scene? When pivotal characters die, I was just like, whatever. One main character just vanishes completely! At least the "woke" has been toned right down. Also if I remember rightly Dune is set like 10'000 years in the future, I mean it's been 20 years since I read the books, but I don't remember them using MPH? The battle scenes... not sure how you make a battle involving 10,000's of people boring and incidental, somehow Villeneuve managed it. I actually fell asleep half way through and had to watch it in two goes.
Herbert created a living breathing galaxy in the books, they don't need interpreting, just put the books on the screen, a la Lord of the Rings, that's what this movie is a "Villeneuve interpretation". I even got a sense he may not have even read the books. It's like he watched the previous movies took notes of the pivotal moments then tried to fit them into his vision of some kind of desert movie. As fragmented as Lynch's Dune is, it's a lot better than this version.
Star Trek: Discovery: That Hope Is You, Part 2 (2021)
Poor Ending to Probably the Worst Star Trek Season Overall
Anyone who thinks this season was good in Star Trek terms, is just wrong, so so wrong. Unlike other Star Trek seasons I won't be watching it again anytime soon and would rather just forget it. This final episode of the season was okay, but what a struggle it was to get here. The problems of the season have been well covered. From the crying all the time, Burnham's incessant monologues (not Martin-Greens fault), extremely bad writing, episodes which were simply difficult to watch, to a TARDIS like Discovery. I don't see any point in going over them again.... The show has a solid base for season 4, we now know the names of the ensemble crew (not too much about their personalities or backstories though), and an unknown universe to explore. I just hope they don't screw it up like they have season 3. The world is currently struggling, Star Trek should and needs to be a beacon that shows us all what we could be, not some sort of cliché "woke" propaganda tool, which shoves worn tropes down viewers throats and constantly insults the viewers intelligence. In the words of the great Jean Luc Picard - "Make it so".
Star Trek: Discovery: Su'Kal (2020)
More Focus On the Ensemble Crew
After a few abysmal for "Star Trek" episodes, this one is passable. Didn't review the last episode because I just didn't have anything positive to say about it. Haven't spent much time thinking about it, but maybe this episode was more enjoyable because the ensemble crew were protagonists, and it didn't feel like they'd been shoehorned in around Burnham? Not so fussed about the fantasy rather than science based explanations of stuff (not that it should become a regular occurrence in a sci-fi show), the Planet Killer doomsday machine from TOS made no sense to me at the time either. That didn't stop the idea reappearing in one of the most successful movies of all time a decade later, Star Wars.
I've just scanned critics reviews and they're claiming this season is the best so far, but when viewers ratings from different sources are checked it can be seen viewers clearly don't agree. With episodes from season 3 accumulatively returning some of the lowest scores for the series overall. Weirdly many critics who were heaping praise on season one and two, are also applauding season 3 for what fans of the show complained about in said earlier seasons: Stop disrespecting canon, focus more on the ensemble, do at least some character development on the main crew, more away mission focused episodes. But in season 3 these rectifications just haven't been enough, justifying accusations the producers of the show don't understand the ethos of Star Trek. After massive improvement between season 1 and 2, the direction season 3 has gone clearly isn't working for Trekkies and casual viewers alike. The studio needs to have a serious think about the direction of season 4, and more importantly take on board viewers, particularly Trekkies criticisms of season 3.
We now have about 7 main characters in the show: Burnham, Saru, Stamets, Detmer, Culber, Tilly, Owosekun, we can define as the main crew, took a while but we got there. These are the crew/actors fans are going to turn up at conventions wanting to see. Burnham and Saru's characters have been developed in comparison to the others, and although the relationship between Culber and Stamets has been covered, we really don't know anything about their backstory independent of each other. Like was Adira a necessary re-occurring character? Any points the showrunners wanted to get across about non binary gender stuff could've been done in one episode, freeing up screen time to develop say one of the secondary bridge crew, who audiences are not only already invested in but want to know more about! On reflection, I think maybe the producers did try and take the show in the right direction, it just wasn't far enough in the right direction. They also seem to be weighing it down with their own emotional baggage hence all the "in your face" preaching, dick move showrunners. We all have emotional baggage most of us wouldn't dream of forcing it down other peoples throats. I don't have much hope for the last couple of episodes of this season, but do hope the ingredients, which are all there, fall into place for season 4. The world needs an on form Star Trek right now, and this season hasn't been it.
Star Trek: Discovery: The Sanctuary (2020)
Another Poor Episode
4 is the lowest rating I've given an episode of Discovery. I'm just not finding this season engaging at all. I was hoping the show runners would've taken on board viewers criticisms, but it just doesn't appear to be happening. Nothing of significant interest happens in this episode, other than Stamets and the gender neutral person pin point the starting location of "the burn". Side stories seem forced and shoehorned in. Was nice to see Culber and Detmer getting more screen time and that's about it. The rest of the show played out predictably while looking nice.
Star Trek: Discovery: Unification III (2020)
Above Average Episode
Not a bad episode, most of it revolving around a tribunal simile. As others have mentioned we get Burnham doing emotional monologuing again. The monologuing here actually made sense, it was a court case after all. But the emotional speech would've had much much more impact, if Burnham wasn't giving one, even two per episode. The show runners and writers must cut back on the monologuing, particularly in Burnham's case. Monologuing is defined as something bad for a reason. And crying again at the end, seriously? Criticism here won't have any effect on this season as it's wrapped production. But you never know, season 3 is receiving some of the fiercest criticism since the show started (Klingons!). Maybe they'll take notice and try and turn it into a more traditional Star Trek ensemble show in season four, with away missions and everything?
In this episode, some of the ensemble crew, namely Tilly and Saru are given something to do. Again as others have mentioned, even Stamets and Tilly in the episode, promoting an ensign to 1st Officer makes absolutely no sense! I mean seriously can you imagine ensign Nog being promoted to Kira's position on DS9? Or what about promoting Wesley Crusher to Commander Rikers? Maybe the writers were aware of how ridiculous this was so attempted to mitigate damage to viewers confidence in the show? This side story seems shoehorned in, purely to give other actors something to do. The characters wouldn't have to be shoehorned in, if their characters were being allowed to develop. In chain of command reality, having an unexperienced, even undisciplined at times ensign as 1st officer would create more problems than it solved. That is experienced qualified officers being told what to do, by someone who wouldn't have a clue what they're on about! Come to think of it though, maybe some of the more junior members of the Discovery production team could do a better job than the current senior staff. Maybe life should imitate art here? I can think of two crew members off the top of my head who would make better 1st officers than Tilly, Stamets (Lieutenant Commander) and Reno (a Commander no less! Perfect!). I also have Vulcan logic issues with Burnham declaring she's the Daughter of Sarek and Amanda, then her actual Mum turns up. If Burnham was even a fraction as logical as a Vulcan she would declare her Vulcan family as her adoptive family, to avoid confusion.
Finishing off I repeat my demands for season 4, we've stuck with this for 3 seasons now, make Discovery a more traditional Star Trek ensemble show, giving the ensemble crew their own distinct identities and backstories please. Probably the most liked character in Discovery is Saru, why? Because we know his backstory and his actions and behaviour more or less make sense, minus promoting an ensign into a position she shouldn't be capable of filling, or she would already be a lieutenant not an ensign. If one of the major criticisms of the show is the character the show is supposed to be about makes no sense and isn't gelling with most of the fanbase, i.e. Burnham, you know you have serious problems.
Star Trek: Discovery: Die Trying (2020)
A Vast Improvement on the Previous Episode
We actually get a standard Trek away mission in this episode, and the story is moved forward after reaching the Federation (did it really take 5 episodes to get here?). However where the overall story arc is going is anyone's guess, the ending of this episode is a bit of a cliff hanger really. In Trek canon we know humans in the 29th century can time travel, the Admiral in this episode even mentions it, but the crew of the Discovery aren't even going to try and return home, not even think about it or discuss it? Seems unlikely. Kirk and Spock managed to travel back in time twice off their own backs! To totally ignore that would be a bit of a joke. Canonical problems aside, the only bit of this episode which was cringe inducing was Burnham's overly emotional monologuing..... again. It also makes no sense all the federations subspace transceivers would suddenly break, and even if they did, all they'd have to do is drop new ones whenever they went anywhere. If dilithium is in such short supply, it's not as if anyone is going to waste it taking out subspace transceivers. Also blinking breaks holograms, seriously? Who thought that one up?
Star Trek: Discovery: Forget Me Not (2020)
Poor, Poor Episode
I had great difficulty paying any attention this episode. The outcome was obvious from the start. If you went from episode 3, missing 4 to 5 you'd still know exactly what was going on, making this a "filler" episode. As others have mentioned, it started out like it was going to be a Dr Culber episode, great stuff let's learn more about the rest of the crew, cement them into our consciousness.... Nope, in steps Burnham again. Are they intentionally trying to make people angry now or what? Because it's working. I think Martin-Green is awesome, but making the show purely about one character, as has been repeatedly pointed out since season 1, is not Star Trek, never has been never will be.
Season 3 of Discovery seems to be making the same mistake Picard did, having entire episodes of exposition which add nothing to the overall story and make for unengaging standalone episodes. Reaching obvious conclusions, which could've been reached in the first 5 minutes of said episode. From the start of this season we knew they were going to find the remnants of the Federation, otherwise the Indian guy wouldn't have been hanging around his space station for God knows how long. On top of that, the burn was like what 60 years ago? A 1000 year old huge intergalactic organisation like the federation is not going to just vanish, depleted dilithium or not. Not to forget they all have intergalactic communications. Which, come to think of it, the Indian guy in the first episode should've been able to pick up. It's a real shame the showrunners haven't taken on board some of the more justifiable criticisms of the fandom. The fans deserve so much more than this show is delivering.
Star Trek: Discovery: People of Earth (2020)
So So Episode
Not sure if it was just me, but nothing particularly eventful seems to happen in this episode. Burnham doesn't try and replace Saru as Captain, which I think we knew was going to happen, would've been quite strange/out of character at this stage if she had. Quite a big deal was made of this but I was just like, whatever. Discovery picks up a signal from Starfleet on Earth, but when they get to Earth turns out the message was fake, and I was again like whatever. Starfleet left Earth, because pirates would've attacked Earth to get their dilithium, even though it looks like Earth has a pretty damn good defence system, whatever. Some pirates had been trying to break through Earth defences but Earths defences were far too good, erm whatever. Discovery does some diplomacy, then leaves Earth to go and look for Starfleet. Basically leaving us in the exact same position as when the episode started, too many whatever's.
Star Trek: Discovery: Far from Home (2020)
Much Better Than Part 1
Here we have an ensemble episode, this is how Star Trek works best. After the disappointing first episode with no star ship or crew, we're back in more familiar Star Trek territory. The canon problem of dilithium powering star ships is also sadly present in this episode. When Tilly says, "They have star ships that travel at warp but no dilithium, I don't understand!" I groaned. This is not Mary Wiseman's fault (who I think is great), but the scriptwriters. How did Tilly manage to graduate Star Fleet Academy, in engineering no less, and not be aware some alien star ships power themselves without dilithium, or that Zephram Cochrane no less carried out the first Human warp flight with no dilithium? You would've thought studying Cochrane's warp engine would be Star Fleet engineering 101.
Also having Burnham turn up at the last minute to save the day.... again! Really?
Star Trek: Discovery: That Hope Is You, Part 1 (2020)
Star Trek Universe Inconsistencies.. Leading to an Average Episode.
Like many others, I've been waiting for season 3 of Discovery to start. I was eager to know what was going to happen after the end of season 2. And I have to say this first episode is underwhelming. Now I am a fan of Discovery, and even in its missteps I've defended it. I do not agree with the haters who keep rating it 1, calling for it to be cancelled, yet bizarrely keep watching and commenting on how bad it is on here. I mean I was expecting this first episode of the new season to be a bit different after events at the end of season 2, but I was at least expecting Star Trek..... This wasn't Star Trek at all. No star ship, no ensemble crew and Trekkies know dilithium isn't the only way to power star ships.
I'm not going to say the episode was terrible, it wasn't. It was obviously the first chapter of a much longer story. But the fact it was so far removed from regular Trek was a little disconcerting, particularly after all the criticism in this area. Obviously the crew of the Discovery are alive and well, and Burnham is going to find them. Not having them in the first episode does not add any tension or anything to the story arc. I imagine most viewers were like me, wondering where they are, what they're up to and when are we going to get to see them. Burnham's story feels like filler here just putting off the inevitable reunion. As far as I know this season has finished production, so I just hope they skew back to the more ensemble focused stories of season two. If not, this could be a long, long season....
Star Trek: Picard: Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2 (2020)
Great Finale to an Average Season Overall
This final episode was the most "traditional" Star Trek of the season. I have no idea what the haters are complaining about other than they're stuck in a culture of hate. At times I almost felt I was watching Star Trek 11 (discounting the reboot movies). The reason I say the season overall was average, is because it was far too slow at times. Entire episodes could have achieved their aim in 5 minutes. I'm looking forward to season 2, where hopefully they'll have taken on board the meandering storyline issue criticism.
Star Trek: Picard: Broken Pieces (2020)
Two Great Star Trek Episodes in a Row
So I've just scanned the haters reviews and am again compelled to write a review of my own.
Gore is nothing new to the Star Trek universe nor is bad language. I was watching Voyager - Unimatrix One the other day, and the Borg Queen was over seeing implants being removed from ex drones severed heads, made me chuckle. Also, in response to another review, what difference does in make if Borg drones can survive in space? All that mattered was they were off the cube.
This episode begins the road to the seasons climax, where many of the questions established earlier are more fully answered. I don't want to include spoilers so will leave that there. 7 of 9 is back with a more prominent role, which is fantastic, we get some classic 7 of 9 action here, awesome. Please make 7 a regular crew member in the next season. Rios and Raffi both represented themselves admirably. We even get glimpses of pre breakdown TNG Picard! Maybe he's finally on the road to recovery? The episode picks up the pace with not so many seemingly pointless exposition heavy filler scenes, which I'm personally grateful for. Earlier episodes were too slow to achieve the aim of said episode. Looking forward to the climatic season finale.
Star Trek: Picard: The Impossible Box (2020)
Not My Favourite Episode So Far
Too much exposition in this one. Although it's balanced out by plot reveals.
Star Trek: Picard: Stardust City Rag (2020)
Prefered it to the last filler episode.
Looks like the haters who've never commented on a show other than Picard are back again.... I preferred the faster pace of this episode and it was great to see 7 of 9 back in action. I don't feel any of the extreme negative reviews here have any merit. The first scene in First Contact, one of the more acclaimed and successful movies in the franchise was Picard getting a drill in his eye. What about the infamous ear worm scene in Wrath of Khan? Short memories some people. Oh and let's not forget highly acclaimed episodes of the effects of torture.
Star Trek: Picard: The End Is the Beginning (2020)
Great Episode
I've no idea what detractors are on about. There was virtually nothing to complain about in this episode. The pacing was good, the 45 minutes flew by. They gave Rafi and Picard a basic backstory and the return of a familiar face. The final scene where the crew set off on their journey was awesome. Some people have just got to hate.... Who needs that toxicity in their life?
Star Trek: Picard (2020)
Good But Not Perfect
Having just finished the first episode I can say that I enjoyed it. There were no wtf? Moments as occurred with the first episode of Discovery. It was great to see Patrick Stewart return to the role of Jean Luc Picard. The first show basically introduces the characters and sets the scene for what will effectively be a 10 hour movie. There is nothing especially revelatory going on, other than explaining Picard is not the man he was due to a series of tragic events starting with the loss of his good friend Data. I notice some saying this isn't the same Picard we were used to seeing on TNG. Well obviously not, 20 years have passed and life has taken its toll on the character. That's actual reality! What did these people want a rehash of their favourite TNG episodes? Well I can categorically state most of us Trekkies absolutely did not want that. There's also absolutely no politics in this first episode, other than a reference that Picard makes to the Federation failing. How it's failed I'm sure will transpire in future episodes. So you can take all the reviews here about it being anti Trump and Brexit at this stage as complete made up nonsense. Just as Discovery I'm looking forward to seeing how this show plays out.
Continuation 16/2/2020 - I've just come back to check what other people are saying about the show and there's loads of negative reviews. I checked about 50 of these negative ones and surprise surprise about 50% of them have only ever made one review. Again IMDB needs to recognise there's a disparity in a show being rated 8.4 and loads of "dodgy" negative reviews.
Jacob's Ladder (2019)
They Didn't Understand the Original
The original Jacobs Ladder is based around a bad trip. Not Ice Cubes road trip but the kind they were warning people about at Woodstock. This also fit's the originals narrative that the characters in the movie were all Vietnam veterans, who all likely took acid in Vietnam, and were suffering flashbacks to the trauma they experienced.
Anyone who's had a "bad trip" recognised this in the original. Who ever produced the remake clearly had no concept. Tim Robins character in the first movie was an everyman, a postal worker with no kids struggling to make ends meet. This made the character relatable, for the movie to work the viewer had to be able to empathize.
In this remake they've made the lead a married surgeon with child who worked in Iraq. Firstly why would a surgeon who never saw combat be suffering from PTSD? Secondly a surgeon is not an everyman most people can relate too. They earn too much money.
This is comparable to the original in name only.
D-Railed (2018)
Not Good
The acting was okay, music okay, plot not bad. But they clearly did not have enough money to pull off their ambition. This sadly makes the film laughable. How does a train car float? How did the passengers on said train know the drivers were dead? They were stuck in a house for 1 minute yet were acting like they'd been there for days! Why did no one mention calling the authorities for help? Why, why, why..........
Red Dead Redemption II (2018)
Not as Good as Some are Claiming.
I've played a lot of action RPG's most notable being every GTA since GTA 3, Fallout 3 to 4, Elder Scrolls 4 & 5, Witcher 1,2 & 3, every Assassins Creed title, all Mass Effects, etc. As well as many lesser known titles. Now I wasn't a massive fan of Red Dead 1 or Undead Nightmare, so I wasn't buying into the hype surrounding this game that many people had been waiting years for. I noticed some reviews on release about how sparse and slow the game was. But official reviews can be biased so I waited to see what my friends thought of it. What surprised me was after being so excited to get it, how quiet they went after a few days of playing it. Some even silently shelved the game. So when I finally got it I was expecting something different that wasn't many peoples cup of tea.
Let me start by saying this isn't a straight forward open world RPG. The world maybe open and quite big but the missions could all mainly be played on a rails system. That is you don't need a sand box environment to complete the missions. The side missions are also pretty lame. They're mainly fishing, playing poker, hunting, very similar to Far Cry 5. I didn't enjoy them there so no surprise I don't enjoy them here. The conversations you can have with every NPC are extremely badly designed and 95% of the time involve three questions and answers. You soon work out they're mainly pointless. Which leads to the cutscenes and travelling to missions. Both the cutscenes and travel times are longer than the actual missions themselves. The conversations you have with riding partners as you travel to your mission destination are infuriatingly tedious. To the point I heard one gamer saying it made him feel sick thinking about them.
The world itself while authentically rendered is no artistic achievement. Where as landscapes in Skyrim, Far Cry 4/5. Kingdom Come Deliverance are beautiful to look at and there are many nooks and crannies to investigate, Red Dead 2 is mainly a flat world where once you have seen one river/bog/field you have seen them all. The controls are also extremely odd. I find having to use RB to stop my horse really frustrating as I keep forgetting which trigger it is.
Due to all the overly enthusiastic reviews here I decided to give a more critical review that may balance out opinions and give someone thinking of investing in this game more realistic expectations.
Legends of Tomorrow: Séance and Sensibility (2019)
Big Fan of the Show But This One Backfired.
So they go back to Jane Austens time. She lived in industrial Britain where the valleys, towns and villages were full of smoked stained buildings, choking smog and misery and the hill tops were barren moorland and mud. Okay so it wasn't that bad but..... Then the singing, why? I don't get it. The threesome thing was just eurgh. More suited to a full on "adult" movie. The series has been okay so far minus the Mexican wrestling werewolf side story. I hope it picks up next episode.