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The Boys: The Instant White-Hot Wild (2022)
Mostly good but the bad really sticks out
I love this show and think this season has been cool, if a little lacking in overall stakes. This finale was mostly cool in my viewing experience. Good bit of action, well done tension and a final scene that made me extremely hyped to see where they are gonna go next season as there's so many things they could do now. Ryan could be a sociopathic murderer killing anyone who tells him what to do, Billy could go really off the rails with the time he's got left, maybe dig deeper and try to get permanent V or try to become a better person.
My biggest problem is with Black Noir, a character who has pretty much been comic relief for 2 seasons, finally start to get a character, and an interesting one at that, with really cool potential, and they killed him off before any of that was realised. Part of me is in denial and thinks he'll be back next season, that's also the hopeful part of me because as of right now I'm thinking that was a terrible death just done for shock value rather than writing out a story for this character.
I get that this was a small scene in an otherwise pretty good finale, but it's gonna have an effect on the rest of the show's entire run and it really does feel weak and a bad decision.
Boiling Point (2021)
So close to home
As someone who has worked in both a kitchen and behind the bar in several places, and my dad was a head chef until a few years ago, this hit very close to home and was borderline traumatic.
So my dad was head chef in this restaurant for years and I worked alongside him for a few of those. I can confidently say that the job caused a lot of the problems in my family, and it actually caused him to have a heart attack a few years back and forced him into a career change, which has been nothing but beneficial to us all.
When I worked there, there was crying staff almost daily, people quitting because they couldn't take it anymore, constant arguments between servers/FOH and kitchen staff, slack-offs thinking nothing of leaving their workload to other staff members, and customers who didn't care in the slightest about the people in uniform and had little respect for them.
Hospitality and kitchen work is horrible, even when it has it's spots of light, and I've never seen such an incredible portrayal of the job before. All done in one continuous take, It is such a well done, heartbreaking show of one of the hardest industries and I hope it shows some people some of the things they never think about when they go to a restaurant. Please watch this, and take it as a lesson on what the people working these jobs go through, because it's not at all far from the truth.
Ted Lasso: Man City (2021)
Highlight of the season so far
Loved it. My favourite episode of the season, if not the show.