Wednesday

I watched the four new episodes. Okay, my mental health has been a bit poor lately and sometimes I have a hard time liking anything. But, like with much of season one, I found this pretty dull! Jenna Ortega is GREAT, yes, and Emma Myers is super too. Any scene with them together is a pleasure to watch. But everything else? It feesl so half-assed and generic. It has Burton's "style" but none of his style (this made sense in my head) from when he was good. The Harry Potter riff is incredibly weak. There's good actors there: Steve Buscemi! Thandiwe Newton! Even Billie Piper! But they don't seemed be used to the best of their abilities at all. It's just like it's a high budget show so we'll get some big names to be there doing dull stuff. It picks up a little in episode 4 when the plot kicks in, and Fred Armisen as Fester is mildly amusing, but for the most part Iw as pretty bored other than when I was marveling at Jenna. I checked on TrekBBS and they all FUCKING LOVE IT and are having serious discussions about the plot and like I can't even imagine caring that much.

Maybe I'm just too old? I'm middle aged, should I be watching shit like this still? I feel like I'm still too young to start watching CSI or whatever the fuck old people watch.