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Amphibia (2019)
I mean, I guess it's worth it
I think this show truly does lie as more of a 5.5 rating. While I ultimately do enjoy the story focused episodes (I could envision myself giving the show more in the 8/10 category), the non-plot heavy episodes, which make up the vast majority of the show, are excruciatingly bland. Pretty much all of these episodes or characters or really anything done in Amphibia (besides the aesthetic, although I personally don't care much for it) have been done a million times before, and better. Now this would be excusable if they used these basic characters and episodes but had good jokes, but they felt few and far between in Amphibia, certainly not enough to make any individual episode feel "good" in it's own right.
Typically I would be more forgiving with the rating when comparing the "filler" to the story episodes, but in Amphibia's case it removed most of the emotional attachment for me when the story bits came up. I don't feel any tension when it might be Anne and Sprigs last adventure because when I watched those adventures I felt extremely bored.
The saving grace of this show however is that even if most of the episodes were bland and boring, they were never really offensively bad. Amphibia it doesn't really have a deep low, there are no "bad episodes" in this, the lowest it goes is that 5 rating. So keeping that in mind, and that the story segments are an 8 in their own right, I'm giving Amphibia a 6 because ultimately it did have something to offer even if the majority of episodes were boring.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)
Good with a huge asterisk
Before I share my review I want to share a little story. When I was a kid, this show was one of my favorites. For the first three seasons I was there for almost every episode premier. But when I was around 11-12 I stopped watching, at the beginning of season 4. Even for a dumb little kid like me, going into space was too much. Eventually ~7-8 years after I stopped watching I began rating shows I watched and I decided to rewatch it so I could rate it.
Now before season 4, there are definitely still some stinker episodes, bigfoot and dream beavers comes to mind, and there's definitely many filler episodes. But after season 3 there are entire arcs of this show that are just atrocious. The first half of season 4 is dedicated to one of the most basic and borings space arcs I've ever seen. The Triceratons, Lord Dregg, and Armaggon are just such uninteresting antagonists, but the show kept trying to insist on them. And after you finish this horrid space arc you get to realize that it was almost completely pointless. They travel back in time in the first place to prevent the Triceratons from getting the pieces to the blackhole generator, and they fail completely, meaning that when they return to earth to fight them the only 2 differences is that they arrive five minutes early and that April now has this crystal. The entire arc just feels so pointless and it really makes me feel like I could've just skipped to the last episode of it and the rest of the show would still make complete sense. Luckily the rest of season 4 is on par with the rest of the show. Season 5 however takes another dip in quality. The first few episodes are interesting enough but the entire middle part of this season (side from one episode featuring a flashback told by Splinter) is pure filler, and not even entertaining filler at that, although it had a good ending.
Now all that being said, I still overall like this show. The filler before season 4 is mostly funny. This show has some absolutely phenomenal antagonists, especially the ones that work for Shredder. The vast majority of story related episodes are also amazing (except the space arc). If I watched solely the Foot related episodes I could easily imagine myself giving this show a 9/10 or 10/10.
But alas, this show was genuinely grueling to watch towards the end. In season 4 and 5 I was solely watching for completion. In the end I would only recommend this show if you have a lot of free time on your hands, or if your watching for nostalgia like I did.
Better Call Saul (2015)
"It's all good man"
Many people complain about the show being split almost in half by a legal and a crime drama. However given the newest season we can see the payoff of that. If you take them separately in the legal drama you just had a main character get murdered out of nowhere, a character that had absolutely nothing to do with him, however since it shares both it makes sense within the universe, so it doesn't feel like it degrades the show.
Other than that the characters are virtually all absolute masterpieces, certainly the best out there.
Better Call Saul: Plan and Execution (2022)
"I'm just getting started"
I originally created my IMDb account just so I could give this episode a 10. From start to finish its entertaining, at first it hits you with the Legal Drama, an episode reminiscent of Chicanery, then when it gets to the Crime Drama side it hits you with an episode reminiscent of Ozymandias. This episode legitimately had me crying.