• I thought the season started slow. I was spoiled on the Michael reveal as it was in the trailer but I did like that they figured it out faster than any other show would. I mean Chloe is a detective, she should be good at figuring stuff out yano. I have issues with Michael that I'll get to.

• Maze yet again working for Michael annoyed me, k Lucifer left you and because of that you're going to hurt your friend Chloe... was disappointed in her doing that but par for the course with Maze at this point (oh boy I have things to say about Maze). She apologized and backed out but the fact she did it was lame at year 5.

• I like that they introduced Michael's ability of fear but, they never really did anything really good with it. A character in charmed was notorious for this power and used it far better to mess with people than Michael did. He just came off as really non-threatening esp with the american accent. IMO British accents sound better evil than american if that makes sense. He also just disappeared for episodes at a time and I often forgot about his existence until Dan got the call.

• I like what they did with Dan this season, almost at the point of getting along with Lucifer and I liked it a lot (I don't like Dan as a character so this was nice) BUT they screwed it all up. When Dan found out about Lucifer's identity it was a great moment, that was kinda just dropped. It didn't show him processing that information and instead focused on the case of the week. All we got with him was him at a grave freaking out (best scene for him tbh but I wasn't connected because I didn't see how he got there). Then he shoots Lucifer and it's like ok cos that's gonna do so much. I'm not dumb, I knew he'd be fine. and the next time we see him again is Maze bringing him in from a bar, still don't see him processing any of this. It was really a missed opportunity to drop that for case of the week garbage (soz not rly a fan of the crime solving stuff, I watch for the plot)

• I hated the black and white episode, I like that it connected Maze with her mother but my god, all the characters just seemed to be trying too hard and cliche and I never fell so deeply for the performances to believe they were anything other than cosplaying. Also why did they bring Charlotte in for that episode. so fucking random??? was it just for queer bait? probs.

• Whisper Killer. From the moment I saw this guy I giggled under my breath and thought, he's probs a bad guy and Ella will turn him down but then go out with him only to find out he was a bad guy all along. Oh boy was I right. All through the last 2 episodes, the person I was watching with (I watched it with someone) was going on and on about him being evil and I was like god i just want them to prove us wrong. They didn't. It was such an obvious thing for both of us that we just hoped, but nope. he was a bad guy. Why? Because twist that's why! He started dating her to keep her off his scent? BUT THEY WERENT EVEN ON THAT CASE YET?! He gave her his keys to his place... WHY??????? 

• I'm not a serial killer, but if I were do you think the wisest decision is to give someone a key to the place that has all my incriminating evidence? NO WHAT THE HELL. He even had his 'files' next to the secret room hole. IT WAS ALL SUPER FUCKING CONVENIENT like why would any serial killer do this.

• The baby stuff seemed eh a bit boring. I liked what they did with Linda and the child she abandoned, but I feel like this would have come up last season when she got pregnant and so it seemed written in just for this season. I hope they do more with that story but other than that, charlie baby boring stuff.

• I think that really just leaves Maze to talk about. 

• I feel like the idea of getting a soul for her is a good one. But the issue I have is that they've never established on this show what having a soul means. She clearly has emotions and connects with people having friends and such but why does she need a soul to find real love? They never state what a soul means and so I don't understand why she needs one. I love Maze, but fuck does she make some terrible decisions every single season. She's always manipulated to fight Lucifer and at this point we are 5 seasons in. Can we get something new for her? some actual character development for someone that needs it? I mean Michael literally kidnapped Chloe, and what do you do... you take his side against Lucifer? This guy just kidnapped your best friend. The weird part is the fight seemed like it was about Michael V Amenadiel so WHY WOULD MAZE TAKE MICHAELS SIDE OVER AMENADIEL WHO HAS BEEN NOTHING BUT SWEET TO HER??? I mean one of the knives almost hits an innocent officer and that's just ok for her. I just feel like it's the same thing with Maze, plot needs her here and then they have her do that. It's just disappointing for a character I really like, to just continue making the same decisions. 

• God reveal was not a surprise to me. I was spoiled on the casting of God a year ago now and I figured with the title called Spoiler alert that he would show up. Funny part about it is... God shows up NOW because his children are fighting... ok but Lucifer killed one of his siblings before and God didn't show up then lol.

• Chloe and Lucifers sex scene was very anticlimactic for me as 5 seasons of build up & ya

Overall I feel like it was MEDIOCRE and at times... a bit boring. OH AND ONE MORE THING. I feel like Lucifer being in hell... wasn't really that big of a cleanup. Like no consequences or anything. It was just sweeped under the rug and he's ok to be out again... idk it was a huge cliffhanger for no reason

5/10!

Episode 1 (I am classing these as episodes 1-8 as its confusing otherwise) Started out alright. I re read my thoughts from 5a that I had and it was interesting to remember as I forgot half of what happened lol. I think Lucifer refusing to say I love you to Chloe is really fucking stale. We are on season 5 we are done with the angst at this point. I did like the family dinner though. Linda was a highlight.

Episode 2 started and I had an uneasy thought. I had heard there would be a musical episode and was in the middle of looking up what episode it would be to prepare and the singing begun lol  It feels really random and out of place. They just had a really anticlimactic tension high episode and its followed by a musical. Weird decision. The balls of Chloe telling God off was fucking great. The police song is great but ruined by that random lady. Why couldn't it have just been Lucy singing. The woman was horrible. Dan meeting God was funny. Cringe but in a good way. Maze and Ella song doesn't mesh well they're two different tempos. Dan was a highlight freaking out about sleeping with gods wife. This musical episode makes no sense and the songs are bizarre, they don't seem character centric more spectacle. None of the songs were original and all the songs to me seemed meh. This is by far the worst musical episode I've seen so far honestly. It would be okay if this was gods unintentional power, like everyone be comes into contact with sings, but it seems singled out only to this one episode so it just seems bizarre. It would be annoying if it was all the time but it just seems inconsistent idk its weird.

I think my notes get messy from here God exploded Dan??? And put him back together what the fuck

• God is really dumb. Really naive made me think he was a child

• Amenadiel calls maze a murderous backstabbing bitch right after hearing her say she'd like to kill God and then agrees to allow her to come up and say no hard feelings to him while he's passed out. Amendiel you are fucking dumb what the hell

• Human god plot went nowhere

• The weird episode Dans friend obviously set him up. I wrote that at the start of the episode and I was right. Obvious af lol as if Dan wouldn't smell the dead head in a box

• This episode was not okay. What they did to Dan was wrong. Hes halfway to a mental breakdown and they did this to him. Made him think he got a bunch of people killed.

• This episode was just off the rails...this is fucking stupid. I get that it was meant as a revenge plot/joke, but my God the man thought he was dying and thought everyone was killing each other around him. This is by far the worst thing Lucifer has done to date and for Dan to be okay with it at the end makes 0 sense. I would have some fucking ptsd

• Cant tell if this is two episodes worth of notes or not lol I knew eve would be back tho as I saw in the trailer that eve and maze kiss.

• It seems like its always the partner in this now. Each episode almost.

• The episode with Linda meeting her daughter and covering for her was by far the best episode so far.

• When Lucifer said he couldn't be god my instant response was "supernatural did it first" lol Funny thing The aquarium lady was speaking about someone dying and the person I binge this with said "have you tried arresting their partner?" Since its been them each time lol

• Guy tried to use a samurai sword to fight Lucy??? If he was not invulnerable that would kill him what

• They always seem to confess on the spot. They never go to court or anything its weird

• God made the decision in 5 seconds what also their mother has her own universe? What

• Oh lookie lookie Michael wants to be god. I am not even slightly surprised.

• Second last episode /minor supernatural spoilers They were playing unstable unicorns incorrectly.

• She had two baby unicorns.

• Trixie said you can only throw rainbow lasso if shes in your stable at the beginning of your turn.

• Firstly, rainbow lasso is not a unicorn and its an upgrade card and it was in his hand at the beginning of his turn. Not that it matters anyway since the card text says it needs to be in your stable not your hand.

• She appeared to pick up a baby unicorn from the nursery and put it into her stable when her turn started which I mean can be a win if she had a card that allowed that at the beginning of her turn but she still only had 2 baby unicorns in her stable from what I could see. 

• Also it hurts me as a card game player that she's bent the cards so much

• I don't like that maze almost killed God to get a soul and now that she "has one" she wants it to die? Figure out what you want woman also what the fuck are you wearing maze

• Omg supernatural crossover! Chuck is in this one, does this mean its just a prequel to spn???? Fan theories!!!

• Dan black widowed out of that chair pretty smoothly.

• When they treated Dan getting abducted like that I kinda figured he'd be shot dead

• I just realized this is like the first real death in the show

• Yikes at Trixie trying so hard to act.

• Gotta be honest don't remember Amendiel putting his necklace on anyone what

• Figured Dan would be in hell. They should be able to get him out since Amenadiel flew Charlotte there.

• I think Dan was definitely a highlight this season. They really put effort into his character for once and I actually cared about him when previously I hated him.

• Genuinely decent episode.

• Found it kinda funny that he hasn't interacted with Trixie all season til this episode and its the episode he died in.

• And last episode Maze breaking down over dans death was sad to see

• What is Michael wearing hahhaha!

• Hahaha even Lucy made fun of it.

• Sad Remi died i liked her.

• Wtf was up with the start of the episode with the prison bus? Oh the demons!!!

• I knew Zackiel would turn. He seemed to listen last episode

• Are they seriously gardians of the galaxying Michael

• The person I was watching with guessed that the blade as melted down into bullets

• The ring he mentions... could he not have put that on Chloe while she was dying

• Decent finale. Liked that Lucy became God but it was predictable. This second half was better than the first half for sure. I'm glad that Lucy seems to be done with the angst between Dekkerstar until next season tho am I right?

• I wont lie the fight was decent. Better than another Michael/Lucifer fight I've seen.

6/10!

I decided to give it a go and have it on in the background, I have some things to talk about in regards to the series but keep in mind, I was paying half my attention elsewhere as well.

Ellen was a series that began in 1994 and ran for 108 episodes ending in 1998 about Ellen and her friends around her.

*SPOILERS FOR THE SHOW*

The pilot began and it was very strange as it didn't feel like a pilot as nothing really changed at the beginning of the show to signify a beginning, instead it just started the series as though it was in the middle of a season or something which was alright, we don't need a pilot episode for every show. 

The show had Maggie Wheeler in it!!! JANICE FROM FRIENDS, I loved it!! Her characters name was Anita and there was a ginger named Holly that was also Ellens friend in the first season, Ellen also had a male roommate named Adam and I felt like the dynamic between them all was great. I guess I was wrong? Because the producers felt differently. 

The beginning of the second season they just completely replaced both Holly and Anita with two different characters entirely and I don't think it's ever even mentioned. For the rest of the show we get Paige and Audrey and oh my god were they infuriating. Audrey had a really nail piercing chalk scratching annoying voice and Paige was just unbelievably unlikable with no morals whatsoever. I have no idea why they decided to replace the two better characters but I guess this is what we get. Eventually Adam gets replaced as well but he's written out of the show at least in a way that acknowledges him which is nice I guess and we get Spence, Ellen's cousin? I don't really have much to say about him because I just didn't care. 

Now to talk about Ellen herself. She's a bookstore owner and rambles a lot. I'm in 2021 watching this and I grew up knowing that Ellen had come out on TV as gay and my whole life I've just known she's as such so it was absolutely jarring when the series began and she was in straight relationships. It took me a minute to realize she's playing a character in a TV show as it just felt weird having her be hetero. Anyway, she had multiple relationships over the series one of which was heating up quite heavily and then all of a sudden, that just disappeared as well. 

This show tends to do that which I find hard to care about anything in a show when something I care about just disappears ya know? I think it was season 3 or 4 where Ellen is just completely single not even trying to date when I started to realize okay she's gonna come out soon...  It wasn't until nearly the end of season 4 that she came out and from there onward that was all the show could talk about. Which is fine I guess, I just feel like when a show revolves around one topic... especially when it's a topic that's talked about better in this day and age, it just feels like a slog to get through. She comes out in one episode, the next episode she tells her parents and they don't approve but by the end they do and that was compelling to see, then the next episode her homophobic boss doesn't accept her and that never gets resolved which was important to see as not everybody will accept you as an LGBTQ+ member and that's just awful and sadly reality.  

I think if they had done the final season (season 5) the way they'd done the rest of the seasons it would have been fine but from then onward it's all about the fact that Ellen is gay. She lost her identity as a character and her only traits are that she rambles and she's gay. It was just disappointing to see. 5x01 - She tells an old friend she's gay and deals with some attraction to him. 5x02 - Ellen goes after her attractive spin class instructor. 5x03 - Ellen looks into a new roommate which she thinks means they're also gay. This is just 3 episodes in a row that I've talked about here and it goes on and on. 

Nothing about this show means anything in its final season and it's probably why it didn't continue on any longer. I don't know.  Don't get me wrong these are all important topics, especially at the time of the series airing, it just feels like the show had devolved into a show about a gay character rather than a show with friends hanging out and there happening to be a gay character. I hope that makes sense.

All and all, kinda disappointing but I wasn't expecting much. 

3/10!

I found the story to begin a little slow but it didn't disappoint. I wasn't a fan of Amber, honestly she came across kinda moody and unlikable. Much preferred Atom Eve (Samantha). The new guardians of the globe were kinda shit in comparison to the Justice League rip off ones and it was nice to see a hero struggling to be the best rather than just being the best immediately. I couldn't believe how many voice actors I recognized, guys... ZACHARY QUINTO WAS IN THIS.... SYLAR FROM HEROES MY GUYS. AND AND AND EZRA MILLER FOR LIKE A ONE OFF VOICE ROLE and of course J. Jonah Jameson as Omni-Man Like this was great. I only wish that after Robot was turned into a boy, that his voice was still Sylar. I found the Clones quite good villains, quite likable honestly... more than Amber at least. I liked the mystery behind why Omni-Man killed the guardians of the globe, I didn't actually expect it. I thought it was because he lost his soul due to his son getting powers or something. (I clearly watch too much TV lol). The pop songs during the show were a bit jarring if im honest but I got use to it. Anyone know why Atom Eve's costume is like the way it is? I am curious. 

I gotta say I'm excited to see what's planned for the next 2 seasons... yup it was renewed for 2 seasons!

9/10!

The movie was okay. It took me far too long to realize the kid at the start of the movie was Natasha. I thought it was a boy... In my defense, the my windscreen was constantly blurry. I don't like that they X-Men Origins: Wolverine'd the intro sequence to the movie. In which they montage'd over the shit we wanted to see in a Black Widow film. I liked the banter between Yelena and Natasha, that felt real to me. I think some of the stunts were a bit over the top and should have killed Natasha but didn't. A Widow looks like shes paralyzed from the same fall that Nat has (Nat fell arguably worse as she hit things on the way down but was fine). Is she inhunman now? I liked Yelena, I thought Taskmaster was incredibly underutilized and Red Guardian even more so. They set up a fight between Red Guardian and Taskmaster and we never got to see it??? (idk maybe I went to the bathroom when it happened). Red Guardian felt like a joke of a character and I gotta ask why? Are men now a joke in film today? Just something to ponder. The action sequence at the end with the red room in the sky was boring (why was it in the sky? how is that hard to see???). No stakes because we know whats going to happen, no consequences to Nat breaking her nose. I think it's a cop out for the other Widows to be mind controlled, takes away from their actions. I think this movie is a too little too late. Idk maybe I'll like it better on a second viewing but it was hard to watch while the car was really cold inside and maybe that added to the criticism I had. 

5/10!

When I started the movie and the singing began I was a bit eh about it. I'm not huge on musicals, but they can get me excited. I went to see Into the woods and hated the experience due to the amount of singing in that and would you have it, James Corden was in that as well. I will say though, a few songs in and when Camila began singing I was hooked. I've never really listened to her music before but I was impressed by her vocal range. When she sings at the beginning of the movie, I noticed she was lip syncing quite badly but it seems this only occurred in the one song because the rest she sang really well and I believed all of the actors were singing their songs and it wasn't ADR even though it kinda was. 

The Prince when he started to sing "Somebody to love" I was like, of course they had this song in it. It just felt very obvious but I'd never seen this actor before and his vocals were lovely, it was at this point in the film where I realized I was having a good time and decided to write notes. Side note, the actress playing his mother was in Ella Enchanted which was another re-telling of Cinderella and even more coincidental, they sang "Somebody to love" in that film as well. Weird right? I liked the gag where Cinderella was on the statue and the Prince was enamoured with her from that awkward moment. I love awkward characters, I am awkward, I RELATE. I also noticed the dancing in the song was super goofy but I liked it. The idea for the Prince to have a sister that would be the motivation for him becoming king is an interesting choice, the first of many changes they made that I found quite refreshing. The Prince has definitely been given more personality here which is great because typically the Prince in Cinderella is a bit bland.

I was disappointed in Material Girl being Idina Menzel's song. I hate that song in general and to have one of the best singers sing it and I still don't like it, well I wish it was another song for the fabulous Idina. It made sense to her character but I just hate the song. 

I like that Cinderella wants to be a dress maker, kinda makes sense to be honest. The banter between Cinderella and the Prince was sweet and adorable, I could definitely see the chemistry there. I'd have loved to see more. I like that she didn't want to go to the ball just to find love, that it was for another reason as well. I noticed that she drew the same dress idea several times and scrapped it all. The fact that the step-mother promised her to somebody else was a clever way to get her out of the way and to keep her from going to the ball, I liked it. 

The Caterpillar being the fairy Godmother was a bit odd. They decided to make the fairy Godmother a male, or would they identify as a female since mother usually means female? Sorry. I'm a little unclear about this, it was an interesting decision that I don't think affects the movie in a negative way, I guess it displays that anyone can be magical. It was a nice message nonetheless. Apologies if the talk of pronouns have upset anyone reading this, I was just unsure how to tackle talking about the subject. I am still learning. I think to be safe, I'll use the pronoun they/their, the fairy Godmother uses their magic to put Cinderella in a pant suit which made me giggle but there was so little magic used in that moment that I thought they were cheaping out in this scene and I was disappointed due to this being the big epic transformation scene but they didn't. They did some magic with the petals and made it look epic as hell and I loved it. Side note though, the poster she has a purple dress but the dress in the film was white? Weird choice. I liked the issue with the glass slippers being uncomfortable, using magic to make them better was a nice touch. I find it odd that the fairy Godmother made the Prince be able to recognize her, I mean story wise it made sense as he talked of introducing her to people that she could make dresses for (which he doesn't do by the way) but the idea of the clock strikes midnight and running away for him to find her doesn't make a whole lot of sense if he just recognizes her from the get go. idk weird choice.

The step-mother sucking up to Cinderella was fun to watch, the mice interacting with each other as humans - them talking about how to relieve themseleves and talking to the horse was overall very funny. I really liked Cinderella trying to explain that she made the dress she was wearing as it was extremely relatable to me. If you know me at all you know I stumble over words A LOT. It was super awkward when the Prince was talking about how he had his eye on someone that wasn't even there to ALL the girls wanting his affection. Also, I couldn't help but notice the bald black I'm assuming princess that was part of the dance around the prince and his friends. My eye kept going to her, she seems to have stood out compared to the rest of them. I kinda liked it. Pick her! 

When Cinderella finds out that the Prince was the man she met on the street and he shows her that hes acknowledging not only his sister, but Cinderellas wonderful dress design, I honestly loved it. It was genuinely very sweet, the Princess was wearing one of her dresses. I was wondering what he'd do with the dress, it didn't even occur to me that it was for his sister. The fact that Cinderella had a choice between her dream and the Prince was very different, I'm not sure how I feel about it to be honest. The Prince helping her escape was strange because if her dress disappeared then he'd see the girl he'd met in the town which he already knew was her so it was weird that she was even trying to run away at the strike of midnight. I mean it would have made more sense if the step family was coming home at that time as well but that wasn't the case. This whole part didn't work for me. 

I like that the step-mother had a talk with Cinderella about dreams and how hers caused her to lose her husband. When she finds out that it was Cinderella that was at the girl at the ball she actually tells her to become Queen which was VERY different. Advocating her to become the Queen rather than keeping her away from it, I mean it was for her own selfishness, to have wealth and such but still VERY different. 

The Kings turnaround on the arranged marriage situation was needed and it was cute that he was serenading his wife at the end which BY THE WAY QUEEN CAN SING. Why didn't she sing earlier!? The Prince deciding to follow Cinderella on her dreams of being a dress maker rather than becoming King and allowing his sister to take his place on the throne was also very different. She had some interesting ideas and could potentially make a good ruler, very progressive and I can see people probably taking issue with this but I dunno, it worked for me.

Overall, I enjoyed it a lot more than I expected to. I might even watch it again, but I definitely will be listening to most of the songs on Spotify when getting ready for tomorrows recordings.

7/10!