Insatiable II - Aug 8

Life cannot be avoided, and while it can be changed, even that is not done easily. The end of the introduction, now onto more pleasant – and unreal – topics.

Firstly, more info about the ‘Insatiable’ series proper. Just like the trailer, the series itself is a bunch of good ideas executed badly, an approach that can, well, backfire onto the original messages; there are some scenes in the episodes that cast a bad light on the entire ‘me too’ movement in real life, (where it already encounters issues not foreseen by its’ makers), for example.

Again, this is no end of the world, ‘Insatiable’ can fix it, if it survives beyond the first season; and if it does not, that is the end of that. Debbie Ryan used to star in Disney shows, so she still got some momentum left, most likely, and will survive that setback too. Whether Netflix and co. can afford it in the increasingly toxic and politic atmosphere of the U.S. society is another matter.

This brings us to MCU, because as we have discussed earlier, it, and especially AoS, had its own share of problems regarding good ideas depicted badly. This time, though, people have pointed out that ABC, aside from AoS, AC and ‘InHumans’ had also fiddled with a TV series called ‘Most Wanted’ that was supposed to star Nick Blood and Adrienne Palicki, aka Hunter and Morse from AoS. But! ‘Most Wanted’ failed on its pilot episode level, so it does not count. It certainly matters – Blood did return to AoS in S5: for a single episode, where his role was almost superfluous and unnecessary on one hand, and for an interview, which was very brief and perfunctory too. There’s clearly some bad blood between AoS (MCU?) and those two actors, something that AoS (and the rest of MCU?) could do without…so it is unlikely that ‘Most Wanted’ will appear on TV, or at least – not as how it was initially planned.

The other possibility is regarding ‘Damage Control’, which was a subsidiary of S.H.I.E.L.D., or something related, that was supposed to fix S.H.I.E.L.D.’s mistakes on a physical, obvious level. There were rumors about a show based on that back in AoS S3, but nothing came out of it, even the rumors died, so it is hard to say just how likely that a show like that will happen.

This brings us to the movies in general. The month of August 2018 brings us such diverse films as ‘The Meg’, which can be called ‘Not Another Fictional Shark Monster Movie’. I do not remember if we have discussed in detail or not why the fictional megalodon does not have much in common with the real life shark that died out during the Miocene-Pliocene epochs, but it is irrelevant; ‘The Meg’ is coming to the movie screens, and everyone sounds excited; couldn’t someone make a sea monster movie starring a good old-fashioned sea serpent instead? Now that would be unusual!

And then there are the ‘Rich Crazy Asians’, yet another movie-version of a novel. It already sounds like an opportunity for Hollywood’s Asian-American actors. Yay! However, the novel itself? It is a soap opera-drama-etc. with only some ethnic Asian flavor; having read it, I found it actually bland; there are some Asian features in the novel, but mostly as decoration; beneath it, ‘Rich Crazy Asians’ is generic, and it showed: the sales of novel and its’ sequels, (again, it is a trilogy), were very low. Maybe the movie will be better; so far, it is anyone’s guess…

Well, this is it for now; see you all soon!