Top 10 2019 Series and Season Finales

Series Finales:
1. The Man in the High Castle

2. Watchmen

3. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

4. The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

5. The Tick

6. A Series of Unfortunate Events

7. Chernobyl

8. Santa Clarita Diet

9. Runaways

10. Jessica Jones

Honorable Mentions:

I Am the Night

Ballers

The Movies

Fosse/Verdon

Dragon Ball Super

Gotham

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Swamp Thing

Milo Murphy's Law

Killjoys

The Amazing World of Gumball

Legion

Preacher

Insatiable

The Big Bang Theory

Designated Survivor

We Bare Bears

iZombie

The Punisher

The Lion Guard

Madam Secretary

The Purge

Elementary

Krypton

Happy!

Cloak & Dagger

The OA

Avengers Assemble

The Cool Kids

Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists

Suits

Season Finales:

1. Stranger Things third season finale-Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt

2. The Mandalorian first season finale-Chapter 8: Redemption

3. Infinity Train Book One: The Perennial Child finale-The Engine

4. 9-1-1 second season finale-This Life We Choose

5. Good Omens first season finale-The Very Last Day of the Rest of Their Lives

6. American Horror Story: 1984 finale-Final Girl

7. Brooklyn Nine-Nine sixth season finale-Suicide Squad

8. Supergirl fourth season finale-The Quest for Peace

9. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. sixth season finale-New Life

10. The Terror: Infamy finale-Into the Afterlife

Honorable Mentions:

Jack Ryan second season finale-Strongman

How to Get Away with Murder fifth season finale-Please Say No One Else Is Dead

DuckTales 2017 second season finale-Moonvasion!

Modern Family tenth season finale-A Year of Birthdays

The Good Place third season finale-Pandemonium

The Boys first season finale-You Found Me

The Umbrella Academy first season finale-The White Violin

Will & Grace tenth season finale-Jack's Big Gay Wedding

The Orville second season finale-The Road Not Taken

The Last O.G. second season finale-Fight the Power

Future Man second season finale-Ultra-Max

Lost in Space 2018 finale-Ninety-Seven

Manifest first season finale-Estimated Time of Departure

What We Do in the Shadows first season finale-Ancestry

NCIS sixteenth season finale-Daughters

Supernatural fourteenth season finale-Moriah

Blue Bloods ninth season finale-Something Blue

The Walking Dead ninth season finale-The Storm

Black Lightning second season finale-The Book of Apocalypse: Chapter Two: The Omega

Lucifer fourth season finale-Who's da New King of Hell?

Young Sheldon second season finale-A Swedish Science Thing and the Equation for Toast

13 Reasons Why third season finale-Let the Dead Bury the Dead

Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure second season finale-Destinies Collide 

Big Mouth third season finale-Super Mouth

Mom sixth season finale-Crazy Hair and a Teeny Tiny Part of Canada

Miracle Workers first season finale-1 Hour

Fear the Walking Dead fifth season finale-End of the Line

Legends of Tomorrow fourth season finale-Hey, World!

Family Guy seventeenth season finale-Adam West High

The Witcher first season finale-Much More

The Righteous Gemstone first season finale-Better Is The End of a Thing Than Its Beginning

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina first season finale-Chapter Twenty: The Mephisto Waltz

Documentary Now! third season finale-Any Given Saturday Afternoon

Corporate second season finale-The Fall

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee eleventh season finale-Big Lots and BevMo!

Euphoria first season finale-And Salt the Earth Behind You

Talking Dead eighth season finale-End of the Line

The 100 sixth season finale-The Blood of Sanctum

Top 10 New Shows and Season Premieres of 2019

New Shows:
1. What We Do in the Shadows

2. Infinity Train

3. Watchmen

4. The Mandalorian

5. Good Omens

6. Chernobyl

7. Swamp Thing

8. The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

9. The Unicorn

10. A Little Late with Lilly Singh

Honorable Mentions:

The Umbrella Academy

The Righteous Gemstones

Prodigal Son

Fosse/Verdon

Miracle Workers

The Boys

Catch-22

I Am the Night

Creepshow

The Witcher

Living with Yourself

Carmen Sandiego

Catherine the Great

Batwoman

The Act

High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

Sherman's Showcase

Euphoria

Emergence

Good Trouble

Almost Family

Gabby Duran & the Unsittables

The Politician

Alien News Desk

NOS4A2

Season Premieres:

1. Rick and Morty fourth season premiere-Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat

2. The Man in the High Castle fourth season premiere-Hexagram 64

3. Arrow eighth season premiere-Starling City

4. Milo Murphy's Law second season premiere-The Phineas and Ferb Effect

5. The Flash sixth season premiere-Into the Void

6. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel third season premiere-Strike Up the Band

7. Legion third season premiere-Chapter 20

8. NCIS 17th season premiere-Out of the Darkness

9. Gotham fifth season premiere-Year Zero

10. Riverdale fourth season premiere-Chapter Fifty-Eight: In Memoriam

Honorable Mentions:

Stranger Things third season premiere-Chapter One: Suzie, Do You Copy?

The Terror: Infamy premiere-A Sparrow in a Swallow's Nest

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. sixth season premiere-Missing Pieces

Final Space second season premiere-The Toro Regatta

Documentary Now! third season premiere-Bash*t Valley

The Crown third season premiere-Olding

9-1-1 third season premiere-Kids Today

The Tick second season premiere-Lesson One: Think Quick!

Black Lightning third season premiere-The Book of Occupation: Chapter One: Birth of the Blackbird

American Horror Story: 1984 premiere-Camp Redwood

Lucifer fourth season premiere-Everything's Okay

Supergirl fifth season premiere-Event Horizon

Fear the Walking Dead fifth season premiere-Here to Help

The Punisher second season premiere-Roadhouse Blues

Supernatural fifteenth season premiere-Back and to the Future

The Good Place fourth season premiere-A Girl from Arizona (Part 1)

The Purge second season premiere-This Is Not a Test

Future Man second season premiere-Countdown to a Prologue

Jack Ryan second season premiere-Cargo

Jessica Jones third season premiere-A.K.A The Perfect Burger.

Ballers fifth season premiere-Protocol Is for Losers

Krypton second season premiere-Light-Years From Home

The Rookie second season premiere-Impact

Grace and Frankie fifth season premiere-The House

Big Mouth third season premiere-My Furry Valentine

Robot Chicken tenth season premiere-Ginger Hills in: Bursting Pipes

Mindhunter second season premiere-Episode 1

Power Rangers Beast Morphers first season premiere-Beasts Unleashed

Insatiable second season premiere-Pig

Cloak & Dagger second season premiere-Restless Energy

The 100 sixth season premiere-Sanctum

Runaways third season premiere-Smoke and Mirrors

Santa Clarita Diet third season premiere-Wuffenloaf

Killjoys fifth season premiere-Run, Yala, Run

Elementary seventh season premiere-The Further Adventures

Game of Thrones eighth season premiere-Winterfell

Champions (2020-) #1

Tying into the Outlawed storyline, a Civil War-like event mostly focusing on younger Marvel heroes like Kamala Khan's Ms. Marvel and Miles Morales's Spider-Man, Champions (2020-) #1 is interesting jet flawed. After an explosion caused by Viv Vision leads to some destruction and a few people getting injured, including Kamala while she's not wearing her costume, the government instigates a law to keep anyone under 21 from performing heroics without a mentor. Naming the law after Kamala as a way to honor her, it leads to the forming of a new agency known as C.R.A.D.L.E. to enforce it. The story of this issue sees how the young heroes have to deal with this new law during both their civilian and hero life. At school, they're taught about the basics of the new law, while trying to hide from C.R.A.D.L.E. and the police when performing heroic acts. Whether in class or during a secret Champions meeting, some of them argue about how right or wrong the law is. During one of these meetings, C.R.A.D.L.E. agents break in and capture a few of the heroes while others like Miles and Nova are able to escape. Promising to free their friends and continue fighting Kamala's Law, the young heroes are unaware that Viv is alive and the one aiding C.R.A.D.L.E.. Sure a lot of the concept and story to this issue and the following ones are just a copy and paste of the original Civil War, but manages to do it in a much more interesting way. The pacing, even in this one issue, works a whole lot better than the entirety of the main Civil War storyline. Eve L. Ewing is a great writer that manages to bring out really good drama and manages to have better done characters than what Mark Millar attempted to do. The focus on younger heroes who are tired of the mistakes older heroes' actions cause them, while they too deal with their mistakes is a strong aspect to this story. Though some of their reactions to what's going on and how others feel about it could have been toned down just a bit. And while I did say that this was a better told take of heroes needing to register, most of it still relies on what Civil War had done. But the biggest strength is Simone Di Meo's artwork alongside the coloring of Federico Blee that is fresh, detailed, and at times beautiful. Every character in each page they're in are all given the right emotions you expect from them at that moment. Champions (2020-) #1 starts out slow, but does so in a way that really gets you invested in what happens next. Over all: 100%

Top list so far for 3rd set of comics:
1. Free Comic Book Day 2017 I Hate Image

2. Champions (2020-) #1

3. Green Lantern Vol. 2 #76

4. DC Retroactive: Green Lantern - The 70s #1

5. Star Wars: Doctor Aphra (2020-) #1
6. Showcase (1956-1978) #17
7. Free Comic Book Day: Bongo Comics Free For All 2018
8. Free Comic Book Day 2017: Riverdale
9. Marvel Comics (1939) #1

Free Comic Book Day 2017 I Hate Image

My first comic from Image, Free Comic Book Day 2017 I Hate Image is a dark, violent, and humorous story that uses many of the company's well known characters. Gertrude, the main character from I Hate Fairyland by Skottie Young, is a woman in her late 30s but having not physically aged since she was 10 due to being in this fantasy world. After decades of not finding her way home, Gertrude resorts to violent and bloody methods against all the inhabitants of Fairyland until she can go back. This one-off sees Gertrude learning about a new way to bring her home, which has her go into the universes of other Image properties like The Walking Dead, Spawn, and Invincible. Through her wacky and cartoonish ways, she either kills some of the other characters or manages to get them to help her. The end has Gertrude break into the offices of Image and demand the creators, like Robert Kirkman and Todd McFarlane, to help her. When they refuse, though, Gertrude just kills all of them and must continue in her path to find a way home. Even though I wasn't that familiar with the works of Image, especially the series from this comic is from, I'd say this draws me in into wanting to read more from them. Young, being both the writer and artist of this and the entire series, gives such a fun and over the top story that manages to make the excessive violence seem so comical. What especially gives it such a Looney Tunes-esque quality is the coloring by another regular, Jean-Francois Beaulieu. Free Comic Book Day 2017 I Hate Image is not only a well made and hilarious comic, but is a great way to start a series through a story that isn't even canon. Over all: 100%

Top list so far for 3rd set of comics:
1. Free Comic Book Day 2017 I Hate Image

2. Green Lantern Vol. 2 #76

3. DC Retroactive: Green Lantern - The 70s #1

4. Star Wars: Doctor Aphra (2020-) #1
5. Showcase (1956-1978) #17
6. Free Comic Book Day: Bongo Comics Free For All 2018
7. Free Comic Book Day 2017: Riverdale
8. Marvel Comics (1939) #1

Green Lantern Vol. 2 #76

Also subtitled as No Evil Shall Escape My Sight!, Green Lantern Vol. 2 #76 was a bonus comic that came with the Retroactive Green Lantern '70s issue. This is the book that sees the beginning of Green Lantern and Arrow's decade long journey across America tackling social problems. It all begins with Lantern flying through Star City and stops what he believes are street thugs from harassing a helpless old man. After being told off by both onlookers and Green Arrow, Hal learns that the older man was a slumlord who wants the inhabitants of his building to vacate into the streets. After being lambasted by an older black man for not doing anything to those lesser than him, especially colored on Earth, he goes to see the slumlord to intimidate him. After nearly threatening his life, Lantern is summoned by the Guardians of the Universe for abusing his power and have him divert meteors from Saturn's moon. Dissatisfied with this task and knowing Oliver will go after the slumlord, Lantern abandons Saturn and helps Arrow defeat him. Angered for going against their decision, the Guardians would have punished his subordination had Oliver not chastised them for not understanding what it's like to not be perched so high up and the experiences of a normal human being. In turn, the Guardians send one of their own to travel the country with the two green dressed superheroes to better understand humanity. While much of Vol. 2 #76 may seem dated in how it tells its message, one must remember how daring this story was when it was released in April of 1970. Yes, it's a little silly and on the nose to say that Jordan works for blue-skinned aliens and has helped orange and purple-skinned but never came to help the black-skinned on Earth, but it's a message that is as prevalent today as it was back then. Dennis O'Neil's writing is really good, especially in showing the different beliefs of the two heroes despite both wanting the same goals. With Lantern's conservative view of things being done over time and through the system while Arrow's more direct action approach you may think they don't get along as friends, but O'Neil makes it work. Although there are times when in trying to send a message, like Arrow verbally berating the Guardians, that feel like it could have been toned down. The artwork by Neal Adams, combined with Frank Giacoia's inking and Cory Adams's coloring, is breathtaking and manages to help this issue in letting you know how somber and melancholy it can be, but with some sparkle of hope by the end. While a little spotty at times, Green Lantern Vol. 2 #76 is an important moment for DC Comics whose legacy is still as impactful as any other big crossover or event that it has ever had. Over all: 100%

Top list so far for 3rd set of comics:
1. Green Lantern Vol. 2 #76

2. DC Retroactive: Green Lantern - The 70s #1

3. Star Wars: Doctor Aphra (2020-) #1
4. Showcase (1956-1978) #17
5. Free Comic Book Day: Bongo Comics Free For All 2018
6. Free Comic Book Day 2017: Riverdale
7. Marvel Comics (1939) #1

DC Retroactive: Green Lantern - The 70s #1

Part of a series of one-shot titles wherein DC told stories revolving around their biggest characters, like Superman and Batman, wherein they were set during the '70s, '80s, and '90s, DC Retroactive: Green Lantern - The 70s #1 sees a back and forth story between Hal Jordan and Oliver Queen. The issues were told in similar ways to how the characters and their stories would have been done back then, even bringing back some writers and artists who worked on the characters from those times. With this 70s set Green Lantern issue, you have legendary writer Dennis O'Neil telling the story and with art by Mike Grell, both having done work on the iconic Lantern/Arrow comics from that decade. In it, the Green Lantern prevents an alien ship from crashing into Earth while Green Arrow searches for a rogue archer who is hurting anyone who even talks to him. Hal saves the ship and learns that the alien is from the same species as Abin Sur, his ring's previous user, while Oliver figures out that the archer is someone who had attended the same spiritual monastery as he once had. While Hal saved the alien from the ship's destruction and armed soldiers, it had severe wounds from which it could not survive and thus died in a mission of finding a peaceful race. Once Oliver confronts Argy, the rogue archer, he refuses to fight him and finds a way of helping the troubled man. When the two heroes meet each other and catch up on what's happened, Jordan reveals that he put the alien's body in the ship and set it to drift in space while Queen explains Argy's motivation is that he just wanted to be loved. Being set in the '70s and involving both of the green colored heroes, there''re some social issues that their stories addressed much like their team up from that era. The Lantern's story is all about how violence will keep us from attaining peace while Arrow's is the need to help those with mental health issues. O'Neil's writing is spot on at not only telling their separate stories but also the messages they send and how similar they are. My one complaint would be that the Green Lantern story's ending is a little rushed and a little odd, though still gets its message across. The pacing is good and thanks to the editing it knows just when to switch between the two stories without taking you out. The art and coloring by Grell is great, with attention to detail and the right colors to use in its environment. Though for a comic that is supposed to be set and harken back to '70s, you'd at least expect it to look like how it did back then. Regardless, DC Retroactive: Green Lantern - The 70s is a delightful and insightful homage to an important era for both characters. Over all: 100%

Top list so far for 3rd set of comics:
1. DC Retroactive: Green Lantern - The 70s #1

2. Star Wars: Doctor Aphra (2020-) #1
3. Showcase (1956-1978) #17
4. Free Comic Book Day: Bongo Comics Free For All 2018
5. Free Comic Book Day 2017: Riverdale
6. Marvel Comics (1939) #1

The Personal History of David Copperfield

The Personal History of David Copperfield is an adaptation of the classic 1850 novel by Charles Dickens, though it does take some liberties. Cowritten and directed by Armando Iannucci, the film follows the book's plot very well though certain characters are given different choices and outcomes and having a slightly different ending. Dev Patel portrays the older version of the character who narrates much of the story in first person and stars alongside Peter Capaldi, Hugh Laurie, Tilda Swinton, and Ben Whishaw. The casting is unique in that characters like Copperfield are played by actors of color from a novel written in the mid-1800s and never feels like it needs to have a reason. Everyone plays the roles perfectly and never feeling like Iannucci's fast and over the top comedy makes them caricatures. While only being in the film in small parts, Capaldi's performance as Micawber is an excellent and wonderful scene stealer. The writing between Iannucci and Simon Blackwell initially starts out slow, and some of that slowness does occur from time to time, but mostly has a good mixture of surreal comedy, heartened drama, and well done witty satire. You really do get a feel of Victorian England thanks to how great the production design, Zac Nicholson's cinematography, and the direction really are. While I've never seen any of Iannucci's past films, I have seen Avenue 5 and can definitely see a lot of similarities to The Personal History of David Copperfield with his quick comedy and often dark, though quirky, drama. Over all: 91%

2020 top list so far:
1. The Invisible Man 2020
2. The Gentlemen
3. Birds of Prey
4. The Personal History of David Copperfield

5. Onward
6. Tenet

7. The New Mutants

8. Bad Boys for Life
9. The Call of the Wild 2020
10. Sonic the Hedgehog