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December TV and movies: go watch Scavengers Reign!! It’s fantastic (and fantastically dark)

I’m trying to review and share the TV / movies I watch every month. November was the month of Blue Eye Samurai (still wow), and December was the month of Scavengers Reign.

Both are anime from Western studios, both are visually stunning, and both have strong plots. Blue Eye Samurai had better character development, and Scavengers Reign had better world building. World building so good I wanted to know every nook and cranny of it and couldn’t stop watching, but also would never wanna live in.

Blue Eye Samurai is more empowering and uplifting, while Scavengers Reign is…dark. Like very dark chocolate, if you know what I mean. I don’t even know what I mean.

In December, I watched:

all of Rick and Morty S7 (quite meh, especially when you’re addicted to early seasons like me)

Blood of Zeus (easy fun binge)

a few episodes of A Murder at the End of the World (because of Clive Owen, though I found the series cheesy and over-acted)

a few eps of Silo (promising, but I’d read part of the book so I already knew the big initial twist)

Recommended TV and movies – November – Peaky Blinders S5, Blue Eye Samurai

Trying to track my media consumption like I track books; sharing a few I thought were exceptional:

Peaky Blinders season 5 – finally caught up on this after hearing relatives were watching it; love everything Cillian Murphy’s in, and though I think Anya Taylor Joy is over-exposed, can’t really blame her generation’s Meryl Streep

Blue Eye Samurai – incredible example of Western anime, already wrote about it

White Boy Rick – thought it would be a McConaughey acting exhibition, but was instead a look at criminal justice innards and a surprising nuanced performance from Richie Merritt

Predators – a regular rewatch, my favorite in the Predator series, and a stacked cast (Adrien Brody, Alice Braga, Topher Grace, Danny Trejo, Laurence Fishburne, it’s like a more diverse Expendables with a much scarier antagonist)