Category Archives: tv series

(tv serija) Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities – dobra horror antologija.

Kabinet kurioziteta legendarnog Guillerma del Tora koji služi kao svojevrsni host svakoj epizodi je odlična horror antologija sa moža jednom ili dvije malo slabije epizode od njih osam i koja uključuje čak dvije epizode bazirane na kozmičkom horroru mog omiljenog autora H.P. Lovecrafta, a to su ‘Pickman’s Model’ i ‘The Dreams In The Witch House’ koje su napravljene odlično, a jedan od highlighta mi je apsolutno bila i epizoda ‘Graveyard Rats’ kao pravi gotički primjer animal attack horror podžanra s moralnom porukom, kao i odlična body horror epizoda ‘The Autopsy’ koja je miješala alien invasion, analogiju na ‘Body Snatchers’ sa body gore horrorom kojeg se ni slavni David Cronenberg ne bi posramio. Ovo je izašlo za Netflix, nadam se još kojoj sezoni u budućnosti.

Gluma: 6,5 sjekira/10. Ovisi o epizodi, negdje je malo lošija i radi se skoro o po mom mišljenju karikaturalnom preglumljivanju, do odlične glume nekih filmskih veterana kao što su F.Murray Abraham ili Crispin Glover. No, sve u svemu solidno.

Gore efekti i napetost: 8 sjekira/10. Napetost je prisutna u velikoj mjeri u svakoj epizodi, kao i neke poruke kako je bolje biti svoj i sam nego netko tko misliš da moraš biti, poruke o štetnosti pohlepe i da je nekada bolje ne dirati u svijet mrtvih, to su samo neke od epizoda. Što se tiče gore efekata za sve vas gore houndse ima ih i previše i odlično su napravljeni.

Zaključak: Preporuka za sve fanove horror antologija. Odlična.

(tv series) Breaking Bad – the best series of all times?

It was a long time until I started watching Breaking Bad, but now that I finished it, besides Lost who is number one series to me, Breaking Bad holds firm second place. How you know that a series is great? When you finish the last season, last episode, you are left with feeling of sorrow and melancholy and realization that it is over. This five season series revolves around how simple chemistry teacher good guy, namely Walter White(played by phenomenal Bryan Cranston), became Heisenberg criminal mastermind and meth cooker par excellence who managed to balance between criminal empire of cartel, neo nazis, DEA and above all his own wife and son. Until the bittersweet end that is. What I love about this series is that there were no filler episodes, each and every one of the episodes are superb and interesting in its own way. Actors are superb, Cranston as White/Heisenberg, then Aaron Paul as his partner in crime Jesse Pinkman, Dean Norris as good yet sometimes annoying brother in law, DEA agent Hank Schrader, of course Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman and bad guys, especially brilliant Giancarlo Esposito as Gustavo Fring, kingpin of drug cartel who became one of my favorite actors playing bad guys from Mandalorian to Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul, Godfather of Harlem and more. When I finally watched this, all i can say to the creator of this series, Vince Gilligan is hats off, sir!

10/10

(tv series) ‘Hunters’ season two way better than the first one!

I was surprised when Hunters season two came out because I thought it was a one off series back in 2020. I watched first one during corona lockdown and it was not a prime time of my personal life due to some other issues, so it remained in my memory as good, with good twist in the end. But, there it is! Second season, eight episodes and final season as poster above says. This one starts as first left us, with our characters, a group of Jewish Nazi hunters in 1979, dispersed around the world, some still hunting Nazis, some doing other jobs, some holding grudges due to events in the first season. But, one thing gets them back and joins them with another group of Jewish hunters, the hunt for ultimate Nazi, hunt for Adolf Hitler who still lives in South America with his beloved Eva Braun and plots how to come back and conquer the world. This one was created by David Weil(‘Invasion’, ‘Solos’) and has a stellar line-up with every character being so greatly written and done, from main man Jonah(Logan Lerman -‘Fury’) across Al Pacino who appears again in parallel story which prequels happenings in first season, to Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kate Mulvany, Lena Olin, Josh Radnor of ‘How I Met Your Mother’ sitcom, and of course Udo Kier as Adolf himself being grumpy insane old dictator, on the surface not having much reality based thoughts anymore and Judd Hirsch as Simon Wiesenthal. Since Jordan Peele is executive producer it was bound to have some interesting and a bit different parts. So, I love the hommage to ‘The Sound Of Music’, I think it was in episode two, and also the penultimate episode is I think something weirdest and also most beautiful that I have seen lately. Dialogues are great, there are plenty action scenes and deaths of dear characters, ending provides tiny window for third season, but I would like it to end here, this being final season as they announced.

10/10