Bewitched and Patlabor

Unusual combo.

Then again, I've been binging SWAT and Angry Video Game Nerd.

Still on the previous two TV shows I mentioned, but today watching the ZOE movie on DVD.

What am I watching now? Here's a hint.

Dundun dundun dundun dundun...

Right now, watching The Handmaid's Tale.
Into season 2 right now, the show had a sudden shift from feeling like a novel to feeling like a TV show... I'm guessing this is where the source material ran out. The difference is in the process. Screenplays are generally written Outline→Draft→Revisions, while books are generally written Rough Draft→Second (and sometimes 3rd, 4th, 5th...) Draft→Outline→revisions. Not always! Some auteur directors (like Tarantino) write screenplays the novel way, while some authors (Dan Brown) write novels the screenplay way. But anyway, you can tell where the shift occurred because suddenly the dialogue became less characteristic but more catchy and the story became less thematic but more mechanical.

I recently finished it myself, and agree with your assessment, there's a shift after season 1. Seasons 2 and 3 were still very good, in my opinion, there's some immense acting talent on display (Ann Dowd shines especially bright later on). My main gripe with the show overall is the inconsistency in thematics and characterization, as well as overuse of certain plot tools and lack of cohesion in setting and consequences. All in all, I really enjoyed the show, but it did drop off in quality over time, like most shows do. 

Currently, I'm watching the Dexter spin-offs, finished "New Blood" yesterday. It was okay, nothing more, the writing seems very dumbed down from the mainline series, as I remember it. Started "Original Sin" after that, watched about half of the season so far. Patrick Gibson does a good job of manifesting Dexter, his mimicry, motions, and speech patterns (to a lesser degree), and he has the right look. Christian Slater is always fun to watch. I think they did Debra dirty in this prequel though, she comes off as entitled and whiny, and rather stupid (even for a teenager). 

The latest south park episode.....Holy shit....

Update on my thoughts on The Handmaid's Tale. It's not entirely off-theme. There have been a few great episodes, including the ones done by Game of Thrones director Jeremy Podeswa. And I quite enjoyed the Emily story.

Spoilers to the very beginning of Season 3

Also, one thing to note is that this show is interesting to watch after Andor, they're both very well done shows about a struggle against tyranny. And Andor, I'll note, is a great show whether or not the viewer likes Star Wars. It's kind of like Rogue One in that sense, you don't need to be a fan or even like the genre to enjoy the film. I feel viewers sort of have to have some investment in the franchise, blockbusters, or sci-fi backdropped fantasy to enjoy any of the other films aside from Rogue one... Rogue One and Andor are unique, I think anyone could like them. They also make the original Star Wars film a fun watch, even if you didn't like it before.

And IMO, there's basically two ways fans go. First: I think many are interested in the Skywalker saga, and for them, the prequel trilogy, and the original sequels (Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi) are the films they like, while I think mostly everyone else (including myself) enjoyed the film The Last Jedi more than those. The Last Jedi is much more about The Force than anything else, fulfilling the prophecy. And it takes (and IMO) improves on many of the influences of the original Star Wars film. But the story is left unfinished... IMO, doesn't matter, I think the sunrise-Luke Death is a great sendoff for the end of the film. This film is heavily disliked by the Skywalker Saga internet fanbase, though; and for largely trivial and incidental reasons that they act like are these massive problems... like the film is some kind of heresy. A shame, I think it's a standout film that's generally more fun to watch than any of the others in the mainline series. It's got a 91% thumbs up from critics and scored 1.3 billion+ at the box office and most real-world people seem to like it.

Either way, my watch order for Star Wars went something like this: Andor → Rogue One → Star Wars → The Last Jedi, and it was a very enjoyable way to watch it. I'd watch the others, but I feel like the whole Skywalker Saga is a bit of a different story, and it didn't grab me the way it did other Star Wars fans - I got into Star Wars at a much older age, possibly too old for it to have any nostalgic grip on me. I'm not against watching the other films if other people want to, just not something I'll likely do if it's my decision. I also think that I might have liked it quite a lot if it was a little more (lets say) mature; think Oedipus Rex, the original "adversary is secretly his father" story... keep the Leia romance (Lucas deleted it) and advance it MUCH further during Empire Strikes Back, that would make Luke's melodramatic screaming reaction ("NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!") a lot more convincing after he found out he and Leia were very much related 😁.

Sure Oedipus would have been upset if he found out the adversary he killed was his estranged father, but without the bit about banging his mother, the gouging his own eyes out would have seemed quite a bit over the top.

Well, that got dark...

The AVGN with the Nerd and Lloyd Kaufman playing games based on The Toxic Avenger. Lloyd succeeded in having even more disgusting diarrhea on a game than the Nerd ever has.

Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex 2nd Gig.

Might watch Angel Cop and Bubblegum Crisis later.