#moonhaven season

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Dominic Monaghan cuteness <3 <3 <3

[dragonotherkinforest]

Moonhaven has hope??!!! 😱😱😱😃😃

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MOONHAVEN Season 2 Release Date: Everything What We Know So Far

There are many sci-fi shows that are suitable for binge-watching, and more possibilities for viewers to marathon endlessly keep appearing as new works in the fantastical genre are published. “Moonhaven,” a specific programme, has been making waves in the science fiction field in an effort to be regarded as another series that fans are compelled to read from beginning to end Read More

[kuwdora]

The fraught experience of watching TV in a streaming entertainment economy.

I basically watch new TV with the expectation that current season I’m watching is going to be the last. That includes The Witcher Netflix, btw, but other shows, too. I get the feeling we’ve all sort of…come to this conclusion, right? We’re all so jaded because things get cancelled left and right. Nothing is safe. Nothing. :(

We all have to race to watch The Sandman or Shadow and Bone ASAP instead of enjoying a week-to-week drop. It’s exhausting. I don’t like feeling guilty when I don’t have the brain to watch things. I definitely have just streamed stuff in the background and watched it for real later, too.

Star Trek Prodigy on Paramount? Cancelled and pulled from the platform. People who purchased the rest of the season on Amazon never got the episodes because the rights were pulled. Star Trek is the flagship IP!!! And it STILL GOT CANCELLED. Even though it’s beautiful, and fucking brilliant and incredible television and had new episodes in the pipeline.

The other show I’m currently mourning is Moonhaven. I wrote about that show here. It was renewed for a second season! It’s an fascinating, atypical sci-fi TV premise with great leads and interesting worldbuilding and shooting locations in Ireland. And then AMC decided that they were not going to renew it. It’s similar what happened to Avenue 5 on HBO (Ave 5 was more of a Schroedinger’s Cancellation. It’s cancelled except maybe not? But it really is cancelled.)

A League of Their Own? Cancelled. Willow? Cancelled. The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance? Sense8???? The list goes on and on. :(

I think for me it was in 2017 or 2018 that I really started internalizing this idea that none of my favorite, amazing shows were going to last. Santa Clarita Diet was axed by Netflix far too soon. Same with Altered Carbon. Those cancellations changed me, yeah…

I follow a lot of WGA writers on twitter and there’s been a lot of discussion happening about the Suits renaissance. Suits aired on the USA Network for 9 years with 16+ episodes/season. It’s been streaming on NBC’s Peacock platform for awhile and now has 8 seasons on Netflix. It’s currently the most-streamed show in Nielson’s history, something like over 2 billion minutes now. people are discovering it for the first time or coming back to it for a very happy rewatch.

This writer sums up the situation perfectly.

I also can’t track down the tweet where a writer was talking to a development executive at Peacock who admitted that they wouldn’t be able to get Suits made today.

Ugly Betty is another show that’s having a similar bump (thanks in part to Barbie, people catching up to how amazing America Ferrara is. Also watch Superstore!!) because people are looking for these longer shows that have character development and the longevity.

The only streaming platform I currently ‘trust’ with my vested TV interests is AppleTV. And I only trust them because I can see what kind of free reign they’re allowing their creatives to do with their shows. They’re specific and bold premises and commitment to characters and themes. Similar to Netflix in the early years. I doubt this will last much longer.

On Apple TV you’ve got incredible psychological thrillers like Severence and Silo happening. The musical comedy Schmiagdoon! too.

Ted Lasso got to have longer episodes and handed over showrunning duties to the lead actor with some questionable creative choices made in those seasons. It still got to complete the show on its own terms. Amazing.

Apple TV also has Mythic Quest which is a unique comedy in the streaming age.

It’s a workplace comedy about a fictionalized video game development company. Picture Ubisoft who also provides video game assets/interstitials for the show among other things. It’s Community meets Always Sunny in Philadelphia (features writers and actors from both). A comedy that examines toxic masculinity in a workplace, completely roasts the girlbloss tropes and the patriarchy. The main characters are really autistic and ADHD coded. The show is completely self-aware (at times painfully so).

But what sets Mythic Quest apart and what tells me Apple TV is letting creatives do their jobs: This show has Bottle Episodes! And flashback episodes that don’t feature any of the primary actors! But the episodes are still relevant to the the themes and character dynamics the show is exploring.

In a hyper-serialized streaming world where executives and product strategists are measuring engagement by minutes watched and how soon they watch, Apple TV is letting these folks make episodes you can watch out of order or skip. But they’re also episodes with high rewatchability. It’s a show with a ton of heart. Apple TV renews Mythic Quest ahead of a season premiere. It renews it for multiple seasons. I’ve found this commitment to the longevity of the show very heartening.

In the past I’ve fallen in love with shows that were irreverent, campy, self-aware comedies. All of these were ABC shows so I can’t even rail against the streaming model. But like Netflix shows they weren’t given enough time to reach a wider audience even though I think some of these definitely have Cult Acclaim by now. I showed up bright an early for most of these and my god. The cancellations stung so much. That pain just accumulated over the years. A precursor of what was to come. :(

Better Off Ted - 2009 show. Another workplace satire that was just ahead of it’s time in the way it showed us the gallows humor of being a cog in the capitalist system. Addressed sexism, racism and classism. Funny as hell. Portia di Rossi knew the fucking assignment and fucked its brains out with her performance. Maz Jobrani was only in like 5 or 6 episodes and he was SO GOOD. I made sure to see every local comedy show I could to see more of him once I saw him in Better off Ted. - currently streaming on Hulu

Galavant - 2014-2016 - a fantasy musical. Monty Python meets Princess Bride. Featuring creators and lyricists who worked on 90s Disney films. So fucking funny and cheeky and heartwarming and silly. The music is so GREAT. All my Witcher and Our Flag Meets Death friends need to check this one out if they need something new-to-them that is witty and light and heartfelt. - also streaming on Hulu

Don’t Trust the B— in Apt 23 - a 2012 show with Krysten Ritter!! Before she was Jessica Jones! This show has eccentric women characters and James van der Beek playing a fictionalized version of himself. This is a show that had so much potential and they aired everything out of order and and and and and and I loved it so much. - Hulu since this is again an ABC show. Vid Rec: Applause by elipie.

Selfie - JOHN CHO AND KAREN GILLAN! John Cho and Karen Gillan in a ROM COM. The screeching wails from fandom when this got cancelled. It was an amazing set-up, amazing chemistry. Funny, quirky. You could see the growth in both of the characters!! And! We Never! Got enough!! - seriously watch this on hulu if you can. John and Karen are AMAZING.

Every first season of Star Trek has been wobbly or had wobbily episodes that didn't work or actors were still getting to know their characters. Every first season. Including new Trek! The X-Files? Even rebooted again? I don’t think it would work. Heck, even if they made second reboot of Battlestar Galactica I’m not sure it’d last. FARSCAPE! Got cancelled! By SyFy! They (like Sense8 and Firefly and a few others) got to have a movie conclusion. But at what narrative cost?? The Expanse got cancelled and uncancelled. The Orville got cancelled and uncancelled. I can't get my hopes up about anything unless I know it's a "limited series" at the onset.

I'm exhausted and sad by the state of the industry. I hope the writers and actors get everything from the studios and we can see a shift back to the previous working models again. Better working conditions and pay and residuals.

So I'll eventually watch A League of Their Own and 1899 and I know I'm going to fucking love every moment that we got to have. And then mourn. And go dig up all the fanfic and vids and art that I can to get my fix.

I think for now I'm gonna join in the Suits rewatch cause I love the humor and the character growth and relationships are fantastic. I don't think I rewatched Suits or Ugly Betty since they aired.

[kuwdoravids]

Year in Vidding Review: 2023

Year-end round-up/meme: 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022

April What (Yennefer of Vengerberg) The Witcher Netflix Making of "What" commentary: do it for the process (and for Yennefer!) The Witcher Netflix Mr. Brightside (Jaskier/Geralt/Yennefer) The Witcher Netflix

June Skipping Stones (Fringilla Vigo) The Witcher Netflix

August In Our Wake (Vilgefortz/Geralt) The Witcher Netflix

December [Festivid Assignment] - redacted until reveals! [Festivid Treat] - redacted until reveals!

Review questions under the cut.

Random process notes:

Well, I have been kidding for *counts* 16 years now?? I guess I kind of know what I’m doing when I have a good idea of what a vid is like inside my head. Which is why most of these vids took less than a week to make and none of them were on my actual to-make list that I had written down at the beginning of the year. Flighty ADHD/anxiety brain just latching onto the feelings of the moment and zooming across the timeline until I can call it done. I think I started two non-witcher vids during the year before Festivids but the witcher hyperfixation remains too strong. Everything else falling to the WIP piles. I tried to finish my Moonhaven vid but couldn’t focus. Tried to finish my Green Knight and Blade vids but no, my brain was more interested in writing +70k of fic this year, aha.

Overall thoughts:

HEY I made Festivid stuff! I can vid-non Witcher things! I was really worried there that my brain was just forever stuck on Witcher but! I did it.

Anyway. I really love vidding The Witcher Netflix and keep building up my clip gallery for easy reference for when I can settle in for the next witcher vid. I keep fuck up my exports though because I’m doing everything too quickly and not paying enough attention. So there’s some export-related things and a few minor clips I would have changed if I weren’t caught up in a in a rush. But overall I’m very, very happy with my crop of vids this year.

Favorite Vid:

Most of the time I have upwards of 8-16 vids a year and it’s easier to pick a favorite. When I do so few… they’re all my favorite. For different reasons.

For my Yennefer vid it’s my favorite editing.

For Mr. Brightside it’s my favorite song choice and tone (this is a cover in the style of The B-52s) for Jaskier.

My Fringilla vid — it’s my favorite thing that came together from all of the season footage of her character from seasons 1 and 2 and the song just makes me so happy that it tied everything together for her.

For the Vilgefortz/Geralt vid, oh it’s my favorite because it’s my pure id, heh, and my favorite build/pacing of all my vids.

My festivids are my favorite because I have been wanting to make things them for awhile now but hadn’t had the focus. And then I did!

Hardest to make:

The only thing that was hard was me exporting shitty stuff and not realizing it until days or weeks after I uploaded and crossposted. Anyway. I took my time with my festivid exports so those should look pretty good. Most successful:

They are all successful in my heart. I love them.

My best vid:

Probably my Fringilla or Vilgefortz/Geralt vid. I’m so happy how they turned out.

Most fun vid:

Mr. Brightside. I love playing with Jaskier’s humor with the song choice and the transitions.

Things I learned in 2023:

Mmm, I am still worked up about my fic WIPs and life anxieties that I wasn’t able to do more vidding things that I wanted. As for the projects themselves, I learned that it’s very handy to have a standing clip gallery all labelled and ready for when I want to make my next Witcher Netflix vid.

In 2024:

I always want to be ambitious in the new year but always end up wandering in completely unexpected directions. In any case I would love to finish my Moonhaven vid and get my brain in order to find the last of the Black Sails source I need for a vid idea that has been eating my brain for 4 months now. I also have my Philippa Eilhart Witcher vid I want to make as well as a season 3 Witcher Netflix vid too that’s taking up space in my brain.

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God of Ambivalence

A tiefling Artificer trying to carve a new path for himself splits a large stone on a beach to discover something truly shocking: a wizard missing a hand and in need of a lot of help, and magical items. Lucky for the wizard, Elion happens to be a fount of magical items. Pairing - OC/Gale & Shadowheart/Lae'zel but there will be more as it goes on.

Read on Ao3

or Chapter One below the cut

Chapter One

As a stone mason’s apprentice Elion had looked forward to the finer parts of the craft. Unfortunately, it would be years before he could dazzle some lucky beloved with a carved rose, or anything at all that was delicate or beautiful. So far, under master Faydor he seemed to be good for little more than hiking and hauling heavy rock. He acknowledged the bitterness he felt and gave voice to it in a sigh, as he removed the scarf from off his horns. He dampened the scarf with his water jug to cool off his neck and shoulder.

Weren’t Selûne’s penitent followers more appropriate for this task?

It certainly didn’t require his skill to walk a half-mile in the heat, dragging a borrowed cart to move great pieces of rock back the way he’d come. Couldn’t one of the other denizens of Moonhaven Anew do it? It was their harvest season, that’s what Faydor had said. Elion was pretty sure the old man was having him on though. Born and raised the city, Elion didn’t know much about provincial life, but he was fairly certain harvest time was another month out.

What am I doing here? It was the hundredth time he’d wondered, since leaving Baldur’s Gate. His mother was right, it was a stupid, rash decision. Switching career paths at this stage—and stonecraft? It had always been a hobby. Maybe he was giving his skills too much credit, maybe Faydor knew it and that’s why he had him hauling rocks rather than working with a chisel.

Of course, with the right materials, and a little time, he could make up for that, but he didn’t think Faydor would like it. The man was old fashioned in his craft as much as anything else. He wouldn’t appreciate innovation. A rustle from the bushes caught his ear, but it was the kind of sound that was easy to overlook. A rabbit, surely. Then he saw horns. A goat? Horns like his. Another tiefling.

He started and dropped the cart, but the girl looked startled to see him. She was tense all through her petite stature, very small for a tiefling, but not a child any longer, to be certain. Her burning orange eyes skewed him. The word that came to mind when he looked at her was 'wild.' Her orchid pink skin was blackening at her clawed fingertips and the end of her tail. Her horns were carved with lines of script and grafted with something shining and black. She wore clothes, almost. More like scraps falling to pieces, though at one point the pieces could have been druidic armor. Her ash brown hair was a pile on top of her head, braided near the scalp, bond where it came loose, and filthy with leaves and the remnants of a flower crown of pink.

“Oh!” She stood, sighing in relief as she hid a flare of green light in her palm. The girl smiled, sheepish, “You’re so big, I thought you were a cambion for a moment! But there, no wings, far too cool and too dark a complexion.” she darted out from the bushes and approached him, at a tumble. Her feet were bare, blackened as well.

The smell of magic hung heavy around her, it burned his eyes and thumped against his head when she spoke. It wasn’t like the taste of weave he knew. There was something deep and far away and echoing about it. The girl stood grounded; he couldn’t help but imagine great cords, like roots, holding her, pulling her into the heart of Toril itself.

A druid, probably. But, was that all? There was something nearly fey about her.

Whoever she was, she was powerful, and so he held his tongue and stood still, letting her examine him.

Her tail lashed behind her as she peered at him, tipping her chin all the way back to look up at him. “Hmmm. You’re perfect,” she declared.

“Perfect for what?”

“I need a little help, will you follow me?”

Even a city boy like Elion knew that it was foolish to follow a mysterious person, maybe fey, into the woods.

But, she wasn’t going to the woods, instead, she was gesturing down the path. “I don’t have the right tools, or the muscle,” she flexed for him, her arms twiggy.

He shifted, watching her. She didn’t seem to be in a hurry, at least. She stared at him with an unnerving smile. “None of the animals will help,” she continued. “I made the mistake of admitting to them that it would be loud, so they all left.”

“Who are you?” He was owed that much.

That he was even considering following her still felt foolish. But, he rarely met another tiefling, and one with fey ties (rather than infernal ones) was intriguing to say the least.

“I’m Arabella,” she said with a little laugh at herself. “And dear me, I forgot all that! Introductions. Handshakes. Do people shake hands, or did I dream that? Do we touch horns because we’re tieflings? I don’t think I’ve dreamt that. Or done it. Is that silly? Or too intimate?”

“I don’t know. I don’t know many other tieflings.”

“Me neither—well, not anymore." Arabella’s shoulders slumped and for a moment she looked incandescently sad, so much so that it startled him. She recovered with another beaming smile. “Help me, and it will be trouble, but the good kind. I need to split a stone. You’re out here to do that anyway, aren’t you?” she gestured to the cart he was hauling, and the tools inside.

“I’m supposed to bring back a few blocks. They’re rebuilding the old Selûnite Sanctum.”

“They are, or you are, or you all are?”

A question he’d been asking himself. It felt like he was doing a larger part of the work than anyone besides his own master, and for a god he didn’t even worship.

“It’s good rock,” she promised, “I don’t know what you call it. Granite? I don’t use as many words as I should, I suppose.” She shrugged and started down the path again, in perfect confidence that Elion would follow her.

His tail twitched behind him, anxious. It didn’t seem like any of the stories he’d heard of foolish travelers trusting mischievous fey in the woods. For one thing, he wasn’t desperate for anything that a fey would try to take advantage of him, was he? He might be desperately bored, but that was different.

Besides that, he wasn’t even sure Arabella was fey. She could be a very strange druid girl with poor communication skills. The rock might be in the way.

Ocean spray rattled in the distance as it showered over the old ruins and wreckage. Elion had only seen the nautiloid up close once since coming to this little corner of the sword coast. He was sure it didn’t look how it would have looked back when it could fly, before it rained in deadly burning pieces over the beach. The land had reclaimed much of it, trees extended through its fractures, and roots bubbled up under the charred carcass of the ship. 

She led them very close to it, but then to a pale, sloped stone, old rune marks long faded, though Elion could still feel some pull to them, some power.

As Arabella approached the stone, she leaned into it, embracing the rock like an old friend. From the sigh on her lips and the way she relaxed, he imagined it was warm from the heat of the sun. “Yes. In here. Something old. Powerful. Hungry. Something dead. Something returned.” She turned her head to look at him over her shoulder without releasing the stone, “could be dangerous,” she enticed and warned, all at once. With one blackened nail she tapped the surface of the rock. Then moved a hand over and tapped again. Then up, so it was almost eye-level. “Here. Strike here, and it will divide.”

It didn’t look like terrible rock to use for rebuilding the temple pillars, and the runes were so faded. Whatever magic had crackled there long ago, was long since faded. The air didn’t even have the scent any longer. He made a mark with his chisel, right where Arabella had shown him. It was a little bit higher than was comfortable, but he found he trusted that she might know what she was talking about. He did have something in the way of a heightened sense when it came to these things, and there was something trembling and weak about where she’d placed her fingers, like the rock wanted to peel open and had already chosen its own soft spots. He didn’t have to work very much at all before there was an opening. The stone was not granite, but it would do. He made enough of a gash that he could wedge his splint into the stone, then went back to the cart to get a wooden mallet.

Arabella watched the whole time, sitting cross legged on the ground and gazing up at him, or at the stone, fixed smile, curious, and eyes flamed.

Now came the part that was loud, the part that had dissuaded the animals from being any help to the strange druid. He hit the splint hard with the mallet and the few birds that remained in the wreckage scattered into the air. The bang barked in the distance. Elion was strong and had managed to split stones in few hits before, but this one cracked immediately. The rock wanted to break open, perhaps it would have done so, left to its own devices, and with a little more time. The crack of the rock and its split all the way through the middle was even louder than the strike of the mallet, and Elion stumbled backwards to avoid being caught and crushed under the falling rock.

He caught sight of something in the center of the dust and debris, a dark undulating light of purple, with a sickly sweet acrid scent, and something else. Necrosis.

Arabella was on her feet again, backing away. “Oh,” she looked frightened, he realized, “oh no. Oh dear.” She threw her eyes around, as though quite worried that there was something coming. Or someone watching. “He needs help and I cannot help him,” was she talking about Elion? Talking to herself? “I can’t get any closer, tiefling boy who’s name I do not know. I can’t get closer, now that there is no rock to protect me.”

You don’t know my name because you didn’t ask. “Closer to…?” The dust from the rock’s destruction was still thick in the air, but the crackling swirl of magic at the center of it was starting to sharpen. Whatever it was, it was still, but stinking of magic and danger and death. The dust started to clear, even as he watched, he turned back to Arabella, to demand instructions, insight, something—but the tiefling girl was gone.

Of course she was.

Fey creature indeed.

As the dust fully cleared, Elion finally saw what he’d unleashed from the stone. In the center of the wreckage a man lay limp, his features and body obscured by a strange dark looking film of black, green and purple that Elion couldn’t identify. He was hurt badly, by the unconscious state of him and the grayish tinge to his skin under the film, but he was certainly alive, trying to breathe. 

His right hand had been severed and ended in a messy cauterized stump.

[ceolona]

Why can’t we have nice things? Yes, it was a bit weird, but still good. Maybe we, the Audience, cannot be bothered to watch anything but CGI extravaganzas with extended battle scenes and fake reality programming?

I’m just waiting for TWD’s Survivor: Oceanside crossover to see who gets voted out. …or Lembas Wars, to settle once and for all who makes the best elvish waybread.

[talesfromthecrypts]

AMC reversed the renewal of Moonhaven. Now it’s canceled. It’s a show they renewed for season 2. I’m worried about IWTV.

I’ve got good news! They are so deep in pre production that they won’t stop their highest profile show from going forward. With the Walking Dead gone there is no way in hell they are cancelling the only show getting them streaming numbers after they already renewed it. Plus big money spent on the *shudders* “IP”. The only shows AMC might have left in 6 weeks are IWTV, Witches, and the 10 walking dead spin-offs. Season 2 is fine, at this point the worrisome thing is another Disney/Fox or Discover/Warner Bros situation.

[dvdsreleasedates]

Week of July 16, 2023 new Blu-ray and DVD releases - Love Again - Kandahar - Fool's Paradise - Little Richard: I Am Everything - Moonhaven - The Last of Us: The Complete First Season [DVD] - Your Honor: Season Two [DVD] See www.dvdsreleasedates.com for complete new Blu-ray and DVD release details

[hoedameron]

they......they ended up cancelling moonhaven despite getting a confirmed season 2?? oh, someone WILL be hearing from me -_-

[dragonmythfandom]

https://www.allocine.fr/video/player_gen_cmedia=19600085&cserie=29204.html

LINK TO POSSIBLE HOPE FOR MOONHAVEN SEASON 2 STREAMING SOMEWHERE ELSE OTHER THAN AMC +!!!! <3

[dragonotherkinforest]

PETER OCKO THE MAKER HIMSELF OF MOONHAVEN THE SERIES, LIKED MY POST WITH: #SAVEMOONHAVEN FOR HOPE FIR SEASON 2 TO STREAM !!! 💚🩵💜🩷🩵💚

@dreadfeel

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[kuwdora]

Top 5 Most Underrated SF shows/movies you think everyone should watch and why

Top five most underrated SF shows/movies you think everyone should watch, and why :) --from destina

Okay a million years ago (more like 2 and a half months) destina asked me about my top 5 most underrated SF shows/movies I think everyone should watch. I have three shows and two films that I’ve really enjoyed over the last few years and I'll try to break down why I'm loving them.

This gets kind of long so I'll put it under a cut. The shows/films include: Moonhaven (AMC), Avenue 5 (HBO), Humans (AMC/BBC), Life (2017) and Prospect (2018).

Moonhaven is a new AMC show (1 season, 6 episodes) that is rather high concept on the sociological side of the scifi spectrum. They’ve built a utopia on the moon, guided by an AI that has spent a century learning from the human colony there in order to learn how to build better technology and solve the environmental/social ills on earth. This colony of humans have been cut off from the Earth and they’re about to send their first batch of humans and tech back to the planet when there’s a Murder that happens.

The main character is Bella Sway who is a cargo pilot/smuggler and who is also a war vet of sorts who gets accused of committing a crime while she’s on the moon and there’s a lot of mystery/intrigue to unravel.

Now this is very very serious and interesting set-up but what the trailers for this show did not highlight is how strange and wacky the character dynamics are. Because you’ve had a socially isolated human colony (Mooners) now interacting with a bunch of Earthers and— it’s hilarious and strange and eerie. Most of the time the Earther characters are baffled as fuck by the mooners who sound like they’re in a group therapy session that’s performing on stage. The mooners have high emotional IQs and love art and culture and are so touchy feely that the contrast with the hardened Earthers is amazing.

The show also is filmed in Ireland so you get to see some new filming locations that you don’t ordinarily catch in genre shows. AND of course has Dominic Monaghan who looks like he’s having the time of his life.

Emma McDonald plays Bella Sway and she brings such an incredible amount of nuance and depth to her character that 6 episodes just haven’t been enough for me and I’m really excited to see more. I try not to get my hopes up with new scifi shows these days because it’s too easy to get my heart broken but I have REALLY enjoyed this show. It’s doing a lot of interesting thematic exploration about nature vs nurture and the role of technology in people’s lives and how different groups of people see the purpose of technology differently.

It has SO MUCH WORLDBUILDING - including polyamory and partner dynamics within a family, fascinating birth/death rituals that have evolved on the moon, and some rather questionable ways mooners have altered child-rearing responsibilities to circumvent tribalism and prevent violence in their society.

What the trailer and reviews for this show mostly fail to capture is also just how fucking funny and strange the cultural differences are between the Mooners/Earthers. The Mooners LOVE to dance out their feelings.

There’s a conspiracy plotline that I’m not sure how it’s going to shake out but I’m really gnashing my teeth happily on these characters, the worldbuilding, and the technology.

Avenue 5 is an HBO scifi/comedy (2 seasons, somewhat cancelled but maybe not cancelled according to some sources, seems to be a bit of a Schrödinger Cancellation) I am not sure I really recommend for most people because it is hilarious in that dark satire kind of way that not everyone wants to stomach (for good reasons). It’s by the same fellow who wrote/produced Veep so the humor is dark. I described Ave 5 as looking at our current dystopia through an un-funhouse mirror and laughing in horror.

The premise of the show is a space cruise gets thrown off course and it’s going to take years to get back to earth and the ship is full of tourists and incompetent people running the ship. It also features Ethan Phillips playing an obnoxious Martian astronaut character in a GIANT NOD to the hilarity of Star Trek Voyager.

The biggest (and most delightful) surprise of the show is Hugh Laurie’s character is queer and poly (he had two partners back on Earth). The show veers into shenanigans throuple territory (that I 100% need to write some fic for because the show is reasonably cancelled and I need MORE).

This show has some of the most hilarious and obscene dialogue that I’ve heard in years. I love it and have watched every episode several times because humanity is terrible and I kind of like laughing at their pain and awfulness rather than the real world. It’s extremely self-aware and has Lenora Crichlow (of Being Human UK!!!!) and Hugh Laurie being ABSOLUTE TOP OF THEIR FUCKING GAME.

Humans (UK) is the AMC/BBC take on the Swedish show with the same name. On the surface this is a “we’ve created robots to do all of our work for us” premise (they’re called Synths here) and features a Colin Morgan as a scruffy fellow on-the-run with his fellow Synths that he was raised with as a child because his dad programmed the Synths with intelligence. This also has GEMMA CHAN!!!!!! As one of the main leads and she is EXQUISITE as Mia.

I watched and loved the original Swedish version but the British version did a fantastic job of building the family dynamics. It follows the Hawkins family who purchases a new Synth (Mia) and Mia has had her memory temporarily wiped to be in hiding so she doesn’t know who she is yet. The mystery in the beginning season is great but in the later seasons it really builds out the Hawkins mother/daughter relationship as well as letting Laura use her legal background to explore what kind of autonomy and protection she could advocate for Mia and her Synth family.

Mattie is a teenager who has an interest in programming and she’s adrift like many others her age who are facing a future with little job prospects and just getting yanked around by the world- and I just loved her arc in the show so much, especially as she gets involved with helping Mia and her family.

Colin Morgan is really great, too but I really fell in love with Gemma Chan’s depiction of Mia who slowly learns who she is and then is trying to find and keep her family safe while also protecting the Hawkins who are trying to help her.

I found this to be a very solid show — and one that I wish I had vidded already — with great character arcs and was very mindful in the way it was exploring these age-old questions about personhood and outsourcing work to machines and how you treat these machines.

Life (2017) is a horror/thriller film inside a sci-fi setting. Scientists on the International Space station find a new life form that they picked up from Mars to study and Things Go Bad. Pretty great cast- Rebecca Ferguson, Hiroyuki Sanada, Ariyon Bakare along with — for some reason — Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds.

The life-and-death tension and anxiety of being trapped with something scary in the vacuum of space is spectacular. Really enjoyable film.

Prospect (2018) is hands down one of my favorite indie scifi films. Low-budget, INCREDIBLE ACTING, masterful storytelling. The stakes are emotionally and physically high for our characters and had me on the edge of my seat the whole time.

The premise is a girl and her dad (Jay Duplass) go to a remote alien moon to try to mine some minerals to make it rich and start a new life. They get a contract that goes tits up in a bad way and end up face to face with the locals and scoundrels. INCLUDING PEDRO PASCAL. Pedro Pascal and Sophie Thatcher are the fucking stars of this and absolutely captivating. And yes this is part of the Pedro Pascal Multiverse Dad Canon so put it on your list to watch if you need more Dad Pascal.

This movie is INTENSE and raw and absolutely 10000% highest recommendation from me. The writing, the characters- the acting. The set/wardrobe design. A+++++

Everything about this movie is so detailed and internally consistent in a way that makes me wriggle with so much fucking joy.

I even trawled through YouTube to try and find out more about it and fell in love with a behind the scenes featurette. They filmed dust motes in a basement and transposed the dust over the outdoor scenes of the alien planet rather than doing CGI for it. And the work they spent designing the space suits is so great, too.

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Why Moonhaven Season 2 Calnceled By AMC+?

Why Moonhaven Season 2 Calnceled By AMC+?

Moonhaven Season 2: It seems like this moon colony is ending its work. AMC+ said that Moonhaven would not return for a second season after all. After only one season, the streamer is getting rid of Moonhaven. This comes after it was said in July that the show would be back for a second season. Moonhaven’s second season was supposed to come out in 2023. The shocking news came just a few days after…