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The Punisher: One Last Kill Review

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When this was announced I was definitely interested, I’ve always liked Jon Bernthal’s Punisher so getting a new special focusing on him was good news, but after watching it I was just sort of confused. I mean as a stand-alone 45 minute thing it was fine but it didn’t fit into the MCU timeline at all, didn’t connect to the original Punisher series, Daredevil: Born Again Season 1 (which still has unresolved Punisher story beats) or the then-upcoming Spider-Man film as it turns out, it was like a pilot for a Punisher series that had nothing to do with the MCU but was added to it anyway. Oh well, what’s it like? Well given its length it won’t take long to tell you…

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Daredevil: Born Again – Season 2 Review

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The second season of the revived Daredevil show (so technically the fifth, I guess?) was more focused, I guess because it wasn’t half another show entirely this time, but some of the interesting plot points were dropped entirely without explanation, which was rather annoying. Still though, as I’ve said a few times on this site, seeing Charlie Cox’s Daredevil face off with Vincent D’Onofrio’s Kingpin is aways worth a watch! Let’s take a look.

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Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord Season 1 Review

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I was tempted to put this and the next two TV reviews into another trio of mini-reviews, but I just couldn’t, especially not with this. I loved Maul: Shadow Lord, it was the right combination of Star Wars wonder and action with a more mature edge and some interesting layered characters. It truly is weird just how much they’ve done with the Maul character, especially as I remember rolling my eyes when I heard he was being brough back… Let’s take a look!

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Fallout – Season 2, WonderMan and One Piece (Live Action) – Season 2 Reviews

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Hi all, while I’m not ready to fully commit to long-form reviews I didn’t want to lose out on months of watching / listening / reading / playing so I thought I’d put up a series of “mini-reviews” for the time being, going over my thoughts on things without going into deep detail. If/when I get fully back into the swing I can always revisit some of these things and give them a proper review, though I’ll admit when it comes to this trio it’s unlikely… Let’s take a look!

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Doctor Who: The Daleks’ Master Plan (Episodes 1 – 6)

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While I’ve been struggling as of late I didn’t want to miss out on documenting the fact I watched two episodes of Doctor Who I was pretty sure were lost forever a month or two ago. Episodes 1 and 3 of The Daleks’ Master Plan was returned and released digitally back at Easter and given Episode 2 already existed watching three episodes of the serial one after the other was pretty amazing. Given I already have a review of Episode 7 up as part of my Christmas Who marathon a while ago I thought I’d continue on with the also-existing Episode 5 and photo recons of 4 and 6. I’ll hold off on the second half just on the off chance that more episodes or animations might be coming our way in the future. Let’s take a look!

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The Walking Dead – The Ones That Live Review

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I don’t really have a great deal of interest in the Walking Dead spin-offs, not being the greatest fan of the last few seasons and all, but “The Ones Who Live” mini-series peaked my interest (not enough to subscribe to the service it was on, but enough to pick up the blu-ray cheap!) because it tied up the Rick and Michonne loose ends, and given Rick leaving the show was one of the major reasons I didn’t like it as much seeing him back in the spotlight was worth the price of admission alone. What about the rest though? Like the really… REALLY stupid Michonne stuff from the main show, was that brought to a reasonable conclusion? Let’s take a look!

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Star Wars: Visions – Season 3 Review

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The third season of “Visions” is an odd one. The first season had the whole fresh ideas and “weird, Star Wars made by anime studios!” thing going for it, and Season 2 had fresh ideas from animations studios around the world. This season is more shorts by anime studios, some of which are sequels to ones from the first season, so it all feels less special this time round. Some are good, some are middling, some are bad, as per usual with any collection of short stories, but overall I felt this was the weakest Season of the three. Let’s take a look, anyway (and with no Spoiler Section because that would just take too long to recap the ends of all nine shorts…)

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My Top 10 TV Series/Seasons of 2025

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While another rough time in my life has curtailed my enthusiasm for review writing I have managed to assemble enough motivation to keep my streak of yearly Top 10s going! I think more than any other category I’m always wondering if I’ve even watched enough new TV to make a top 10, but each year I just about manage it, almost entirely due to my love of animation to be fair… so let’s take a look!

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