INVINCIBLE

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Animation Sci-Fi & Fantasy Action & Adventure
English     8.64     2021     Canada

Overview

Mark Grayson is a normal teenager except for the fact that his father is the most powerful superhero on the planet. Shortly after his seventeenth birthday, Mark begins to develop powers of his own and enters into his father’s tutelage.

Reviews

Chris Sawin wrote:
Invincible is so freaking good that it’s going to be difficult anticipating new episodes on a week-to-week basis. Its brutal action is mesmerizing, but Invincible has so much heart and meaning behind those punches that the show leaves an impact even when it isn’t throwing blood and severed limbs in your face. The voice acting is top notch and the story leaves you on the edge of your seat. Invincible has the potential to be one of the greatest animated superhero TV series of all time; adult or otherwise. Full review here: https://godhatesgeeks.com/invincible-episodes-1-3-review-gore-heavy-superhero-perfection/
DallasBob wrote:
What can be said about _Invincible_? I know! "_the Boys_, it ain't." What does that mean? It means for this series, unlike like the comic book it's patterned after, is lacking in...backbone. I find this series detestable in its lameness. It's lopsided high swearing ratio to a negative degree of gratuity is the essence of overstepping resulting in underachieving. It's just like that other Netflix series _Vox Machina_. The animation series seems like it excessively swears in order to try and overshadow its lack of tits & ass, i.e., excitement! Which is a real shame because that means it's falling under the umbrella of DEI/ESG and represent-tay-shone! Those cancerous influences on entertainment that just keep on deteriorating any hope of garnishing fans, attracting followers, or achieving some sort of agency. No one is looking for this series because there is nothing engaging about it, i.e., there is nothing to hold the male gaze. We can get our fix of violence playing video games. If we want to hear swearing, then we can call up those same friends we play online with. That leaves gratuity (tits & ass); sensuality & sex appeal for you of the intelligencia (lol). And since DEI, ESG, and representation hold "respect of gender, skin color, and sexual orientation in such high regard" as not to offend anyone, THEN that means there is nothing of interest or going to be anything of interest to engage one's want to view said lameness that is this series. Those BS statuettes of wokeness rob and will continue to rob entertainment of anything remotely engaging, anticipatory, or (God forbid) inspiring. It's just one drama after another and that equates boring, boring, BORRRRRINNGGGG!!!! I watched the entire 2nd season, and I can honestly say I felt for this season just like I did for the first. Nothing. Not a damn thing. I don't care if there is a 3rd season or when that season will begin, play or end. It just doesn't, as a straight adult male, do anything for me. In fact, if you think this series is woke, you haven't read the comic for comparison. The comic is only slightly better, but not by much. If you can stomach bland entertainment, then go for it. If you have anything else you could be doing or watching, I say do that!! It will be infinitely more productive than vegging out to this shite series. -- Bob --

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Bob and Margaret is a Canadian/UK animated television series that was also shown in the United States and all over the world. The series was produced by Nelvana, a Toronto animation studio, and created by Canadian David Fine and Brit Alison Snowden. The series was based on the Academy Award winning short film Bob's Birthday, featuring the same main characters, which won the Best Animated Short Film Oscar in 1994. The series is one of the few Canadian TV shows to ever have regular American exposure. In Canada, it was the highest rated Canadian made animation series ever when it aired in prime time on Global Television. The show revolved around a married English couple named Bob and Margaret Fish, a middle class 40-ish working couple with no children and two dogs named William and Elizabeth. Bob is a dentist and Margaret is a chiropodist. Bob and Margaret struggle with everyday issues and mid life crisis. Stories often revolve around the mundane, but in a way which is eminently relatable. From the trials of shopping to dealing with friends who annoy them, but owe them a dinner. In the first two seasons, Bob and Margaret lived in England, in the South London community of Balham. For the third and fourth seasons, however, they moved to Toronto, Canada, allowing the writers to explore the humour of culture clash. The move was actually inspired by the realities of funding, with certain Canadian tax benefits dependent on stories actually based in Canada. As such, to keep the series funded, the move was necessary. The creators of the series chose to take an executive role on these latter two seasons, reviewing scripts and consulting, but not involved in the detail they were for the first two seasons. Snowden continued to provide the voice of Margaret, but Bob's voice, originally played by Andy Hamilton, was replaced by Brian George.

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Bob and Margaret
1998