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Because it felt... dumbed down, well, not really dumbed down since it's talking about a good topic and such, but it felt targeted at younger people and more like an edutainment episode than a comedy one.

They also tried way too hard. Gumball is supposed to be random and funny, but the former was while present not really the fun kind of random and truth be told all this episode gave me was a single chuckle when Gumball ate the calendar, that's it.

The rest was... lacking. It felt like they were forcing themselves to imitate the old gumball charm while injecting topics that are currently pretty important in the world, but it felt too direct imo, or maybe they simply changed who wrote those jokes because they were too on-the-nose for me.

I just saw the first thirty minutes of TLoUII and I now completely understand the hate. Because honestly? The actress playing ellie was a miscast of huge proportions, she simply didn't have the facial range to play the serious Ellie and even what little I've seen of the game has shown me that she's missed a lot of the subtleties, maybe she did try, but to us it's a real disgrace how much was lost in the adaptation.

I've watched the whole second season and I think it was partly a waste of time, which would have been better spent on watching the game since it seems a lot better quality-wise. That doesn't at all mean that the season was a total let-down, Pedro and the actor playing Jesse and Abigail, hell, even most of the supporting cast were actually pretty incredible (loved the therapist!), as befitting of a quality production, but it's been mostly downgraded by actor Ellie.

Might partly be the scripts fault as well, but mostly I think it's because the actress simply doesn't have the face for it, and I don't mean that in the ugly sense, I mean that in the facial emotional range sense, she looked more annoyed than anything, and I think that held for the majority of the season. There's a whole story told within someone's face, especially for someone like Ellie, who seems to have had her face very well animated in the game and I feel like two thirds of that story was simply lost because the actress couldn't express it convincingly in the series.

As a video game live-action adaptation it's adequate, I did drop a star after watching a bit of the game, but the first season was very solid and even this season had some great moments, especially liked Abby and Joel.

But I can't help but think that simply converting the scenes within the game, and the game itself into a series would have been a lot better. There's already game movies like that on youtube, no reason why it shouldn't be possible to do if the studio actually helped.

First of all, I enjoyed Brush up Life, I found it pretty funny and it was interesting to see what the different jobs were like and what it took to get there. It was funny, hilarious and had many good moments, especially the dream sequences and times where she imagined about what she should do.

However, beyond this it was also very repetitive, and it's not just the many reused scenes that might as well be flashbacks, or that outside of taking a completely different route the lifes were nearly identical despite her future knowledge. She did change some things, and while it's even discussed that she could do a lot more, it felt kinda... useless in a way?

Ultimately it feels like the changes and growth she had at the end would have been completely possible within her first life, that combined with the frequent life-skips without the butterfly effect being all that visible was...

I guess it might just be the excessive familiarity of it all that bugs me, she did change a few things, but still, even the 'big' changes felt very achievable and it kinda annoyed me that we didn't feel enough variance inside her life outside of the jobs. A new hobby or aesthetic would have been cool, though I guess we do get one example for that last one and she did look slightly different with each job.

Plainly said, I feel like the premise had a lot more potential, but instead we got practically the same group of friends, sure there were some work friends and the like, but there's neither a new romance, nor any non-school friendships that last beyond a round. That especially combined with the reveals in the later episodes that kinda ignored the wide-spread implications that reveal would have, made me think of giving this a 7 instead of an 8. Because I feel like there instead being a single divergence point that would allow five different scenarios and we'd get to witness them all, might've done a better than the series we got. It's still good and watchable, but I kinda had higher hopes after the first life.