Depending on how cheesy you like your movies, Fear Street: Prom Queen is only good in one aspect. If you, however, enjoy momentous cheese, then please, by all means, ignore this article, and perhaps bring a stack of crackers with you.
Thunderbolts* (or, The New Avengers) is what you remember Marvel movies and shows being, back when it was a pretty sure thing that any given movie was going to be good, if not excellent. Somehow, the rhythms and plot progression that have now become standard work here. The comedy is funny. The action scenes are cool. The collection of very barebones characters doesn’t make the story flat or uninteresting.
The SFB Scale cuts through the noise and answers the only question that really matters: Should you pay to see it, stream it, binge it, or skip it?
Wow, am I glad that I decided to review all the episodes of Marvel Zombies. Because if I had dropped out when the show fell in quality, I would’ve missed the pure spectacle that is the final part of this story. I would’ve missed where, apparently, a lot of the animation efforts went.
Marvel Zombies fell so far with this third episode. Every bad habit of the series, it seems, rushed out to the forefront, and the main thing to enjoy ends up being the gore. Not the animation—that’s often awful, full of plastic faces and stiff action scenes. The creative gore specifically makes this episode watchable.
The second part of Marvel Zombies impressed me because of how weird it is, even compared to the first episode. The series really has become the bloody, gory toy box I talked about before, where Marvel characters are put in totally new frameworks.
Considering how episodic the events of the first episode of Marvel Zombies are, it seems only fitting to review each part of this four-part mini-series on its own terms. The first episode certainly gives us a lot to talk about.
Wolf King is the worst show I’ve seen in a long time. It clearly wants to be like Avatar: The Last Airbender (even having a knock-off “my cabbages” joke), but it starts off terrible, predictable, and shoddy, and doesn’t rise all that far from that.
“The Past is The Past” is both an ending I’d want from a show, and way off from what I expected for this show specifically. Or any Marvel show, really.
“Karma’s a Glitch” has the pacing and progression of a movie, and I loved that about it. The series has been building up for so long that just having a bunch of classic superhero moments chained together was deeply satisfying.
I was so concerned during the first half of “Bad Magic.” Nothing seemed to be happening. Riri was sitting in her trauma, and getting increasingly paranoid, but I was genuinely worried that nothing would push the plot forward until the next episode.
“We in Danger, Girl,” could best be described as the consequences episode. Many, many plotlines set up over the last two episodes are all collapsing in. Basically, nothing is going right for the characters—and it was the perfect choice for this show.
