It's missing something in terms of a transition threads. There's no scene where he says to her I'm gonna go play D&D, I'll meet you back here later, or gets a phone call during D&D and says I have to leave the game. Him being in both places feels stuffed together and haphazard, as if they originally had them happen on different nights and then decided to try to do a montage with those two events and the basketball game. Hence bad editing.

Not that this is my only criticism of the show editing wise. Is there thought put into how the separate plots in this episode combine together to create one flow or are cumulative thematically? Is there any meaning from going from "Eddie and cheerleader in the woods" to "Eleven gets bullied" to "Joyce deals with hanging bucket thing" in the span of like 3 minutes. Or is it just we have these separate plots so let's just find some place to put them next to each other. I think if you gave me all the separate plotlines in a Stranger Things episode and asked me to put them together on movie maker I wouldn't do that much worse of a job.

Don't care about the awards... I mean people are overrating Netflix including award voters.

Good directing/editing isn't showing off with some rehearsed one take sequence or drenching a show with blue light, it's usually more subtle than that like how to pace the episode to make it better... which obviously I don't think Netflix is good at.

One example off the top of my head... Stranger Things season 4 episode 1 is one of the shittiest editing jobs I've ever seen. The sequence of Eddie talking to the cheerleader, him then also being in the D&D game and then going back to the Eddie/cheerleader trailer scene was appalling.

Current list of scripted shows I watch ftr

Succession, Barry, The Rehearsal, House of the Dragon, The White Lotus

Hacks, Harley Quinn

For All Mankind, The Morning Show, Foundation, The Afterparty, Servant, Ted Lasso, Slow Horses, Mythic Quest, Severance

The Boys, The Rings of Power

The Mandalorian

Only Murders in the Building

Ghosts

+ just started the Last of Us and Velma, on the fence with Night Court

Not even that big a fan of multi cam sitcoms tbh.

They're 0 for a million as far as I'm concerned including some of the most overrated shows of this era like Stranger Things, The Crown, Ozark, and Bojack. Their best shows aren't even as good as the Rings of Power.

These people aren't even against Velma because of the race swapping, half the haters are leftists who are supposed to be on the other side politically, so it makes no sense. They're just hating it because social media talking about Velma has some sort of energy they want to engage in on a social level, this is the drug. This is why redpilled and based are different things, redpill is just about spouting right wing views, but a based person came to those views for the right reasons such as asking whether it adds up logically and not just because they heard someone else saying them or being right wing and anti-establishment seems cool.

It's easy to wrongly assume Mindy is creator because it's modelled after her style, Velma is like an animated Mindy Lahari.

If I remember correctly they get out of the KGB commitment way too "easy" in a way that's just bad writing. Elizabeth gets out by telling Claudia they're out and Claudia basically just has to accept it. There is no climactic escape from the KGB who are trying take out their assets that know too much.

This show got overrated by critics in the post Mad Men pre Succession period who were trying to find their next canon drama, and talked themselves into it and the Leftovers. The show is not really polished enough to feel like a great prestige drama but not really going all in on pulp entertainment value either.

Netflix overly stacked Dec 2021 to mid 2022 in The Witcher, Emily in Paris, Ozark, Bridgerton, Stranger Things, Umbrella Academy, etc. So as a result there was a vacuum in the second half and something had to succeed.

Succession is more black comedy-ish than Yellowstone to me. The plot can be compared to it a bit but they're two of many film or shows with King Lear-ish elements.

I wonder if they intentionally planned to move it back one day from its original release date just so they could get a new headline out of it.

It's mostly not astroturfing, it's just people are collectivists who want to join in when they see something buzzy and therefore have talked themselves into Andor being this good (and imo seeing something that's not really there). The critics are just trying to get views from the Andor trendsters. Disney might have started the snowball but everything after that is people organically overrating it because they saw other people overrating it. Now as a result of this Andor will probably be one of the best reviewed dramas on TV for the rest of its run. Because one day (possibly with Disney starting the snowball), it became buzzy.