CaptainMarvel

Really enjoyed it. Funny characters well played without the meanness order awkwardness of some "comedies".

We gave it three episodes because we wanted to like it. I believe there is absolutely wonderful fodder for a great series here. There's an abundant source of conflict, an interesting period in time, and lots of topics to explore (politics, war, courage, medicine, slavery, etc.). However, it comes across so very poorly. Every character seems to wear his/her particular thing on his sleeve and be somehow one-dimensional even when they are going to change at some later point. It is very clear what each and every person is going to "learn" as time goes by from the moment you meet the character. There were opportunities to fix this in writing, direction, acting, etc. but nobody seems to transcend the problems this material has. Or perhaps what they got was way way worse than we realize and they're all putting in a herculean effort to get it up to where it is.