Blogocentric Formulations

September Watch List

To qualify for my Watch List every month, the following has to be something that I've watched that's new to me. It doesn't necessarily have to be a current show, but it can't be reruns or rewatches of something I've already seen. So if I'm including it in this list, it means this month is the first time I've watched it. I'll put "DNF" (Did Not Finish) next to anything that I stopped watching and have no immediate plans to finish.


Movies

          The Beekeeper
          Damsel
          Megamind vs. The Doom Syndicate
          The Union
          The Wild Robot


Television

          Nobody Wants This
          The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives
          Selling Sunset (Season 8)


I watched quite a few movies this month that I thought were okay but not great. The Beekeeper was an okay Jason Statham action movie. The Union was an okay Mark Wahlberg action comedy. Damsel was a pretty good Millie Bobby Brown action fantasy movie. Megamind vs. The Doom Syndicate was a not-very-good direct-to-streaming sequel to a so-so animated movie that's almost fifteen years old. The Wild Robot was a pretty touching animated movie about parenting.

The television content was okay. The latest season of Selling Sunset was fine... more of the same... and The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives was interesting but a little less of an expose on women in Mormon culture and more about a group of women fixating on their experience as social media influencers, which is not a topic that I find particularly interesting. Nobody Wants This, on the other hand, was delightful. Despite the terribly generic name that doesn't do it any favors, it's a really charming romantic comedy starring Kristen Bell as a non-religious sex/relationships podcaster who falls for a rabbi who's religious tradition and the expectations of his family and friends of course requires him to be with someone of the Jewish faith. It was genuinely smart, funny, and charming romantic comedy. I really hope they greenlight a second season soon.


TOP PICK: Nobody Wants This