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Top positive review
Long live the Tick!!
April 4, 2019
The only thing disappointing about this show is that there is not more of it!
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Top critical review
Loved Season 1 but Season 2 lost it's laughs and mojo
April 7, 2019
I REALLY enjoyed Season 1 and was happy to hear that the show was picked up for Season 2. Now having seen Season 2, if I was told there will be a Season 3, I'd reply with a "meh, probably won't bother to watch". The characters were the same, they just added a LOT (a LOT!!) of who-cares characters with the typical Hollywood crap of "evil characters are good and good characters are evil". Toss in a huge focus on "red tape" as a major plot point and you wind up with a show that is easy to walk out of the room to get a snack or whatever.
Season 1 succeeded because it was simple ... just like The Tick. Good was good, Evil was evil and he helped those of us dealing with the gray areas in our everyday lives see that with humor. Season 2 just brings more gray
Season 1 succeeded because it was simple ... just like The Tick. Good was good, Evil was evil and he helped those of us dealing with the gray areas in our everyday lives see that with humor. Season 2 just brings more gray
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April 7, 2019
I REALLY enjoyed Season 1 and was happy to hear that the show was picked up for Season 2. Now having seen Season 2, if I was told there will be a Season 3, I'd reply with a "meh, probably won't bother to watch". The characters were the same, they just added a LOT (a LOT!!) of who-cares characters with the typical Hollywood crap of "evil characters are good and good characters are evil". Toss in a huge focus on "red tape" as a major plot point and you wind up with a show that is easy to walk out of the room to get a snack or whatever.
Season 1 succeeded because it was simple ... just like The Tick. Good was good, Evil was evil and he helped those of us dealing with the gray areas in our everyday lives see that with humor. Season 2 just brings more gray
Season 1 succeeded because it was simple ... just like The Tick. Good was good, Evil was evil and he helped those of us dealing with the gray areas in our everyday lives see that with humor. Season 2 just brings more gray
April 7, 2019
The show, and especially season two, would be pretty good if they (writers, creators, etc.) could just try to tapper back their liberal agenda a bit. The not so subtle put downs of Americans, Men, straight people, and the achievements of Western civilization... while constant praise of atheism, main stream media, big government, and girl power subtracts, and distracts greatly from an otherwise amusing story. Though this show has less contempt for classical liberal ideas (or the forbidden conservative ideas) than most television / movie productions, its blatant use of them turns a purposely B rated show into a Failing grade. My advice: Watch re-runs of an 80's show instead.
April 6, 2019
The first season was a good start but I couldn't make it all the way through season two. Too much personal drama, not enough comedy and fun.
April 12, 2019
Seriously. Where was the humor hiding? Multiple episodes about trying to find singing lobsters and then multiple episodes about trying to care for singing lobsters.
There was 1 episode worth of plot stretched out over the entire season.
Sorry, my brain still functions and won't allow me to just blindly claim I like some 12-year-old's rough draft of a script just because it was branded with a cult classic name like The Tick.
There was 1 episode worth of plot stretched out over the entire season.
Sorry, my brain still functions and won't allow me to just blindly claim I like some 12-year-old's rough draft of a script just because it was branded with a cult classic name like The Tick.
April 10, 2019
I thoroughly enjoyed season 1 of the Tick reboot, so when I saw season 2 I was overjoyed. I immediately felt something was wrong after finishing episode 1. It didn't have me laughing nearly as much, if at all, as season 1's first episode. I also just didn't want to continue with another episode, whereas season 1 left me begging for more. As I delved deeper into season 2 I was expecting it to pick itself up with the comedy, but it was just not there. Some semi-funny parts are within, but it just felt void of its own defining self.
I stopped after episode 7 and probably won't finish this season as I don't care for these characters anymore. Arthur and the Tick have been torn apart with the direction of the writing and underwelming development.
I stopped after episode 7 and probably won't finish this season as I don't care for these characters anymore. Arthur and the Tick have been torn apart with the direction of the writing and underwelming development.
April 15, 2019
Season 1 was fantastic. Season 2 has too much filler, everyones a super hero, a lame side story with the lobsterthing, and no clear cut villain until the end when its basically over.
If they had done the predictable, Terror escapes and round two, i think this would have been just as good as season one. They really seemed lost with what to do. Season 1 was so good because it was simple and hilarious.
Hope theres a season 3 with the terror and they ditch the whole avenger rip off thing and just go back to the tick.
If they had done the predictable, Terror escapes and round two, i think this would have been just as good as season one. They really seemed lost with what to do. Season 1 was so good because it was simple and hilarious.
Hope theres a season 3 with the terror and they ditch the whole avenger rip off thing and just go back to the tick.
April 11, 2019
While I still love the series, I couldn't help but notice that I was struggling with even a chuckle most episodes (compared to the first season, where I was laughing constantly at the escapades of Arthur and Tick). Dot getting a superpower, the personal meltdown of Superion, the bureaucratic/lackluster AEGIS...and last but not least, the LACK of focus on the Tick or Arthur...why was all this necessary?
June 22, 2019
The Tick is a great premise/world. i've loved the Tick since it first came out. This adaptation started great. The actors were well selected. The writing was campy and silly when appropriate but with an underlying current of subtle seriousness. Season one was short but sweet (and great).
Season two...? Everything about Season One is in Season two, except it's a little disjointed/distracting when too many separate threads going in separate directions (but not too badly). Sadly, this show, like most now-a-days, caught the SJW infection plaguing all modern media. The plot, acting, writing, and theme are all suddenly weighted down with a need for girl-power (and girl-power-supporting plots) at every opportunity and position, which contributes to the distraction and corrupts the enjoyment by simply knowing the SJW propaganda machine is ever-present. Lobstercules, Dot (his sister), Ms Lint, Bob, etc, plus some typical (but subtle) preachy elements like Dot's "I can do whatever I want to do. Don't tell me how to live my life, Arthur, blah blah." to the cleverly disguised Amendment 28 theme symbolizing how villains "hide behind masks" and suggesting it's actually bad to NOT be able to reveal (DOX) these evil people All these mentioned things are already evident in the first couple episodes and continue from there, through the second season. However, it's not so bad as to ruin the series (like many shows). You can watch it and gain enjoyment despite the SJW infection.
Unfortunately, infections spread, and this will almost definitely be the last tolerable season, as the next, if there is one, will likely be further infected with even more forced diversity, power-girl bias, and SJW propagandizing, all at the expense of focused plot, theme, and dialogue. Lost two stars just for ruining another great show by infecting it with those cancerous RL agendas which have no place in fantasy worlds.
Season two...? Everything about Season One is in Season two, except it's a little disjointed/distracting when too many separate threads going in separate directions (but not too badly). Sadly, this show, like most now-a-days, caught the SJW infection plaguing all modern media. The plot, acting, writing, and theme are all suddenly weighted down with a need for girl-power (and girl-power-supporting plots) at every opportunity and position, which contributes to the distraction and corrupts the enjoyment by simply knowing the SJW propaganda machine is ever-present. Lobstercules, Dot (his sister), Ms Lint, Bob, etc, plus some typical (but subtle) preachy elements like Dot's "I can do whatever I want to do. Don't tell me how to live my life, Arthur, blah blah." to the cleverly disguised Amendment 28 theme symbolizing how villains "hide behind masks" and suggesting it's actually bad to NOT be able to reveal (DOX) these evil people All these mentioned things are already evident in the first couple episodes and continue from there, through the second season. However, it's not so bad as to ruin the series (like many shows). You can watch it and gain enjoyment despite the SJW infection.
Unfortunately, infections spread, and this will almost definitely be the last tolerable season, as the next, if there is one, will likely be further infected with even more forced diversity, power-girl bias, and SJW propagandizing, all at the expense of focused plot, theme, and dialogue. Lost two stars just for ruining another great show by infecting it with those cancerous RL agendas which have no place in fantasy worlds.
April 7, 2019
I enjoyed watching season two with one exception - What About The Suit? Arthur wore the suit for the entire season and Never Used It. WTF? I would have used all of the functions if I wore it. The only function that was used was the phone. I almost feel like three stars was too much but I did enjoy watching.
December 6, 2019
Clever word play & subtle innuendo added to Patrick Warburton's natural hilarious abilities were what made the 2001 series great. This version is falling short of the mark & getting worse every episode. Get out of Aegis & stroll around w/the commoners , that's where the funny is. Camp isn't funny , ask anyone a block away from your studio. (No the other direction.) Show me an example where lobsters were funny , ever. Get more writers or pay the ones you have. The Tick is supposed to be a anti super hero by cluelessness unfortunately it is slowly rubbing off on the director.
