After being shamelessly bailed on about going to see black widow (courtesy of my own father), I sat clueless, in distress and to be quite frankly disappointed from the prospect I can’t get my horrible review of black widow out of it’s rubber. And I remembered the show I watched quite a few weeks ago, invincible and I am happy to share this review with you today.
Invincible is simply a fantastic show, reinventing a genre that was becoming stale and predictable into an exciting yet familiar look into the superhero genre. Going into this show I had little to no expectations, thinking this was some sort of show to rebrand from the superhero hysteria that we know today, and I was so very wrong. It’s humor of it’s characters and the performances that grasps you further into the world Robert Kirkman creates is simply remarkable, it’s twist in the end of the first episode left me hooked, begging for more and it subverted my expectations that’s for sure.
The performances here are incredible, the spotlight here goes to Steven Yeun as Mark Grayson, perfectly capturing his childhood innocence of a seventeen year old perfectly. This show would not be as grounding without it’s cast, but that came at a cost. They spent more money on it’s talented cast than they did actual animation, you can tell where they cut corners and sometimes I thought I was watching a ms paint animation that me five years ago would have made, it ruins the immersion but it’s expected to how exceptional the voice acting is, and it was worth the sacrifice.
It turns all the superhero tropes out there and turns them on its head, it’s dark and riveting and gory, much like the boys, and to be quite honest it manages to be more violent than the boys. Having such a shocking plot twist at the start of the first episode it really struggled to grasp me with many of the side plots that occurred throughout the show. With how compelling and well written the main characters are you want to see more of them but the script is trying to jam other characters that aren’t very engaging at times, it crams quite a lot and it feels overstuffed and self-indulgent at times.
The characters are very well written, the spotlight definitely goes to omni-man, omni-man is such a well-written and fascinating character and I can’t wait to see where his character goes in future seasons, i won’t spoil anything as I would be urging anybody with a prime subscription to give this a watch and come back to this review. I can’t wait to see how they develop these characters in future seasons and where the story will go after it’s brutal season finale.
Invincible is simply a fantastic show, reinventing a genre that was becoming stale and predictable into an exciting yet familiar look into the superhero genre. Going into this show I had little to no expectations, thinking this was some sort of show to rebrand from the superhero hysteria that we know today, and I was so very wrong. It’s humor of it’s characters and the performances that grasps you further into the world Robert Kirkman creates is simply remarkable, it’s twist in the end of the first episode left me hooked, begging for more and it subverted my expectations that’s for sure.
The performances here are incredible, the spotlight here goes to Steven Yeun as Mark Grayson, perfectly capturing his childhood innocence of a seventeen year old perfectly. This show would not be as grounding without it’s cast, but that came at a cost. They spent more money on it’s talented cast than they did actual animation, you can tell where they cut corners and sometimes I thought I was watching a ms paint animation that me five years ago would have made, it ruins the immersion but it’s expected to how exceptional the voice acting is, and it was worth the sacrifice.
It turns all the superhero tropes out there and turns them on its head, it’s dark and riveting and gory, much like the boys, and to be quite honest it manages to be more violent than the boys. Having such a shocking plot twist at the start of the first episode it really struggled to grasp me with many of the side plots that occurred throughout the show. With how compelling and well written the main characters are you want to see more of them but the script is trying to jam other characters that aren’t very engaging at times, it crams quite a lot and it feels overstuffed and self-indulgent at times.
The characters are very well written, the spotlight definitely goes to omni-man, omni-man is such a well-written and fascinating character and I can’t wait to see where his character goes in future seasons, i won’t spoil anything as I would be urging anybody with a prime subscription to give this a watch and come back to this review. I can’t wait to see how they develop these characters in future seasons and where the story will go after it’s brutal season finale.
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