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Spitting Image: Christmas Special (2021)
Incredibly Vague Hatred
While the original Spitting Image was full of direct and cutting critiques, this new one seems to know so little and hate so much that their criticisms are vague and nonsensical (not to mention entirely unfunny).
Jokes seem almost randomly targeted, as if the writers have no idea who they're lampooning. Since when were Prince William and Adele the main proponents of better mental health? Any satire is surface-level at deepest; Boris Johnson is fat, Kier Starmer is boring and Nicola Sturgeon is Scottish and that's as far as they go. Any further and they'd have to have an opinion on something.
There's also just a vague resentment to anything progressive. There are no actual criticisms, all they can muster is a disdain for anything in a positive direction. Whatever reasons they give are so paper thin that it boils down to, for instance, "climate activists are sometimes insincere, therefore we shouldn't do anything about climate change."
Regardless of political leaning, it's so clear that the writer's are either lazy or incredibly boring. It's probably both.
Game of Thrones: The Iron Throne (2019)
Excellent ending dragged down by the context of the rest of the series
I decided to watch Game of Thrones a couple of weeks ago after seeing Last of the Starks. I caught what I thought was some foreshadowing of a possible ending, which seemed ridiculous to everyone else, and in fact to me once I started watching the show in full.
Maybe it's the fact that I watched the entire show in 10 days, but I found this ending quite fitting, even if a lot of the Daenerys arc was rushed towards the end.
In the context of the show, however, this episode is an excellent cap. If the previous revelations of this series had been given enough time to unfold properly, I don't think this episode would be any different. Other episodes of this last series might fall short, but I don't think this excellent finale deserves to be dragged down by them.