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Netflix have cancelled Daredevil. Can only assume this is to do with Marvel/Disney's incoming streaming service, because I thought the buzz on Daredevil S3 was pretty strong (I certainly enjoyed it, and it's far and away the best of the street-level MCU/Netflix ventures).
I thought it ended in a good place though. Much as I would like more, at the end of S3 i felt OK with it ending there.
 
I’ll put in a good word for the Lost in Space remake. I was going to give up after the first two episodes, which are focused on a peril-of-the-week but after that the characters become more interesting, there are twists and turns and the series becomes quite involving. As sci-fi reboots go, I thought this was far more entertaining than Star Trek Discovery. The female leads are especially good. Molly Parker is tough as nails as the mother and Parker Posey is a more conflicted “Dr. Smith”.

I was never much of a fan of the camp original series and or of the awful 90s movie and I think this is by far the best incarnation of the premise. The robot is pretty cool and even the kids aren’t too annoying.
 
Amazon's a pain the arse...some stuff is free and then suddenly it's not...stuff comes and goes fairly regular, so even if you add stuff to your watch list it can vanish or become pay for view after a while..
 
It's basically 2 quid a week for Amazon or two quid a week of Netflix, neither or both. Fwiw, my cousin buys Netflix for 12 months for his mum as a Christmas present.
 
With it being Mrs MickiQ's favourite time of year Netflix becomes yet another portal for inflicting "Holiday Films" on the family so far we have watched The Man Who Invented Christmas which is about Dickens writing A Christmas Carok, not really an Xmas film, It wastes a decent cast of Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce and Dan Stevens on a mediocre plot, The Princess Switch a by the numbers identity swap romcom, It's a good job that Vanessa Hudgens is an attractive young woman since my kitchen table can act rings around her, I could feel my teeth rotting as I watched it's that sugary sweet.
The Christmas Prince, other than don't bother the less said about that the better.
The total surprise was the Christmas Chronicles a tale about 2 kifs accidentally ambushing Santa and causing him to crash his sled. This is actually quite entertaining with something very funny bits, It shouldn't work but it does mainly due to casting Kurt Russell as Santa Claus.
 
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