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Rainbow Bakes: 40 Show-Stopping Sweet Treats

Mima Sinclair

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Taste the rainbow with this celebration of colour and creativity! Mima Sinclair has pulled out all...

The Icecreamists: Boutique Ice Creams and Other Guilty Pleasures to Make and Enjoy at Home

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Infamous creators of the Sex Bomb and Baby Googoo - The Icecreamists are passionate about ice cream...

David McK (3369 KP) rated Loki - Season 1 in TV

Jul 25, 2021

Loki - Season 1

2021 | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

6.4

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The most recent (at the time of writing) of Marvels post-Endgame TV series (after both WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) and, once again, this is a very different beast than any of those two previous.

In this one, Tom Hiddleston portrays Loki, as he was just after stealing the Tesseract during the time travel heist of Avengers: Endgame ie before this version of him had lived through those events that occurred after Avengers Assemble (eg Thor: Dark World, Ragnorak, Infinity War etc etc) and is almost immediately arrested by the Time Variance Authority (the TVA), an organisation whose sole purpose is to police the 'sacred timeline'.

Over the course of the series, things prove not always to be as they seem, with this series also (or so I've heard) leading directly into Marvels phase 4 of the MCU.

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Cori June (3033 KP) Jul 27, 2021

I'd say it's because it's slow. There's a lot of exposition and it can be draggy. That would be why I'd rate it lower. Worth watching, just be aware.

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Erika (17788 KP) Jul 28, 2021

I disliked the show completely, the only reason I rated it as high as a 5 is because when I averaged the ratings for each episode, the 2 good episodes outweighed the other trash episodes.
It was boring, it turned Loki into a vanilla-boring character, and the writing was terrible. The only reason I continued after the 3rd episode is because of Hiddleston, as I'm a huge fan, and he said that eps 4 and 5 were where it got more interesting. Episode 4 was an abomination. The plot was nonsensical and Hiddleston's acting was cringey. Seriously, the Ragnarok flashdance hair flip occurring multiple times was odd and annoying. I'm in the minority, I apparently watched a completely different show. It caused me to have zero interest in the MCU beyond Shang Chi.

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Awix (3310 KP) rated Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020) in Movies

Oct 7, 2020

Almost certainly one of the best three Bill & Ted movies. The amiable rockers (now middle-aged and not exactly successful) discover they really do have to write the song that will save the world, or reality will explode.

More of the same as the first three, really: either deceptively clever or deceptively stupid, depending on where you're standing, with very funny performances from Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter, who spend most of the film acting opposite themselves in increasingly outlandish prosthetic make-up. Rather generously, much of the film is given to their daughters, in a plotline leading up to a rather predictable climactic twist (clearly, white dudes are not capable of doing anything worthwhile any more). The message of the world coming together through song rings a bit false right now, but that's hardly the movie's fault). Amusing and difficult to dislike.