Spider-Noir - Season 1

Surprisingly good Noir story wrapped in a Spiderman skin. I really love that they doubled down on the theme rather than making it _just another superhero story._ The whole thing was really well put together. Everybody's talking about Nic Cage (well deserved) but all the actors killed it in their roles. I especially loved Li Jun Li as the femme fatale, she stole the scene every time. The cinematography was also excellent aside from some shoddy CGI (especially in the first 2 episodes). I didn't love it at first, the starting episode was so heavy on exposition and so fast paced to try and set up every character. The season slowly gets better as it goes on though, **especially** starting from episode 4. P.S. Black and white is so much better it's not even a contest. The whole thing was clearly filmed for B/W I genuiney don't get why people would watch it any other way.

I'll be concise. The series is good technically, like writing, directing, acting are good. But there is a problem with the Spider-Noir costume that lacks common sense. Unfortunately, they choose the absurd costume that doesn't work in real world. The perfect costume of Spider-Noir is from the videogame "Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions". It has realistic leather pilot jacket and pilot googles. They obviously missed this. The series is good technically, but the choice of the absurd costume is stupid.

Disney could learn from this. It isn't woke, it doesn't lecture to the audiance, at no point in time does it go out of it's way to attack white people, straight people, men, conservatives, Christians, Jews, or any other group that it's popular to hate on the tolerant left.... ... and, it doesn't take a hard right lean either, not that many things in Hollywood do, but I don't want to see right wing politics anymore than I want to see left wing politics in my entertainment... I just want escapism. In fact, it's deliciously modern politics and mythical modern audiance free. That being out of the way, I know Cage said that he took his inspiration from Boogie but really he seems like he's doing a Jimmy Stewart Call Northside 777 impression for at least the first 4 episodes, after which you start seeing some of the Bogart he claimed. Either way.... it's fun. The Black and White is fun. The music is... meh it's not bad but it's not really fitting all the time, and it's easy to overlook. It certainly loses something when it goes to color, some of the colors pop too much for the Noir feel and it leans more into comic book orange suits, takes you a bit out of the Noir, and when you binge it, it seems to switch betten then from episode to episode. It doesn't really follow the comics, you have Spider-Clone Ben rather than Peter, and Cage is a WWI vet rather than his uncle, but Cage is older than the character in the comis and it works well regardless. At the end of the day you have a fun mini-series that is just made to entertain and escape the world and that is what we as an audiance want from entertainment.... that's all we want from entertainment.