My husband is behind on Prodigy and we are both behind on Lower Decks so this weekend we watched 1 episode of Prodigy (Ascension Pt 2), the first episode of season 5 of Lower Decks, and the 1st episode of season 3 of Strange New Worlds.
IMO Prodigy is the best of all the new trek shows. I love it and wish it could go on forever, it is just so WHOLESOME. Makes sense that it would get cancelled though; my kids had their own Netflix Kids accounts and Prodigy did not even crack the Trending Kids top ten the first weekend season 2 dropped. That's when I knew it was over. On another Prodigy side note, since I already loved the show I had the action figures pre-ordered and had the blu-rays when Paramount announced it was not making a season 3 and sold season 2 to Netflix. So that week there was a run on the blurays and action figures but I already had mine (blu rays in hand and action figures on order. Whew! My biggest disappointment is that the Rock-Tok figure got canceled.
Husband liked the Lower Decks episode and it was cute but I haven't been consistently feeling the show since season 2.
Strange New Worlds was okay, the digestive tract thing just made me think of the cotton candy cocoons in Killer Clowns from Outer Space. I don't care enough about the Captain's girlfriend or Spock/Chapel's relationship for that plot to interest me. When #1 and Uhura brief Pike on the sun EM rays I thought they were planning on faking that light show so I was slightly confused when they got the idea to do that later in the episode. Overall its fine though. Hope the Gorn stuff is over because I prefer Star Trek to WarTrek.
While I was away I watched ALL of Riverdale as it aired; I've always enjoyed Archie comics from childhood through adulthood, so the show was enjoyable. The art direction really should have gotten some award recognition because the set designs were phenomenal, as were the costumes. Season 2 sucked ass, season 3 was the best because it was bug-fuck insane, season 1 was second best but you could legitimately argue it was the best because it was a cohesive story. Season 4 was boring and repetitive but some of it was creepy good and they had a really fun episode that was a riff off of Lois Duncan's Killing Mr. Griffin. Season 5 was great, the best of the later seasons. Season 6 wasn't really my thing but it had its moments. Season 7 had PROBLEMS. The finale was awful.