MARVEL TV HAIRVERSE ASSEMBLE: Inhumans

this does not look very good, despite the few tantalising glimpses of super-adorbs lockjaw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU9Z6cKsbY0

when the most appealing aspect of your show previews is the animated dog

the most appealing aspect but presumably the most expensive, too, so we probably won't even get much screentime for everyone's favourite teleporting slobbermonster

the food is terrible! and such small portions!

At least we finally see Medusa's hair moving, but it looks pretty bad.

This is the first Marvel TV thing that looked like a CW DC TV thing. Which isn't the worst thing in the world, I watch all of that CW stuff, but it's decidedly lower tier and trashier stuff. I'll reserve judgment until I've actually seen the thing.

Things and stuff.

Iron Fist suggests that the justly-vaunted MCU quality control might be starting to slip a bit.

I think the ABC stuff and Netflix stuff are two quality control teams? idk

And the Freeform stuff seems to be another group developing things, although I guess in theory Loeb or whoever is overseeing a few of these areas

Yeah, I think there are separate production teams for each network (or streaming service or whatever the hell blanket term we're using for these things nowadays) and Jeph Loeb oversees all of it. Which, y'know...questionable decision, Marvel. Just sayin'.

Is that Lindsey Lohan?

Yeah. I don't know why they put someone that famous inside a giant dog costume, but it works.

A note from a member of the cast

http://io9.gizmodo.com/an-open-letter-from-medusas-inhumans-wig-1797117353

"hair is one of the trickiest things to animate, but it's 2017 and I'm sure by now.." *watches footage*

oh god, no

If they weren't going to expend every effort to make sure it looked right, I honestly wish they would've just gone the old school half-assed route. Like have a couple of PAs standing behind her spraying red silly string at the camera or something.

this looks predictably awful

It's so sad to watch a Shakey's unwavering MCU fandom die.

hey this dead horse isn't going to beat itself

Oh, fuuuuuuuck, I didn't realize that Scott Buck (of Iron Fist infamy) was the showrunner on this, as well. It's getting shitty reviews, apparently. God damn it, Marvel. At least it looks like he's been fired from Iron Fist season 2.

Another smash success!

http://io9.gizmodo.com/it-sounds-like-inhumans-latest-press-panel-didnt-go-so-1797600149

Well hey, they figured out the hair at least.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=014XT8PHT6s

A blaze of glory!

http://renewcanceltv.com/inhumans-cancelled-no-season-2-already-abc-promotes-complete-series/

https://media.tenor.com/images/a218aed0ff97e1acaa1034e067f886e1/tenor.gif

Clearly they should have just done this instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNB5DIOGGgc

And finally, the blaze of glory that was...INHUMANS!

https://io9.gizmodo.com/everything-that-happened-in-inhumans-for-those-of-you-1820404960

Aye, reading that far more fulfilling than watching any of the series. Really was dreadful stuff.

wow that even made for a couple of minutes of miserable reading.

I only watched one scene of this where Ken Leung was tied up in a shack with three people standing over him and he went through a convoluted Rube Goldberg-esque escape simulation started by launching his chair into a pole, only when he went to execute it he sort of bounced off and fell on the floor, still tied to the chair. I felt like nothing else in the series was going to top this and left the room.

the curse of FF related characters continues

So I should watch this, right?

It's the only MCU thing I haven't watched. All signs point to no.

Ha I totally forgot this existed, I thought it was about that other one starring Angelina Jolie. And if you told me that also had come and gone already on TV I would believe you, cuz as of right now I have no interest in seeing that one either.

Well, fwiw Inhumans is meant to be actively bad. Based on the first season of Iron Fist and what little of the tail end of Dexter I've seen (all by the same showrunner), I'm disinclined to argue.