Cinepals - ARCANE 1x4 "Happy Progress Day!" Reaction & Review!

Episode Date: June 11, 2024

For the first time, Kristen & Michael watch the hit Netflix series "Arcane," an animated series set in the "League of Legends" universe, exploring the origin stories of iconic characters Jinx and Vi amidst the escalating tensions between the utopian city of Piltover and the oppressed underground of Zaun. This show stars: Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit & Bumblebee), Ella Purnell (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children & Fallout The Series), Kevin Alejandro (Lucifer & Southland), Katie Leung (Harry Potter series & The Foreigner), Jason Spisak (Young Justice & The Legend of Korra), Toks Olagundoye (Castle & The Neighbors), J.B. Blanc (Breaking Bad & The Count of Monte Cristo), and Harry Lloyd (Game of Thrones & The Theory of Everything). 

Sina. Pound. What's up guys? It's Chris and Semis Pinot, joined by Mr. Bombostick, Michael Boos. Yeah, to get one in. Hello, hello. I can't. I can't.

Season one, episode four, Arcade, and I cannot keep talking to you. So we're going to jump right into it. Oh, shoot. Just logged your head. Yes or no. Oh, hey. Oh, my gosh. She's in prison.

Yep, she's been locked away in prison this entire time. Who the hell are you? We finally see her and you cut us off? I figured that's what they were going to do. If I'm honest, I had a sneaking suspicion that they were going to do the Vi-reveal and cut us off. Boy, oh my God. I've been dying to see her this whole thing. Powder is mental.

Yes, no, she's insane. She's off her rocker. I know. And I love it. It's so great. Right. She's unpredictable. She's insane.

Yeah. She's living up to her new name as a jinx. She is a jinx. She is still a jinx. She is still a jinx. She is still a very much a jinks. Which I appreciate and like, she's definitely like a Joker, Harley Quinn, like, vibes are shining hard right now because she just gives zero Fs about anything. She's like, ha, la, no.

And I'm like, oh my God, child, you need a doctor. I love her just like blinking in and out of like existing. when she's just on her own. Yeah. She, like, it scrambles, and then suddenly she's closer to the camera, and then suddenly she's farther away. How sad is it that she made our friends?

I know. I know. And she's so haunted by it. I like what they do, where she's having her, like, visions and you get the, like, graffiti faces and everything like that. I think that's a clever little stylistic choice.

Because, like, whenever you're portraying mental illness, you know, there's a certain degree of, like, do you leave it up to the character depiction to depict it, or do you actually take the, opportunity to stylistically present their own or what's going on in their head. And so I think I like this version where she's having these like shadow visions and she like has snippets. And you can tell her snippets of these memories have been corrupted in some way, whether

that's her own trauma or that's her boss whispering in her ear. But you can tell because she was remembering all these happy memories with Vi when she first had that traumatic flashback. And then Vi's face kept getting scratched out by like the evil like graffiti version or like the trauma version of Vi. And I think that's a really, really interesting way to kind of present the way

happy memories can be mutated or transmuted by trauma. Yeah. I think it's very, very cool. Don't disagree on anything you just said right now. When we first saw,

when we first saw the girl she was fighting that looked like her sister, immediately I knew it wasn't her. Like I thought for a second, maybe a second, but then afterwards I was like, there's no way she'd be that week. There's no way.

No, there's no way. She was too weak. And I'm like, that's not her. But at first, so I was like, oh my God, it's her. And then when she was like, oh, I was like, it's not her. Um, that was a good fake out, though. Was it a good fake out.

I'm like, it's too soon. And I really enjoy the, the establishing of jinx as a new character versus powder. You know, powder, we have sweet, lovable, innocent. And now jinks, we have this kind of cracked out crazy, you know, a little trauma baby. And I did a really good job. Again, the way they do these characterizations and things like that, they did a really good job. They're doing a really good job. And I'm enjoying the political intrigue that's being.

set up with Chase on the council. That's very interesting. I think it's a good thing that he's on the council now personally. I think he's making really wise and safe decisions and he's really taking advice and like listening paying attention.

Absolutely. Which I love. I was a little bit worried that he might go the route of I'm just a scientist, let's just go. I know. I was worried that he'd be pushed too many times. But he's like, he's responded really well every time he's met an obstacle. And I think that's what

makes Jace so great. And like the right person to be on the council for the heckstack stuff. And I think I'm like, I'm liking that they're keeping him humble and they're keeping him wise and holding back versus just go, go, go. Because you know, you feel the want and the desire for him to just be like, pull the lug, just do it. You know, and for him to like have self control over all that is like, it's nice to see. It's a good balance, especially when you have somebody like, Miss Pepper who's like going

just apeshit. I mean powder. Oh, did I say pepper again? You did say pepper again. Mother, Teresa. Whatever. Pepper is a cute name to. I agree.

I am powder. Yeah, powder. You know what I'm talking about if I'm saying pepper, like, my bad. I am interested to see because you initially were suspicious of Victor, and I was giving him the benefit of the doubt, but now that there seems to be a clock on Victor's failing health. Are you feeling? I'm wondering if he's going to come back later on and be that person that's like, we need to push the science, we need to push it now, we got to get it out there.

And if that's going to drive it. a rift between him and Jace. I mean, it might. It might. I'm enjoying the ride, and I'm going to wait to see what happens in the next one. But you guys, let us know your thoughts in the comments. And if you're enjoying this and you want to be on Target, on point. When we drop that next episode, please subscribe, has the bell icons and all notifications

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