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Season 4 is based on "Drums of Autumn" and gives us Claire and Jamie's stories from America. It's not exactly easy to get used to a completely new environment after the hardships of Europe. Not to mention the fact that it used to be all based on the feel of a female Highlander, but now it's a full-on Angelique (in Quebec). Most importantly, this is Brianna’s first role, and her Roger, Claire, and Jamie are already playing the roles of a generation with their best behind them and not many prospects ahead of them. Their strong romance thus can't be the reason to keep coming back to Outlander. That’s too bad. But of course the saga continues.

I have a fundamental problem with Shea Fontana's idea for DC Super Hero Girls. The intention is clear and economically logical. DC needed to get more out of their characters and wanted to indulge a segment that has long been neglected. So okay, girls need as much new and modern content for their age and lots and lots of potential role models, and DC high school girls are actually very colorful and fun... but is it okay to have child versions of characters in adult comics who impersonate the goddess of war, don't hesitate to rob, murder, etc.? To make my example clearer, would you really want a children's version of Hannibal Lecter? DC is a strange world in which there are such things as preschool versions of their heroes, the Tiny Titans, but who is their target audience really? Real kids or enlightened mature fans? Despite this paradox, the DC Super Hero Girls are occupying toy stores and now also the DVD market. And after all, I have to admit that their 2D films are better than the Lego versions. Still, I'd rather have little girls have someone other than teen Harley Quinn or Katana and Catwoman as role models.

The combination of Lego DC and DC Super Hero Girls is a bit... unnecessary. I understand that it's not really even a real cartoon, but a platform that sells more and more toys. But unfortunately, more of the DC world comes to us mostly in this form, and it's a shame. These Lego girls are too forte for my tastes, but of course, the next installment is coming out right away, so anyone who survived this one will surely enjoy Super-Villain High.

I like that this time the film starring Lucky Four is a short story. By the end I was in a nice Christmas mood, but unfortunately, the premiere was in April ;) A bit of an understatement is the selection of trailers for really professional animated films, which are in a completely different league. So anything from Toy Story 4 to Ugly Dolls is greatly overshadowed by the 2nd film based on Jaroslav Němeček's "Great Adventure of the Lucky Four." However, the afternoon performances are full, the kids are excited, and the parents pay for whole groups of little ones and their snacks, so it must make sense to someone. I'm sorry to say that the current Lucky Four is no longer for the whole family. And even though the annoying PP from the first film hasn't returned, the stories are once again educational. Will there be a next time?

Once upon a time... but it wasn't a fairy tale. The new Hellboy is interesting in many individual ways, pleasingly literal for readers of Mignola's comics, but unfortunately, it doesn't work as a whole. The previous films are still great and the cartoons are even better.

The final series is once again great. I didn't expect this. The hangover from the polygamous outing is great. It would be a mistake to leave the story without an ending. The community is getting one slap after another, and there's even been eugenics. Wife #1 drinks, Wife #2 is raising her daughter from her first marriage, Wife #3 was underage when she got married... poor Bill. And on top of that, he's got problems with his mother and two living mothers-in-law. These polygamous reforms are not easy to enforce. As a treat, there's also the Grant Show, which I appreciate anytime I see it. The question of polygamy in modern society, the rise of Mormonism, and the lessons of the conquest of the Wild West, when the good people of Utah had to give up their nature just to become part of the USA, are all left for us to ponder. Was it really necessary to sacrifice polygamy for the very gradual emancipation of 20th-century America? The suffragettes have a story to tell.

In this series, Bill is running for office. It turns out that the Mormon series came in handy in the era of 2008 and 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. This former Massachusetts governor is now a senator from Utah. Everything else is still one big family drama, and it’s actually nothing special if you combine such a large family and a disorganized religion. Wife #1 works hard in a casino on an Indian reservation, wife #2 is trying to get pregnant, wife #3 is an entrepreneur, and ex-wife #4 is... pregnant. Yeah, the son of the former prophet is a latent homosexual. The next series will be the last.

Season 3 of Big Love is a disappointment. I was hoping we'd learn more about the process of welcoming a 4th woman into Bill's family, but why such awkwardness? A quick backyard wedding and then hysterical fights between which woman the new one will live with? Is there no path of self-discovery and search for harmony? And then there's the crap in the community, the abortions, the murders, the nonsense... Betrayal follows betrayal. The series is shorter, but excommunication somehow managed to find its way in there. I will watch the end of the series with a dose of bitterness. My enthusiasm is gone.

Another season of stories of a polygamous family. Drama follows drama, religious communities war with each other, and the more we get to know the main characters of the story, the more plastic their problems become. We get to know the families of the wives and the older children get more space. Amanda Seyfried is very good as the bumbling daughter who doesn't know what to do with her family's legacy. And here comes the important part. Can Bill handle a 4th woman?

There's nothing easier than sailing straight into the suburbs of Salt Lake City, because life for a family of eleven living in three houses with a shared yard and a fairly regular schedule is really interesting. Bill runs a chain of malls and takes good care of all three of his wives. As the episodes progress, all the main characters become very plastic. We get to know their values, family, and characters and there is no room for even a second of boredom. The parallel with how we normal people live is not clear at first glance, but all people in the world just want a place in the sun, a roof over their heads, and a little bit of love. The vicissitudes of a marriage of four people are interesting, unexpected, and well-acted.