Another disc that I bought the week it streeted, only to watch it kick around from shelf to tub to box, unopened for all these years. Fortunately enough time had passed since my last viewing of it that I forgot enough specific details to still keep it tense and exciting. And I was in the absolute perfect, paranoid mood for it

The live action equivalent of an 8 page Marvel back-up feature in a higher profile characters book. I'm digging this show much more than I ever expected and the natural references to Steve Rogers that pop up occasionally retroactively make CA:TFA seem much more substantial than it actually played at the time. And for what seemed like just a filler series, there's an enormous amount of honest affection for the era on display.

It may not hit some of the heights the Berlanti DC shows can at times, but it also doesn't get mired in the annoying soap opera ruts those shows traffic in so much either.

Seeing the newer Director's cut of this several years ago, I felt the screencaps that were bothering many people (myself included) were ultimately very misleading. It didn't seem to be distractingly stylized, though teals were certainly, and literally, pushed over every other hue.
While the theatrical cut here is definitely from an older master (it shares similar flaws with TT's Comes A Horseman), and faces can skew a little too red on occasion, the overall color balance is still far more colorful and natural looking. That broader spectrum of hues doesn't infringe at all on Mann's stylized shots- if anything it makes them pop even more now.

I put the newer version in afterwards to compare some scenes and for me there's no contest. The teal influence just steps on everything, muddying up the other colors and stepping on shadow detail.

The older master has flaws, but I doubt I'll ever watch the newer one again.

A killer cast, one of James Bonds most influential directors, and some Western-style location work that you don't normally see in a Euro lensed Western (snowy mountain passages, lots of overcast skies).
And yet it all ended up as a big "meh" for me.
Can't put my finger on it as no one individual part seems like a weak link, but somehow it all just seemed tired and not all that satisfying.