Dylan's Deep Dives

  Mr. and Mrs. Smith Review (2024): Spies to Lovers by Dylan Barbee Courtesy of Amazon Amazon Prime Video Original Series Release Date: Feb. 2, 2024 Within the first ten minutes of the latest Mr. and Mrs Smith remake series on Amazon Prime, you’ll soon learn that this isn’t your typical rom-com show. From brutally murdering another couple in an intense shootout to devoting their lives to being spies for a secret organization, John Smith (Donald Glover) and Jane Smith (Maya Erksine) are clearly in for a wild arranged marriage.  Mr. and Mrs. Smith consists of eight episodes as an emotionally reserved spy couple go through the ups and downs that most marriages contain. However, while doing so they are constantly facing near-death and action-packed mission assignments given to them by an artificial intelligence messenger named “HiHi.” The action-packed rom-com was co-written by Francesca Sloane and Donald Glover.  The best part about this new remake series was the comedi...

Percy Jackson And The Olympians Season 1 Review: A Prophecy with Potential  By Dylan Barbee Courtesy of Disney+ Disney+ Original Series Released on Dec. 19, 2023 and ended on Jan. 30, 2024 Growing up, Rick Riordan was my favorite author. I was obsessed with the intricate Greek mythological world he built over years of releasing books and saw myself in several of the demigods he had created in both the Percy Jackson and The Olympians and The Heroes of Olympus series.  The Percy Jackson novels follow a young demigod from New York City who works to fulfill various prophecies as he and his friends attempt to stop Kronos from rising and starting a war against the gods. Throughout the 10 books in both the original and spin-off series, Riordan masterfully world-builds, subverts expectations with twists and turns to the prophecies and establishes Percy as a powerful, morally-driven protagonist worth rooting for as he follows a hero's journey that mirrors famous Greek myths and fi...