Willow (2022)

[Drunk Monk]

E6 was the funniest so far. They are in the troll mines, or the Dread Mines of Skellin. The trolls, which were just bad gorilla suits in the original film, level up. The leader troll is hilarious, akin to a John Malkovich impersonation. There’s lots of wise cracks and side comments playing up the parody angle, but then it delivers Christian Slater, which I at first assumed was throwback to the original, but it wasn’t. He wasn’t in the original. It ends in a big sword fight. Turns out trolls use wolf tooth clubs (but they call them laces). It was light spirited until it wasn’t due to a self sacrificing heroic act. Meanwhile, Arik is tripping off some oily orange fluid he drank in the abandoned city - he found a Princess, but I think she’s just the crone in disguise. 

E7 is the long walk across the shattered sea, which is an endless ocean that’s only like a foot deep but sea creatures live in the sand, including a cute mudmander which draws their carriage ship. It makes for some good visuals. There’s a flirt fight, a swordfight seduction, and we love those. This one gets extra points because it’s a lesbian one. And there’s sorcerer training. There’s also a shuriken attack that precedes a carriage fight. That was okay. I totally lol-Ed at the shuriken removal scene - good comic timing there. But mostly it’s the long dreary walk where everyone starts losing their minds. 

I think next ep is the finale.