Before we begin, let us take a moment of silence to mourn the recent termination of Sinclair Broadcasting's KidsClick block, which waved good-bye a few weeks back.
Mourning over.
Sinclair acquired an interesting French-English adventure series, Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir, which first premiered in South Korea in 2015.
You have a pair of teenage heroes, and complicated romance that makes the classic Archie comics look normal by comparison.
Marinette, aka Ladybug, has the hots for Aiden, though she is unaware that he is also her crime-fighting partner, Cat Noir. In costume, Cat Noir is hot for Ladybug, reversing the drama of their civilian selves.
The series is currently on Netflix after its run in syndication ended, so if you couldn't program your DVR to tune in to pre-dawn airings on KidsClick, now's the time to catch up.
We'll get you started with "Stormy Weather":
Nice CGI, but the plots tend to be repetitive....
Rating: B-.
4 comments:
The weekday afternoon syndicated kids program block is the product of a bygone era. Syndication just can't compete with the ever expanding juggernaut that is cable and internet streaming services. Today's kids just don't need to huddle around the TV to watch a 2-4 hour program block on some independent station when there are cable/satellite channels that literally run kids' programming all day, every day. Nowadays kids can just open an app on their TV and pull out a cartoon whenever they want.
As for Ladybug and Cat Noir, I know of it, but I've never seen it.
It's now also available in comic book form. If you can get Netflix or any DVD's of the series, you can catch up.
I don't personally have a Netflix account, but my younger brother does. I just might check this series out one day.
Let me know what you think.
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