In morenews from the niche corners of the modern streaming marketplacecomesThe Legend of Vox Machina, a hyper-violent animated fantasy series thats half-Dungeons & Dragonsparody and half genuineDungeons & Dragonsadventure, and fully based on a YouTube series thats basically justfootage of a bunch of professional voice actors sitting around playing a role playing game.The parent series,Critical Role, is whats known as an actual play webcast, which means exactly what it sounds like it meansyoure watching people who are actually playing aD&Dcampaign, albeit one that has been juiced a little to be as dramatic and funny as possible.
The astonishingly popular show has been running since 2015 and has birthed a podcast, a bestselling graphic novel, and now, after a wildly successful crowdfunding campaign thatraised more than $11 million, an animated series based on its epic, wacky first campaign,The Legend of Vox Machina, whichpremieres Jan. 28, with new episodes dropping until Feb. 18.
If this is all Elvish to you,the trailerwill give you a good idea of what you are in for.
If you dont like hyper-violent meta fantasy animated shows but youdolike comfort TV shows about deeply annoying people,The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel(Feb. 18) is still on and returning for a fourth season of snappy banter and catastrophically unfunny standup scenes.
Also apparently trying to be funny, at least based on the trailer, is the first season ofReacher(Feb. 4), a new take on Lee Childs perennially bestselling military/detective/vigilante/very tall man novels starring one-time Aquaman Alan Ritchson as ex-military detective vigilante and very tall man Jack Reacher, who solves various crimes whilebeing much taller than Tom Cruise.
Heres everything else coming to the streamer in February, including a bunch of Prime Original movies, the most intriguing of which, to my eye, areHOMESTAY(Feb. 11), an East Asian import about a boy who dies and returns to Earth in the body of another, with 100 days to uncover the mystery of what happened to him; andI Want You Back(Feb. 11), a sort of anti-romantic comedy in which Charlie Day and Jenny Slate play friends who team up to get back at (and break up) their respective exes happy relationships.
Whats coming to Amazon Prime Video in February 2022
Arriving Feb. 1
(500) Days of Summer
A Fistful of Dollars
All About Steve
Alpha Dog
Americas Sweethearts
Borat
Bride wars
Die Hard
Die Hard: With A Vengeance
Dont Be A Menace To South Central
While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood
Forrest Gump
Gone In Sixty Seconds
Half Baked
Hollywood Shuffle
How High
Humpday
I Heart Huckabees
Just Between Friends
Killers
King Arthur
Life Partners
Lincoln
Little Miss Sunshine
Live Free Or Die Hard
Love & Other Drugs
Overboard
Platoon
Posse
Reign of Fire
Robocop
Ski Patrol
Southern Charm: New Orleans
S2
Step Up
The A-Team
The Fly
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
The Impossible
The Rock
Turistas
Tyler Perrys Madeas Witness Protection
Untamed Heart
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox StoryReacher
Walk The Line
What Happens In Vegas
You Again
Bad Girls Club, Seasons 15-16
Key & Peele, Seasons 1-2
Khloe & Lamar, Seasons 1-2
Nathan For You, Seasons 1-2
Revenge Body With Khloe Kardashian, Seasons 1-3
Workaholics, Seasons 1-7
Arriving Feb. 2
Freakonomics
Arriving Feb. 4
Book of Love(Amazon Original Movie)
Reacher: Season 1 (Amazon Original Series)
Phat Tuesday: Season 1 (Amazon Original Series)
Arriving Feb. 11
I Want You Back(Amazon Original Movie)
HOMESTAY(Amazon Original Movie)
Sofia Nino de Rivera: Lo Volveria a Hacer: New Episodes (Amazon Original Series)
Arriving Feb. 18
Lov3(Amazon Original Movie)
LOL: Last One Laughing Canada: New Season (Amazon Original Series)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: New Season (Amazon Original Series)
The Legend of Vox Machina: New Episodes (Amazon Original Series) Finale
Arriving Feb. 25
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