So apparently I'm into Miraculous Ladybug now

If you asked me about the one show I did not expect to be sitting down to watch at 3 PM, it'd be some TV-quality CGI monster-of-the-week about a couple of sixteen year olds in some goddamn love triangle with themselves, but here we are.

As a rule of thumb, I don't like CG animation. As a rule of thumb, I don't like shows with running subplots about teenagers with dumb love problems. As a rule of thumb, monster-of-the-week has got to serve up something a a bit more than "good guys always win with the same three transformation sequences", but here we are, apparently.

I don't watch enough cartoons to really speak of whether or not Miraculous: Ladybug and Chat Noir is unique except for its setting (Paris). Where it's super formulaic in episode structure, it's at least fairly creative in its once-an-episode brainwashed supervillains and their superpowers which Ladybug and Chat Noir have to battle inevitably defeat. It's so dumb, and yet I love it enough to be watching the goddamn re-runs.

I mean, I've watched maybe five or six episodes in total, but believe you me, I'm enjoying this dumb CG cartoon about two sixteen year old superheroes in a love triangle with themselves way more than I've enjoyed any of the proper adult series I've tried watching in the few weeks since getting HBO on cable.