Technically a streaming series rather than a TV series, but the second campaign of Critical Role (Mighty Nein). I started watching the series after seeing how popular Critical Role was online and that Mighty Nein was recommended for CR beginners, but I really didn’t get it at first; it seemed so boring and slow. Still I stuck with it (listening to it in the background while I did other stuff), and I remember there were two specific moments where I finally understood its popularity:
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episode 7 “Hush” when Nott kills the manticore baby (which was my first “holy shit they did what” moment), and episode 12 “Midnight Espionage” during the hospital heist (I could not stop laughing at the debacle and completely lost it at Nott’s negative charisma roll).
In other words, thanks Sam Riegel for making me a fan!
I haven’t seen campaign one (since I started with two), but I’ve heard it has a rough start. I’d be curious what episode people think campaign one started turning around on, since obviously Vox Machina became quite popular in its own right, even if Might Nein is the campaign that cinched CR’s mainstream fame.
It is really good once they kicked that douchebag Orion out of the campaign. So start at episode 28 to avoid him, he made the show worse and was an asshole to everyone and makes the other players feel uncomfortable with his sexual remarks so you probably don’t want to watch anything with him in it. I think at one point Laura/Vex does something in game and he literally said his character gets hard from it, Travis looked like he was ready to throw hands.
Campaign one is probably the funniest campaign and also the one I cried the most in. The ending is amazing and heart wrenching.
Technically a streaming series rather than a TV series, but the second campaign of Critical Role (Mighty Nein). I started watching the series after seeing how popular Critical Role was online and that Mighty Nein was recommended for CR beginners, but I really didn’t get it at first; it seemed so boring and slow. Still I stuck with it (listening to it in the background while I did other stuff), and I remember there were two specific moments where I finally understood its popularity:
spoiler
episode 7 “Hush” when Nott kills the manticore baby (which was my first “holy shit they did what” moment), and episode 12 “Midnight Espionage” during the hospital heist (I could not stop laughing at the debacle and completely lost it at Nott’s negative charisma roll). In other words, thanks Sam Riegel for making me a fan!
It didn’t help that the first campaign was already underway when the show started, and for a long time their audio was pretty terrible
I haven’t seen campaign one (since I started with two), but I’ve heard it has a rough start. I’d be curious what episode people think campaign one started turning around on, since obviously Vox Machina became quite popular in its own right, even if Might Nein is the campaign that cinched CR’s mainstream fame.
It is really good once they kicked that douchebag Orion out of the campaign. So start at episode 28 to avoid him, he made the show worse and was an asshole to everyone and makes the other players feel uncomfortable with his sexual remarks so you probably don’t want to watch anything with him in it. I think at one point Laura/Vex does something in game and he literally said his character gets hard from it, Travis looked like he was ready to throw hands.
Campaign one is probably the funniest campaign and also the one I cried the most in. The ending is amazing and heart wrenching.
Sam Riegel is a national treasure and he must be protected at all costs.