Scales and Tales

As someone who was similarly on the fence about MDZM and just now made it to the fabled Ep10 (of It Gets Good Later I Promise-Fame), what helped me was having a friend who loves it watching it with me and also finding the right way/"mindset" to approach this. Like, this is very much a campy fantasy show the same way Xena and SPN and the recent Witcher stuff is, imo, and fandom really, really did not give me that expression. I feel it's kind of like trying to get into SPN in 2021 based on the ironic, over-the-top-lit analysis side of tumblr fandom and finding, well. Season 1 of SPN. So the fact that the friend I'm watching it with is finally chill enough to laugh about the bad CGI and wigs without apologizing for 'ruining the experience' for me was probably more important to me actually getting to the 'ah I see why everyone loves this' point, because I was sitting on the other side of the couch holding back those same comments because I didn't want to (lovingly) insult her fave show in front of her. Turns out eating junk food and laughing about the CGI is exactly what I needed tho. (Also having someone there to play who's-who and explain wtf just happened when the show decides to cut a plot from the novel down to two scenes and just ASSUMES you read the novel and know wtf is happening is helpful as hell)

Also tbh it was only a matter of time until I fell, there's some quality whump and angst material in that show. I'm assuming the other versions are similar.