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2 Shows to Make Your Week Better: ‘Batman: Caped Crusader’ & ‘Bookie’

Two recommendations from yours truly

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Akos Peterbencze
Aug 12, 2024
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Batman: Caped Crusader (Season 1, 2024 -)

One could argue that Amazon Prime’s latest animated show of the Dark Knight, Batman: Caped Crusader, was made for Generation Alpha so they can have their own experience like Millennials had with the beloved Batman: The Animated Series (TAS) in the ‘90s. But given the former was also created by Bruce Timm (a co-creator of TAS), I tend to go with the angle that he specifically made this for us, the kids of the 80s and early 90s, as a quintessential throwback to our childhood. Because it totally seems to work that way.

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