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ReviewLost Ollie is fucking amazing
Posted September 25, 2023 by crodish in Television

Not so much a review than a rave because... I thought the show was really great and I don't want to spoil it.

It's a Live Action + CGI Fantasy Family heartwarming Drama, with a tinge of violent horror, but not really because all the violence happens only on toys so it's technically PG, but oh god the violence.

The story revolves around Billy, a young boy, and his adventures with Ollie, his stuffed rabbit. When Ollie suddenly finds himself separated from his kid, with amnesia, it's on him to put the missing pieces of his memory back together to get back to his kid.

My rating:
Story: 9/10
Acting / Voice Acting: 8/10
Characters: 7/10
CGI: 8/10

My expectations of the movie from the poster and preview: "Oh, it's Toy Story 1 but if shit got real lol"

The actual movie: "It's Toy Story 3+4 but if shit got really real, holy fuck, wtf"

It's only 4 episodes long and I highly reccomend it for the following:

Pros:

  • the Mom character. Oh my god I love the Mom character, so much. She's so fucking wonderful and amazing and realistic and strong not girl boss femme fatale strong but actual strong and watching this you just fucking want to know a woman like her. She's so great at diffusing tension between the useless husband and her bubbly adopted son, she keeps a strong face on throughout all the shit that happens to her, she's so creative and playful and holy fuck I've never had such a strong crush on a female lead before I legit wished I was dating this woman?! Instead of her useless sack of shit srs bzn husband?? SHE DESERVES ALL THE FUCKING HUGS
  • Ollie is actually a pretty sweet main character, and quite believable and empathizable (as a main character should be!). He has a couple of Hurt the Cutie wham moments in the last two episodes and an insanely touching one with the mom and with Billy at the end
  • HUGE HUGE PLOT SPOILER DO NOT CLICK IF YOU WANT TO STAY UNSPOILED THE REVEAL THAT THE SIDE CHARACTER GIRL WE SEE IN EPISODE ONE IS ACTUALLY BILLY'S DAUGHTER AT THE VERY END AHHHHHH FUCK ME I WAS SO HAPPY I COMPLETELY LEGIT FORGOT SHE WAS A CHARACTER
  • Dad character (predictably) has his redeeming moment, but still. I was so sure he was gonna veer into Asshole Father territory, especially with how most of the other male characters were written

Pros in terms of plot and writing but cons in terms of men being men lol. Huge spoilers for plot twist below:

  • almost all the men in this show, honestly, except for Billy, who is unfortunately a fictional male whose character seems too good to be true especially as an adult 🥲 everyone male is just straight up an asshole and a jerk. Notable mentions go to Dad, School Bully, and Zozo, although justified since, antagonsists. God you can really hate these characters
  • Fucking Zozo. Jesus christ he's a fucking psychopath. Think Sid and Inspector AND Lotso all crushed into a single villain, plus The Tin Soldier bs heaped on top of it. Even when he finally died it didn't feel fucking justified after all the horrendous shit he did. This fuck should have fucking suffered
  • said psychopath starts out kind and caring and then slowly goes crazy and deranged from being unable to find his One True Love that he met for a whole of two fucking minutes.The incel vibes are honestly kinda creepy like bro. You literally just met her. She danced with you ONE time, maybe out of pity or curiousity or whatever the fuck. And you go insane trying to find her, you write love letters in your head about your one sided love for her, you couldn't forget about her for years, you beat up and dismembered other toys to get information on her, you almost killed Ollie because you wanted her heart from inside him. What the actual fuck is wrong with Zozo. and when his backstory plays, you're supposed to feel sympathetic for him?! He's a creepy ass fucker and not just because he's a clown.
  • throw in the whole sidestory about how he basically made Rosy feel indebted to him for saving her life and then turning her into his weird personal henchman / fwb if toys have those?! / emotional support convenience dispenser. Their whole relationship was honestly very fucked up and the constant will they won't they vibes, Rosy having her own one-sided thing for him, him absolutely not giving any shits and turning abusive and horridly violent towards her at the end. I KNOW THEY'RE TOYS, BUT IT'S SO FUCKED UP HOW THEIR RELATIONSHIP WAS PORTRAYED.
  • I cannot fucking get over what an absolute psychopath Zozo is and the southern accent + clown + old-timey 80s carnival toy vibe shit really doesn't help. In a way, he's an amazing and believable character, but holy god does he makes me skin crawwwwwwl
  • they show at least three instances of him actively dismembering other toys. It's sickeningly cold and violent and just... udurhgrgrgrhrgh
  • they keep.... portraying him as someone to be empathetic towards because he's suffered a tErRiBLe LoSs (YOU KNEW HER FOR TWO FUCKING MINUTES YOU CREEP)???! Like they show him grieving and being so depressed that he basically unalives himself for however many years it was until Ollie came into the store, they show him hurting and crying when he finally gets confirmation that Nina is dead. And I'm just sitting here like???? I don't?? Give a shit?!?! About this goddamn psychopath incel who decides murdering and disembowelling a random innocent who was only trying to help was a rational course of action?? AND GRIEF ISN'T AN EXCUSE FOR BEING A COMPLETE MONSTER???
  • Rosy's involvement watching him brutally murder the first toy and then showing her crying herself to sleep in shock and fear because she's just realized that could be her someday, fuck me. And then she goes after him anyway and the self-trapping in an abusive dependent relationship thing hit a little too hard here and was extremely uncomfortable
  • Nina was perhaps the most shallow character in what was otherwise very dimensional character writing. Her entire purpose is to be The Pretty Love At First Sight Interest and that's it. A bit disappointing. Like why tf did she even give Zozo the time of day to begin with, why did she engage him and even leave him a momento, and then her entire role is just to die so she could have her heart inside Ollie to drive the entire plot??? Sigh it's... better watching through but on hindsight it's really the one of the more shallow parts
  • grown ass adult men do nothing but watch and laugh as two younger boys fence with billiard sticks. And then do more nothing when they roughhouse and one causes bodily harm to another (granted it was the victim standing up to the bully, so justified, but still.) Tf are the adults doing
  • I'm not done ranting about how much I hate Zozo this fucker disappears during ep3 and you more or less know he's going to make a comeback later because he's he fucking main antagonist and we haven't seen him die on screen yet. But jesus it's just. What, he just magically shows up exactly where he needs to be. Just magically. And his death was so fucking lame and anti-climatic in comparision cos oh my god Rosy shows up too!! Holy fuck what an ex deus machina!! And then they both fucking.... die together and get washed away like some romantic romeo and juliet shit?! I don't

If anyone else has seen it please scream about it with me, maybe I'm reading too much into it but the Zozo character and his relationship with Rosy seriously have darker implications and I can't shake it off

47 comments

istaraMarch 17, 2025

Soft and thin. I ended up getting a "Junior" pillow last time, even though the store assistant was cautioning against it, and it's perfect.

Committing_Tervery🧙‍♀️🐱March 17, 2025(Edited March 17, 2025)

Medium-firm on the bottom, with a softer one on top, is ~chef’s kiss~ 🤌 🥰

beingMarch 17, 2025

I didn't know that some people use two pillows stacked on top of each other until reading your comment

CattitudeMarch 17, 2025

I slept with the same arrangement as Committing_Tervery for most of my life.

These days I have to use a damn bed wedge to help keep the reflux at bay, so two pillows on top of that isn't happening.

JBeauvoirMarch 18, 2025

i like them somewhat moldable and with natural fiber filling too! poly instantly feels too hot.

SufferingSuffragetteMarch 18, 2025

Very firm very thin. Or no pillow and part of the blanket bunches up under my head.

EvileineMarch 17, 2025

I have a fairly soft one and a medium one. I tried memory foam ones with more structure, but feather and down ones that I can mush into shape work better.

somegenerichandleMarch 17, 2025

i don't i feel it makes my tmj worse. Tho, on the subject of pillows. If you have lower back pain, i highly suggest trying to sleep on your back with a pillow under your knees. It can do wonders.

RegularFeministMarch 17, 2025

Or just put a piece of duvet between if you don't have an extra pillow. I always sleep with duvet between my knees.

CattitudeMarch 18, 2025

I tried that and found it really didn't work, because I turn over several times a night.

RegularFeministMarch 18, 2025

Yeah if you toss and turn a lot, a pillow is a better solution

CattitudeMarch 18, 2025

Even that didn't help - and the small ones made with elastic to hold them in place twisted around my leg. Doomed!

RegularFeministMarch 18, 2025

That's a bummer! Have you tried pregnancy pillows?

CattitudeMarch 18, 2025

No, I've rather given up on leg pillows now, not least since wedge pillow + cat + me in a king single bed = very crowded. 😄

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IshahchaiMarch 18, 2025

Aspercreme on my jaw every night before I go to bed now. A too soft pillow makes my neck hurt, but a neck friendly pillow makes my jaw hurt. Aspercreme is my compromise.

SrfthrowawayMarch 17, 2025

Very cold. Firmness matters way less to me than if it's got that cooling fabric on it. Menopausal night sweats

Abrasive_LaceMarch 17, 2025

Depends on which way I'm laying. I'm usually a side or stomach sleeper, in which case the softer side of medium. When my back is bothering me I sleep on my back, and I prefer it more firm. I use a king sized shredded latex pillow that has a firmness that can kind of be adjusted depending on how you "fluff" it.

My question is, who are the pod people who don't sleep with a pillow? I genuinely can't fathom it!

hermiona52March 17, 2025

I sleep on my stomach, so any elevation near head makes it impossible for me to fall asleep, it's just too uncomfortable. I just use an empty satin pillow sheet.

I tried to teach myself to sleep in any other position and I just can't. I'll be lying awake for 8h through all the night, but give me a moment to roll back to my stomach and I'm gone 😴

heartwitchMarch 18, 2025

How do you breathe? Do you keep your head twisted to the side or do you actually lie face-down?

hermiona52March 18, 2025

Oh no, definitely to the side, I usually move from one side of the face to the other, before I'll fall asleep.

You did plant that picture in my mind though, with me laying totally face-down, and it's the funniest thing :D Especially since I sleep with my arms down as well, straight alongside the body, so I would look just dead.

beingMarch 19, 2025

I was imagining that you had something like a massage table mattress that has a face cushion with a hole in the center so that you can still breathe when you're on your stomach

hermiona52March 19, 2025

I've never been at the massage parlour before so now I fear I would just fall asleep. That would be the perfect sleeping setup.

beingMarch 17, 2025

My question is, who are the pod people who don't sleep with a pillow? I genuinely can't fathom it!

I was surprised about that too! I put it as an option just in case, but I didn't really expect anyone to choose that. I sleep on my side or back but use the same pillow regardless of sleeping position.

TurtlefuzzMarch 17, 2025

Rock hard pillow and mattress! My back needs it. I do have an old, flattened pillow for in between my legs.

hard_headed_womanMarch 17, 2025(Edited March 17, 2025)

Down pillow medium.

I would give a lot of money for a pillow that really, actually stayed cold!

heartwitchMarch 18, 2025

I like 'em just hard enough that they don't poof out around my face when I lie down. Hate that. Face touches nothing! Nothing!

RegularFeministMarch 17, 2025

I like medium both in softness and in thicknesses.

TrappedInACarMarch 18, 2025

Medium-firm for me. Though I’m liking them firmer the older I get because they seem to help with my neck and upper back issues.

I can’t believe more people prefer no pillow at all to a very firm one though! No pillow at all would be my idea of hell.

beingMarch 18, 2025

I can’t believe more people prefer no pillow at all to a very firm one though! No pillow at all would be my idea of hell.

it surprised me too that there were votes for not using a pillow. I wouldn't voluntarily choose to sleep without a pillow. I'd only do it if I were in some unusual situation where pillows weren't available. though maybe no pillow would be preferable to an uncomfortable pillow?

RegularFeministMarch 18, 2025

though maybe no pillow would be preferable to an uncomfortable pillow?

But in most cases you can easily make a comfortable pillow out of your clothes, especially in winter when you wear layers.

TrappedInACarMarch 18, 2025

I’m trying to imagine an uncomfortable pillow vs no pillow situation and I think I would try to make the uncomfortable pillow suitable rather than sleep with no pillow. My neck needs some kind of support. These no pillow people need to explain themselves!

hermiona52March 18, 2025

These no pillow people need to explain themselves!

I am almost certain all of us are belly-sleepers. Imagine yourself standing straight for 8 hours. Your legs would probably get tired, but your back, your spine, would be okay, right? Now try to stand leaning back. I bet just after a few minutes you'd start feeling uncomfortable. Imagine doing it for 8 hours. That's why no pillow is the best option for us. Belly-sleeping is still rather unhealthy for a spine (from what I've read), but zero elevation keeps your spine in a relatively relaxed position.

TrappedInACarMarch 19, 2025

I’m a belly sleeper and can’t bear to sleep without a pillow haha. Tbf I do often wake up with back and neck pain so that could explain it!

hermiona52March 19, 2025

I definitely recommend switching to no-pillow then! It's gonna be so much easier for your back. I read in some place that for physiotherapists we are their favourite customers when we get older, because sleeping on our stomach is the worst position for the spine, and the only way to make it better (other than learning to sleep on a side or back) is to ditch the pillow.

I myself use just an empty satin pillow sheet, it's mostly like a "placebo" effect to trick my mind that I have something under my head, even though it's so thin.

snailsMarch 18, 2025

I need both my pillow and my mattress to be as firm as possible. When I bought my bed I just asked them to show me the firmest mattress they had and bought that one. Got pillows to match. It's perfect

penguin-catcat ladyMarch 17, 2025

I sleep with a scrunched up blanket so I can move it exactly how I want to be supported. I change positions really often, sometimes on my back, sometimes side, sometimes stomach.

SamhainMarch 17, 2025

For me, the shape of the pillow matters more than the firmness. I bought a curved pregnancy pillow because I thought it looked comfy (not because I was pregnant) and it's my favorite pillow ever.

Mandy202March 17, 2025

I like a mix

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