Reviews

Season 8 is laughably bad. It's pathetic. That season on it's own gets a 1/10. Seasons 2 and 3 pull the show up to a 2/10. Madison is back, then Troy(!) is back, talk about desperation. The acting is dreadful, particularly from the kid actors. Even Lennie James gives an awful performance. The dialogue is cringeworthy. Magic radios. Characters introduced 2 episodes from the very end of the series. Terrible, weak "villains" for the final season. No major characters die, apart from completely gratuitous death of Charlie, and Grace, but who cares. A complete and utter waste of time. Worthless garbage, made by talentless hacks.

Incredibly violent, par for the course on this streaming service. Ryan Gosling is his usual plank of wood self, and he has a hideous scruffy beard that doesn't suit him, he should lean into his youthful looks, as I do. Chris Evans has a cool moustache and haircut, but he can't act. There are some ridiculous hand to hand fight scenes involving blatant stunt doubles. Early in the movie, Gosling and Ana De Armas leave Evans alive when they could have ended him and the threat he posed there and then, thus saving the lives of hundreds of people, including many law enforcement officers, and Billy Bob Thornton, Gosling's mentor and father figure in this worthless movie. Utterly pathetic. Another $200 million well spent!

I watched this for 12 years. The very first episode, the very first night it was shown. I was 29 at the time, I was 41 by the time this ended. The first 3 seasons are superb, Season 4 is okay, it starts to get ridiculous by Season 5, the longest I would advise anyone to watch it is to the end of Season 6. Having said that, the first eight episodes of Season 11 are great, but then it falls off a cliff for the final sixteen(!) episodes of that final season. The finale is beyond an insult. Utterly pathetic, all it does is set up three(!) spin-off shows, none of which will receive a single second of my precious time. First three/four seasons in isolation would be a strong 8/10, possibly a 9 if I was feeling really generous, which isn't often.

There are going to be big spoilers in this review. I watched Breaking Bad when it was originally on. I strongly advise watching it before watching Better Call Saul. The first three seasons of this show are, in my opinion, boring. Hardly anything happens and they seem dragged out to an extreme degree. But in season 4, once Jimmy/Saul's brother Chuck is out of the picture, and less time is spent on the boring intricacies of being a lawyer, things really start picking up, and the final two seasons, 5 and 6, are phenomenal. Something bad happens to a major character at the midway point of the final season, and without the first three seasons it would not have had anywhere near as much of an impact, so in retrospect seasons 1 - 3 served their purpose. The acting is amazing. Rhea Seehorn as Kim is superb, and she gets better as the show reaches its climax. And I agree with Lalo, she's certainly quite easy on the eye! The aforementioned Lalo is a great and menacing villain. In the end the show concludes on a downer, which I fully expected, although not in the way I maybe anticipated. The final episode rounds it off perfectly, it's comparable to the final episode of The Shield in how it couldn't have been done any other way. It's also more satisfying (although depressing and sad) than the final episode of Breaking Bad. Overall, a superb and wonderful show.

I've watched a lot of apocalypse/post apocalypse movies, it's a subject that interests me a great deal. This is possibly the worst one I've ever seen. It's not Gerard Butler's fault, he's okay in this. But some of the characters are hateful, they make stupid decisions, and I didn't care about them. And the ending is truly pathetic, a bigger and more senseless cop out than the end of "2012". Don't waste your precious time.

A very boring character, played by a very boring actor, does boring and ridiculous things. There's far too much Vader, it takes away the from mystery of him. I actually thought Reva was a reasonably interesting character, and that Moses Ingram was charismatic and competent in the part. And it explains in the end why Leia reaches out to Kenobi at the start of A New Hope, so that was cool. But overall it's terrible, it looks cheap at points, which I'm sure it wasn't, and it reminded me of the awful Loki show as well as the horrendous Solo. Disney suck, they've run Star Wars into the ground and they've nearly done the same thing to the MCU. But it's kind of amusing to watch it happen at this point.

The ending pulled this up from a 4 to a 6 out of 10. I definitely didn't see it coming, and it's the best thing about the entire show. Two things though, and these are massive spoilers: I think Ruth would have shown more of a sense of self preservation right at the end, even though she is ultimately doomed whatever she does; and Mel Sattem walks headlong into his own death, which I don't believe he would have done, but if he hadn't we wouldn't have got the fantastic shock ending. The political stuff is incredibly boring, but it's not in the show by the final episodes, and all of the Byrdes (including the kids) are totally evil and they get away scot free, so I understand why that would put some people off. But overall I'm glad I watched it.

A new low for Disney, if that's even possible. There is nothing in this film for young male viewers, in fact it seems to be openly hostile towards them, as well as being openly hostile to parental figures and authority figures in general. It's even more woke than you might imagine. And at one point the lead character declares "My Panda, my choice". An utterly disgusting message to thinly veil in what is supposed to be a children's film. Despicable stuff. Avoid, avoid, avoid.