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Star Trek: Picard: Nepenthe (2020)
All hail Marina!
Watching episode 7. Marina Sirtis deserves every award going for her first two minutes on screen. The finest acting I've ever seen. What she can do with three words and a look was mesmerizing. Bravo. Great to see a fine actress at the top of her game.
Brexit: The Uncivil War (2019)
Exciting film with a happy ending
This film is wonderfully produced, fantastic acting, cinematography, and was well paced. It was less preachy than I feared and although there was a negative bias against the leave campaign there was also an acknowledgement of out out of touch remain were with the majority of the British people. I enjoyed it.
Black Mirror: Nosedive (2016)
Slow Start but worth it
This programme is everything I've learned to love about "Black Mirror". It is a wonderful satire about our obsession with social media and the approval of our peers.
Hand on heart, it started slowly for me, both in terms of pacing and content, but my engagement and investment in the characters and story seemed to grow exponentially throughout. The final exchange is magnificent.
I would enjoy delving more into the different stories within this world. To follow the lives of differently rated people.
This is science fiction at its very best. Nosedive uses a fictional social construct to examine our faults and give us further personal insight to the unhealthy obsession we have over the thoughts of others, the desire for recognition and the facades we present to those we 'love'.
Bravo.
W/ Bob and David (2015)
Might be funnier if you were American.
I admit, I primarily watched this because of Bob Odenkirk's tremendous performance as Saul from the Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul series. I recognise him as a terrific actor with great scope. Netflix have done some amazing original TV programming, primarily from giving artists the freedom to express themselves and therefore I was hoping big things from this sketch comedy.
I guess it was a mistake to enter this show with such high expectations.
Many of the jokes had been done before in other sketch shows. I guess it is hard to be original in today's day and age. Replace Homeopathy with Aromatherapy etc... I think that many of the jokes must be funnier if you have lived American Life rather than experienced a reflection of it through cinema and television; I know why something was meant to be funny, but I did not laugh because I could not personally relate.
In the four episodes there were two sketches I enjoyed and remembered, but I do not think this is enough to actually recommend a friend to watch W/ Bob & David.
In the show's defence, much of the production and editing is first class. The costumes, photography, locations and sound are of the highest quality. It is merely the comedy that falls a little flat for my taste.
(P.S I like sketch shows and sketch show comedy. Some great shows in my opinion are: That Mitchel and Webb Look; Monty Python's Flying Circus; Little Britain; The Benny Hill Show; Harry Enfield and Chums; Not the nine o'clock news; Saturday night live)