Reviews

I couldn't make it through the first episode because the voices all sound like a terrible dub. What is going on? If you are going to dub over actors who are literally speaking the lines on camera, it needs to be done FLAWLESSLY. Though I'm not even sure that this is dubbed? The voices and levels on the voices of the characters just sounds super bizarre and unnatural. It's literally so bad that the show is unwatchable. How did this get the green light? Am I taking crazy pills or does it sound like the actors are speaking from inside a low budget sound booth? I'm padding this review for length, sorry.

I'm not sure wtf happened between season one and season two, but the show has taken a nosedive in quality. The costumes are goofy, the plot is all over the place, the kid actors besides Gus are literally some of the worst characters put to screen (pEEeTeR). They are comically wooden and one dimensional, we get it there is an elephant kid. Also why do all of the hybrid kids look like they were dressed by the crew of 1970s Sesame Street? The Becky side story is painful to watch, general abbot has 0 charisma. The show focuses on every character except Big Man and Gus, who are literally THE reason anyone is watching this show, and in doing so it completely loses any sense of tone or coherency.

I don't understand the attention that this story has received. There isn't a single part of Where The Crawdads Sing that stands out, besides the painfully obvious fact that given a couple of weeks nearly anyone could have written this story. It's also obvious that this story was written by someone with next to no knowledge of North Carolina.

As SOON as the movie opens it is obvious that Louisiana is the setting. Even the TITLE sounds like a story set in Louisiana. It's like an AI was told to write a story about North Carolina and it just nonsensically peppered a bunch of random "southern" seeming things together. The end result of this is that the story seems to take place nowhere.

So to summarize, the plot is mediocre at best, the acting is so wooden that it verges on laughable, the characters are completely forgettable and again, the scenery is clearly NOT North Carolina. Overall this movie felt like a generic mess glued together by some of the hackiest writing in recent memory. Speaking of the hack who wrote this, the author of the book that this film was adapted from has an EXTREMELY questionable background.

From the first 3 minutes of season 4 we know something has gone terribly wrong for our characters and the world they live in. It had been building over the last three seasons underneath the glitz and glamour you could FEEL an animalistic hatred stirring...

This episode makes it clear that the golden days have ended, and it's done in such a brilliant manner.

Suddenly, we see muted colors, we notice the sheer amount of disparity, even the weather is unsettled. The weight of what is about to happen is written into the very flesh of the characters faces. It is so unsettling because we as the audience know what is coming. The characters however, can only feel the growing tension, as the world slowly dissolves into a living nightmare around them.

This show has proven over 3 seasons that it is an absolute masterwork of historical fiction, and the 4 season makes it clear that the bar will be raised yet again.

From the sets to the costumes to the nearly PERFECT recreation of everything period wise, this show has set an incredible bar for historical fiction. Keep in mind that the entirety of "Babylon Berlin" takes place in the FIRST BOOK of the Gareon Rath series. This ENTIRE SHOW is the FIRST of 8 novels. I'm not kidding, go and read them right now.

I'd argue that no where on the planet would be harder to re-create than the 1920s progressive paradise that was Berlin, so much glitz and glamor but at its core the city was necrotizing due to the sheer number of psychic and physical wounds that it's people received during The Great War.

It lasted for just a few brief years (before things got REALLY bad) but my god it is a fascinating place and time to learn about.

This show does such a masterful job of creating a story in a seemingly magical world and it does an even better job of portraying the glacial yet unyielding pace of the total dissolution of the German national psyche that led to WW2. It was a nightmare that everyone knew they should wake from, but no one could do anything. How could anyone have done anything?

The rot was too deep and the wound was ignored for too long.

If you want to know HOW and WHY a person like Adolf Hitler could seize the will of an entire nation, using their own wounds and divisions to perpetrate the unspeakable crimes against humanity that he organized, Babylon Berlin will SHOW YOU.

What was the point of any of this show? What a tremendous slog. I seriously cannot wrap my mind around how anyone could give this higher than maybe 5 stars. The plot is senseless, the characters act senselessly, no one can understand each other and no one makes attempts to, yet there are multiple people who speak overlapping languages and could easily translate.

Seriously, entire "conversations" happen between characters who don't understand WTF they are saying to each other, and it's never addressed. Literally nothing ever actually happens because no one can communicate with one another, it's honestly bizarre to watch as characters give out a 4 minute monologues to each other while one just kinda blankly stares due to the fact that they have no idea what the other person is saying.

The frustration is compounded by the fact that there are so many shared words between languages (this is maybe used ONCE in the entire show) as well the fact that humans have the ability to make basic universal hand gestures or like, I don't know, take a pencil and draw something?

I watched the entire show and honestly all I got out of it was the feeling that I had actively lost brain matter. It's like the worst parts of West World and Lost combined into a horror show of absolutely garbage tier television.

Despite what people say about not comparing the two, that's how the show is being pitched. Even if you don't compare the two shows, it's impossible to deny that the first season of Dark was in another league compared to the slow burning, illogical dumpster fire that is 1899.

Also the remixed version of "White Rabbit" used in the opening theme is a crime against humanity.

I know it's silly but up until this episode the world was a pretty solid 1993, even the music. That is until this episode. Nimrod didn't come out until 1997! Just like that the illusion was shattered. I know it's a stupid thing to gripe about, but wtf was the point of building a story in 1993 and nailing the minute details in every episode, then in one of the "biggest" episodes in the series, they just smash it all down with the most obvious error using one of the biggest songs from the LATTER half of the 90s? At this point they could have just said "it's the 90s". It couldn't have been an error, which means it was a choice that was consciously made. It's just confusing AF.

I can't believe this show hasn't been canceled at this point. 3 seasons of absolute unadulterated stupidity. Imagine what competent writers could have done with this source material, and characters that weren't complete idiots.

Ok let's get it straight, on its surface, this show boils down to a wanky, cheesy, predictable high-school soap opera.

However, under that surface of 80s cheese worship, Cobra Kai delivers some of the most relatable, human characters I have seen on television in quite a while.

About halfway through this episode ALL of the other adults on board (besides Hastings and the security team) the Resolute disappear.

They literally vanish, and we never hear about what happened to them ever again. Not even in season 3 is this ever addressed, they just randomly appear again.

The show is entertaining but this isn't a minor nitpicking complaint, and it's not something that the audience should have to fill in the blanks on. We just spent the ENTIRE 2nd season with the main plot of the show solely focused on how to save the colonists aboard the resolute.

So how did they do it?

We don't know, because it never happened. Nothing happened, the colonists just disappeared. Did nearly 1000 people just die? No. Did they live and hide out somewhere? No. The writers simply skipped the question. The colonists didn't exist in the story, so what happened to them never had to be resolved.

Critical issues like this get skipped on this show so often and it is entertaining enough to ignore them usually. However, this episode feels like a masterclass on lazy writing.

"This is the most important archeological discovery in human history, and I only have 19 hours to explore it"

*proceeds to take a ash sample (why?) and play with alien drum pad, destroying the entire archeological site within 15 minutes*

The show is relatively well acted, amazing effects, but suffers from a critical level of manufactured drama. So much of the writing comes off as lazy because the characters just don't communicate. The Dr. Smith character is also unbearably cartoonish and NEVER GOES AWAY. I seriously hated every single scene with her in it, and her story was so poorly written.

Show is entertaining, but the cinematography could REALLY use some work, great visual effects, but the lighting in 90% of the show is awful. Really gives off a cheap 90s Sci-Fi channel vibe.

I completely wrote this show off after the first season, but decided to give it another chance when the second season came out. Locke and Key has so much potential, yet for some reason I just cannot suspend my "disbelief" while watching the show. The writing just isn't good enough.

For instance, "Gabe" is actually Dodge right? So does that mean that Dodge is going to high school, for months on end, and apparently doing the schoolwork as well?

There are so many little things like that in this show and it drives me insane because it is SUCH lazy writing. This is coming from someone who watches a lot of fantasy/fiction so I understand that sometimes you have to shrug questions off, but in "Locke and Key" nearly every single scene feels completely illogical.

The irony of it is that explaining these mundane details (or really any details at all), would actually go a LONG way towards building the characters.

It is obvious that so much work went into this movie, but so much of it is just flat out goofy. Like, where would you even find a walkie-talkie that isn't water proof?

Stressful the entire way through. I really don't get what people like about Sara Paulson though, I find her incredibly irritating in nearly everything that I've seen her in.

Spending time whining about a TV show that you don't like because it makes you uncomfortable is pathetic.

I don't go around watching Christian movies and TV complaining about them being too "christiany". Seriously. If you don't like it, just watch something else! This show has NEVER marketed itself as a "Christian show".

Look at the pretty colors for an hour, wait, what did I just watch?

Want to watch some decent character development for the first season of a show, and then have it thrown into a dumpster and lit on fire midway through the very next? What if I told you there were 3+ more seasons where you get to watch the main characters endlessly orbit each other in what amounts to a sociopathic merry-go-round?

If that sounds like a good use of your time, you will enjoy Poldark.

It's gonna seem great until the 7th episode, when you get front row tickets to witness a group of writers throw their own careers into the garbage.

It seriously feels like they were trying to speed-run the feeling disappointment that was Game of Thrones season 8.

This is the PERFECT example what happens when a group of writers have no idea where to take a story. Jesus Christ, what a disappointment.