Glad that the perp was portrayed as the sad, little loser that he obviously was. Too bad the "visionary" Hans Holmer didn't get to see how posterity viewed him. Overall a good miniseries that captured the underlying motivations well.
Reviews
20 Reviews
Finding Alice
(2021)
It's a comedy about those that don't get grief
1 April 2021
It's pretty obvious that most of those giving bad reviews and ratings are members of the class of those people that just don't get grief. It's having a laugh about all the inappropriate things that people say to those who are grieving. It's written by people that DO get grief. It might not be a top shelf series, but it's pretty good. It makes you laugh and cry.
Il cacciatore
(2018– )
Melodrama galore
10 March 2021
Subject matter was interesting but it was done in a very melodramatic way. Not sure who is at fault. The script writers, the director or the actors: or maybe it is a cultural thing. I still watched it to end of series 1 but the personal storylines were missable and towards the end unwatchable.
After Life
(2019–2022)
Season 2 is even better than Season 1
25 April 2020
My wife and I watched Season 1 and laughed and cried our way through it. I'm having to do Season 2 on my own as my wife's three year struggle with cancer recently ended. I find his detailed understanding of the grief amazingly accurate. Tony's pain seeps through the screen. Ricky is a genius and an authentic human being.
Sons of Anarchy
(2008–2014)
a dead set joke
12 April 2017
I finally succumbed to the hype and have been watching this series. Where do I start. The scripts are unbelievable; the acting mostly ordinary but sometimes atrocious; the Irish accents laughable and the music covers of classics by Katey Segal unbearably bad. How it rates alongside of real classics like The Sopranos and Breaking Bad mystifies me, but I guess that there is no accounting for taste (or the lack of it).
The Five
(2016)
A dead set joke
27 February 2017
Laughable plot and acting to match. I had a bad feeling about this from the get- go and the feeling just got worse...The no star cast was a warning sign; not because only stars can act but because actors with a reputation have an interest to protect their name (brand) by not appearing in dogs. The only one of "The Five" to do a reasonable job of what he was given was O.T. Fagbenle
Luther
(2010–2019)
Series 2 is not a patch on Series 1 :-(
28 September 2011
With the possible exception of the final episode of Series 2 it failed the test of suspension of disbelief. Two problems. One was the back story to get us from the end of Series 1 to the beginning of Series 2. It was a failure of the believability of the narrative as well way it was done (especially the pacing). It was attempted to be done too quickly and was done almost as badly as episode 1 of Super-Natural (aka Dukes of Hazzard meets X-files). The second was the development of the character of his new nemesis. Note to screenwriters, read Hannah Arendt. Evil is banal. Trying to make someone hyper-evil just makes them UNbelievable. Evil is like the speed of light. You can't go faster than it.
Edge of Darkness
(2010)
not a patch on the original
2 June 2011
The only consolation is that the writer of the original TV Series (Troy Kennedy Martin), wasn't alive to see what was done to it. The screenplay adaption was as bad as the acting. One of the writers has form in this area, i.e. turning a silk purse into a sow's ear. Anyone who thinks that The Departed was a good film should see the original (Infernal Affairs). And whose idea was it to get Mel Gibson to try and play Craven like Bob Peck? LOL. At least this idea was forgotten after several cringe- worthy scenes and Mel could get back to doing the only thing that he can do well, i.e. shoot people. I should also feel sorry for Ray Winstone (an actor that I admire) in trying to reprise the role of Jedburgh, but he didn't have to accept the part. No lines to die for in this script.
Catfish
(2010)
Anybody can now be anything in this world
22 January 2011
Warning: Spoilers
The banal moral of the story is that sometimes people pretend to be someone else on the internet. Wow! Stop the front page. We've got a new headline. Give me a break. A lot of people are pretending to be something that they are not in this film. The alleged documentary film makers are in fact the biggest pretenders, because they are film makers in name only. The film itself is rubbish. The paradox of how the set of documentary film makers could contain both the name of Errol Morris AND these clowns as members makes Russell's Paradox look insignificant. However as a self- incriminating statement of how you don't need talent to become famous in this age this captures the zeitgeist perfectly.
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