Reviews

There's a lot of plot shifting in this episode as the ladies return to their old selves. Charlotte, who has been an irritating irate mother figure of late, realises she needs to focus on herself again which is a relief, because her kids were taking up a lot of screen time and the audience for this show is largely not interested in bog standard family dynamics of whinging kids.

Given how much audiences hated this character from the get go, reducing the screen time of Che is a welcome relief, so we can all rejoice from here on in.

Wussy Carrie (why can she not speak up for herself in the restaurant? Is she a New Yorker at all???) finally reunites with Aidan in what I can only describe as a pathetic, poorly 'written for tension' reason of will they won't they, which sees Aidan initially turn down Carrie because of the memories her flat gives him. Come on! No man in the history of time and space would turn down an offer of sex because of such a terrible, feminine reason, and really highlighted how the show is written by people who don't understand how straight men think. Still, the show is an enjoyable piece of fluff, an escape from reality. Especially with Antony and his bakery business, a character who definitely needs more screen time over the pointless and uninteresting new side characters.

In all, this is a return to form for the show, obviously wrapping things up for the ever nearing season conclusion.

This is the episode that stayed with me because of how truly awful Chase is towards a 10 year old and her obesity, and also highlighting the prejudice held within the medical community towards imperfectly weighted patients to this day. It's infuriating to watch as the character of Chase is otherwise medically focused without spouting such venomous bile at other patients or colleagues during the entire rest of the show, so this was purely to provide a voice for the biased writers of this episode. And no, I'm not fat, just irritated by this out-of-character episode.

The irritating dictator of the Vogel character was clearly inserted to provide high stakes and make the series more compelling during season 1, but having watched the entire show twice, it's obvious he's more of an antagonist for House to bounce off of and seem less of a foe to his colleagues.

Infuriating episode and one I usually skip as it provides nothing useful to the series.

The teenage style bickering shows the writers really got lazy with the script on this episode, relying (yet again) on the action scenes to move the plot along. Gun's sniping at Wes is really irritating and childish. Angel's sniping at Cordy is unnecessary and childish. The 'big bad' is yet another unkillable dude in makeup. This era of Conner-Angel is really depressing as the characters are 99% miserable and one I usually skip. Especially if, like me, you remember all of Buffy. If Angel has an eidetic memory, why can he not recall the time Buffy used an Army weapon to blow up her unkillable big bad, rather than continuing to use his sword collection that hasn't worked on the last 2 tries, but hey, let's give it another go? In Buffy the team would have used the watchers knowledge, acquired better weapons, & got the job done with at least a few funny lines. Angel has the Wish version of the scooby gang, & their ineptitude and childish nature is grating. Skip to the next season.

With what should be a pivotal episode, we have the clearly overwritten and hashed together episode that is this monstrosity.

Gunn only knew of vamps when we met him, but now he's had dealings with many various demons in his past?

The script breaks for the over choreographed fight scenes are now becoming boring filler and achieve nothing.

Everyone turning on Wes despite them knowing the truth is uncharacteristic and clearly a U-turn in the writers room to propel the main story along.

The obviously white-written script & production often ramps up the cringe factor when we have Gunn-on-the-streets scenes or the dialogue between him and his old gang, and the inclusion of Gangstas Paradise as we watch Gunn back in the day was so cliche I couldn't watch.

The series does get better, but this episode is the nose dive that starts its unpleasant descent until the last season gets us back up to scratch.

What is going on with the Dan character? He's becoming increasingly angry and irritable with everyone, shouting at people who don't deserve it. It's making me uncomfortable watching him and how everyone else seems to shrug it off and accept it. This is not how good people behave and not how the character was developed over many decades.

The characters constant incorrect use of masks during the pandemic (you don't take it off inside a house you're visiting dumba$$) is also a very negative aspect.

The constant claims of them not having money for anything, sometimes not even for proper food for the kids, yet always having an endless supply of beer is another irritation and shows what terrible people they've become.

I hope this turns around soon, but I'm not hopeful.

Great episode aside from the cringing voice of Helen Baxendale. As a Brit I find her weird deep then light voice embarrassing. Did the producers owe someone in the UK a favour? We have so many better suited actresses for this role. No wonder she was written out.

I love old movies & collect them. This one had always passed me by, but a rainy afternoon in 2021 allowed me to give it whirl. The first half of this film reminded me very much of the ship scenes in Gentleman Prefer Blondes. Very watchable, lovely comedy from the leads, and entertaining. Sadly, the moment our leads part ways in the second half the pacing grinds to a painful halt. There's boring dialogue between well to do characters you don't care about, unnecessary scenes with irritating children that could have easily been cut out to speed things up, and Kerr's infuriating fiancé who just won't stop grabbing her! Then the illogical conclusion happens in the last 5 minutes and it just ends. It seems disabled is just a dirty word no-one dare utter, and explanations, or any sort of communication, is frowned upon. A frustrating watch indeed. Oh well, at least I can check it off my list of classic movies.