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Wild Bill: Nothing Behind the Curtain (2019)
Coffee cup?
I really liked this series, and many other British crime series. This is less a review and more a question. The coffee cup was used to identify Si (piano man), or at least attempt to. So why does that have anything to do with DS Alex Blair and his bail? Si identified him as the driver, completely separate from the DNA.
Death in Paradise: Murder Begins at Home (2019)
Lots of Confusion.
Watching series for the second time. Great series.
I'm not so much reviewing this particular episode, but I think it's time to air some questions. 1) Why does the team always seem to discount DI Mooney's fixation on seemingly insignificant items at the crime scene? (Peanut, fork, etc.). After months or years of working with him (or the other DIs) you'd think they would simply accept it, as it's always panned out in the end. 2) Why does the Police Commissioner constantly have doubts, and questions his methods, when each DI always gets his man/woman? 3) Last one... I admit I don't understand the politics of this region, but why do the DIs come from the UK, but the IA, Detective Sergeant M. Dumas, comes from Paris France?
Death in Paradise: A Dash of Sunshine (2013)
Annoyed at Camille.
On my second go-round watching this British dramady. While this is yet again another great episode, I'm more than a little annoyed at Camille. She is giving DI Poole so much grief regarding his ill feelings toward Doug Anderson, a past colleague, but seems to forget that not only does DI Poole always get his man (or woman), and that in the previous episode she was very ready to arrest anyone when the victim was a friend of hers. Give him some space. DI Poole always comes through.
Away: Spektr (2020)
DIY skills??
While the season has certainly had its slow moments, and each episode has at least one person overreact, I'm liking it so far. However, I'm pretty sure that any member of the crew who's gone through THAT much training, should be able to drill thru one layer of the ship without puncturing the second layer. Moderate DIY dad skills. Just saying.
Line of Duty: Operation Pear Tree (2019)
DC Arnott got hosed.
Been bingeing this series for awhile now. Still love it and the characters. But opening of S5, we find that DC Fleming has been promoted ahead of Steve. He had more time at DC, more experience, and don't forget, he was fighting to find the bad guy even while being wrongly investigated himself. He should be the new DI. Just saying.
October Faction (2020)
Could have been so much more.
I too, like the overall story line, but any more time watching the privileged yet outcast moody teens is just time I can't get back.
Star Trek: Discovery: Brother (2019)
Sacrificing common sense for drama.
I have to agree with another reviewer regarding the apparent technology involved with Starfleet ships. For sensors to allow them to drop out of warp in the midst of in debris cluster is just a bit off I get that different circumstances might render transporters, or accurate navigation to the astroid as unavailable, but wouldn't a more appropriate approach be to simply slow down the pods? At Mach a lot, flying through an astroid belt or a dense forest at break neck speed makes it appear as if the writers are sacrificing common sense for added drama. And the engineer from the USS Enterprise should have been humbled, rather than terminated. Just saying.
Strike Back: Legacy: Part 1 (2015)
Worst episode so far!
I have really been enjoying this series up to this point, but this episode was terrible. The plot holes and the lack of explanation to the wife, or the ambassador, or anybody who just asks reasonable questions, feels like poor writing. The ambassadors wife is constantly blaming Locke for everything that's gone wrong, but at no point did he say 'well your husband brought in the bomb', or 'they had help from the outside'. I get that she wants to blame him, but Locke offers nothing in reply. Even when Scott and Stonebridge mentioned that they lost their suspect, they leave out the fact that the police took him. That's an entirely different set of facts than "we lost him". The conversations in this particular episode don't seem to flow with what normal people would say. Come on writers, you can do better than this.
How It Ends (2018)
Some just missed the point.
This movie was not an explanation to how it the world ends. This movie is how it ends for one person. As a survivor, one might never know what caused the incident. The one thing that did not make sense: Why was the government so quiet?
Beyond that, everything else is in the perspective of the main character. This was an "I have to get to my girl" movie, not an explanation as to how the world ends. Aside from some continuity, or goofs issues, he got to his girl. In my opinion, the only part that should have been omitted,was Jeremiah's attempted murder of Will.
As to the over all cause of this... world ending event, the biggest clue for me was at the end. After having reached the Seattle area, he looks up and sees the northern lights quite vividly. While that may be the only clue we get aside from an apparent national power outage, it is a big clue. You shouldn't base an entire movie on the fact that you did not get a definite answer.
Homefront (2013)
Will people never learn..?
It happens so often in movies like this. It never ends well, and only adds undue drama to the story. Don't chase after your pet!!
Nurse Jackie: Love Jungle (2014)
Writers don't make sense.
I don't really understand some of the writing in this series. Jackie goes off the deep end and kicks Kevin out of the house for a short term indiscretion which he owned up to, having been cheating on him for years. Now she goes off on Frank for cheating on his wife, having done the same thing in her marriage. Why is she written as so judgmental of others, without ever reflecting on her own behavior in those moments?
That said, I really do enjoy this series.