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Black Bird (2022)
8/10
Amazing!
29 March 2024
Black Bird is a true crime thriller based on Hillel Levin's memoir, In with the Devil: A Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption.

The actors are brilliantly casted to where most of them look identical to their counterparts and all deliver a compelling performance. Paul Walter Hauser does a phenomenal job portraying psychotic serial killer Larry Hall. While outshined by Paul Walter Hauser's acting, I think it's worth mentioning both Taron Egerton and Ray Liotta provide a riveting performance as James Keene and James "Big Jim" Keene.

Majority of the mini-series stays true to the real life story of James Keene and Larry Hall, besides certain aspects of certain characters being changed and including a fictional character like CO Carter. Even Springfield prison as shown in the series is very identical to the real building.

The show kept me hooked with each episode. It reminded me a bit of True Detective season one, but also managed to remain vastly different. The show has a strong story that is well told throughout 6 episodes. It isn't stretched out, but also doesn't leave any unanswered questions. I'd say it's the perfect length.

Overall the show is definitely worth watching. With a lot of new TV show releases being mini-series, I would say this is certainly one of the better ones.

Final Rating: 8/10.
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Black Summer (2019–2021)
2/10
LACKING ALMOST EVERY ASPECT OF A GOOD SHOW
22 March 2024
I decided to watch this based off a clip I saw of a sequence where one of the characters is getting chased by zombies and it seemed pretty decent with most people hyping up the show. Even than my expectations weren't too high, but somehow I was let down.

I watched 2 episodes, and I could barely finish the second one. I could tell the show was going to be bad from the first episode, but decided to see if it gets any better, and who would've guessed? It doesn't.

The show is filled with a satisfactory level of acting and pretty horrible camerawork/directing. Majority of the time the show feels like a student project, with the exception of a few short moments. I also think introducing the idea of humans against humans, in a world with zombies, this early in the series was a bad idea.

The only thing that may interest someone is the idea of having zombies be more erratic and fast-paced, but none of that matters because it is executed horribly.

Overall, any review over 4 stars is a lie and this show is pretty clearly bad.
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3/10
Way Too Slow And Cinematography Is Its Only Highlight
9 February 2024
This film is very slow paced and its style serves no purpose besides to drag out a story that is boring and doesn't even make sense at times. It doesn't have a lot of bad acting, but it's not good either. Their are some fairly notable actors who fail to deliver anything good due to a horrible script. It seems majority of the film is just characters walking around in the desert and somehow the main characters seem to barely have any dialogue. Especially Jason Mamoa. His character, Jim, is in the film for what felt like a total of 5 minutes and he served no purpose and added nothing to the story. At times it's hard to even tell weather Carlota and Willie Boy are actually meant to be the main focus. The film lacks to provide any depth. A lot of times characters pasts are referenced and spoken about but never actually shown. A large portion of the film that was wasted with scenes of just wandering the desert, could have been used to provide some backstory to these characters that seemingly took most of the screen time. However, the cinematography for this film was quite beautiful. It was the only memorable part of the film.

Besides the reading on - screen facts at the end of the film, this movie is not interesting at all, and is not one I would recommend you waste your time watching. 3/10.
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Mayans M.C.: Slow to Bleed Fair Son (2023)
Season 5, Episode 10
Complete Trash, But As Expected
2 January 2024
Warning: Spoilers
The dialogue at the beginning between Potter and EZ was weak and dragged out. Potter rambled on, said a bunch of nothing, then made a threat and still seemed scared. I have no idea what that was about. The dialogue this entire season has been weak tbh.

Then the Sons are just partying and expecting no retaliation after murdering the father of the leader of their enemy? Dumb asf. Also why does nobody have guns? Not the Sons nor the Mayans have guns except for when EZ and Angel pull out a handgun to kill 2 people. If the Mayans are somehow out of guns, why not involve the Broken Saints? They would get their revenge and they'd also have their AK's. They hyped up Issac so much, just to kill him in the first 20 minutes of the finale with no buildup.

The dialogue between EZ and Issac should've ended once Issac said "There has to be more." If EZ simply replied "There isn't" and shot him, it would have made the scene better, but it seems all this show does is drag things out.

The scenes with Alvarez having a kid and Obispo visiting Alvarez were also a waste of time, and did not need to be included. Alvarez's character does nothing the entire season.

Why downer had to kill Cielo wasn't really explained. Seemed like it was just a setup for her to kill Downer, which would lead to her snitching, and then the ATF could shoot up the Mayans. Felt like they didn't know what to do with the rest of the characters so they just said "F it, kill em all".

Letty did absolutely nothing. One of the worst characters on the show. Her original logic to blame the Mayans made no sense either.

The only satisfying culmination to a character was Emily. It made sense what she did. She knew she couldn't keep running. She got revenge for her sister and managed to escape being trapped with Miguel forever.

The entire bridge scene with EZ and Angel was a waste of time. Also took them long enough to patch in Nestor. Should've been done a lot sooner.

Took angels dumba** long enough to realize he had to leave to keep his son safe. Everybody around him dies and then he has this bright idea.

You'd think they need some proof rather than just word of mouth to kill someone for being a rat. EZ's death was dumb and dragged out, as expected since that's what they've been doing the entire show. Why did everybody have to stab him? A simple gunshot to the head would have been enough.

WHERE DID THE PIPELINE PLOTLINE GO. WHAT HAPPENED TO TERRY.

Overall, stupid way to wrap up the entire season. It felt rushed and as if not much thought was put into it, but the whole season has been like this so it was kind of expected. 2/10.
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Top Boy: Birthday Party (2023)
Season 5, Episode 3
Trash
1 January 2024
Warning: Spoilers
This episode was probably the worst in the entire show. Nothing important happens in the entire episode until the end when they ambush Tadgh and Jonny. How they killed them made no sense. You'd think the leader of a major drug dealing organization would come with more security than just one guy. They hyped up the Irish plug to be a major threat just to kill them off in the first 3 episodes. Besides that its just 45 minutes of dragged out scenes between couples arguing. The acting is garbage too. How they got an actor like Barry Keoghan to work on this show is beyond me. Dushane killing Jeffrey made no sense either and did nothing to further the story. Dushane just casually kills him, pours some bleach, cleans his hands and all of a sudden he's removed all evidence? Dumb asf. 1/10.
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TRASH, HORRIBLE EPISODE
30 December 2023
Warning: Spoilers
The broken saints acting completely sucked. Their one purpose for being in the show is now gone with their cook house being burned down. They had AK's delivered to them and somehow they still couldn't defend themselves and then tried to blame EZ. The Wendy cameo was pointless and a major waste of time. It felt like its only purpose was to indeed kill time. She came out of nowhere and keeps saying she knows what it's like to be a bikers wife, but if I'm not mistaken wasn't it Tara who was with Jax for pretty much the entire show? Of course as expected she peddled some feminist B. S about how women clean up the mess and men get to be kids all their life, and then she just leaves. I hope to god this doesn't give someone the genius idea to create a spin-off show about Wendy. Once again we see Angel continue to cry and complain about him wanting a better life for his son as if it's not obvious what he has to do in order to ensure the safety of his child. At the end during the shootout the kid seemed surprisingly calm to gunshots just going off next to him. Overall this episode was horrible and honestly so far the season has been the same. 3/10.
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