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Love, Death & Robots: Ice Age (2019)
An Enjoyable but Ultimately Unsatisfying Watch
A familiar but pleasant conceit presented nicely but w/ very little depth. Civilization's developmental stages proceed so rapidly it is hard to imagine they each got more than one panel of the storyboard. Consequently there is insufficient time for the young couple to search the ice box for meaning and insight. A 10-second exchange on deities was funny and had potential if it had been mined for an additional 30-45 seconds.
I was also left feeling that some pretty brutal editing was done before final release and that what had been removed was the background and development of Rob's heavy emotional investment. Burial of the miniature mammoth just about broke the dude! Why?
The high point of the episode was the concluding homage to Kubrick, but this was cheapened by a T-rex laying waste to the primate camp. This bothers me more than it probably does most other people b/c after 2 decades of teaching Historical Geology and Evolution at Community Colleges & University, I remain shocked and discouraged at the number of Americans who make it through high school thinking that dinosaurs and humans occupied our planet at the same time. Still, a less lazy script and a deeper treatment of the metaphor behind the episode would have gone a long way towards purchasing some goodwill that would have allowed me to laugh off even this pet peeve of mine.
NCIS: New Orleans (2014)
terrible, unrealistic writing
The dialogue is so overwrought and melodramatic i find myself frequently laughing. the situations and agents reactions are so comically unrealistic i wonder how the show's law enforcement advisor, if there even is one, stands it.
NCIS: New Orleans: Krewe (2017)
unrealistic
That a federal agent would have any sort of moral dilemma in a situation like this is complete BS