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Masters of the Air: Part Six (2024)
Now that's a straight message
The Germans were all complicit. After bombing out London for months indiscriminately, after what they did in the Siege of Leningrad, after the Grossaktion Warsaw they get their nose bloodied and immediately turn to lynching and feel justified? You brought this on yourselves and then thought that the bombers would not escalate and retaliate in time? Welcome to the Bombing of Dresden.
It takes a special kind of idiotic population to be able to wake not one, but two sleeping giants consecutively in a single war - first the USSR and then the USA. That's a Darwin Award on a national scale right there and they very much messed up their gene pool once and for all with this move.
As an Eastern European, I am probably rooting for the bombers even more than American viewers are.
True Detective: Night Country: Part 4 (2024)
The problem I have with this show by now
Is that I am beginning to think that I too might become a writer/director. Same with the politicians - I am no worse that your average Western President or PM. In this dense sea of mediocrity everyone is now buoyant and can swim. In fact, I have seen schoolchildren phone in a better homework assignment during the break.
This was the worst episode so far, which says a lot and it's become so predictable by now, that I knew the German guy will come up immediately when the cave mapping was mentioned, or that the sister was next to kill herself, which are no spoilers because I can't imagine spoiling this any more than it's already been spoiled by the diversity hires behind it.
Oh, yeah, the Alaskan Coast Guard apparently discovers drowned suiciders about 15 minutes after the fact and in the dark. Since they are so efficient, I suggest they be handed this moronic case and get it over with for everybody's sake.
After this episode, I intend to watch the show to the end out of morbid curiosity how much further it can fail.
True Detective: Night Country: Part 3 (2024)
Much more X Files than True Detective.
They are overdoing the horror element and are now entering the recovered footage trope. In the first season, something supernatural was only implied, while here it's full on with these posessions, awakenings, etc. This might somewhat work as a standalone series, but they had to go and slap it with a recognizable brand to play it safe with the viewership.
Conducting a search spread so thin that everyone is basically alone, with a head lamp that illuminates several meters ahead at best is another forced attempt at creating tension. The problem is by now I don't care if anyone gets eaten by a polar bear or snatched by whatever it is that they have awaken. In fact, I will take the twist of a major character getting offed.
Bad acting keeps getting worse. Jodie is still very much miscast and highly unconvincing. While say Rust was dangerous like a tight rope on the brink of snapping, the police here command no respect or confidence, let alone intimidation. No wonder they are being told to get lost on more than one occasion.
True Detective: Night Country: Part 2 (2024)
Jumped from my seat in the opening scene
Not from fright, but from utter annoyance. Anyone with a fridge can attest if frozen meat and bones can be broken as easily as a cracker. Also, death from hypothermia comes much much earlier than the frozen solid state, from which that guy recovered. I'd be better off at this stage if he were a zombie, instead of a survivor, as this season can turn in any direction at this point, including farce.
Since the original leads form season one are billed as executive producers, shame on them for not knowing when the putrid cow they are milking has been dead for some time now.
On a side note, can we get a break from all that geriatric sex? In the first season we got the spectacular Alex and now two separate granny scenes, especially the second one, where Jodie is trying hard to play a straight character, struggling to not break a hip, before the deed is done. Don't even get me started on the rest of Jodie's acting. Had I not known that she is an acclaimed Oscar winning actor, I would have thought that all the cast was amatuer hour, instead of what I think now - all but (allegedly) one. John Hawkes is excluded as he is wasted so much, might not even be there.
Fargo: Linda (2023)
The old "It was all a dream" trope...
Yeah, they have to find a way to give a retrospective of what had happened way in the past, but this is tired and lazy. Also, the current husband is getting more and more neutered and slappable.
Being predictable doesn't help - it was obvious from a mile away who was in the rocking chair and who was the husband in the hospital at the end.
All in all, the writers had to fill an episode and half-assed it. Hope they pick it up, or this is going downhill and beginning to border on boring and annoying.
I don't know about the easter eggs they keep inserting for us to say "yeah, I get it, how clever" - here it was in the form of an ax, but minus the woodchipper.
Yellowstone: The World Is Purple (2020)
At least we know which actors are not 100% committed for next season
Which character survives or not I guess depends on which actor will be on board next year or will be having "conflicting schedules".
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
A possible explanation
The guy who threatened Mildred and then bragged to his friend about a similar rape had the same modus operandi as the real killer. He definitely knew the real perpetrator which is why he went to scare her off her quest, meaning he had a stake in this. Since he was in Iraq at the time of the murder, it is apparent that a fellow soldier of his did it while off rotation, as a case of not being able to stop what they got used to doing there. The guy said that the rape and setting ablaze of the victim had been his obsession ever since, so probably it was the same for the real rapist.
In the end, Jason and Mildred did not turn around, albeit being hesitant to go all the way with their plan once there. The moment Mildred would have recognized the guy from the shop, they would have realized that he definitely had some connection and would have extracted a confession out of him as to who the real killer was - most probably someone in his unit who was currently on his tour.
Personally, I think that they would have solved the case, given the circumstances as no way they were dropping all the facts as a mere coincidence. Had he not revealed who the other guy was, they would have killed him instead, since he was basically the same type.