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Particle Fever (2013)
Zero information, some emotions and a lot of Mr.Kaplan
I gave 2 and not 2 star for a rare footage of physicists inside CERN expecting the first run. Overall that rare access to the place and people was wasted on rather cheesy self-presentation, as the rest of film is Mr. Kaplan's face in every second minute and emotional bla-bla without a drop of physics. All theoretical details are carefully erased or not shown as if physics suddenly became a great secret (what the public ArHiv is doing then if it is so secret?) Animation is very poor and has zero information, camera work is very shaky. The main message of the film is that David Kaplan was in the CERN crowd, and that was "cool". It doesn't worth my 10$
Mad Men (2007)
Great
I am a very-very picky member of audience. I like reality-related shows, and it should be "make-believe closer to 100%". It is hard for me to do not notice sloppy jobs, as I am a scientist. I would not watch anything with poor performance and poor director's work. Most of series (I am 51 now, I had a quick look at many of them, trust me) did not pass one episode on me; 3-4 series I watched for 1-2 seasons, but they did not survive on me: either stories get too silly, or cheesy, or attention to details is too sloppy. I had only 2 serials which passed the line "good" for me (Sopranos and Mad Men), so I am glad to watch it and to own it. It seems that a very good professional was in control of this production. The team deserves recognition, for sure.
Murdoch Mysteries: Monsieur Murdoch (2011)
Great acting, I wish the stories were > believable
Good: great acting for all small and big roles, but big roles especially; great take of social issues and the historic gap between values of 2 centuries - probably the only 2 reason why I am watching it; costumes, decoration, operator work, attention to historical details is OK and often fine.
Bad: background street scenery is often sloppy and repetitive; all good female characters look like Polish Jews, slim, with narrow lips and chins, all bad female characters have wide faces, and often are overweight. Last season included other races, but they still looked the same - narrow lips and chins...; stories around great names belong to some comedy show, but not to the show about real person;
the attribution of great scientific talent to a detective is fine, but, please, no human is so talented that he could jump from invention of an idea to making an application-device over night and even over an year without working 24 hours in technical invention workshop all his life, and even so most of talented guys didn't make it. Such a sloppy and simplified take on science makes a point to an audience how uneducated Canadians might be that they think it is so easy to implement the ideas from physics. If the show is a comedy, then it should be advertised like this, but it would lose a credibility about social issues.
Da Vinci's Inquest (1998)
The quality is superb, too bad it can't get an Oscar
I am a very-very picky member of audience. I like reality-related shows, and it should be "make-believe closer to 100%". It is hard for me to do not notice sloppy jobs, as I am a scientist. Before this serial I had only 2 serials which passed the line "good" for me (Sopranos and Mad Men), so I am glad to watch it. I would not watch anything with poor performance and poor director's work. Most of series (I am 51 now, I had a quick look at many of them, trust me) did not pass one episode on me; 3-4 series I watched for 1-2 seasons, but they did not survive on me: either stories get too silly, or cheesy, or attention to details is too sloppy. Da Vinci's inquest passed for me to the "greatest job I ever saw on TV" - acting is great not only for the main guy, but for every single small role on the background, operator job (not being shy to obstruct the view or do not bother showing what should be there), attention to the details (people are mumbling like real people, CSI wear and act as the are supposed to, bad guys are not 100% bad, good guys are not 100% good, dead people look dead, weather is real, etc). It seems that a very good professional was in control of this production. Too bad it was discontinued. The team deserves recognition, for sure.