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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Bad Things (2023)
Weird Episode
This is a weird episode, I feel like I'm watching two different shows. Muncy and Churlish are an odd addition, but maybe I'm just not used to them. Full disclosure, this is the first episode I've seen with them. In the precinct, they remind me of interns or temps from Robert Half. Detective Muncy even makes an odd reference to Cagney and Lacey, which gave me a chuckle since that show ended before she was born, but maybe her character streams it? All of the characters seem off. Even Carisi has adopted this weird New Jersey accent that's really noticeable when he's in the car with Benson. And Fin?? Fin even uses the term "refractory period".
Stowaway (2021)
Wait......What?
First, tie yourself and the oxygen canister off for EVAs. Second, 1 CO2 scrubber for that entire ship? How about leave the porcelain Yale mugs at home and bring a backup just in case? Third, Why didn't ground control see that their fuel usage, lift weight and oxygen usage were higher than expected, Poor operational control if they're not checking who's getting on the Rocket and comparing it to who's exiting the Rocket before liftoff. Especially when their telemetry was so far off and they just wrote it off as close enough??
Lastly, I watched the end TWICE! I watched it and thought "Wait.... THAT'S the end??" I guess Anna Kendrick's character was the only one we shills be concerned with?
I give it 3 Yawns out of a possible 10.
True Detective (2014)
All the seasons are great.
I know everyone says Season 1 was great and have discounted the other two, but season 2 is Awesome as well. In Season 2, Colin Farrell plays the burned out cop that blurs the line between good and evil because he just doesn't care. No one else does, so why should he? He haunted by decisions he made in the past which come back to terrorize him once again. Farrell gets teamed up with two other L. E. outcasts which coalesce to salvage their morality and help each other grab on to the last opportunity they have to save themselves. Vince Vaughn and Rachel McAdams are just as good in their roles. Season 3 is full of great acting and is a nice slow burn leading to its jolting conclusion. Watch and enjoy all 3 seasons.
The Night Agent (2023)
Were no expert consultants available?
The Night Agent is an unrealistic and knowledge-bereft, flat character-based, action-fiction centering on a low-level, yet punctual, FBI agent who works in the basement of the White House, for some odd reason, for the singular purpose of manning a phone that could be manned anywhere in the world that never rings so that s middle-man FBI agent can then dial 911 for the caller, thereby delaying a critical response from emergency services -- until the night that it does, propelling him into a unrealistic slow moving and pointless conspiracy that we're promised (or warned?) ultimately leads all the way to the Oval Office of a White House which is occupied by a political appointees clerk who busts the balls of the Intelligence services because they somehow know better. Forgetting that the real FBI is currently an incompetent yet political branch in the real world, this agent who saved hundreds of people from a bomb on the subway was somehow demoted because he had words with appears to be an internet TMZ. This international conspiracy thriller that takes place between FOUR characters will have you on the edge of your night's sleep. Unfortunately, what must be budget cuts or a pre-occupation with covering for the friends of Jeffery Epstein, no additional FBI agents could be spared to save the city?, world?, a small pre-K class? From becoming the next victim of this husband and wife terrorist team! If there's ANYTHING ELSE, short of a test pattern, I'd recommend you watch it instead.
I'm not sure what show these other people watched and then rated, but there's NO WAY it could've been this garbage.
Oh, and the unnecessary number of times the girl's name "Rose" is used in every other sentence of dialogue coming out of the main character's mouth rivals that of the pointless and annoying number of times Leonardo De Crapio used in Titanic.
1899 (2022)
You're not obligated to love ALL projects done by the people who created a previous show that you loved.
Boring and plodding. Makes no sense even in a supernatural way. Little gets answered or resolved or even expanded upon. It's like the writers wanted to have a wealth of subplots to keep them employed until they retired from the show 50 years from now. "Say Jonah, when I get back from my hip surgery, let's expand on the black goo for Seasons 72 and 73."
Ohh...but to be sure, it take less than 30 minutes into Episode 1 of the first season to acquiesce and genuflect at the altar of the LGBTQP Mafia. Be sure to pointedly develop that gay love affair right off the bat to please the Hollywood crowd. I'm fine with gay relationships, really, whatever makes people happy, but does gay HAVE to be so front and center all the time when other preferences aren't? That's why people are turning it off and starting to push back on Hollywood. This is a no-brainer, subtle references are fine or characters who happen to be gay, but people don't want to have it shoved down their throats on every show they watch now. Besides, isn't this supposed to be 1899 when being gay was still considered immoral? Are we now doing away with all historical pretext to please the alphabet mafia? I can't wait until The Atheist Christmas movie where Christ doesn't believe in himself.
Prey (2022)
Another Hollywood attempt at not getting sued
Once again, a 100 lb. Teen girl is the smartest and best hunter in her tribe.
It's your typical teenage girl is overlooked because she's a teenage girl tale. Was this written by a teenage Gen Z'er? So she proves herself in the end as the tribe's chief defender/hunter, mostly because she got all the men killed.
An Alien that has conquered space travel and developed high tech weapons and hunting techniques is outwitted by a teenage girl from a primitive time period for her tribe. The French trappers capture Naru and use her as bait.
Predator kills the trappers with little effort.
Naru ends up defeating the Predator, the same Predator
who had no problem killing the French trappers who had no problem capturing and could've killed Naru.
See the issue here? I lost interest in the movie about a 1/4 of the way in and didn't care who lived or died. That's not true, the Predator should've killed all of us and left this planet barren and without the ability to make these unbelievable modern feminist movies. Stick to the believable female heroes like Amelia Earhart, Madam Walker, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jane Goodall, etc.
3 out of 10.
Outer Range (2022)
I see the instant satisfaction crowd has been weighing in.
If you want your stories all wrapped up in 42 minutes, this isn't your show. The shows like Twin Peaks would never have made it with this short attention span generation. This show builds and if you're okay with that, then I think you'll enjoy it and it has the potential to become a cult hit. If you don't have time in between your next "Free" whatever protest, I suggest a nice 20 minute Spongebob episode.
Reacher (2022)
Jack Reacher as a Robot
This is what you'd get if Jack Reacher was the love child of the Terminator and RoboCop. Jack Reacher isn't supposed to be this androidic, but if that was the Director's intention, this actor(?) nailed it! The storyline is pretty typical, but it's always fun to see the bad guys get theirs in the end. Add in one hot little Deputy who not only doesn't mind Reacher's "stiffness" but takes full advantage of, plus a Detective who "doesn't believe in guns" and you've got this show. Entertaining, but no awards going out for this one.
From (2022)
People get stuck in a town. Oh, and I think there's some forest creatures.
I don't think the writers know what they want this to be, a soap opera, sci-fi or horror. Unfortunately; they're pushing the soap opera angle against a backdrop of demons from the forest, of which very little is shown or explained or even talked about. Plus they're in a town that they can't escape. All roads lead back into town. So far, it's pretty boring and is probably not going to be renewed and that is squarely the fault of their writers.
Trauma Center (2019)
Where are all the Puerto Ricans?
For being set in Puerto Rico, they have an astonishing lack of Puerto Ricans. In fact, I counted ZERO Puerto Rican's. Bruce Willis is terrible. Steve Gutenberg is creepy as a doctor and I'm pretty sure he forgot he was filming a movie and started to hit on the lead actress. For having a detective shot down in cold blood, they apparently didn't have much respect for him in the force because only Bruce Willis showed up to check on the officer and I guess that's because it was his partner. For the only witness to a murder of a cop, they put one nerdy, fresh out of the academy cop to guard her. Apparently, no one gets sick in Puerto Rico either, because the hospital is empty, sans for one case of an asthma attack that requires a 3 night stay in the hospital. Oh, and for the actress who was the witness and was shot as well? They told her they couldn't take the bullet out of her leg that's "an inch below the skin" for several days because the surgeons were off-duty! I kid you not! Good thing she wasn't shot in the head. Maybe that's why the detective didn't make it? I'm pretty sure Bruce Willis filmed in between happy hours.
Where are all the nurses that wake people up every 15 minutes like in real hospitals?