torymclaughlin Reviews

Blockbuster (2022)

Shouldn't have been cancelled

[8/10 · 5 February 2023]

Most people writing these reviews didn't even make it through the full season and it shows. It's like stopping watching the Office or Parks and Rec after season 1! Y'all were missing out, and now we're all missing out. I gave the show 8 stars because it deserves more than 5 but since it's cancelled, it left me on a cliffhanger.

The casting of the show is great, and the idea is great. I think it is really awesome that they took something so nostalgic like Blockbuster and turned it into a modern show about owning and operating a small business while trying to keep that nostalgia alive. In the little amount of time we got with the show, it does a great job of diving into different kinds of relationships and hardships with those types of relationships... whether that be romantic relationships, friendships, a father and daughter, and close coworkers. I was truly excited to see where this show was going, and now I'm truly bummed that it was cancelled.

Imposters (2017–2018)

Brilliant!

[9/10 · 8 October 2022]

The only reason it didn't get 10 stars is because it was cancelled too soon and there were definitely loose ends that weren't tied up. That being said, the ending was still fairly satisfying. The season finales of each season were really fantastic and definitely tied up the seasons really well, but again, didn't tie up the entire show. That is not fault of the writers though.

I started to watch this show on a whim not really knowing much about it. At first I thought it was a little cheesy, but it really took a turn. It is so exciting to watch these characters turn into who they become and grow as con artists. It's so unpredictable, I could never tell who was conning who! I also loved watching the friendship grow between the three exes and watching them work through their trauma involving Maddie and eventually being able to work so closely with her.

The twists in this show are great as well as the character development. The acting is phenomenal and the writing is great. It's really a shame that it got cancelled.

Grimm (2011–2017)

Incredible from beginning to end

[10/10 · 9 December 2018]

Anyone who writes a bad review about this show, has not seen it from beginning to end.

When I first started watching this show, I admit I wasn't THAT intrigued. The first episode was great, then I kept watching the next episodes in the first season and felt like it wasn't really going anywhere. It seemed like just a regular case by case cop show except with a little extra pizazz of the fairytale world. However, I stuck it out and gave it a chance. Giving it a chance, was the best decision I've made with a TV show as it is now my favorite drama.

The first season doesn't have much plot, but there's a reason for that. Most of the first season is just getting to know what a Grimm is and what they do, it also gets you familiar with different types of Wesen, good and bad. Toward the end of the first season comes the first big plot twist, and there are many more to come after that.

I never understood the key and why that was important until I got into the later seasons. Then I realized, that key was a very small plot point to a much much larger plot point. That little key is pretty much just the first little thing leading up to the end of the series. Literally everything in this series is just build up to the big finale. Everything aside from the normal homocide cases just points to the end and you don't realize it until then and it all makes sense.

The entire cast is phenomenal. David Giuntoli play a perfect Nick Burkhardt and a really bad-ass Grimm. Bitsie Tulloch is fantastic and proves herself to be a bad-ass throughout the whole show no matter what situation she is. Anyone who bashes her or her character is incredibly wrong. She is by far my favorite character. She plays different personalities very well. Silas Weir Mitchell is very charming and funny as Monroe, he is such a loveable character. Bree Turner as Rosalee is also a very lovable and sweet character and makes a great contribution to team Grimm. Reggie Lee is excellent as Sgt. Wu. He is incredibly cheesy with his jokes but that's how his character is supposed to be portrayed and I love it, I find it charming and funny. Russel Hornsby as Hank also makes an excellent addition to the cast as he is a very relatable character. He is definitely the most down to earth character who is intrigued and accepting of this new and daunting world. Claire Coffee as Adalind is another character who makes the show. As much as you hate her she really gives the show what it needs. Sasha Roiz as Captain Sean Renard is a character you just have that love-hate relationship with. It's hard to decide if you love him or hate him but he is another character who really makes the show great. One last cast member worth the mention is Jacqueline Toboni who plays Trubel. She only entered the show in season 3, but continued her role until the end. Normally, I don't care for characters who enter shows in later seasons, but she is an exception. She was a character I definitely did not expect but I'm certainly glad we got her. She was a tremendous addition who really furthered the plot.

All in all, with the amazing cast, the elongated plot, the incredible amount of plot twists that always kept you on your toes, this show was definitely worth the watch from beginning to end. I cannot wait for the spin off and I'm hoping they decide to continue the story from where they left off at the very last scene of the show. 10/10

Fan Girl (2015 TV Movie)

I really wish it wasn't this awful.

[2/10 · 4 October 2015]

When I saw commercials for this movie to come out I was so excited because of the fact that it revolves around All Time Low, but now that I watched it, it was just so awful. The greatest part of the movie was the fact that it had All Time Low in it... well mainly just Alex. Don't get me wrong I love Alex but i wish we could have seen more of the band. You see a little bit of the rest of the guys in the last scene if you look close enough but that's about it. Besides that, most of the scenes were pointless and had nothing to do with the plot. Speaking of the plot, there were many plot holes and horrible character development. Some scenes were a little over-dramatic and just random. The jokes were corny and she wasn't even a very good filmmaker, she always stood in one spot and had no interesting shots.A lot of the bits were done before like when she got really orange with the spray tan.. we've seen it before. Not to mention they focused way too much on the teens being addicted to their phones and using really dumb slang, new age slang isn't even that awful. It seemed to be a low-budget film. Im so disappointed in this movie because I love All Time Low and I was expecting something way better.