lexbarron Reviews

Criminal Minds: Blood Hungry (2005) Season 1, Episode 11

Mediocre episode, painfully bad accent.

[4/10 · 26 November 2023]

Lindsay Crouse is supposed to be doing a rural Tennessee accent, but besides being wildly inconsistent, that accent isn't rural or Tennesseean. She's doing a bad and constantly changing accent that's clearly attempting to do a Charleston/Savannah accent. No one from Tennessee sounds anything like that. If you're going to have a New Yorker play a Tennesseean, just have them do a neutral American accent. That would actually be closer to the accents you'll hear in rural Tennessee and I know she can do a better job of it, although she always sounds a little odd to me. It's bad enough when shows and movies have actors do accents for languages they don't speak, but there are at least 10 million people who could do a better job of a rural TN accent and those same 10+ million people will notice how wrong her accent is when watching this episode.

Age of Tanks (2017)

Interesting with a few errors and mild bias.

[7/10 · 14 March 2023]

Overall it was a decent basic overview of the history of the tank with contextualizing narrative to explain the reasoning behind the changes over time. I found it to be a good approach to the subject and would like to see similar series about fighters, bombers, and helicopters. The narration and score were engaging, but not excessively dramatized the way that American documentaries tend to be.

There seems to be a pretty mild bias in favor of French and Russian tanks throughout, although nothing major until the end. The other reviews complaining of extreme bias one way or another seem silly and unfounded to me. The very ending turning into a bit of Russian propaganda about the fictional T-14 is pretty bad though. The bit about 2300 to be delivered by 2020 was good for a chuckle.