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Bitconned (2024)
The documentary was good but infuriating
The documentary was good just infuriating. I hope the judge who did not sentenced Ray T. To any time served watches it and feels any sort of shame or remorse. What was the thinking behind it? Like it just makes the whole judiciary system not trustworthy at all.
Ray T. Was clearly a narcissist, raised in a sociopathic environment (I mean his mother at the end clearly shows it) so no wonder he is what he is, but the fact that he now gets to enjoy all the money he stole, because he was cooperative?
I am seriously in awe how the judge did not see this as a completely misjudged, immoral and bad decision to give him no time. Mad.
Red, White & Royal Blue (2023)
I didn't read the book, the movie is not the best ad for it
As someone who didn't read the book I have to say this is a really bad ad for the book (although I hear it's way better than the movie). The writing in the movie is so cheesy and I cringe so hard at the acting especially of the actor potraying the president's son. The actor potraying the prince was way better but I think the lines were also very cheesy so I'm more so impressed with how he managed to act it so well. Regardless after forty minutes I wasn't able to watch the movie, because it was painful to watch so I had to literally consiously decide to pay half the attention so that I wouldn't feel all that cringe. I do believe the book is better but whilst most movies inspire me to read the book this one actually discoured me.
The Idol (2023)
No substance
This gives me high school play vibes with lots of nudity, sex and shock value with absolutely no content. I think they thought they will just add a lot of famous last names to the mix and that will do it, but this is really bad. The plot is incredibly not interesting, the actors have very little to work with so no wonder that they come out as doing a bad job. But I don't know if any actor would save it. I was tired after 10 minutes, but I thought I would give it a benefit of a doubt. At 20 minutes something inside of me was breaking. It's clear now that Sam Levinson cares only about aesthetics which is not my kind of tea anyway and not much about content. The dialogs are like an AI idea of what a human dialog should be. This is really embarrassing for everyone involved.
How to Get Rich (2023)
Waste of potential
I am pretty good with money, but I recently started educating myself more about how to save for future, invest and build wealth. Let me tell you - this show teaches nothing. Like I know some stuff already, but if I knew nothing before watching this show - after watching this I would still know nothing! The only possible plus of this show is maybe giving impulse to some people to get interested in this topic or get their finances in order. Other than that it was just one big ego trip for the presenter and don't even get me started on the guy from the Circle, because by the end of the show it was clear he is just taking part in the show to gain more followers. Not really about educating himself about finance, because he was spending 5k dollars for a holiday whilst quitting his job and trying to make it as an influencer?!
Maybe it's also the European in me, but come on, this show is just not meeting its promise and to be honest at time it can lead ignorant people to make stupid decisions, because the math isn't explained almost at all, so I still don't know why the presenter gave the advice he gave to many of these people. This isn't quality content, it's just wasteful entertainment with people looking for clout (yes including the presenter).
Wednesday (2022)
Predictable
Nice production and the performance of the lead actress, but the show was just too predicable. Was the main lady villain based off of the sheep villain from Zootopia? The overt friendliness and just over the top good intent? The same for the monster, they went about it in a too obvious manner - they shed the least suspicion on him which was a give away.
I don't know for the half of it I was gripped and interested, but then when they confirmed who the villains are, I was so disappointed.
I really feel like it could have been better, but it was okay to watch nevertheless. I don't have hopes for a better season two unfortunately though.
Jerrod Carmichael: Rothaniel (2022)
I didn't laugh that much, but I felt a lot
Really honest, transparent and funny yes, but most of the times I was actually sad. And I guess that's why this show was so great, because it's really hard to find something like this. It was so heartfelt, sometimes dark and I actually thought it's not something really funny, but I got that having a laugh at it was a coping mechanism. I was very impressed overall and I have never seen a set up like this and the audience was amazing too. I loved how this felt like a conversation, sometimes even therapy and it did address so many topics including homophobia and racist but in a kind and understanding tone. It is a gem.
The Handmaid's Tale: Ballet (2022)
Can we tone it down with the cringe a bit
This episode is even worse than the first one. The ballet/funeral scene was so cringe I cannot comprehend how did it get to the producing stage. The music on this show is so soap opera level dramatic and poorly chosen it makes it look like a pastiche of the first seasons and just pure kitsch. The plot is so empty, silly, the potential for plot lines are constantly wasted. In the past I was gripped by the show and now I am just rolling my eyes most of the time. I mean the scene when they see Hannah at the funeral. Was that a joke? The pathos, unlikeliness of something like this and the emptiness of the plot left me just embarrassed for the writers. Seriously now we have a close up after close up after close up about Serena and June having a beef and that is pretty much it. I know Hulu is milking that money off of their most popular title, but come on guys this is just sad.
The Handmaid's Tale: Morning (2022)
Why were these questions not asked?
June Osborn is just a bizarre cringe character at this point. And I'm sorry, but if Serena is a prisoner, why is she talked to and treated like a member of a royalty? She's pregnant so yeah, I understand, she's taken care of for the baby, but why is she even able to make wishes and demands? And why do we have a close up every 30 seconds, mostly on June's face, but it seems like it's almost everyone getting close up and doing some serious cringe over acting? And why is the plot just basically going around the same thing over and over instead actually being interesting like in season 1 and 2? And why no one on their team is asking these questions? Are there only "yes men" on the team? This show is now mediocre and at times bad. But seasons 1 and 2 were so strong that I will still watch it to is how it ends.
Lightyear (2022)
Sadly couldn't care less
The issue that this movie has is that there isn't enough substance to be invested in any of the characters (ironically apart from a robot cat). Couldn't care less for Buzz, couldn't care less for the rest of the characters. Couldn't care less for the plot. Characters aren't developed at all (no interesting backstory, no authentic or interesting vulnerabilities) so as a viewer it's impossible to develop any empathy for them. Beautiful animation and action scenes are not enough. Maybe they grew tired of the Toy Story franchise? It is the fifth movie and maybe they didn't feel the creativity anymore? I know this is somewhat a new director/writer at Pixar, but someone from the old crew must have overseen this?
Neumatt (2021)
Should be shorter, bad character development
The first few episodes are pretty good, but halfway through the season, you realize they are going to stretch out the plot that's been already exhausted into 8 episodes and that's when it gets downhill. The character development was also questionable and some decisions that were made often didn't result from the character arc, so it was very disappointing to see the plot go some ways where you know that the character is going against his character arc. Some characters were too flat and one-dimensional and their decisions were again not backed by anything and it all looks like wishful story writing with some cringe scenes.
By the end of it, I couldn't wait for it to finish.
Ozark (2017)
Thanks to the cast, writers, crew, everyone
I usually don't watch this genre, but I have to give it to them - the show was amazing. Everything was thought out and the writing was excellent, maybe I felt like Navaro's story and few others were a little bit of a stretch hence 8/10 rating, but overall I am impressed with the writers.
This is nothing new, but unbelievable performances too - Julia Garner as Ruth, Jason Bateman as Marty were outstanding, but perhaps my personal favorite was Laura Linney as Wendy. I mean the sheer range of emotion and nuance she brought to the role! I also realized whilst watching Netflix's special 'The Goodbye to the Ozark" or something like that, that I would be frightened have I met the actress playing Darlene on the street, which means she did her job incredibly well too.
Im very glad the show ended with a 4th season (although it could have been shorter) and the 4th season was the weakest. The story ran its course in my opinion and it was perfect moment to finish it. And with good writers you get a great show ended in the right spot instead of dragging it out just to make some extra bucks by the producer. Do I wish the ending was stronger? A little bit, but I think I for one, can forgive it.
I will be missing Ozarks though!
White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch (2022)
Shocked to see how many reviews here are sort of defending A&F
I am a little shocked that when I came here to see reviews I saw people saying basically that people shouldn't shop there if they didn't like it. It's 2022 and there are still people who support this brand?! I mean even if you are white and "cool" do you really want to defend something that would tell you that you suck if you for example get fat? I am sure that the new CEO has good intentions, but even the current rebranding looks so forced and inauthentic that it's difficult to digest.
The documentary was pretty disappointing though, I mean obviously racial discrimination was a major problem with the brand, but there was so much more to dissect. Just the slogan on one of the t-shirt "i had a nightmare that I was a brunette" how low-key offensive and problematic is that to half the population? There was so much more that could be addressed.
I feel that they spent too much time picturing why A&F was successful instead of going into the detail on the problematic behaviours. This is why this documentary feels to be done with not as much effort as I expected from a contemporary documentary movie.
I even heard a local story (when I was living in the UK) of a muslim girl being discriminated in around 2013-2014 by a manager, that I had worked for in another retail chain and hoped it would be featured in this documentary too but clearly they thought one story is enough...
Funny thing I was once asked on the street in 2014 to come for an interview to work at A&F as a model and believe it or not I didn't really know what A&F was (I am early gen-z eastern-european guy) and was pretty surprised to see on the website that the way they understand "model" was just a retail worker for minimum wage salary who is obviously white and relatively attractive. I knew how problematic it was so I never went for an interview. Now I am very happy I didn't.
Élite: Todo vale (2022)
I watched previous seasons for guilty pleasure...
...but this is just boring. Delivering the same plot over and over again for fifth season, just different cast combinations. Given the popularity of the show I get that it was already renewed for sixth season, but at the same time I can't believe it because I am at episode two and wish this already ended. This isn't guilty pleasure series anymore and soap opera level now.
Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives. (2022)
Mixed feelings
It was well produced and everything I just felt exhausted after finishing this series and did not feel any sort of satisfaction at the end that I watched it.
I did not like being pressured into empathy by the editing (spoiler alert) - Will being an actor so that we feel like she must have felt. Her being so open to talk about everything was also like asking me for empathy - and then her dodging uncomfortable questions so that she did not have to make it look like she could be seen as complicit in any way, made it not ideal for me to give my empathy to her.
This felt like someone was engaged in something dodgy not completely through her own fault and then asked me to give her sympathy, because she was also a victim. I get that, but I don't know. I have a bad aftertaste after watching this overall.
Having said that I do think that these sort of mental problems should be more talked about and exposed so that less people would go for scams like that - I mean it's clear this has something with her upbringing as her mum fell for the same guy and gave him money too. The guy is out there and this is an amazing warning for potential victims too.
I can totally understand how she got herself into this and sort of feel sorry for her - I just would rather not be asked to be sorry for her throughout the whole watching of the series. I wish this woman well, but I would feel so much better if she said at the end - yes it's hard but I got myself into therapy or anything remotely like that. And this is what I wish for her. Get better, go to therapy. Do you have to own your own famous restaurant? Maybe work as a vegan chef somewhere? That's also what is troubling for me - do you have to be this big owner of a restaurant in NY? Is anything less than this, not satisfying for the ego? Having said that I'm glad that she was sort able to clear her name. Or was she?
Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts (2022)
Im not objective, but
Being a fan of both Friends and Harry Potter, I enjoyed this reunion much more than the Friends one. Having said that, this one wasn't without any flaws - the biggest one for me was how much of a documentary rather than reunion it was. It was a good documentary, but perhaps too much of it. I expected far more getting together of the WHOLE cast, like we can clearly see in the trailer even, that there was a big party, yet nothing of it really is shown, no conversations there are held?
I did enjoy getting together of the individual cast members, many of them were wholesome and quite frankly brought me to tears, just because I, like so many did grow up with these actors.
The most important factor that made this reunion so good for me, that I'm not sure everyone appreciates, is how the older cast and the crew treated children on the set. 90's were so very cruel to the actor children and we hear story after story of their adult life being shattered because of their child-acting experiences. It was so important to see how these children on Harry Potter's sets grew up in an atmosphere of love, support, protection - not only from the adults, but their mutual care for each other. I think that's what protected them and I think it was so important that there was the three of them on the set. Even though they didn't spoke about it openly, they did not have to go through this undeniably insanely overwhelming experiences alone.
Succession: Chiantishire (2021)
I am actually tramatized by this episode
Okay I know this fictional drama, but... The things the characters said to each other even at their most intimate left me actually traumatized. As much as I don't like them I feel sorry for each of them.
The Billion Dollar Code (2021)
Stay to watch behind the scenes after the show
Behind the scenes answers a lot of questions arising after the show. I really wish this show will blow so that as many people as possible will hear about this pattern of abuse that giant corporations like Google feel they can get away with.
To me the quote from behind the scenes "If google it there aren't many results that show you the trial and the whole thing that happened. Because you google it!" sadly sums it all up.
Ted Lasso: Lavender (2021)
I was proved wrong
I wrote a review on the first episode and I am so glad my worries seemed to be unnecessary. Episode two was so much better than episode one and although I am still unsure as to where the season is going or what is the main subject of this season, now at least I have trust and hope the season will unravel in a very good way.
Ted Lasso: Goodbye Earl (2021)
I'm worried
Season one was top notch. It had clear storyline, the plot was clearly outlined right from the first episode. I watched the first episode of the season 2 and it felt like there is no direction for the second season really. It felt like show being carrying on just because it was good in the first season so let's just throw more money at what's been working... Fingers crossed the whole season is good, but episode one had me worried.
The Handmaid's Tale: The Wilderness (2021)
Not sure about it
Hmm... If I was the writer for the show, I would have sent Fred and Serena back to Gilead and end it all in sort of "take your own medicine" fashion. Fred would likely be executed and Serena made into a handmade. No blood on hands of June and both of them get the treatment they sort of were imposing on others when they were in Gilead. All blame would be on Gilead, while you could show June to be the better person. I know the revenge might seem satisfying, but it's just so out of the blue and it bends all Canada and Gilead rules, which is sort of lame (for example in season 4 everything in Gilead works out in June's favor without at least anything leading up to it).
Also I would see June, now that she's in Canada, as some sort of leader, fighting against Gilead from Canada and it's just seems strange to me that, with all her contacts in Gilead (Lawrence, Nick) it was not explored more broadly and only for seeking vengeance. After 4 seasons that's not who I took the character of June for. I thought the character was more often than not altruistic, yes, bold, but not really cruel, which the last seconds showed her to be. But well, I might as well be wrong (so I guess I like the ending for being thought-provoking in a way).
Bottom line is it is a weird ending for me and I really feel that not seeing Serena made into a handmade after all that she imposed on June is just wasteful screenwriting.