Review of Part Five

Mildred Pierce: Part Five (2011)
Season 1, Episode 5
1/10
Divorced with children (dvd)
29 December 2021
Well, if "Married with children" is funny and make fun of a poor family, this show is quite boring and focuses on a wealthy one instead.

Moreover, having just watched "Millenium" and concluded that the show shouldn't have been turn into movies, here, it's the contrary: those five hours should have been edited in a fine movie because the scenes drag a lot, all the more than they happen a lot of times in Mildred's house (it would be interesting to compare with the classic black and white release then).

I'm really ambivalent with the story : if the goal was to make me cry in front of this courageous woman who had to work, well, i'm not that audience: she isn't poor: she has a luxurious and big house, a car, pays piano lesson to her daughter, so really, she isn't a self made woman. She hasn't started from nothing. For me, it's the usual crap of the "grace and miracles of the rich" and i just really don't buy those lies. In the last episodes, the show turns into a family drama around an "american idol". Again, the whims of the fortunate left me totally unmoved.

Sure, Kate carries all the show on her shoulders and proves that she's a great actress. It was fine to see that Al's daughter in "Simone" has become a young woman. The lavish production from the thirties America would please the Indy fans but it's not enough to recommend it.

And as a final stab, I just wonder how the privileged elitist critics who praise it found the repetitive gratuitous nudity?
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