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Dexter: New Blood (2021)
Who would have thought...
...that this would limbo easily under the bar that season 8 set? I mean, is this a telenovela? The writing is horrible, particularly the dialogues. The visual quality is cheap. This is nothing more than a disaster, an assault on one of the greater shows in TV history. 30 minutes into episode 1, and I can't bear it anymore.
Mr. Corman (2021)
I so wanted to like this
I really wanted to like Mr. Corman more than I could. I loved the mood, I loved the setting and I have no problem with slowly moving plots. But I could not see the episodes going anywhere. And having watched the complete series I still can't. What was this all about?
The Night Of (2016)
So precise!
This was some of the best television I have watched in years. The story is good, the actors are great.
But what I loved most about The Night Of was the way it is directed, filmed and edited. We see so many little details, shots of seemingly less important things or characters but the way all these shots are put together makes you really feel the situation, the environment, the atmosphere of a scene.
And one other thing is that all the main characters show some believable development over the course of the series. Their attitude changes, their habits change, their perspectives on what happened change.
All this combined makes for some truly remarkable, highly watchable, entertaining and very intelligent television. It doesn't get much better.
The Night Manager (2016)
Just mediocre
Maybe my mistake was having watched "The Night Of" right before starting with "The Night Manager". And man, is The Night Manager mediocre in comparison.
I already knew that this wasn't for me when the director thought that he had to use a slow-motion shot to introduce the femme fatale. And then she hands our hero an incriminating invoice that spells out "Napalm". Seriously?
How simple-minded does this series assume its viewers are if it thinks it has to spell out every obvious fact? If you want to watch something that doesn't make you think, then maybe The Night Manager is right for you.
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)
What's the point?
I had read good things about this series so I expected something. But apart from seeing the hero iron his laundry in the opening scene I couldn't find anything in the first episode that would get me hooked. Everything seemed so pointless, particularly the scenes that were supposed to give me some insight into the characters' motivations. I couldn't care less about the characters or the story, so I stopped watching after the first episode.
303 (2018)
Too long
I like roadmovies and I like slow movies. But this one was a bit dragged out. I generally liked the dialogue because it was very authentic. But having said that, I don't really need to hear the next half hour filled with naive theories about why men and women are different. I started to wonder if the director really thought that these theories were fascinating rather than being a vehicle for telling us something about the characters.
On top of that the story was very much foreseeable.
I might have like the movie better had it managed to tell its story in 90 minutes rather than 140.
Beat (2018)
Better than expected, worse than it could have been
After the first episode I wasn't sure if I wanted to continue with the series. I found the characters clichéd, Jasper in particular, and I thought the plot was a bit schematic and foreseeable. However, I continued watching and was positively surprised by how the story unfolded in ways I did not expect. I also started to like Beat's character.
In the end I thought that one or two fewer episodes would have done the series good, the story was dragged out a bit. Sadly, there were some major plot holes. For example, why was the body that fell in the harbor never mentioned again? It should have been found and the police would have figured out how it was connected to the crimes. Or why did Beat not take any pictures when he found out about the cottage?
Overall I give it a 7/10. It was enjoyable and kept me glued to the screen.
Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au bon Dieu? (2014)
Shallow and just not funny
This movie is one of the shallowest I have seen in a long while. It is completely predictable, it pretends to play with clichés while just reproducing them, and it does so in mostly unfunny ways. It is not worth your time!
A Killer Uncaged (2020)
Pointless
Although I was interested in the story of Dale Sigler and the murder he committed, I found that the documentary fails to make a point. It just shows what happened and what Sigler and the prosecutors and the victim's relatives say. But what does the series want to tell us? You don't need to take sides to have a point of view, and this series does not.
One thing that made me angry even is when the "great revelation" of Sigler telling a different version of his motive for the murder was kept from the viewers until the end of episode 2 (of 3). And that's despite the fact that at the time of the filming this changed statement was already known.
This documentary doesn't bore but it left me shrugging my shoulders.
Quicksand (2019)
Good acting, mediocre writing
I liked the premise of the show and watched it until the end - only to be disappointed. Everything happend exactly the way Maja always told it happened and she was acquitted. But since that was what the viewer always wanted to have happend anyways, the ending felt very anti-climactic to me.
I liked the acting and I liked the slow unfolding of events.
But none of the characters developed in any way different from what you would expect and neither did the story.
To top it all off, the writers do not answer one essential question of the story: Did Maja know that Sebastian had killed his father before the morning of the school shooting? We assume that she did not but the show does not tell us (or at least suggest that this might be a dark secret left). Despite the fact that the state attorney questions Maja intensely about this issue, the final episode just skips it: Maja arrives at Sebastian's house, goes inside, both come out and drive to school.
I generally liked the series, but the last 30 minutes or so spoiled it all for me.
The Man from Earth (2007)
Intellectual?
Why keeps everybody repeating that this is such an intellectual movie? The only way you could find "Man from Earth" intellectual is if you consider any movie intellectual that stretches half an idea over 90 minutes but does not have any explosions in it.
Seriously: This must have been the most absurdly over-rated movie that I have ever watched. The point of the movie is clear from the beginning and it does noting more than tell a campfire story, without even having the decency of leaving out the actual campfire.
The acting is wooden, to say the least. I wouldn't remember the last movie where I saw an actor illustrate a heart attack with such a ridiculous pose. And that's only one example.
I have a horrible suspicion: Could it be that the fact, that "Jesus" is being depicted in this movie, switches a little flick in some viewers' brains, eradicating any possibility to not like this movie? This movie was just ridiculous.