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Fire Country: I Know It Feels Impossible (2023)
Awful. Fully agree with reviews
The last two episodes felt like they had completely different writers for the characters from the rest of the season.... Damn this was rough. I agree with everyone's reviews... Why'd we put up with everything from this season just to get this outcome? If I heard parole hearing one more time I was gonna pull my hair out... and then the ACTUAL hearing?! Who wants to watch this without some sort of payoff from the crazy season?
Also wowza to the storyholes. One minute Sharon is on oxygen and needs a transplant and the next she's basically fine, then she collapses?! Why has she just been walking around like nothing is wrong the last 6 episodes?
Maybe 3 rock wouldn't have to be investigated if somehow a guy like sleeper wasn't allowed into this very "exclusive" parole program. I mean huh? This was the storyline we picked?
How'd Manny all of a sudden pay this crazy amount of debt ?
Also, manny and his parents all just casually thinks bode is using?! What?? After everything this season and they have zero belief in Bode? Cmonnnn They don't know their son and his behavior from when he was a user?? Total joke.
And now we have to wait forever for the next season because of the strikes- and at this point, they've pigeonholed themselves with some of these stories that I'm not sure how they're turning it around without a full correction in the first episode and some actual creativity to come up with a way to give these people at 3 rock more story than we're all getting a screwed up deal and going back to prison. Ughhhhh annoyed.
A través del mar (2023)
Ooof
I could have watched that first movie over and over and over .... This one? Yikes I might even dare say to skip it. Wtf happened in that writers room? Giving it a 3 because the angst - at least somewhat - is still present kind of, but sadly that's really about it. The main characters are both brats (mostly Raquel) with zero show of maturity. I'd almost say they have their ish together in the first movie more. Why did we reinvent the wheel here? Meh, really bummed out.
I thought this would be another cute summer rom com like the first but sadly not even close. Maybe the third movie can be redeemed- but when you spend the entire first movie pining after a couple that becomes a fan favorite, only to watch them entirely implode the entire second movie from the actual beginning with zero hope for really NO reason at all, it's pretty much a total letdown.
Wait with Me (2023)
One of PF's Best
Totally unpopular opinion but as an avid PF original subscriber I've watched every movie and show- and I find (with the exception of the earliest movies) anything directed by Tosca herself is just tough to watch. A couple take exception here but in general they feel slow moving, forced acting and I just don't fully enjoy them.
As I watched Wait With Me I was shocked how much I was loving the movie, then I looked it up and realized Musk didn't direct this, ding ding ding.
I truly don't say this to be mean, it's just a preferred style of directing - with the exception of Resisting Roots, which is also not directed by Musk herself (but woof that was a rough one to get through and I've worried more would go this direction- tho admittedly I think casting had more to do with the issues for that movie)- and Tosca doesn't hit the mark for me. This one just WORKED. The style, the cast, the flow- it was pure enjoyment from the get. Also a fabulous book- so that helps!
I haven't reviewed a lot of these movies because honestly I have a love hate relationship with a few as of late... (pls bring back the early days of Hollywood Dirt, Afterburn and Matchmaker's Playbook!!) but this one was worth a rave! Thanks for this PF. Now, can we get the rest of the books? There's a thousand Gabriel.. I'm just asking for 2 or 3 of Amy's now!!
Vampire Academy (2022)
Julie Plec... that's the problem
Welp here's what I'll say as a DIE HARD VA fan of every single book when this was announced I was beyond excited... putting it mildly. Getting a true remake after the disaster of the movie was a second life for this series... and then they hired Julie Plec. Here's the thing as a stand-alone, interesting show, it's good-ish and enjoyable as a new show. If you just like vampires and don't have book series background and want to watch- it's ok. You won't get any answers past the finale but hey it's a good time killer.
Now, as a series following this beloved book series this show is TRASH and yet another slap in the face to die hard fans that have been DEVOTED to this series and the characters. All I wanted was a show that gave us our stories in the books. WHY IS THAT SO HARD? Was Julie like, "oh high school and vampires? That's too much like my show- we must change it and I'll make it great"? 🙄
And of course here we are with a canceled series. Why? Because they messed with the original formula. It was popular for a reason- who thought this was a good idea?!? I am just amazed after the absolute crash and burn of the movie, that they allowed this adaptation. Peacock, you're better than this and you're better than JP.
Sure I'm venting and crying about a stupid show but I'm so tired of these showrunners taking their audiences for granted and NOT LISTENING. Those books are literal gold... they had a road map - Nothing needed to be invested- simply updated.
I assume a third chance at this series is likely not possible but one can continue to only hope.
Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives. (2022)
This one was rough, netflix
A story stretched out over 4 episodes for no reason- could have been 2- about a woman with zero confidence, incredibly insecure making really bad decisions and trusting the wrong people for reasons like, "my dog liked him so he must be trustworthy", and trying to explain why she did them. And somehow Alec Baldwin plays in...?! Spoiler alert... she still doesn't seem to understand where she went wrong. Despite everyone in her life raising red flags. Excuses, excuses. Why are we victimizing this person who got herself into her own problems? Literally all the people in her life saw how bad this guy was, but she just accepted anything told to her with zero questions. A guy in the CIA? Come on.