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Heartstopper (2022)
Perfect casting, perfect show
The casting is perfect. Kit Connor is extremely talented and his expressions make this, whether he's acting heart-stopping, confused, or emoting sadness followed by understanding and joy.
This is the most precious, heartwarming, inoffensive, sweet young love story I've seen, maybe ever, and I'm a middle aged person who loves tv and movies and has seen plenty.
Don't worry about it being sappy, just sink in and let it wash over you, remembering how it felt to be very young and feeling the spark of excitement when your crush likes you back! And then think about how that would be in the most idealized way, the most perfect fairytale version of a teenage relationship. A dream come true, a perfect fit, friends with romance, with nothing toxic between them. What a show. I'll be watching again and again to capture that feeling that probably could never be real, but one can fantasize.
The King's Man (2021)
Missing something
That thing that made the first film great and the second one good, that rapport between characters? It's called homoeroticism! And it was totally lacking in this one, rendering it a boring entry in the series. As a "historical" film on its own it was fine and well enough made, but the characters lacked the same chemistry, and the film had no spark.
Euphoria (2019)
Dark and ugly despite the cast
The show is an experience I wouldn't recommend. The acting is good enough, but don't watch it unless you want to sink into a dark pit of depression.
The situations the characters of this age are into are unbelievable. The music is really gross; it fits the show. There are no jokes, everything is stone serious, adult, dark, grimy, and hopeless.
My So-called Life was the teenage reality of my time, so I'm not the audience I guess. Too out of touch.
After this I needed a shower, and to watch something with humor and heart like The Sex Lives of College Girls.
Santa Inc. (2021)
If Sausage Party was too sophisticated for you
Then you might enjoy this. Out of the gate it immediately bombards with rapid fire stacked layers of profanity and stale political jokes, testing the audience to find out how many f-bombs can fit into any given thirty seconds, and not much else.
As a liberal atheist with a dark sense of humor and high tolerance for blue comedy, I should like this, the writers apparently thought. If only it was funny! They tried way too hard at everything though and fall completely flat.
It's not that I mind Seth Rogen, either. Even An American Pickle was a decent film. I'm not sure what perfect storm led to this disaster but I hope it never happens again.
Quiet Please... (2016)
Good because it's the only documentary on the subject
Structurally, it was all over the place, repetitive and overly long.
If the film had been separated into what misophonia is and how it affects different people and their relationships in part 1, then coping techniques for those affected in part 2, it would be easier to expect a loved one to sit through.
As it is, the film was captivating though mildly repetitive for the first quarter, then it got into how people use art as an outlet- a very long segment that lost the audience I was hoping to entertain- sadly missing out on some of the best content.
Still, I rated this highly because I was craving subject matter on the topic, and appreciated perspectives from people of different ages in different lines of work and how they came to realize and then learn how to live with the condition.
The Tribe (1999)
One of my favorite cheesy young adult soaps
This show is nostalgic for me and my rating of it is influenced by that, but compared with other teenage series', it holds up as being no worse, and the concept was original.
Watching a newer young adult apocalyptic series Freakish got me thinking about this show, and how much more I enjoyed it and would like to see it revitalized, but not as a U.S. production.