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Constellation (2024)
A classic example of how to stretch 4 episodes into 8
A classic example of how to stretch 4 episodes into 8. Kind of ironic given the quantum nature of the series. Do they employ AI to figure out how to make it not seem so repetitive ? Episode 7 really annoyed me, just a lot of running around in the snow.
Overall it's a fantastic concept for a science fiction series that gets clobbered over the head for a few hours too many and in the end the characters and the plot become unlikeable.
Just goes to show that if they put that extra bit of effort in they could have made something great but no they persisted with the gimmick for too long and didn't really explore the physics enough.
True Detective: Night Country: Part 4 (2024)
From the sublime to the abysmal
The 4th in the series started really well with it's supernatural vibes and hints of a connection to the 1st in the series. Well that's all gone downhill now and the antagonistic relationship between the lead characters just doesn't work as well as previously and the story is just meandering nowhere.
Given that Nic Pizzolatto wasn't even involved I don't see why they bothered. The network was at fault for rushing the 2nd season which should have been so much better. This looks like this season will be the final nail in the coffin.
The writer of this season appears to have borrowed heavily from Season 1, episode 8 of The X-Files and The X-Files: I Want to Believe and the 2010 comic miniseries - The X-Files: 30 Days of Night which also takes place during winter in Alaska. Not to mention The Thing as well of course.
(last paragraph courtesy of Chris Knowles - secretsun blog)
The Reckoning (2023)
Watered down story
Jimmy Savile was a severely mentally ill psychopathic megalomaniac. Which is why he fitted in so well with Prime Ministers, Popes, Royalty and in general the establishment. He didn't have to groom those in power. He was a sadistic lunatic, one of the gang. Let's be grateful that he wasn't educated in the public school system and given real power.
"The investigator who revealed Jimmy Savile's prolific paedophilia has said that he is working - and has been for some time - on exposing one other well-known living child sex offender.
Mark Williams-Thomas, the former police detective-turned-TV journalist who exposed Savile, claimed that the other individual has so far evaded justice because he is 'untouchable'.
To date the CPS won't prosecute. The police and I have tried really hard to get there. He will die in due course and then the floodgates will open in the same way they did with Savile. That's not right. But justice takes many different forms."