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House of the Dragon (2022)
Why So Fast? and Why So Trivial?
Why does this show move so fast? You have 172 years to fill. Between one show there is a missing wedding then a 2 year old and a kid on the way? Then we just see Rhaeyrna brooding ... can we get some lead up there? You started with a narrator, why did you abandon that story technique? Just seems so rushed when you have the audience who is going to watch!
Also, trivial stuff left and right. Daemon steals the egg to just let it go when his cousin shows up on a smaller dragon than he has and speaks valayrian? What?! And then wake a baby? Who is writing this ? Hope it improves. I really want to get into it but where is the action, or at least the drama and suspense?
Svart krabba (2022)
What Is This? Who? When?
This could have been a decent movie but like what is the context? Who are we fighting? Who are the good guys and why? I have nothing but questions. The ice skating is creative but I just don't get this one.
This is just a thrown together script, got some funding and made a movie. Not a waste of time but pretty close to it.
Lost in Space (2018)
Good Effects and Lots of Promise
The show has excellent effects, graphics, production value and starts with alot of promise. However, it's delves into 'Lost' where it's one thing after another after another. These people would be exhausted mentally and physically. The Robinsons are like magnets for problems ... SPOILER: 5 minutes on the desert planet and Robinson dad is stuck down the well ... What!
Also, there are opportunities for back stories and character development, but they are terse and provide more questions than answers. Then there are so many plot holes, even for sci-fi.
I'll keep watching and I recommend it, but dont expect True Detective Season 1.
Industry (2020)
Wolf of Wall Street College Years
I enjoyed the premise but it's a far cry from Margin Call and tries to the like the Wolf of Wall Street without any of the redeeming qualities of the Wolf. I like the plots, albiet weak but all the vulgarity and gratuitous sexuality is over the top. HBO and BBC have done much better.
Ad Astra (2019)
Good Effects, Awful Narrative
I like Brad Pitt and glad we won an Oscar, but gosh man, you should have past on daddy drama set in space in whatever year this was. They might have said but it was so boring I forgot! Pass if you care about 2 hours of your life.
The Outsider (2020)
Incredible, Intriguing, intelligent
I'll be brief, almost as well done, scripted, and acted as True Detective season 1. Don't know there will ever be a limited series that will top True Detective season 1, but this is close! A must watch and I am not a sci fi guy.
Seven Seconds (2018)
What is This Show?
First I usually love and enjoy the Netflix originals, which usually have great acting. The acting here was just fine and on par with most Netflix originals, however the premise of the show as just off. What was this show about? Is it a racial series? Is it about bad cops? We know from watching the first 5 minutes that it isn't a mystery with some surprise twist. Is it a courtroom drama?
You also can't really find one character that you like. I was hopeful about Nadine, but ** spoiler alert** she was killed off. You didn't really like the main character alcoholic district attorney trying to redeem something spectacular that her character really did not have. Fish was excellent, but I would have loved him to have also gotten a win somewhere. For better or worse, he continually gets shafted.
And what gets me the most, as a criminal defense attorney myself, is the infinite number of ways that this series was so lost from reality. At least in the state I practice in (not New Jersey) I've never heard of a prosecutor also being the cop and doing their job. I've never heard of them say "You're Under Arrest." In my state, I don't even think prosecutors have arresting power. I won't even get started with the completely inappropriate and inaccurate courtroom scenes, many of which made me want to turn the show off. And while you might say that, "well, it's TV so we get away with courtroom drama extremely removed from reality", if the show wants to portray racial bias and how the police can get away with murdering a witness, a hit and run vehicular manslaughter, drug running, etc. it is perpetuating a dangerous and unrealistic theme.
Overall, there should have been more character development and the system should have worked. In reality, while police officers have and do get away with "justified" shooting and brutality, this extreme example would hopefully never occur. Then again, what was the premise of this series?