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Will Trent (2023)
Never read the books but...
While I've never read the books (& hadn't even heard of the book series before the show aired), I think it's actually allowed me to enjoy the show that much more, coming in completely without expectation.
I have, so far, really enjoyed the series. I think the cast is great, the stories are interesting & I actually really look forward to the next season.
Trent's ability actually reminds me of the show Psych, where Shawn Spencer was able to pick up on small details no one else noticed to solve cases. Obviously Trent is a drama, not a comedy, but I really enjoy the premise of someone being so observant of the most innocuous of things to solve crime. Hints of Sherlock Holmes in a more modern & American) setting.
Found (2023)
Gets better as the show goes on
I can't take seriously anyone that bases a review on one episode & bails. There are VERY few shows that are fantastic right out of the gate. Found certainly has its hiccups, as most shows do, but it gets better as the season goes on.
Disagree with the reviews ragging on the cast. I found all of them fit their roles perfectly. Mark Paul-Gosselaar is great as the show's antagonist & I really enjoy Karan Oberoi's character, Dhan (hoping to see more of his backstory fleshed out in season two).
My only real complaint is with Kelli Williams character, Margaret. While, no doubt, losing a child makes a horrible impact on any parent whose child was abducted, giving her character a backstory where she abandons her other child, so that she can obsessively sit in the bus station every.single.night for the YEARS since her son was abducted is just asking me to suspend my disbelief a little too far. Really hoping season two moves her character away from that.
Looking forward to see where they go in season 2.
Tracker (2024)
Promising but unlikely to last
Justin was great in the first episode, but all the secondary characters seemed not only superfluous but not that great at acting. Disappointing as I like the premise, and sadly, suspect that Justin will not be able to carry the show entirely on his own with badly written/acted side characters as speed bumps that slow the pace of the episodes down along the way.
I'll stick with it, in the hopes it gets better, but it's rather disappointing to see Justin given such a lackluster cast behind him when we got to see what he could do with an amazing cast that not only let him shine, but gave him fantastic scene partners that encourage him to be even better, in "This is Us".
The Christmas Shepherd (2014)
Ridiculous
While I normally enjoy Hallmark movies, especially Christmas ones, for their lightheartedness - this movie just made me angry. It is basically about a father and daughter that decide their TWO WEEKS with a dog they rescued (that never should have left the shelter it was at in the first place because it had a damn name tag that shows it had an owner, and they never even seemingly attempt to FIND her) somehow TRUMPS a woman's FIVE YEARS with said dog, because the whiny spoiled daughter has "had some loses recently" (ie lost her mother two years ago), ignoring that the woman lost her soldier husband two years ago and the dog is her connection to him (especially considering their son is away from home, apparently following in his father's footsteps in the military as well). Instead of the father explaining to the daughter that they need to give the dog back, he repeatedly guts this poor woman by telling her that he is basically not going to give her dog back to her because he doesn't want to disappoint his kid.
And I'm sorry, but legally, they DON'T have a right to that dog. This woman did everything she could to try and find the dog, the shelter by all accounts of what we see in the movie, did nothing to attempt to find her nor did they keep the dog long enough to give her the chance to find him. Bloody hell. If this had happened to me, regardless of what the other family "had gone through", I'd be taking them to court to get my dog back! But because the movie rolls out the ridiculous idea that they have a legal RIGHT to the dog, she seems unwilling to fight them.
Anyone that has owned a pet knows that this is just NOT what would happen in a situation like this if you truly loved your pet. There isn't anything that you wouldn't do to get them back.