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Cunk on Earth (2022)
First Episode is a Home Run
The first episode literally had me in tears, laughing so hard. It's downhill from there, unfortunately.
Somehow, the wittiness and dead-pan hilarity from the beginning turns into a wit-less, tired badgery of Christianity and Islam. I guess Diane Morgan didn't have the ability to think outside the box and talk about Buddhism or Hinduism - but that could have been a lot funnier and not so typique. After all, the world is 72% Asian.
It doesn't improve as she pans her guns on America's slavery (deftly and hypocritically pretending that her own Britishness is somehow disconnected) and then loses her way in chronologically-challenged details and stories that lose their compass in the editing process.
I ground it out and finished the thing, and might watch the first episode again, sometime, but the rest of the series is forgettable, thankfully.
High: Confessions of an Ibiza Drug Mule (2021)
Boring as Hell
OMG. Honestly, this is just horribly done. So many drone shots, panning of scenery, the predictable slow motion shots, dramatic music, all serving a pretty boring depiction of what actually happened. Nothing really builds the desire to care about the main characters. Besides some pictures that prove Michaella used to be a little girl, there just isn't enough background or painting of her family history, to draw any apathy from us at all.
When I think about this whole series, I hate it more and more. The main framework is this (and I know you'll be shocked, but there it is): alcohol-induced decisions lead to consequences and some of those really suck. Of course, they're consequences that she mostly escapes.