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Killing Eve (2018)
Atrocious
Unless this is supposed to be a slapstick comedy-crime series, like Brooklyn 99, this is one of the worst series ever. Even then, Brooklyn 99 would be funnier - just because this series isn't.
Now... If this aimed to be a spy-crime series, with an occasional drop of humor, then it fails miserably. The story is utterly surreal, and treats the viewers as idiots. No, you can't stab someone to death in a crowded disco and getting away, without anyone noticing. It was a joke, right? And that was the punchline?
Actors are actually very good, but I'm sorry they got tricked into this goofy, sad, lysergic story.
3 Body Problem (2024)
I might try ro read the books, to see if they are any good
This screenplay is utter nonsense. The first two episodes were great, I was highly motivated to binge-watch the rest, but then the quality of the story started to take a nosedive. Huge rips in the plot, holes that couldn't be explained (or the screenplayer didn't care to explain) made through, and the story stopped making sense at episode five.
As always, with every Netflix series, halfway through the season, there is a slowdown in the story, you get a lot of useless mumbo jumbo, and the last episode is crammed with information. Unfortunately, they had lost us already, we only finished watching for closure.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000)
Grissom is the heart of the show
This show was a game changer, that set various spin-offs shows (some better than others), and changed how lay people addressed criminal evidence.
Despite having some sci-fi crazy speed DNA sampling, fingerprint processing, particle microscope analyzer, and lots of eye-candy special effects, the characters were deep, well-constructed, and the actors were very competent. That worked well for a very long time, but the plot and side-plots were inevitably exhausted after so many seasons.
Dr Grissom (William Peterson) was the heart of this show. A quirky, geeky, witty, idealist scientist, who could manage a group of lab techies, and help solve a lot of crimes. After he left (season 9), the show lost most of its appeal. The acting started to feel lackluster, the characters became shallower. Laurence Fishburne, a great actor, couldn't keep the same allure with Raymond Langston - he was too grim and sullen. I decided to stop watching this on season 10.
The Bear (2022)
Season 1 is good. Season 2 sucks
Jeremy Allen White is a great actor - he was fantastic in Shameless, even when the show took a huge nosedive. The rest of the cast is mostly good too, although some characters are way too badly written. Season 1 started slow, a bit too over the place, several pieces of information missing, but that's ok, another slow burner. We can work with that, the missing pieces will eventually be filled. Characters felt troubled, like they had a dark past or a trauma of some kind. Cinematography was top-notch, many cools takes. Towards the end of the season, it started to have a lot of mindless bickering, gratuitous verbal abuse, and a kind of Deus Ex Machina with a thin layer of reasonable explanation - so, big brother hid a stash of money for his younger genius chef brother... - ok, we can bear with that, just don't overdo it.
Season 2 starts with the same actors, but most of the characters are completely different, the troubled ones are now focused, the annoying ones are reasonable, all of a sudden... All the backstories were left aside, who cares for the past?! The arc of the story went flying through the window! Dialogues are mostly empty, almost gibberish, nothing comes out of it, there seems to be no continuity. Yes, you can still see they're troubled, but it feels like the traumas are crippling them from having a clear thought. What a shame!
Leave the World Behind (2023)
Please do not compare this to Mr Robot
This movie is stupid. Characters are irritating, nonsensical, completely cuckoo. Dialog is always passive-aggressive, but doesn't ever escalate.
Signs of a hacker Armageddon, that isn't there, a lot of empty speculation, mean psycho kids. Total waste of time...
Being related to Mr Robot is just a bait, this doesn't remotely resemble it - except for having wacko characters and situations.
Ethan Hawke doesn't help either. He's been a hammy actor for a while, and only adds to the corniness of this film. Being advertised as 'one of the best movies of the year' is blatantly preposterous. It's just not.
Your Honor (2020)
Deus Ex Machina Non Plus Ultra
Yeah... What about all those exhausting coincidences and incompetent lawyers? This show has it all! On top of that, there is a foolish teenager who actively tries to seduce the girl whose brother he killed. This plot is riddled with holes and the characters were so poorly written that it's impressive the show wasn't canceled at the end of its first season.
The pilot was incredible, and it's enraging what the writers did after that: an unbelievably chumpy mob boss, with a wife with a ridiculous character arc, a cop that appears out of thin air to save the protagonist from execution, and an explosion in a house where the gas was turned off a few months ago? C'mon... Why do you take the viewers for suckers?!
It's really sad that good actors had to carry such a bad script.
Old Dads (2023)
Trainwreck
The first 20 minutes were really good. 20 minutes further, this became very disturbing. PC yadda-yadda, entitlement, snowflaky millenial adults, jeezuz, why doesn't this crap stop??? Cringe!!!
Slowly, Burr and his cronies start to turn into spineless, annoying, cry-baby adults! It was painful to finish this movie. It hurt my feelings - my Generation X feelings, built on seatbelt-less vehicles, "walk it off" injuries, play-outside-until-it-gets-dark and lots of books read.
The cast seems competent (Bobby Cannavale has been in great shows lately), but the screenplay plainly sucks. Leah is a privileged a**hole, Grade-A divorcee material - unfortunately, she is one of the best characters, you can imagine the rest...
WeCrashed (2022)
TL;DR This is why VC is bad for you
Characters are corny - you'd see much better accents in SNL. The Neumanns are nutjobs, that is a given. Anne Hathaway does a great job of portraying a delusional wannabe guru. Jared Leto may be a great actor, but he tries too hard, he sounds like a fake-jewish snake oil salesman.
All that could have been forgiven if this series was 3 episodes long; But it is not. The story drags for 8. Long. Detailed. Loud. Boring. Repetitive. Flat. Episodes. And we all know what is coming, right? It was all on the first scene! 7 episodes to build up to a climax, that just is not there. This could be done in a shorter time, and we could have watched another show, with the time we saved.
Treason (2022)
After the dramedy, we now have the spymedy
The plot is so shallow and absurd, you have to laugh about it. Silly plot twists, desperate cliff hangers, it's a never ending parade of pitiful attempts of tell an unbelievable story of a double agent. It fails.
The head of the MI6 is a nitwit. The CIA agents are pathetic. The Russians, they are the bad guys, as always. Characters have no depth. Screenplay could have been written by Chat GTP. Even so, the plot is so thin and juvenile that you get quickly bored.
I'm not sure it even deserves a 600 word review here. But I feel that this kind of mini series, that tries so hard to make a sad comedy out of a spy story, has to get a low rating, and expose the terrible choices made by the producers and director.
Citadel (2023)
Not sure what they were aiming at...
I was expecting a spy-thriller action series, along the lines of 'Mission Impossible'. The first scene quickly made clear that was not the case. Maybe some action comedy, like Jackie Chan? No... It wasn't funny, just pathetic. Well, maybe something Marvel-like, with unbelievable fictious superheroes? Yes, maybe that's it. But this story is nothing like "Agents of S. H. I. E. L. D., it's too lame.
The cast seems competent enough, but the writing is just horrible. There's no hook. After a few scenes, all we could think of was 'I wonder if anything else is on, maybe some brainless TV show?'. No need what happened then...
Goliath (2016)
First season was good, but the rest is awful
First season was quite good. Good cast, good storyline, top notch. I was intrigued, and looked forward for the second season. Unfortunately, it was really bad. Storyline was wonky, erratic, and the feeling was that the characters were constantly on drugs. Many of the characters from the first season just vanished, as if they didn't matter anymore. That didn't make any sense at all!
Third season starts. Nothing really relates to the previous season, of course. Same 'main characters', but most don't really need to be there. They don't belong to the story, they don't interact with the new characters, they just *are* there.
Sad to say that this could have been great, but was just too much over the place to be remembered.
Annie Hall (1977)
Despite all the hype this movie is really boring
Alvin Singer is an obnoxious, neurotic, despicable character. Woody Allen does a great job depicting him. But ...why would anyone want to do that?! All we could think during this movie was 'when is this going to be over?'
After a while, we were fed up with with the story and all of Singer's (Allen's) antics. We started commenting on, and making fun of all the non-sensical situations in this movie. I really wonder how people are marveled with this film, where is all the hype?
I liked later movies by Woody Allen, such as 'The Purple Rose of Cairo', 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' and 'Midnight in Paris', but this one is really bad.
The Stranger (2022)
The movie is very slow - and then it ends
Actors are very good, but it seems their talent is wasted, in this sorry excuse of a screenplay. At first, I was intrigued by the dark, complex characters. But the pace was so slooooow, you really have to put a lot of effort, to make it it to the end.
When you think you are finally getting to the end, and will finally find out what really happened, the credits start rolling. Did he do it? Did he make it all up? Did he go to jail? Did he walk? Did he go to trial? Nobody knows - there wasn't any information before the credits.
Not sure if this was the director's choice but, if it was, it was a terrible idea.
The Watcher (2022)
What if Kafka were to write a horror story?
The cast is good, the production is well done, but the screenplay is so slow, circling and absurd, to the point of getting utterly boring.
There are so many plots (and plot twists) going on at the same time, you may get lost and confused.
The completely absurd neighbours, acting like a mix between a cult and a loony house also does not help at all.
I wonder why they make these mini series so long, it just wastes viewers' time. On the other hand, there are a lot of details from the family past that are only shallowly mentioned.
Don't waste your time. There are much better shows out there, that will entertain.
Monster (2022)
Another long, boring serial killer mini-series
As always, Netflix makes another mini-series that could be 4 episodes long, and full of (irrelevant?) details. This time, it seems that they managed to leave out some important stuff. Well...
The cast is very good. Evan Peters is really stunning in this role. This is really the only positive in this feature.
Unfortunately, the screenplay falls short, and we often dozed off halfway each episode, having to go back and find where we were the night before.
Besides that, this is just another mini-series, on another serial killer, since some of the most 'interesting' (weird/gruesome) parts were left out, in an incomplete account of what really happened.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022)
Bland and boring
Screenplay is very weak and slow, acting is not engaging, making it very hard to like the characters (except for Nori, she's good). Galadriel and Elrond are duds, they lack any depth or grace.
I really wanted to understand all the hype. This is really boring, it is very difficult to watch a whole episode without wandering off, or falling asleep.
I'm not sure I will keep on watching this show, unless they pick up the pace, and things start to happen. I doubt that there will be a second season, so the story (if it ever gets going) might be incomplete.
The choices in casting are also debatable: some elves are not fair at all (Elrond, in particular), some actors really don't look their parts, despite the wardrobe.
Mr. Robot: Hello, Elliot (2019)
Season 4 was a mess, this episode tries to make it right - and fails
The last part of Season 4 was very confusing, there were a lot of plot holes and red herrings on the way. You never could be sure what was really happening, who was real, who died, and if some things really happened, or if it was one of Elliot's fantasies.
I watched the last 3 episodes twice, read a lot of "this is what you missed", "episode 12 explained", and "what really happened" stuff, and I still didn't get it completely. At first, it all seemed like a dream, or a fantasy. Then we learn that The Mastermind is in charge, and Mr Robot didn't know about him - he thought that it was The Real Elliot. Ok, so who is The Real Elliot? We only meet him in the last scene...? Didn't Darlene notice something was off? If she did, why didn't she say anything earlier? Odd...
The other characters, did they really exist? Krista, is she real, or a fantasy? What about Shayla? What happens to Dom? We were constantly misdirected, there were loads of narrative fake-outs along the 4 seasons. Sam Esmail chose too often to draw outside the lines, and lost many of us along the way. All the whistles, bells and pyrotechnics made a wild narrative, swerving on the road, leaving some nasty details without explanation. At the same time, all the introspective ego-trip with Krista and Vera only made things worse.
In the end I thought the screenplay could have been mind-blowing, but seemed unpolished and rushed. This could have been the best series of all time, but fell short, due to a lack of coherence of telling the story.
Stranger Things: Chapter Nine: The Piggyback (2022)
Really boring, unnecessarily long
I just wanted it to end, to know what happened. The story dragged on and on, over-dramatized, hollow, stretched thin. Why make an episode that is as long as a full featured movie?? An hour long would be enough, and much better.
Stranger Things (2016)
Highly inconsistent quality
Episodes are very uneven, some are really bad and drag a lot, some are good, but very few are great, and keep you on the edge of your seat. Storyline was ok, until the 4th season, when it got really boring.
King of Stonks (2022)
Chaotic, shallow comedy
Acting seems good (actors give a convincing feel to the main characters), screenplay takes some time to hook you (first 3 episodes are painfully boring, you really have to endure the slapstick antics of the characters), but in the end, it is too chaotic and surreal. A sorry excuse for a financial scam story.
Clean (2021)
Fell asleep
A little correction to the movie quote...
Clean: How's school?
Dianda: Boring...
Clean: Boring? You know what's boring? THIS MOVIE.
Very slow paced, lukewarm acting, boring story. First half wasn't so bad, but the rest... Had to finish it on my second try.
¿Quién Mató a Sara? (2021)
Doesn't make any sense
There is no continuity in this crazy story. Full of 'red herrings' and unbelievable plot twists, it also has some of the worst soft-sex scenes from the past few years. Acting is terrible, all around.
Stop mid-way through season 2, so you won't regret it too much.
Anatomy of a Scandal (2022)
So confusing!
You are constantly thrown off your balance! When you think you understand what's going on, everything turns on its head. Most of the time, the narrative is boring, and suddenly, Deus Ex Machina happens, and it all turns in another direction.
Granizo (2022)
Wow, that was boring!
Despite the good acting, this movie lacks an interest screenplay. It is shallow, and drags a lot. You may have to rewind it a couple of times, falling asleep is very probable.
Truth Seekers (2020)
Mildly entertaining
Lukewarm humor, stale horror, and a very, very, very slow pace. A tad over mediocre.
Acting was decent, not great, not terrible. Story could fit into 4 episodes, but was stretched to 8. Many loose ends were left, maybe in hope for a 2nd season.