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FBI: Little Egypt (2019)
A Lead Role Badly Replaced
It's such a shame that Sela Ward left FBI after just one season, her replacement, Alana de la Garza simply does not have the gravitas that Sela Ward brought to the role of Special Agent in Charge Dana Mosier.
OK, I still watch the show but in my opinion it's been downgraded by the change.
Star Trek: Picard: Farewell (2022)
Good Season Finale
Episode ten has wrapped up so many loose and almost forgotten ends up very neatly. Well contrived, if a little sentimental. It was good to see a character reintroduction and give a firm foundation for season three.
FBI: Most Wanted (2020)
Most Wanted?
Compared with Wolf's other FBI shows this has the worst cast by a long way. The biggest problem is that I think the show should be called FBI Least Wanted, some of the stories would only involve local police forces and not the FBI.
Jett (2019)
Utterly Watchable
Full of surprises and quite brilliant with great storylines and many cliffhangers. Outstanding direction, lighting and camerawork. I've never recommended a show to friends as much as I have recommended Jett.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
How Much CGI Can You Fit on The Screen at Once?
I don't think I have ever seen such a density of digitally generated gibberish on one screen at the same time. Many sequences ended up with everything getting completely lost in a confusion of over complex rubbish.
I don't know if it works at the cinema, but I'm pretty sure it's just too busy for any screen size. On my 75" 4K the densest scenes simply do not work.
OK, some of the characters were pretty and some were cleverly designed but with no decent story, what is the point anyway?
Ring of Fire (2012)
Scary Camera-work
The only real point I want to make in this is to say that the endless field of out-of-focus foreground objects in front of almost every shot is a pointless, annoying distraction.
The camera never stops gliding from side to side in a completely irrelevant manner.
If the 'technique' is an attempt to give a fly-on-the-wall immediacy it fails completely.
In spite of the bad technique, I did stick with it to the end of part one, and overall the storyline was interesting even if it was all very slow paced until the explosions started.
I am not sure I will bother watching part two.