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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: American Dream (2017)
Downright awful even without the propaganda
Law and Order SVU used to have interesting cases. They used to present moral dilemmas and interesting court-room drama that used to make me ponder. Sometimes the outcomes surprised me. But no more - Trump Derangement Syndrome has hit the writers bad. Trump is living in their heads rent free. And it is blatantly obvious from this episode.
First, the virtue signaling. Olivia Benson struggles to call ICE on an illegal who's covering for a man suspected for rape and murder of (surprise surprise) Muslims. Its unfortunate that the Manchester attacks happened this week to throw their victim hood status under the bus. Second, the stereotypical white racist and domestic abuser who calls Muslims "towelheads". Hey SVU, the 00s called, and wants their racist stereotypes back. Third, the white racist calls Mexicans rapists because the President said so. LMAO. A large percentage of women who cross the border are raped by coyotes. (No not actual coyotes, but human smugglers who are nicknamed coyotes). The FBI's most wanted list in Texas and California have a significant number of illegals. The President said some of them are rapists, but this nuance is lost on SVU. Fourth Barba says everybody was always racist, but now they have a license since the election. Hey guess what SVU, truth has a way of coming out. The truth doesn't care about your feelings.
And lastly, after the Muslim woman perjures herself on the stand, everybody pressurizes Olivia to corroborate her lie! Apart from demonstrating that liberals are willing to bend the law for their feelings and that Muslims are willing to lie because they don't believe in the Law of the land (a large percentage prefer Sharia according to repeated Pew polls, the Gold standard in polling) the show tried to portray Olivia as a great hero for not committing perjury! That's your job lady!
Jeez, another show ruined by hackneyed writing and political agendas.
Bordertown (2016)
The jokes just keep on coming
The show is extremely smart. The jokes just keep on coming, and jaded as I am by TV comedy, this was fresh, smart and deeply insightful (at times), not to mention that it made me outright laugh at times. Great show, the art work takes some getting used to at first, but it's getting better with every episode much like any animated comedy show.
The main character is a ne'er do well border agent who is shown up at every turn by his hard working Mexican neighbor, the main character is kinda Peter Griffeny but there are no cut-aways like Family Guy or American Dad.
Great show over all.
CSI: Cyber (2015)
How the hell did Patricia Arquette win an Oscar?
This review contains no spoilers.
How the hell did Patricia Arquette win an Oscar? Based on her performance in CSI Cyber, a Razzie would be more deserved. Stilted dialogue delivery, awkward pauses, bad one-liners, a misplaced sense of justice, overtly self- righteous, unconvincingly troubled... I'm sure she's better than this.
Peter Mac Nicol is decent. Shad Moss too.
But the real revelation is James Van Der Beek. He's convincing and does what is required of him.
Most of the plots are ludicrous and there's a lot of cheap pandering to the general population's paranoia on technology they don't understand.
If it runs another few seasons, I suppose it will get better. I'm going to check back in a year.