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The Jim Jefferies Show (2017)
Awesome writing!
I personally thought the first episode was really funny. All jokes were on sensitive topics but still hilarious, which shows some really brilliant writing. Jim as a host is doing just fine, laid back as usual, he's not forcing something out of him he knows he can't deliver. like impressions. Jim doesn't do impressions. which is fine, Im sure they can manage without them, John Oliver does terrible impressions as well. anyway, great show, really hope that it will be successful.
American Gods (2017)
To those who found the plot confusing - give it some time
Those who haven't read the book will find the plot confusing at first, it's inevitable and not something that can be clarified in one episode. And don't throw the word 'cliche' around when you're only capable of seeing a tip of the iceberg at this point.
The pilot intro almost diminished my hopes that these series are going to be half decent, but they certainly made up for that later on, it's a bit strange that some people found intro more appealing for whichever reason. the cast is really good, P. Schreiber was definitely my favorite, haven't seen him since The Wire. Ian McShane is amazing as always, and I really liked performance of Ricky Whittle, whom I've seen for the first time. the creators did a great job portraying emotional state of the characters and the general setting with a mix of great cinematography and sound design. Bilquis scene looked a bit weird, but that's just a hard thing to achieve visually, it even seemed weird on paper.
the whole story is a metaphor about humanities transition from the old world to the new and the confrontation it leads to. old virtues (probably not the best word to describe it, but couldn't find a better one) are forgotten and the new ones are created. those virtues are realized as characters and the story is created around them, so you have to be capable of seeing symbolism at least to some degree.
all in all, solid start, we'll see where it goes from here.
White House Down (2013)
Does not impress. doesn't disappoint either.
So I've read some reviews on this movie and couldn't understand why so many people were disappointed. Clearly, if you're capable of reading little bit of summary, or watched a trailer, you wouldn't get your expectations too high. even the movie title suggests appropriate expectations about this piece. So basically, we have an old school action film here with a bit more technology in their arsenal. one man army tries to save the day and prove he's worth something more in the process. we have a good old fashioned "bad guys use innocent people to blackmail good guys" kind of situation - good guys have to follow the rules, while bad guys are more liberated than that. keep in mind, that there's no grey area here, it's more like black and white - not very hard to pick sides. I must say, that Im not American, so I really have no knowledge about the realism part in this movie, but i sure hope that all that good stuff that can trigger WW3 is a bit more harder to reach than that. so yeah, the idea is pretty simple, doesn't require "too much thinking" and is usually a good choice when searching for something more casual for the evening. bad guys have been picked conveniently crazy enough to pull such operation off (for example one of them is a neo-nazi who blows up buildings based on how many minorities it contains), we have that usual heroic presidential icon, a loving father and a husband, who's just waiting for a nobel peace prize to be nominated for, we have a dedicated father, who's threatened by the distance between him and his daughter, though not much attention is given to the issue (rightly so, I must say). other than that, we have some twists to cover up a very predictable ending (which still leaves it very predictable), action scenes are smooth and well done, good amount of work is put to fighting as well, so on that end the movie is all buffed up. acting is fairly decent despite what other reviews are saying, Jamie Foxx does a decent job to appear as a charismatic leader and Mr. Tatum is a convincible, bad-ass hero with all the right virtues. I give this movie a strong 6.