Feels like a classic Nickelodeon show all over again. This is one of the few animated Netflix shows (or movies) that is worth it. The pacing is right, the voice acting is top notch, the animation is great, and the premise is fun and adventurous. The comedy is right-on, being cute and silly without being over the top, inappropriate for kids, or painful for adults. All the characters are hilariously well-written, from the main cast to the aliens and side characters. Everyone involved in making this is brilliant, one of the few good things to watch on Netflix that actually makes a subscription worth it.
Reviews
58 Reviews
Can I Tell You A Secret?
(2024)
Whoever made this has no idea how to make documentaries
9 June 2024
Are we serious with this series? First of all, the fake deep voice is just grating and unnecessarily dramatic. It takes away from the story. They don't actually read out the texts, they just use this annoying voice to read bits and pieces, confusing the audience. The pacing is all over the place and the story is overdramatized and overproduced.
There are SO many good documentaries on Netflix (and even free ones on YouTube) that do it right: tell a story in sequence, interview the right people, explain what happened, provide good reenactments as needed along with raw footage, conclude the story.
None of that is here. It's a joke.
There are SO many good documentaries on Netflix (and even free ones on YouTube) that do it right: tell a story in sequence, interview the right people, explain what happened, provide good reenactments as needed along with raw footage, conclude the story.
None of that is here. It's a joke.
Interesting subject, bad documentary
4 June 2024
I really don't know how this documentary has such good reviews. The subject and contents are interesting and worthy of a documentary, but the cinematography, execution, music, and narration in this are all terrible.
First of all the documentary is way too long (typical Netflix!) and drawn out for what could've been told in half the time.
Right away, you can barely hear what they're saying because of booming, horrible music in the background. The story is scattered all over the place and filled with emotion rather than an objective analysis with formal interviews, like most documentaries of the like. Amateurish is the best way to describe "The Program".
American Nightmare, Tinder Swindler, and Bad Surgeon were all FAR more professional and more interesting than this.
First of all the documentary is way too long (typical Netflix!) and drawn out for what could've been told in half the time.
Right away, you can barely hear what they're saying because of booming, horrible music in the background. The story is scattered all over the place and filled with emotion rather than an objective analysis with formal interviews, like most documentaries of the like. Amateurish is the best way to describe "The Program".
American Nightmare, Tinder Swindler, and Bad Surgeon were all FAR more professional and more interesting than this.
A show about gullible people and a weird, creepy man
2 June 2024
This could've been a lot better. It's so drawn out because they insist on showing many clips of this awful "social media dancing", which isn't even good and is choreographed poorly. To make it worse, they play sound clips of the incredibly creepy and grating voice of Robert over them, which makes it even more painful to watch. Also, there's really nothing to this other than a family exploited low-IQ, gullible people to line their pockets with money. Kind of like what pastors at every mega church too. Just another Joel Osteen-lite.
You can tell this entire story in a 45 minute episode. Also there isn't much of a conclusion, yet. Premature, drawn-out series, most likely just being used as a cash grab, which is super ironic given that the context of this documentary is gullible people being exploited for money!
You can tell this entire story in a 45 minute episode. Also there isn't much of a conclusion, yet. Premature, drawn-out series, most likely just being used as a cash grab, which is super ironic given that the context of this documentary is gullible people being exploited for money!
Next Gen
(I) (2018)
Movie ruined by obnoxious main character and dog
22 May 2024
Could've been a good movie. Great animation and sound. Potentially interesting story and emotional message. But the main character is absolutely terrible. Unlikable main characters do not make a good show or movie. She has absolutely zero self awareness, zero care for anyone but herself, and is just mean and nasty in general to everyone around her. She only cares about herself. Yea there are people like this, and NO ONE likes them. They don't make a good character in a movie.
The dog is also embarrassingly obnoxious. I get that they were going for "little dogs are so annoying this is probably what they'd sound like", but to give him that kind of voice and attitude? It's just stupid.
Wasted potential.
The dog is also embarrassingly obnoxious. I get that they were going for "little dogs are so annoying this is probably what they'd sound like", but to give him that kind of voice and attitude? It's just stupid.
Wasted potential.
Dull and boring story with decent animation and poor humor
19 May 2024
The first 20 minutes of the movie had so much potential. Everything fell apart with the robot invasion. The story itself is incredibly nonsensical, even for a children's animated movie. And the worst part, it's just boring.
The humor is terrible, it must be what 60 year-olds think that children find funny. There are a couple of actually funny moments, but the rest are over the top and try too hard. It's not clever, tempered comedy like Finding Nemo/Dory or Toy Story. It's forced into the movie but falls flat.
During the end credits you realize that this movie is just a guy trying to caricature his own family. Would've been much better as a drama where she goes to school and encounters school trouble, etc., than a failed attempt at a sci-fi action movie.
The humor is terrible, it must be what 60 year-olds think that children find funny. There are a couple of actually funny moments, but the rest are over the top and try too hard. It's not clever, tempered comedy like Finding Nemo/Dory or Toy Story. It's forced into the movie but falls flat.
During the end credits you realize that this movie is just a guy trying to caricature his own family. Would've been much better as a drama where she goes to school and encounters school trouble, etc., than a failed attempt at a sci-fi action movie.
Absolutely Terrible! Staged like WWE
5 August 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I guess I don't see what the appeal is to RuPaul UK. It seems considerably worse than the US version for some odd reason, even though I like that the episodes are longer and the queens are more diverse.
The judging seems completely rigged, from Season 1 (which I disdained) to the first episode of this season. The top and bottom made absolutely no sense. This was purely a fashion challenge, so it should be much more apparent who should be in the top and bottom, unlike an acting or dancing challenge.
Yet, for some reason the judging seemed to be based on how much the production did or didn't want someone to win? It makes no sense. Also it seemed that they interntionally mis-represented the lipsynch at the end by making it look like one of the queens forgot the lines to the song by putting her performance at the wrong part of the song. Horrible.
This made me unsubscribe from the streaming service. If this is actually the best season of UK, no reason to bother watching anymore of it. This is so rigged you can already tell exactly who they "want" to win and who they don't.
The judging seems completely rigged, from Season 1 (which I disdained) to the first episode of this season. The top and bottom made absolutely no sense. This was purely a fashion challenge, so it should be much more apparent who should be in the top and bottom, unlike an acting or dancing challenge.
Yet, for some reason the judging seemed to be based on how much the production did or didn't want someone to win? It makes no sense. Also it seemed that they interntionally mis-represented the lipsynch at the end by making it look like one of the queens forgot the lines to the song by putting her performance at the wrong part of the song. Horrible.
This made me unsubscribe from the streaming service. If this is actually the best season of UK, no reason to bother watching anymore of it. This is so rigged you can already tell exactly who they "want" to win and who they don't.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
(2022– )
It's the best Trek since Voyager, even if the cast is weak
5 January 2023
Some of the abysmally low reviews for this really show how certain Trek fans will never be satisfied with any new Trek series. As if every Trek series, including TNG, didn't have issues.
Strange New Worlds is the best we've had in a long time. It's far better than Discovery and Picard, and I also think it's a bit better than Enterprise.
The characters are a little flat, yes. But I don't think they're unlikable, and a few of them such as Pike are great. Anson Mount is no Patrick Stewart, but at least he's a much better captain than Jonathan Archer or any character in Discovery.
What makes this show an 8/10 instead of a 5/10, due to a relatively boring crew, is the fact that most of the episodes are actually good. They fit with the episodic nature of Trek, telling a story, exploring alien societies, and commenting on issues both social and personal in nature. Also it manages to do what Trek has always done: it's progressive for its time without being "forced". There is a diverse cast of characters who fit into the show naturally. And if you have a problem with them naturally including a character who is a woman, a person of color, or LGBT, then you aren't really a Trek fan and *never* have been.
Strange New Worlds is the best we've had in a long time. It's far better than Discovery and Picard, and I also think it's a bit better than Enterprise.
The characters are a little flat, yes. But I don't think they're unlikable, and a few of them such as Pike are great. Anson Mount is no Patrick Stewart, but at least he's a much better captain than Jonathan Archer or any character in Discovery.
What makes this show an 8/10 instead of a 5/10, due to a relatively boring crew, is the fact that most of the episodes are actually good. They fit with the episodic nature of Trek, telling a story, exploring alien societies, and commenting on issues both social and personal in nature. Also it manages to do what Trek has always done: it's progressive for its time without being "forced". There is a diverse cast of characters who fit into the show naturally. And if you have a problem with them naturally including a character who is a woman, a person of color, or LGBT, then you aren't really a Trek fan and *never* have been.
Terrible season finale
24 October 2022
I kind of liked this show until the end of the season. This episode is boring and makes no sense. Nothing interesting happens except two "reveals" that would be exciting if they made any sense at all. But they don't, so instead of going "oh my gosh, I never saw this coming" you just scratch your head and go "huh? I thought they might do that but it doesn't make any sense so I figured they wouldn't"
No idea where this show is going now but the pinnacle of this season really was episode 6, which was actually exciting. After that, everything has been a disaster. Why aren't they even bothering to try to base this off of Tolkien? Shame that the effects and music are so on-point, but the story is just a nightmare.
No idea where this show is going now but the pinnacle of this season really was episode 6, which was actually exciting. After that, everything has been a disaster. Why aren't they even bothering to try to base this off of Tolkien? Shame that the effects and music are so on-point, but the story is just a nightmare.
Unwatchable; one of the worst Trek episodes
16 September 2022
I don't know how anyone can give this anything lower than 1 star. It's atrociously bad, on the level of Threshold from Voyager. It makes no sense, the acting is awful, the premise is ludicrous, and the dialogue and writing are embarrassingly terrible.
Infinite Regress was a better "character has multiple personalities" episode than this nonsense. I absolutely do not agree that this is an example of Brent Spiner's good acting. I'm not saying he's a bad actor (obviously not, as he's arguably the best actor in TNG), but in no way did this put him in a good light due to the ridiculous characters and lines he had to impersonate ("Ihat" was absolutely, unbearably stupid).
Even my first time watching this episode, it's one of the few TNG/DS9/VOY episodes that I considered so bad I had to start fast forwarding it because I was suffering second-hand embarrassment for its pure stupidity.
Infinite Regress was a better "character has multiple personalities" episode than this nonsense. I absolutely do not agree that this is an example of Brent Spiner's good acting. I'm not saying he's a bad actor (obviously not, as he's arguably the best actor in TNG), but in no way did this put him in a good light due to the ridiculous characters and lines he had to impersonate ("Ihat" was absolutely, unbearably stupid).
Even my first time watching this episode, it's one of the few TNG/DS9/VOY episodes that I considered so bad I had to start fast forwarding it because I was suffering second-hand embarrassment for its pure stupidity.
Underrated episode - starts off terrible but gets better
29 August 2022
There could have been another way they approached this to make it a better episode, rather than using "random alien telepaths with really annoying voices", but still the ending of the episode is great. It's a very emotional episode and one that I'm sure anyone who has been through something similar could relate to. The first 15 minutes of the episode gives this a lower rating, but the end makes it much better. I'm also not sure why this situation was going to cause her to die, I guess something to do with Betazoid physiology, but instead of spending time on the aliens they could have instead investigated this part of the story more.
The Legend of Vox Machina
(2022– )
Not terrible, but disappointing
28 August 2022
I guess I was expecting more, given the good reviews.
The animation is fantastic and the voice acting is good, but those are the only major positives I can think of.
The story is just "okay". It's a bit rushed and force and we don't get much time to care about any of the characters or process what's going on.
Character development is bad for almost all the characters. Vax and Keyleth go from never talking to one another to instantly being in love. It comes out of nowhere and has no time to grow at all. The only character who has half decent development is Percy. Everyone else is a bore. Pike is another one who comes out of left field. Her development happens way too quickly and we never get a chance to know her first.
The humor is mostly terrible. I don't mind potty jokes or cussing at all. I LOVE South Park, and that's a show that does crude humor right. But it seems like Vox Machina's creators think that saying the F word randomly = funny, and that *any* sexual reference = funny. 90% of the time the jokes are just forced and lame. Cussing for the sake of cussing isn't funny, it's just bad writing.
Overall I finished this, so it wasn't awful, but I was never pulled into it at any point.
The animation is fantastic and the voice acting is good, but those are the only major positives I can think of.
The story is just "okay". It's a bit rushed and force and we don't get much time to care about any of the characters or process what's going on.
Character development is bad for almost all the characters. Vax and Keyleth go from never talking to one another to instantly being in love. It comes out of nowhere and has no time to grow at all. The only character who has half decent development is Percy. Everyone else is a bore. Pike is another one who comes out of left field. Her development happens way too quickly and we never get a chance to know her first.
The humor is mostly terrible. I don't mind potty jokes or cussing at all. I LOVE South Park, and that's a show that does crude humor right. But it seems like Vox Machina's creators think that saying the F word randomly = funny, and that *any* sexual reference = funny. 90% of the time the jokes are just forced and lame. Cussing for the sake of cussing isn't funny, it's just bad writing.
Overall I finished this, so it wasn't awful, but I was never pulled into it at any point.
Painfully bad! Embarrassing
2 July 2022
Who wrote this episode? It's worse than Barney the Dinosaur. I almost had to mute it and I definitely had to look away at times. Nothing good happened here, just extremely terrible dialogue and the worst attempts at humor I've ever seen. Po is an awful character that was randomly shoved in the show for no reason.
S2 is Discovery's best season but this is definitely the worst episode of S2. Wish I could've just skipped it.
S2 is Discovery's best season but this is definitely the worst episode of S2. Wish I could've just skipped it.
How to ruin Star Trek: by turning it stupid
23 June 2022
Atrocious
23 June 2022
I can't believe how bad this show is. This is a disaster and an insult the Star Trek. The writing is all over, the dialogue is disgustingly dumb, the story makes zero sense at all, and nothing really happens. This show is boring and an utter mess. How awful for all these good actors to be put through this. Hope this isn't Patrick Stewart's last role, because that would be a terrible legacy.
Cheesy, dull, pointless
21 June 2022
Can't stand this episode. It's painfully bad.
I don't know why anyone likes it, I'm assuming because of Picard's character development? But there are much better Picard episodes than this. The story is corny and childish, and I'm not at all a fan of "fall in love in a few days" stories. I do not like Nella Darren at all, awful character and Wendy Hughes's acting here was terrible (maybe not because of her but because of the writing). Just go to 10 minutes and 30 seconds in and see how forced and terrible it is. Looks like a high school play. Thankfully she's only in this show for one episode.
I don't know why anyone likes it, I'm assuming because of Picard's character development? But there are much better Picard episodes than this. The story is corny and childish, and I'm not at all a fan of "fall in love in a few days" stories. I do not like Nella Darren at all, awful character and Wendy Hughes's acting here was terrible (maybe not because of her but because of the writing). Just go to 10 minutes and 30 seconds in and see how forced and terrible it is. Looks like a high school play. Thankfully she's only in this show for one episode.
Good episode but not the best use of body swap
20 June 2022
This is a pretty decent episode and is well acted, but it's not the greatest body swap episode. This is something that has been done many times in a lot of TV shows and movies, but usually it's the most entertaining when the characters switching are so vastly different from one another. T'Pring and Spock aren't really that different in their behaviors nor in their duties, so this ended up falling a little flat. Also, it's usually better if we already know a lot about the two characters. This show is so new that there has been almost zero time to see how T'Pring acts, so we don't really see her in Spock much.
Body and Soul in Voyager was a much better use of this when the Doctor took over Seven. Jeri Ryan's acting was great and the massive difference between their two characters and the relationship that had been developing made it much more intriguing.
Body and Soul in Voyager was a much better use of this when the Doctor took over Seven. Jeri Ryan's acting was great and the massive difference between their two characters and the relationship that had been developing made it much more intriguing.
Long, drawn out, bad time travel story
8 June 2022
TNG and Voyager could do amazing time travel episodes in 45 or 90 minutes max. They were interesting, engaging, fun, exciting, and made sense (mostly).
Now we have a really badly planned (or not planned at all) time travel episode drawn out for 9 hours. It's awful. I can't believe this was their plan for season 2. It's like if you took the worst time travel episode ever and stretched it out from 1 hour to 9 hours.
And they're ruining great actors like Patrick Stewart and Jeri Ryan. Good acting can't survive an awful script. Make it stop!!!
Now we have a really badly planned (or not planned at all) time travel episode drawn out for 9 hours. It's awful. I can't believe this was their plan for season 2. It's like if you took the worst time travel episode ever and stretched it out from 1 hour to 9 hours.
And they're ruining great actors like Patrick Stewart and Jeri Ryan. Good acting can't survive an awful script. Make it stop!!!
The worst Star Trek time travel episode ever
7 June 2022
Warning: Spoilers
This episode could be good but the execution is horrible!
First of all, how is saying "you've never been in love" something that "I could only know if I've been time traveling"? That doesn't even make sense. She didn't tell him some specific secret or life fact that ONLY she would know. Anyone could say "you've never been in love".
The way the time traveling is handled here is so confusing, not explained, and not executed well. It lacks the creativity of "Year of Hell" (Voy), the excitement of "Relativity" (Voy), and the proper pacing and fun of "Time's Arrow" (TNG).
Instead, we get to see them at a stupid party of over and over with one character blurting out that "we've been through this before!!!"
The pacing is all off. So much is lacking here. There is no proper build-up. They never really explain this whole "30 minute window" thing and how he was using a crystal to do all of this. There are no "ahah" moments or clever solutions like we saw in TNG's time travel. There was no suspense or sense of impending doom like we saw in VOY's good time travel episodes.
This one is a big fat stinker and is my least favorite S1 episode of Discovery.
First of all, how is saying "you've never been in love" something that "I could only know if I've been time traveling"? That doesn't even make sense. She didn't tell him some specific secret or life fact that ONLY she would know. Anyone could say "you've never been in love".
The way the time traveling is handled here is so confusing, not explained, and not executed well. It lacks the creativity of "Year of Hell" (Voy), the excitement of "Relativity" (Voy), and the proper pacing and fun of "Time's Arrow" (TNG).
Instead, we get to see them at a stupid party of over and over with one character blurting out that "we've been through this before!!!"
The pacing is all off. So much is lacking here. There is no proper build-up. They never really explain this whole "30 minute window" thing and how he was using a crystal to do all of this. There are no "ahah" moments or clever solutions like we saw in TNG's time travel. There was no suspense or sense of impending doom like we saw in VOY's good time travel episodes.
This one is a big fat stinker and is my least favorite S1 episode of Discovery.
The ONLY good episode of ST: Picard
7 June 2022
It's sad that more of Picard couldn't have been as good as this episode is.
It's interesting, creative, and well-acted. Unfortunately afterwards we go south again just like Season 1. But I will give credit to them for this episode and how interesting it was.
It's interesting, creative, and well-acted. Unfortunately afterwards we go south again just like Season 1. But I will give credit to them for this episode and how interesting it was.
I thought this show might get better, something might happen. It never did.
6 June 2022
This show had such a slow start. I thought if I kept watching, maybe there was a nugget of goodness in there. Besides a few short clips of old characters like Seven, Troi, and Riker, none of this was good at all.
90% horribly written dialogue and nonsense story, 10% interesting scenes that actually progress some sort of plot (that ends up falling apart anyway).
I can't believe any of the 10 star reviews are real, they all read like fake Amazon reviews: "Amazing episode! You won't believe what happens! Make sure to watch every minute for the incredible plot twists and subscribe to Paramount plus today!!!"
Can't trust any ratings anymore because reviews are all fake ads now.
It's awful.
90% horribly written dialogue and nonsense story, 10% interesting scenes that actually progress some sort of plot (that ends up falling apart anyway).
I can't believe any of the 10 star reviews are real, they all read like fake Amazon reviews: "Amazing episode! You won't believe what happens! Make sure to watch every minute for the incredible plot twists and subscribe to Paramount plus today!!!"
Can't trust any ratings anymore because reviews are all fake ads now.
It's awful.
2 stars for Seven and the Borg Cube, 0 for the rest of the episode
6 June 2022
How can so little happen 3 episodes away from the end of the story?
Yes another long episode that could be 15 minutes drawn out into an hour. So much awful dialogue. Also the Rios holograms are incredibly cringe inducing and the actor's accents are horrid. Some of the worst acting and writing I've ever seen in my life.
Yes another long episode that could be 15 minutes drawn out into an hour. So much awful dialogue. Also the Rios holograms are incredibly cringe inducing and the actor's accents are horrid. Some of the worst acting and writing I've ever seen in my life.
Star Trek: Picard
(2020–2023)
The worst Trek series by far
6 June 2022
Warning: Spoilers
I thought I would like this. It has so many of my favorite characters from the old shows including Picard and Seven.
But no. It's so so so bad. How can almost nothing of interest happen in a show for 10 whole hours? It's not slowly building the story/characters, it's just slow and nothing happens. The characters are bad. The dialogue is bad. The story is nonsense and the premise is terrible.
Episode 1 was okay, but after that it just kept getting worse. Every episode was another snoozefest of nothing happening. The same tired crud of old Picard rambling with another soulless character. The Romulan and his sister arguing again about how they are failures at their jobs and how he needs to stop making out with the robot girl (then proceeds to make out with her again, yay). A little action scene here and there. More about how Mars attack was bad, need to find the girl, Starfleet problems, mean admirals, blah blah. Tal Shiar bad. Picard sad about his life. Throw in a 5 minute cameo. Ughhhhhh.
There is no coherence to this story, no actual character development. Just boring, bland talking for hours and hours on end. This was truly PAINFUL to watch.
At least Discovery had some action and interesting scenes in its first few seasons. This has nothing. It's trash.
But no. It's so so so bad. How can almost nothing of interest happen in a show for 10 whole hours? It's not slowly building the story/characters, it's just slow and nothing happens. The characters are bad. The dialogue is bad. The story is nonsense and the premise is terrible.
Episode 1 was okay, but after that it just kept getting worse. Every episode was another snoozefest of nothing happening. The same tired crud of old Picard rambling with another soulless character. The Romulan and his sister arguing again about how they are failures at their jobs and how he needs to stop making out with the robot girl (then proceeds to make out with her again, yay). A little action scene here and there. More about how Mars attack was bad, need to find the girl, Starfleet problems, mean admirals, blah blah. Tal Shiar bad. Picard sad about his life. Throw in a 5 minute cameo. Ughhhhhh.
There is no coherence to this story, no actual character development. Just boring, bland talking for hours and hours on end. This was truly PAINFUL to watch.
At least Discovery had some action and interesting scenes in its first few seasons. This has nothing. It's trash.
Another episode with 10 minutes of content drawn out into an hour
6 June 2022
So little happens, yet again, in this long and boring episode. It's like a really really bad version of Star Wars. Nothing like Star Trek at all.
The dialogue is atrocious. No one speaks like this. There is no true character development except a tiny bit on the resurfaced Seven of Nine. The rest is just bad.
The dialogue is atrocious. No one speaks like this. There is no true character development except a tiny bit on the resurfaced Seven of Nine. The rest is just bad.
Terribly written and terribly boring
5 June 2022
Geez, at least the first two seasons of Discovery were entertaining and packed with action, even if the story and characters were bad.
But this is not only bad, it's boring. So, so, so boring. I could only watch about 5 minutes of this episode at a time before having to take a break so it took me forever to get through it. What is even happening? The writing and dialogue are all over the place and there is so much pointless filler dialogue. Also I suffered second-hand embarrassment from Rios and his holograms. Just atrocious acting and bad fake accents.
So, so bad.
But this is not only bad, it's boring. So, so, so boring. I could only watch about 5 minutes of this episode at a time before having to take a break so it took me forever to get through it. What is even happening? The writing and dialogue are all over the place and there is so much pointless filler dialogue. Also I suffered second-hand embarrassment from Rios and his holograms. Just atrocious acting and bad fake accents.
So, so bad.
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