djastrau Reviews

The Neighborhood (I) (2018– )

Absolute Garbage

[1/10 · 27 February 2023]

I dont know why comedy TV shows have to be so obviously produced indoors on brightly lit sets with laugh tracks that haunt your nightmares - this show reminds me of The Ranch - equally asinine. Specific to this atrocity... the black against white, parents vs adult children rhetoric is ridiculous. Caroline from 2 broke girls is still as shrill and hopeless as she was as in her previous casting, im not sure she can act other than showing up and remembering what to say, theres no character here at all. Don't waste your time, in 5 mins you'll be popping an ibuprofen due to the migraine. Save yourself...run!

Harry & Meghan (2022)

Same whining different show

[1/10 · 3 January 2023]

Ooh Harry didn't have a perfect family.... who does? Waaa.... my brother YELLED AT MEEE... omg. Can you imagine what most of us could say about our siblings?! 😆 These sit downs for sale are absolutely stale, threats of exposing the evil British Royal family and yet for 6 hours they say absolutely NOTHING. There's no truth here, there's no story. Just a dude who married someone who doesn't like her inlaws and he doesn't wanna work. I know we all look at them differently because they do t have traditional 'jobs' but their days are spoken for in many different ways. Harry and Meghan want the titles, the free income and to soak in the sun all day for nothing while they pedal their bs all over the planet for millions acting like they're better than all of us.

I'm so over his smug face, his virtue signaling and telling US that we dont even know we are racist because its unconscious all while playing a race card he doesn't even have. Netflix... youre still making money off these clowns, but it's only the same human weakness of watching a car accident that had us taking a look.

Comparing his wife Meghan to Princess Diana is laughable.

They wanted out, they're out... so let it go.

Wednesday (2022– )

Disappointing

[1/10 · 24 November 2022]

What... the...???

I absolutely hate this incarnation of whatever this is trying to be.

I loved the original TV series and the 2 movies from the 90s, but since then it constantly seems to fail and this show is no different.

Poor Morticia is beautiful but married to a hideous filthy toothed crime of a man. Wednesday is... not delightfully weird, she's just abhorrent weird.

The story line seems muddy, the characters don't seem to have any chemistry. I'm surprised that the OG Wednesday of our time Christina Ricci could even handle watching this train wreck happen. I'm sad that I don't love it like I hoped to.

Lightyear (2022)

Loved it! It's fresh and we get to see Buzz become Buzz

[10/10 · 15 August 2022]

I thought this would be kinda meh. I liked the TS movies a bit... they were more for my little sister and my son growing up than for me.

This movie however was a real treat to watch! I loved the cat Sox...and all of the characters. I think it's really important for kids today to see heros fail and try and hopefully overcome. I adored the story and how all of the little things we already knew about Buzz 'his narrating', his flying, and catch phrase to all have the story easily layered on to make sense without dumping it in...all in all a great prequel.

I'd watch this again and again for the laughs and for Sox antics before I'd watch a TS movie, that's how much I enjoyed it.

Spencer (2021)

A+ for Kristin Stewart. But it ends there.

[6/10 · 11 March 2022]

I gave this 6 stars honestly just for Stewart's acting and her role of Diana. I think she nailed it... the locations/sets, costumes and her were 100% NAILED; which to be clear surprised the heck out of me!

That said, everything else was not that great. The story, which is said at the beginning to be a fable based on a true story... just doesn't do Kristin's portrayal any justice. Whoever decided to keep using JAZZ music as the background needs to have their head examined... it just doesn't fit the story, or the image at all.

I hope she gets another chance someday to play Diana...in a real way.

The Gilded Age (2022– )

I expected more...

[5/10 · 2 March 2022]

The casting for me is strange... costumes are amazing. For a show about the new and old money in old New Yorks society... I honestly expected more than dull back biting lines delivered in dimly lit rooms.

Downton had so much wit! The Golden Age 6 episodes in is disappointing, but I'm hopeful for it to get its feet under it and bring some of the really talented writing that I know is possible!

The Righteous Gemstones (2019– )

Ridiculously and unpredictably awesome!

[10/10 · 28 February 2022]

I love this show! It's hilarious, dangerous and the humor is like nothing else out there. It calls itself out time and time again and I love it! What an enjoyable cast and characters that are nothing but enjoyable despite their flaws. I also enjoy that it pokes fun at the human side of religion and not religion itself... it doesn't need to, the people involved are more than enough story, without having to drag all the boring been there done that a million times what ifs most series like this tend to do.

I cannot WAIT for more John Goodman he's been a great in series like Roseanne/The Connors. But when he's off the chain he is pure magic.

I'm.so glad there will be a season 3.

Wall of Chefs (2020– )

Meh

[2/10 · 3 January 2022]

The host is annoying... overall I'm sick of competition shows. What do the wins even mean to anyone anymore? Ohh I won a random episode in a random season on one of 1000 cooking shows on TV.

The Witches (2020)

Awful - Don't waste your time.

[1/10 · 2 December 2021]

If you were hoping for a remake of the first amazing film with Angelica Houston rocking it out as a crazy bad ass witch... this is not it. At all. Chris Rock as a narrator with marbles in his mouth and emphasizing every syllable is an utter fail. Octavia Spencer gives a wonderful performance as always <3 I really hate these remakes that slap people of color in it trying to all of a sudden make it inclusive.

These people are fantastic actors and deserve to have new and unique stories told, not old remakes with a different lense.

The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)

Very easy to watch

[9/10 · 17 March 2019]

I enjoyed this movie...Jack Black was great, Cate was amazing and the young Lewis was very interesting. Eady to digest story line for all ages.

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018–2020)

After Riverdale fail...I was skeptical

[10/10 · 2 November 2018]

When I seen the trailer for Sabrina, I thought, here we go again, theyre going to ruin another comic I grew up with ESPECIALLY after watching season 1 of Riverdale I was like meh... season 2 I could hardly make myself watch as I played games on my phone. I kept thinking as I seen Sabrina advertised that it was going to be too dark and stupid. One night near Halloween I was feeling the spirit and I am SO glad that I did! What a great story! I loved every minute that each episode wove through each character! I highly recommend. Now where is Part 2?!