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Undercover (2019)
disappointment (season 1)
Warning: SPOILERS!!!
I thoroughly enjoyed the first season... until it was time to wrap S01 up. The season finale is SO BAD though. I'm thinking of skipping S02/S03 altogether, so bad.
So we're supposed to believe that Ferry comes back for the wedding between Peter and Anouk but then also is presented with the same coke deal as before, still with the same crew. What a coincidence! And even though he is highly suspicious, he begrudgingly agrees. Seriously?
During the drugs deal, Peter acts as if he's with the cartel now, he stands beside Carlos and talks to Ferry's people like they're the opposing side. Incidentally, Carlos, who works for the cartel, no longer just speaks Spanish, he now also learned French and a bit of English, despite needing a translator before. It's almost as if the screenwriter had a brain aneurysm and forgot who was with who and what language they spoke before...
Apparently, none of the Belgian(!) thugs that work for Ferry understands any French, which is rather unlikely in Belgium, which is a bi-lingual country. But it is very convenient; Peter and Carlos can simply speak French between them as if it's in secret coded messages.
But that aside. The wedding is totally weird too. Anouk has no bridesmaids. She's all alone. I guess she's supposed to prepare and get in her wedding dress all by herself. Fortunately, Danielle comes by and can help. It's almost laughable.
Anouk's opsec is horrible. She receives a phone call from her handler. Didn't the cops think that the bride might not be able to speak freely on the phone on her effing wedding day? Evidently Danielle, suspecting something, eavesdropped on the call and confronts Anouk. Amateur hour of kindergarten level.
Speaking of kindergarten level, back to the drugs swap. In a number of totally unbelievable steps the locations of first the coke, then the xtc are revealed, and the thugs get arrested, just in time of course. It's amateur hour a go-go. Like watching a high school play with cardboard cutouts of the actors. There's even more slapstick in store for us: the cops frantically search for the ecstasy pills in stacks of teddy bears and other stuffed animals, but somehow, that stops the wedding ceremony from proceeding until the pills are found.
At the very end, to create a cliffhanger for season 2, a good friend of John that somehow successfully eluded Ferry all these years shows up in prison, with a smartphone he somehow smuggled past the guards and scanners, which holds some interesting footage to show Ferry...
I think the writers completely dropped the ball here. They snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. That's a shame, because earlier in season 1, the characters were believable, the acting was solid, the story lacked a tiny bit of realism here and there but it wasn't insufferable.
But episode 10... it's a mess. A huge mess. I don't feel any incentive to continue to season 2 at this point.
The Leftovers (2014)
Unbelievably bad
Unbelievably bad. I wrestled myself through season one, but it took three attempts over 5 years time. After giving up the first time, around S01E06, I took the advice of a friend to then maybe skip season one altogether and start watching season two which was "way much better". This was not an improvement. I lost interest in Kevin and Matt's meaningless adventures in that mysterious limited-access-camp-or-whatever pretty soon. I did not make it past the halfway point and quit again.
Fast forward another couple years, I decided that I would watch the last two episodes of season one in a last-ditch attempt, and if that wouldn't explain enough of the mysteries or would spark my interest to watch more, that would be the end of that.
And that's exactly what happened: Nothing got explained, I did not start to care for any of the characters, all was still in a huge fog. The chain smokers in white, the cult Tom belonged to, the dogs, the disappearances, the baby, the Garvey family, the coincidences, it all remained unexplained and especially, I still despised clumsy Kevin, hateful Laurie, unbearable Matt, evil Tom and forlorn Nora. I felt no emotional connection to anyone. Anyone.
WHAT did the chain smokers cult made everyone "remember"? Is this just an underhanded repeat of a 4-8-15-16-23-42 type mystery that never gets solved?
So here we are. Despite many many many viewers saying The Leftovers is the best thing they've ever watched, I tried my best to enjoy it, let alone understand it, but failed miserably. If after 14 episodes you still haven't secured your viewer's devotion, you're doing something awfully wrong. I'll go rewatch literally any other HBO show and have more fun than I ever experienced watching this. 1/10.
Dexter: New Blood (2021)
rather unbelievable
Pretty disappointing. The writing is lazy, too many deliberate false flags trying to trap the viewer and way too many goofs and way-too-convenient coincidences.
Hello, FOOTSTEPS in the snow? How did he transport the body? That left no tracks in the snow?? Blood traces in the snow magically disappear when you whack them, or cover them with a handful of extra snow?
Are his chickens still alive? No officer to guard the crime scene at night, really now? Not one dog follows the smell to his cabin? No officer notices that he has dug a hole right next to his fire pit? REALLY? And where does he hide the body now?
An enraged bear stops its pursuit because... it can't stand the daylight outside?? Hellooooo? *knock knock* Are any braincells on active duty tonight??
The friend just starts giving a full confession to a stranger because what... he sees his chick in bed with his buddy? Moreover, when his friend turns up missing the very next day, he's not even interviewed by the authorities?
And the sloppy police work. You can just overhear a suspects' interview at the precinct? Secretly take photos of evidence, and view police data? No further interviews to determine what really happened at the school, we just believe one kid's story and that's it?
And wait, how many women have disappeared over the years without even a deeper investigation? How come the 'hidden' webcams are completely invisible upon entering the room yet later are blatantly present on the ceiling? How many coincidences can an audience stand? I watched 5 episodes now and I'm about to give up. This is just more of the ending of the original series, or not far from it...
Ojing-eo geim (2021)
Interesting premise, ruined by execution
This series has the worst acting I have seen in decades. Without a doubt. Pathetic performances by some actors. And the music is comically bad. Furthermore, the errors in details bother me tremendously, but that is a personal issue I suppose, that likely won't bother many others.
The premise of the show is obviously its main attraction, and it keeps me glued to the screen, unable to stop watching. This is also the reason I give it a 4/10 instead of the technically merited 1/10.
Expect no logic whatsoever, brace for some occasional awful acting, and it might be bearable. Watch it for its novelty. Then forget about this as soon as possible, and move on.
Private Movies 5: Pleasure Island (2002)
Have they learned nothing?
Oh this movie is soo bad that I just had to find my forgotten password to be able to comment. It's aggravating! First off, the male protagonist Mick Blue doesn't stop talking and every 3 sentences he opens his eyelids wide to look like a an innocent Bambi with his big blue eyes on his baby face. It's hard to explain but the faces he makes are an instant turn-off and it's really quite ridiculous. If I never ever see this actor again, it'd still be too early.
Then, the camera seems to be out of focus most of the time and/or the director thinks blurring is the next best thing since sliced bread. It's painful! Like watching a seventies playboy movie or something, with greased lenses. And the camera does more idiotic stuff. Many scenes with movement just become motion blurs, like the camera uses a way too long exposure time or only records at 9 FPS. It makes the scenes nearly unwatchable. If this is the way the director thinks he's being 'artistic' he better go back to film school, or move to make art-house movies, but please: NOT porn!!
Then as if all this isn't bad enough yet, one of the biggest mistakes in porn ever get repeated here like nothing was learned since the seventies; many scenes are interlaced. So you get 7 seconds of girl #1 and the action moves over to the other side of the room with another girl. This is killing; whether your fave is girl 1 or girl 2, nobody wants his favorite porn scene be interrupted 4 times per minute by a lesser girl, (or even worse, non-sex scene). Wow. Did nobody care to tell these people that?? If I want to zap away from my porn every 7 seconds, I'll do that myself, thank you very much! It completely spoils the scenes with the hottie Angela Black (Julia Crow) for me, but I'd imagine that the fan base of Julia Taylor also doesn't really like that the camera pans away all the time to Angela Black, either. No matter how you look at it, it turn out bad. WHY are they repeating these old known venerable pitfalls of porn, in 2002 ??
Then there is the painful plot, the dialogue, the dubbing. This film is truly one that should never have been made, and certainly not in 2002. Not worthy of Private standards.