prophetroastinc Reviews

Big Mouth: The Hookup House (2022) Season 6, Episode 1

Someone's Going through changes

[3/10 · 31 October 2022]

I feel like I'm now at the point that the sunk cost fallacy is in full swing. I didn't watch Human Resources because the hormone monsters are some of the worst parts of the actual series, and the other 'creatures' they introduced that might show up in it aren't exactly making me feel any more interest in the series. I legit can't imagine people who are like "WOW MORE SHAME WIZARD AND DEPRESSION CAT!"

This is a show where it's supposed to be ironic takes on what happens during the growth and development that comes with being a kid venturing into adulthood. This entire episode was about watching kids have sex with each other. The problem is that the show is about watching a bunch of kids have sex with each other. There's no payoff and seriously I'm shocked that Matthew, Jay, and Missy have the most character growth so far because 2/3 of them have been my least favorite characters.

If they wrote out Nick, Andrew, and Jessie I'd be pretty ok with it.

Midnight Mass: Book II: Psalms (2021) Season 1, Episode 2

That's something...

[8/10 · 3 December 2021]

In the previous episode the issue was, something is weird. In this episode we're shown something is weird in several different ways, but there's so much weird stuff happening we have no idea what's what and where. It makes for a genuine horror where you're forced to contend with the unknown and slowly understand what's happening as our characters do.

Could have just gone for a cheap jumpscare, but the idea of a black figure opening it's yellow eyes and slowly standing up to tower over a man in all darkness sits with you. We're now aware that whatever is going on with this island is neither natural nor normal, but we're still not sure what it is.

There are people who are just flat out mean, and the occasional nice guy who's gotten a bum hand at life. Yet through it all we're still treated to a nice little slow burn that sprinkles just enough out that you feel required to come back for more.

Also the Dog scene was heartbreaking, but the way the Sheriff handles it is wonderful. All this man is asking is that someone on this island treat him like a normal human being and listen to him. Him just agreeing that the woman in question is everything Joe says she is, makes it feel like he's not just going to ignored and pushed aside.

Midnight Mass: Book I: Genesis (2021) Season 1, Episode 1

Burning the Oil

[9/10 · 3 December 2021]

So the main thing I would give Midnight Mass, is also the thing I can see people being turned off by. Considering what the series is, the first episode is what a first episode of a series outta be. It's a slow burn showing us the characters, letting us get to know them, and it's all shown first and the finer details are sprinkled in as we go on.

We're not sure what's going on, or if anything is going on, but everything feels a bit weird. Which is very difficult to convey in alot of newer cases of film and limited series. The entire first episode something just feels odd enough that you know things aren't normal, but distant enough that you don't have a real point to bring up against it all.

I can absolutely imagine people going "This show is boring. I'm leaving." Because the way this shows up, I expected the first episode to be about someone being eaten alive in an outhouse and a small town coming together to figure it out in the form of a Who-Dunnit. What you get is a first episode where someone thinks they saw an old guy around and that's the greatest tension in the episode.

Big Mouth: Lovebugs (2021) Season 5, Episode 3

I'm sorry, what?

[5/10 · 7 November 2021]

Someone sat down with a straight face and a genuine motive behind it. Went "Ok we have our generic, straight-laced aggressive modern feminist. What do we do with her, without making her a walking stereotype?"

And the answer in the entire writers room, in 2021 was. "Make her aggression and flat out hatred towards men due to her sexuality." And the vote for "Angry Feminist Lesbian" never stood out as an odd choice.

Big Mouth: The Hugest Period Ever (2020) Season 4, Episode 2

Ok?

[3/10 · 22 December 2020]

I'd give this a one if I didn't have faith in them fixing it so for now it sits at a 3.

The period part is more strange than funny to me, not because I'm a man so I don't get it but because Jessie has been shown as a super progressive down to earth modern feminist with a lesbian mom... No one bothered to explain to her how periods function or how pads and tampons work, despite all of this? She's aggressively aware of alot of social issues and constantly promoting feminism... but this is something that escapes her? Ok...

The section with Missy is downright insulting. I know they hired a hand full of black writers to get this part down, but why is it everything negative is showcased when addressing her 'being black' to the point that it boils over with her telling her dad to 'act black' and her family agreeing with her? He's his own character and I've always liked that he's more of a cornball who marches to the beat of his own drum. His rebuttal that he's himself is fine, and if we're to believe this is just Missy being a rebellious pre-teen that's also fine.

Why is his own family dogpiling onto him too? None of them bring anything remotely positive to the final confrontation so what's supposed to be a child overreacting because she's dealing with her emotions, looks like a circlejerk. His own sister is in the back nodding her head like "That's right" When she should know and respect her brother enough to know that isn't right.

The Nick Subplot was bad... Just bad. Don't much care for it.

Main thing keeping this down to a 3 for me is the way Missy 'studying her blackness' is boiled down to weird stereotypes. Tyler Perry, Braids, and sleeping with Black Men. Gotcha. Again, I'm going to assume that they'll turn it around and Missy will realize she's overreacting and overstepping, but for her cousins and aunt it felt weird. Also 90% of the people watching this show won't see a problem with being told to "Act Black" since ya know. Yeah.

The Aeronauts (2019)

Not Gonna Lie

[5/10 · 22 March 2020]

This film is treated as based on real events, it takes about five minutes to realize that given the time period it's odd and super improbable that you'd send a mentally unstable woman into the air with an equally mentally unstable man. That this wouldn't be a big deal considering how women were treated back then, and that alot of the events leading up to them actually getting into the air made any sense.

The moment I got to see the 'strong woman' march into the area where women weren't allowed and make her case I stopped and looked this up and realized about 10% of each of the events in this movie happened, to a different person each time, meaning technically it's based on real events. A guy did this, a woman did that, another guy did this, someone else did that, and you throw it in a blender and you get this.

This is a boring movie by the way. Not because the actual science or story telling, but because all the Hollywood dribble they added makes the film feel fake and boring. Three times they try and pull a shocking twist which makes about as much sense as drinking your own urine when you're thirsty. This is the worst type of movie, I can see the actors trying, I can tell the time and effort put into this film, and it's in service of just the worst...

Blow the Man Down (2019)

Of Highs & Lows

[8/10 · 22 March 2020]

A classic Noir-small town story with a big secret which thrives on classic noir story telling and twists and turns. While the story itself is nothing special, how it's handled is quite unique and interesting enough that I consider it one of the better films I've seen in recent times.

Blow The Man Down starts off with shades of gray being thrown around and ends with there being a clearly defined line in the sand where you now realize alot of those shades that previously existed didn't have to be there. It works for the beginning of the film and when the dark history of the town comes forward you quickly realize that the start of the film and the events that entangle our protagonist don't actually matter.

My favorite part of Blow The Man Down is that the overall plot devours the main leads to the point that you fully understand they are in well over their heads. They're actions which brought them into a much larger plot are referenced and brought up, but by the climax they're bystanders in a much worse situation that everyone is trying to depart from.

While this is good and alright, the film is carried by Margo Martindale. That's not a slight against the other leads who do good work, but her acting as the antagonist who doesn't seem to understand why she's in the wrong is what keeps the plot moving forward.

The constant feel that the settings and people involved are put into situations where they feel they try their best and fall short keeps you interested until the very end. Is it perfect? No, but I'll gladly put this up there with some of the more recent Neo-Noir films as a great watch.

The Vanishing of Sidney Hall (2017)

What Am I Reading?

[1/10 · 21 March 2020]

What is wrong with you people? This movie is a disaster of a mess. The fact that I have yet to see a single review that wasn't. "It's emotional" Confuses me. Yes, it's emotionally manipulative. This movie is why that term exists, nothing happens in this movie except events that get the most emotion out of you without moving forward any plot.

Let's look at the most critical of reviews which ignore the fact that all 'development' of our main lead is done so at the cost and expense of everyone around him being awful or dying. That's it. He never stops and thinks or does anything that makes him a better person, he's talented because he has to be for the plot to work, but outside of that he's horribly insufferable. That's a main character you want to succeed or even want to see period, this entire character feels like a blender of tropes for an indie movie lead.

The movie itself being told in an awful order works against it, until you realize that it's worse when you put the scenes in their proper order and realize this entire character is WOE IS ME the movie. Let's go through and think of how awful this character is, and how this movie deserves all the hate it gets.

Sindey Hall is a young tortured artist on par with all those other young tortured artist who are liberal and tired of being tied down by the man. Because he really has an unhealthy obsession with writing about a single character and being very inappropriate about it. Everyone tells him, the issue is you and your personality. He doesn't change his views btw, he never even acknowledges they are problems.

Next Sidney comes across a jock who's generic and jocky in ever sense of the word. We don't see or know he's a bully or a jock until later, but Sidney knows and is so over this. This character has two very conflicting aspects of his personality that don't work, and is only there for Sidney to feel super sad due to a twist that's revealed in the last 10 mins of the movie. His name is Blake.

It so happens Sidney's neighbor across the street from him is a quirky young girl who's in love with him and has always been in love with him. Like everyone else who's in Sidney's life she exists for him to seem like a better person. She's a trope of every indie-girl you've ever met thrown into a blender. Her character only works if you tell the story out of order because you don't actually know what her character is outside of her really liking Sidney.

That's your whole cast by the way. Rest of the characters are vehicles to get Sidney super sad, or onto the next scene. They don't exist outside of Sidney's world and they don't act on their own accord except when it's something to make Sidney feel bad.

Spoilers.

Blake's dad is a rapist, comes out of nowhere btw, and he's recording and blackmailing him. He kills himself when Sidney's mother destroys the tape he had set aside as blackmail. He just stabs himself with a knife because... no clue. Previous scene had him sitting there for minutes talking about how his dad is a monster and he'll kill him to save his sister and the women around him. And he kills himself because it makes Sidney sadder. Can't have him following through with his character, because his death might have meant something.

This leads to Sidney writing his first book called "Woe is Me in Suburbia" In which it's the best book ever and is the best book ever. Book is based on Blake's life and is Woe is Me to the point that people are killing and attacking each other over it. Sidney blames himself, despite the book being about events that he knows ended with the death of another person. Which is where I get a bit annoyed.

Sidney very much knows he took a real life tragedy which impacted people's lives, turned it into a novel, and is confused and upset that it impacted people negatively? Maybe just maybe, this is why most readers would look at this and go, seems like an 18 year old wrote this, and it wouldn't become the massive hit the movie makes it out to be. Sidney divorces himself from alot of obvious consequences on the grounds of he didn't mean it throughout this movie.

Also none of this is told in an even remotely decent order.

Sidney ends up marrying and falling in love with lil girl across the street because they're both weird outcasts. But his Woe is Me skit ends with her being tired of it and leaving him. He cheats, it's not stated if he did it before or after they had their problems but he absolutely did cheat. Movie doesn't even try to justify how or why that's ok, just that he made a mistake. A mistake he goes onto lie about, and then feels really bad when his wife who is pregnant with their child dies because she's unable to coup with him being a lying cheater.

Sure is a good thing she has less than 50 lines in this movie so I have no attachment to her when she shows up near the middle revealing they got married, and dies in the end so we can justify Sidney being an awful homeless bum. She needed to die so he could be super sad and depressed, which conflicts with the ending of the movie btw.

His first movie made him feel bad and went crazy because of the impact it had on the world around him. His second book was his publisher taking pages he'd written and stringing them together... So why does he care what impact the first book had when it's literally based on someone's real life events and the impact they had. When the second book isn't mentioned, talked about, or even noticed? All we know about his second book is it's as popular as his first and when Sidney is told this he goes "I'm divorcing myself from anything to do with that." An emotion and act which would have made more sense for the first book.

This movie is a hot mess. This is why I feel alot of people who review things on IMDB should probably not look at an Indie movie and go "Well it looks and feels like an indie movie 8/10" When they review these things. This movie is what happens when you try to seem deep and tell a tortured story of a tormented out of place soul, but you realize you have no idea what you're saying.

The entire film Sidney is a whiney brat who's only shown in a positive light next to his mother who's controlling and violent. This doesn't excuse the next ten to twelve years of his life where he's just the worst sort of person. Alot of reviews seem to ignore how awful he is because bad things happen to him, and ignore that the bad things happen to him at the cost of other people's lives. This movie is like watching a car crash in slow motion.

BoJack Horseman: Nice While It Lasted (2020) Season 6, Episode 16

Yeah

[10/10 · 6 February 2020]

It was nice while it lasted. For a while.

The hardest part of this episode is the fact that you're seeing very valid, very real, and very understandable separations take place with characters you've known for a while.

It's only the main cast, it's all of them being themselves, and it's you realizing that despite everything they've been through they're the same characters you started with at their core. This absolutely works for every character.

Mr. Peanutbutter showing off the B, Todd walking across the beach, Princess Carolyn sharing a dance and entertaining Bojack's overacting imagination, to that very awkward and lingering silence after a "Wouldn't it be funny if" question is thrown out and left there.

If you haven't seen the episode, it ends exactly how Bojack should end. On an awkward joke, awkward glances, and people trying to find something in the mix of it.

BoJack Horseman: The View from Halfway Down (2020) Season 6, Episode 15

Penultimate Episode

[10/10 · 6 February 2020]

There is a talent for writing miserable, down right painful episodes in which a character is forced to deal with unspeakable pains and horrors. You get that alot in the episodes written by Alison Tafel in a way that hurts to watch. This is easily the best of her works.

This stands as how a Penultimate Episode of a series should, it continues on from the previous episode which closed alot of loose ends, it leads into a finale without forcing you along it's path, and it is impossible to just ignore it because of the impact it has in the series.

I get the feeling alot of people skipped a good portion of the episodes just to watch this with no context, and you know what? It works. Between this and Free Churro I can understand why certain episodes of this series need no context, and can be viewed on their own.

The View from Halfway Down starts low, gets even lower, and ends so low that by the time the finale comes around you have no expectations. There is not a single character wasted or out of place in how they're utilized, and that includes Zack Braff. From the musical pieces, to the hard parts, to the very end, this is easily the best episode of this series.

I wish this acts as a guide to how to treat your characters, audience, and series with respect on the way out.

BoJack Horseman: Angela (2020) Season 6, Episode 14

Downward Spirals

[9/10 · 6 February 2020]

The entire point of Angela is to conclude the 'character arcs' of most of the cast that aren't Diane as she's had her conclusion pretty definitively. It works on all corners for those cast members.

Horny Unicorn set Todd up on the route to not being a one-note joke character who's severely out of touch with the world, and this one does an amazing job of showing that he's still that but he's grown. His very real problems stem from a very real place of not being able to understand why the adults around him treat him the way that they do, the way it's handled is fine and good for Todd.

I've always wanted more Judah because I don't get his character. It seemed like he's meant to be a workaholic thirty-something year old who's on the spectrum as a joke. But this episode does an amazing job of telling you no, that's exactly what he is, but it's been played so straight when he does finally express his feelings it felt genuine. Everything made sense, and his actions as awkward and weird as they have been made perfect sense.

The only real issue here is Bojack is once again screwed. The issue isn't a matter of him failing to do the right thing or even giving up. At this point it seems like everyone has turned their back on him for his past, which is a very real thing that happens to addicts and very good way to make them relapse. He falls into his old steps hard, and it's not quite fun to watch as he's being dragged around every which way until...

BoJack Horseman: Sunk Cost and All That (2020) Season 6, Episode 11

All That Jazz

[7/10 · 6 February 2020]

I'll start off by saying, I think for the second half of this season I feel Sunk Cost is easily the weakest and worst episode. It moves the plot along, but does so at the sake of throwing very uncomfortable and awkward moments at the wall and seeing what sticks. I believe Intermediate Study is reviewed worse, but that at least feels like it's revealing something.

Most of what's revealed this episode is meant to make you realize Bojack has done horrible things, but even in the context of the show it's treated as more passable. In fact most of the issues that come about from this episode get overturned in favor of "Bojack is just a bad guy" being thrown around.

The scenes with Mr. PB felt miserable, I liked Pickles before surprise but since the deal of her sleeping around came up it felt like she existed just to show how stupid Mr. PB is. Joey Pogo is the worst character to be introduced into this series by a large margin because he exists to move to plot points with no real valid reason for them to reach that point or to resolve. Pickles and him leaving felt like that was a hard lock on one of the main cast just being hung out to dry.

Didn't feel as conclusive for most of these characters, but it does feel like the end for them. As in this is as far as they go and they'll just wander around randomly in the series from this point.

Most of the scenes with Bojack, Diane, and Princess Carolyn are fine. The episode isn't horrible, just a very mediocre slice of fun in an otherwise amazing later run.

BoJack Horseman: Good Damage (2020) Season 6, Episode 10

It's Just Damage

[9/10 · 6 February 2020]

One of my biggest issues with Bojack outside of Todd somewhat just hovering around, is that Diane seems to be miserable. It isn't a matter of her being a joke of what an outraged feminist is, or that she's a loud mouth liberal, it's that she never seems happy. Despite everything that's happened to her as a character and being given just about everything she's wanted she seemed and acted miserable.

While in season one that's understandable because she's meant to be relatable to Bojack and she's meant to be struggling, everything goes right for her until she gets frustrated and tanks it.

Good Damage does an amazing job of making me realize that she has a problem a few people have these days, where you mistake your trauma as not 'being enough' because it's not the right trauma. Alot of comedians comment on how they have abusive backgrounds and that gives them the fuel they need to go on and this episode does an amazing job of finally making you realize that's been Diane's problem.

A good portion of the episode is literally just her realizing that 'Good Damage' while being a thing, doesn't have to be your thing. She's attempting to force out some dark and gritty soul punch of a novel that isn't coming, because it's in there. The episode doesn't dismiss her complaints and genuine damage she's endured, but it does a very good job of showing it wasn't nearly as impactful as she'd like to believe.

This brings me back to the fact that of the entire main cast, she's had it the easiest next to Mr. PB in terms of their past and characterization. It makes liking her hard when she's actively her own worst enemy. But Good Damage genuinely made me happy that for the remainder of the series she, mostly, keeps her head above water and is a much better character because of it

Ride Your Wave (2019)

Depression Incarnate

[8/10 · 28 January 2020]

Ride Your Wave is a very traditional Anime with a sharp twist that will turn off alot of viewers who aren't used to the adult themes of it.

When I went into this I had a general idea as to what was going on. Masaaki Yuasa and Reiko Yoshida have a decent amount of works I'm used to. Unfortunately, heading into this I watched Lu over the Wall and didn't watch or catch most of the screenplay she's done are quite mature and depressing. Which is the best way to describe this movie.

I read somewhere that they 'spoil' alot of the parts in the trailers, but I managed to see none of that and assumed it was about a guy learning to surf while falling in love with an oddball. And I was right until the second act.

This movie is everything you'd think it is until the heroic main character dies in a fairly realistic fashion and the female lead takes it very realistically. She shuts herself off from reality, breaks down, and eventually begins taking comfort in a fantasy that is handled quiet well. For the sake of this review, it's that when she sings a song shared between her and her lost lover he appears in water. For the sake of the movie itself, no one can see him and it's treated as though she's having a genuine mental breakdown.

That is where this movie is quite strong, and where it loses alot of it's viewers. The entire second act of this movie is depressing. While plenty of Reiko Yoshida's works have dealt with serious topics on par with loss and the ability to move on past it, this is just depressing. All the montages and moments that the leads share together thanks to magic is lost when the reality is right there.

But to me this works because it's supposed to be depressing. You're supposed to be seeing someone unable to move on past such an impactful part of their life. They break down whenever they see anything that reminds them of that loss, and are unable to accept anything that would dare to threaten it. Even to the point that it becomes hurtful for you to hold onto.

Realizing that you need to let go of it becomes the third act, and the conclusion of the second act's entirety. For me it's where the depressing second act shines, when everyone realizes that despite the losses endured they will always have the love and strength of someone who is now gone. Also the conclusion of the film when it finally hits that he's gone, he's dead, and he isn't coming back thanks to a callback from earlier in the film coming full circle is genuinely enjoyable to watch.

I understand why alot of people tapped out and are complaing that this movie isn't enjoyable to watch, but I will defend that it's a perfect mixture of these two artist's doing their craft a staggering amount of justice.

Fireworks (2017)

Meh

[3/10 · 20 January 2020]

Fireworks is the mystery that got away from me when I went online. Based on the marketing, and the clips I'd seen it looked fairly generic, but most of the reviews don't seem to favor it. Now generic anime movies tend to at least break the "Bad, not good" levels of things. But Fireworks is on the weaker end of things all around to the point that I felt maybe someone misunderstood something.

Yeah it ain't that.

So Fireworks follows a very traditional 3 act structure. Every 30 mins you're basically settled into a new piece of information and such that dramatically changes the plot. First 30 mins feels like a typical if generic anime about the troubles we each have to deal with while growing up, and the chance we'll miss the summer youth that we all dream of.

Perfectly fine premise, and genuinely interesting. A few too many of the side characters harping on about weird stuff but fine. Things go south when it's revealed that the female lead was attempting to run away because her mom is a bit abusive and bad. She gets dragged away by her mother, but in the meantime we reveal that there's a magical bauble that can turn back time basically out of nowhere and for no reason.

Que the next 30 mins, where we're treated to a retelling/reimaginging/alternate reality of the last fifteen minutes where the main character changes the past a bit, gets to be with the girl, and they make an honest attempt to set things right. This leads to things going wrong again, and apparently the main character getting closed fist punched for trying to basically 'protect his girlfriend' by her stepfather. He goes back in time, changes some things around, and they go off on an adventure.

Now what I'm not telling you is that there's 3 plots running along here and none of them are very good. The time travel plot is so bad, the main character becomes basically the tool to which time is turned back but the entire story focuses on, revolves around, and expands with the female lead. We find out about her motivation, her character, and all of her dreams and ambition going into the third act. The writing around her and her backstory makes sense, but unfortunately it's at the mercy of time travel to get this far.

The second plot is the male lead and his best guy friend are in love with the same girl, except not really. The entire first act is them playing typical schoolyard boys and talking about how much they both like her and would want to be with her. Problem is the first time they have to travel back in time because the problem arose because the best friend stood her up. The remainder of the story is him swearing he's in love with her and being a jealous douche, despite the fact that we saw in the first timeline/reality he absolutely isn't in love with her to warrant this.

Oh, third plotline is the world is basically breaking apart. Don't worry about it, no one else does.

Third act is these two kids who are out of their depth realize that they're honestly in love with each other and just want to be together. They attempt to realize this in various ways with each way failing. Before they manage to break free of time travel/reality bauble and... the end. It's left to your imagination if they ran away from it all, died, or broke reality so they don't exist.

You'd assume with a story starting off this generic, you'd have a win-win right? I read somewhere the original short ends with it all being just a dream of the male lead after he's unable to help the girl when she's dragged away by her mom, and I understand why that's not as interesting. But almost everything added here to make this 'fantastical' outside of the musical part is boring and uninteresting.

Jexi (2019)

Torture

[2/10 · 20 January 2020]

Someone best described this movie as torture for about an hour and a half. When I first saw that I assumed it was because it was meant to be so bad, or because the acting is all over the place. Having seen this movie I can now understand that this movie is just torture for all parties involved.

I can only assume alot of comedians had car payments that they needed to have taken care as to why they were in this film. And I mean like, they had those car payments done in a week so someone scrambled together a script and they got this done in three days. You have three legit comedians in this film and their contribution is to stand around and crack not so funny one-liners and occasionally make observations of things that don't really need a comment.

Adam DeVine seems to be taking a shotgun approach to his roles these days, because between this and Game Over Man it's safe to say he's having some troubles. He does pretty ok in this film as a not so lovable idiot, but the script is awful. The script feels like it's written by someone who had a deadline and just saw Her and Scary Movie and figured, man whatever let's just roll with it. It feels dated by about five years to the point that I'm only giving it a 2 out of pity that it might be just that old.

The theme of the movie is 'Technology not all that good. But not all that bad though' But it's taken to the extreme that it feels less like technology not good, and instead this guy is stupid. The only comparisons we have in the movie to how bad technology are seem to be our lead Phil, who's so forgettable I had to google his name, and the guy who Michael Pena plays. Both are so pathetic it feels weird that "Technology Bad" Is the theme, when by the end of the film technology has given this random idiot everything he's gotten.

Watching this made me feel bad for the cast. Everyone involved had to have known they had a turd on their hands. I think Charlyne Yi says five words in the first couple of scenes she's in, Ron Funches feels like he was told to act like a secondary character in a movie and no one gave him any direction, Wanda Sykes phones phones it in and I don't blame her. Michael Pena knew he was working on a turd and decided to just have fun with it.

By the end of the film the theme is meant to be "technology can be bad" with the asterisk of 'When used by a total out of touch idiot'. It feels surface level at best and that's fine for a comedy, but I don't remember having a genuine laugh at this thing once. I feel bad for the female lead, because it feels like they told her this was a genuine romantic comedy and she acts.

If you're thinking of watching Jexi, just watch Her instead. It's a movie about the same premise and the constant loneliness that we all experience and how coping with it in dangerous ways can often make us isolated from the world around us. While we want for certain things with our technology our needs can often leave us sadder and ignorant to the world around us. It's a funnier movie then Jexi is.

The Mayor (2017–2018)

Insulting

[1/10 · 4 October 2017]

This show is insulting. It feels like a paint by numbers for white people to get a feel for an 'urban setting' with none of the danger or threat of it. The characters are stereotypes from yesteryear that feel out of place and just bad to the point of pandering.

Like they wanted the demographic of 20-mid 30 something millennials in America who think everything is 'lit' to be the audience for this show, and it shows. This show jumps the line between borderline incompetent to absolutely insulting with how it showcases anything.

Lea Michele is just awful. She comes across as flat and lifeless to the point that you wonder how she functions in the setting they've thrown her in. The supporting cast is just lifeless and it feels like what some kid who was born and raised in upper middle class assumes how us 'lowly black folk' talk. Like we don't have common sense.

Someone, somewhere, thought this was a good idea for somebody. I've seen my fair share of young African-American's trying to get into politics plagued by the identity that everyone assumes THIS is how we act.

I get that the painfully written show is going to end up with - SPOILERZ The young black man suddenly realizing how serious being a mayor is after the fact and turning out to be good for his community, just like all black people should, would, and could behave in fictional poorly written fantasy SPOILERZ- But come on. No one sat down and felt like this would be a bit insulting?

This feels like someone watched Atlanta, didn't understand that Donald Glover's character is meant to play the straight man to a situation in which everyone knows is a bit crazy, and all character growth is tossed out the window to get some of those cool songs that the kids all listen to.

Also, just saying you shouldn't be able to get the feeling that a show is written by out of touch people who think this is how the world works or would be entertained with the first episode. Felt like the Mindy Project met Blacklish and some random Jewish writers got on board to show their interpretation of the 'streets'.