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Driven (2018)
Worth the suffering
I guess the early '80s condemned period movies to feature actors with "awful" hairstyles, glowmesh and powder pastel suits which are unpalatable to the viewer today but necessary for documentary-quality production. I had not heard of the movie or plot before watching and was just about to give it the flick when the name Delorean was dropped. So I gave it a few more minutes of automotive enthusiast sympathy. The stranger than fiction plot unfolds awkwardly with the Hoffman character portrayal both beautifully irksome but verging on hitting the "off" button for relief. To their credit it weaves together in a bizarre culmination of the implausible, unredeeming deceitful and ugly behaviours; pride and greed justified by a base of lies. Full credit to the cast for making me hate them.
Aussie Salvage Squad (2018)
Let's do it the hard way....
Don't let reality interfere with the storyline; the constant "I've gotta get the job done" approach wears a bit thin, particularly when you have to hear it replayed again after an advertisement break - just in case you can't remember the previous 5 minutes.
I didn't understand the "salvage" urgency to pull out mango tree stumps that have been in the ground for 30 years or the necessity to wander into an unguarded winch danger zone; excavators dig out stumps but probably don't have the "at the end of the day someone's gotta do it" attitude, a "group near death experience" or..."coulda been killed but I wasn't."
The show needs to decide if it's a bunch of amateurs using risky practices and guesswork to meet some contrived deadline or if they actually know what they're doing but choose to ignore the danger for audience appeal. Yay team.
Tonightly with Tom Ballard (2017)
ABC Comedy invades "Auntie"
Crisp delivery and mostly insightful.
Sometimes I watch re-runs when I can't find the remote.
One of the few ABC shows that thankfully doesn't feature Josh Whiticomb (yet).
I voted "No".