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The Dirty D (2022)
It is low-rent for sure, but it is an interesting watch...just enjoy it.
I started watching this show because one of my favorite podcasts had a discussion about it. So this weekend, (1.20.2024-1.21.2024) I started watching it, because I needed something to act as background while I cleaned around the house.
Let me say, I don't know anyone affiliated with this production.
It gave me a lot of stress relief to get a good and messy hood drama in my life, I will watch a lot of different things just to get different experiences. This story is all over the place but it is very much enough to hold your attention. The characters have A LOT going on. I am riveted by the series, I will look forward to the third season. I knew it with one storyline.
There is a market for this show, there is an audience, everything can't be on the level of Game of Thrones or Downton Abbey. All I can say is that I had all the laughs, WTF moments, and "the .....?" moments while I folded clothes, sorted donations out of my closet and knitted a scarf. For the relief of my stress, the cast of "The Dirty D" have my affection, truly, it was the light and fluffy kind of series I needed, so I send a sincere "thank you" to them for that. I like to read the occasional hood fiction, I am a big reader and I read "urban fiction" to get the healthy dose of drama that it provides, this show did the same in television form.
*I do skip the 'love' scenes, but that is just because I don't particularly care for them, it became funny to me because there really isn't a prelude to them but after about four episodes, I knew.*
As I said in my social media post about this show, it is raunchy and explicit, but I am riveted; I actually care about these characters; which is usually hard for me, I usually am "Whatever, I just want this to be over." With "The Dirty D", I was sitting there like "Kyra, I need you to get yourself together, my love, don't let these men talk to you any kind of way!"
I enjoy it, sometimes it is nice to turn off your mind and just enjoy something fun and easy.
Dispatch (2016)
Stay off your leg....I do what I want!
I like to spend the occasional couple of hours watching random movies that are lower budgeted, sometimes, you can find a good movie. This movie was decent, I could have used a little more character development. I know for sure that a father-daughter ride along would never happen, because of the results of this one.
I think this story was an interesting one but as a person with friends who work as dispatchers, I was a touch offended by the main character and how she acted as though the job of dispatcher was beneath her some how.
The scene where her physical therapist tells her to stay off her leg and five minutes later (in movie run time)she is trying to run on it. Another thing that kind of irritated me was the one officer who was giving the main character a hard time, I was with her at first because the main character is the worst dispatcher ever. However, when she mimics her limp, I was like "now that's too far", it was highly unprofessional. Overall, it wasn't a bad way to spend 1:30:00; it is one of those movies that you will shout at the screen, "C'mon! What are you doing?!!!"
Wasn't that bad, but it wasn't that good either. It was nice to see Joseph C. Phillips again.