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The Valhalla Murders (2019)
if only police wouldnt be lobotomized
Its all shot very solid. Great camera work, good actors and ok dialog but police really deserves several darwin awards and are written as mentally challenged at times.
Everytime they get into a confrontation the criminal escapes and just needs to knock down police. Even when we are talking about a serial murder they dont take any weapon, never go with backup and then on the fly look for something to defend. Its comical. The idea of the plot is good the execution very much lackluster and lazy writing to build in suspense.
Also what really took me out was a mother / cop who is too weak to confront her son about a brutal crime .
And when confronting him he just needs to push her to the ground "again". And then the sickening writing that her son has every right to be mad about his mother because he "just" whitnessed" it, filmed it and kept his mouth shut . At that point they lost me . The writers even want my sympathy for him. Way to go. Maybe thats progressive.
Still compared to most netflix shows its above standard and worth a look.
Trailer Park Boys: Out of the Park (2016)
Tom Mayhue enough said
Cant bringt myself to go into detail why this sucks because I enjoyed the original so much.
Its nothing very bad but like every show you kinda feel when it has run its course and should stop. With TPB that was probably around season 9 of the original. Now with this, even if its way subpar compared ,the one man that really destroys that is Tom Mayhue. He is not an actor and just in any regard wholly unlikable. Go watch their first masterpiece and ignore this.
Get Shorty (2017)
looking through a mirror into a mirror that reflects hollywood
Get Shorty is the classic Hollywood show looking at itself in the mirror and mirroring that by glamourising & satiric elements. There is an underlying "we are so cool in hollywood" theme but it is to be expected. The narcicism of this whole environment is not only shown in the show but also if you look at the writing of this show. But its done so well with great character arcs , storylines and scenery that you can loose yourself into it. It just flows.
Sure there are things to criticize but compared to similar style "Barry" it keeps its balance between comedy and drama without the classic hollywood mistake of overproducing more and more and wandering into slapstick.
The actors bringt their respective characters to life and are well choosen. The irish dialect of O'Dowd is sometimes a little too forced but well thats nuances.
But as with many other shows it has problems maintaining quality later on. In season 3 the lead characters story arcs get rather uncreative , one dimensonal and in the case of Miles I can only describe it as deeply disturbing. Were before you had a nuanced character with shades of grey now he is plotting way out of proportion.
In a certain episode the audience looses sight why that is anything other than an evil sociopath to the core . The problem here is that the writers try to maintain our sympathy with Miles but it doesnt work anymore at all. There is a felt dissonance between the characters actions /interactions and how the writers want us to perceive them.
Season 1&2 are an easy recommendation. Solid 8. Maybe more if you are into the topic. Season 3 is difficult to rate. A 6.5 I'd say.
My guess: Season 4 will continue the downfall in quality and be mediocre at best but I will look into it and still hope to be wrong.
The Office (2005)
3 different levels of quality in one series
First part of The Office 7/10: These are the episodes were they copy the original and in that they fall flat in comparison. Its still ok but not at all at the level of BBC The Office. The stories are basically the same but without the grit and complexity of the original that depictured much more real to life characters were the US version has simplified character range. Thats why the characters and the comedy dont really mesh.
Second Part 8-9/10: Season 2- ca. 20episode of 6 . Thats were they develop their own storylines and character arcs. Now all blends together and the more one dimensional character portrait works perfect with the comedic timing. No real rough edges like in the original but its not needed. A lot of intelligent and sometimes subtle timing. Love it. You can feel they made their own thing and executed what creative ideas they had. Everything feels original and on point.
Third Part : 1-3/10: End of season 6 to the end. Its a decline to stupidity. Starts when Sabre takes over. You instantly realize all the jokes change. The new characters fall flat no matter Jo, Gabe or DiAngelo, the jokes now feel forced and often need the other characters to laugh about frantically like HEY NOW YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO LAUGH which gives of a cheap soap opera sitcom feel. Everything gets more streamlined and procedural while more and more loosing everything original and were they made fun of societal agendas now they start catering to them. After reading about the series several writers left the show at that point. Its blatantly obvious. Its a continous downward spiral until in S9 its really just trash.
Still we got close to 5 high level seasons out of the Office.
Penny Dreadful (2014)
It started so good, then the SJW crew arrived. without spoilers
The series had just the right mix out of interesting characters, narrative and pacing in s1 well and then came the SJW agenda.
Penny Dreadful is a perfect example how more and more writers loose their ability to write a plot without bringing in their primitive agenda
that is en vogue in Hollywood.
In this series the more you watch (believe me there will be episodes ) the more you get hammered it in your face in good old
stalinistic dogma.
1) White men are evil. You can kill them on sight if you like even if they have done nothing ,the show prefers that and potrays you as an emphatic human / demonic being.
2) Men in general are the scum of the earth. Well not if they belong to a minority but otheriwse . The very few good white men know how rotten everyone else is. Contrary women cant do wrong and if they do it is because evil white men made them victims
3) Indigenous people are wise beyond their years, peaceful and kill only if well look at 1) It is so primitive that it hurts everyone with even a modicum of education and wisdom.
Its literally spewing the hate behind the mask of a fantasy series.
There are other flaws as soon as the series develops like endless pointless dialog and rather overacting by Eva Green.
Hollywood and in most of liberal media has sadly developed into an intellectual desert. The design of the series is top notch no doubt about that and most actors do a good job.