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The Continental (2023)
Exposition at its finest
Hey chatgpt, give me a backstory for John Wick but don't sweat it.
And then you have 1h30 of people discussing stuff they already know about each other just so the viewer doesn't have to think for a single minute."Remember that time when thit happened? -Yes, I was there" in repeat. Also a couple of fight scenes with bad cgi but descent choreographs.
Lazy writing, too many characters introduced for a three-part series and the easter eggs are more in your face than hidden. I am not compairing it to JW but let's face it, if it was a stand alone you would have dropped it mid way.
It's not about high expectations, but it didn't meet any at all.
Justified: City Primeval (2023)
You are supposed to write a script at gunpoint and under 30mins, this is the outcome
Nostalgia can't save this one. The original is the only reason someone would give "city primeval" a try and it failed those fans big time. Just another rehash of the same tv cliches, paper-thin character virtues. It's like AI and not even an advanced one wrote the script. A bad guy being bad, a teenage daughter being a teenager (only by film standards) and the plot just a rehash of a rehash. FYI this review is being written during another unbearable father-daughter scene because I couldn't handle watching it. I understand "money-grabbers" but they could have at least make it something that you don't mind playing in the background. This one you have to turn it off after a while or push through the pain just so you can justify writing a review.
Goliath (2023)
Reading his bio in Wikipedia is more engaging
Come on people, not everything needs to be a documentary, let alone a series. Content of Twenty minutes stretched into three episodes by someone who doesn't have the talent to do it. Starts with an attitude to clear Chamberlain's reputation (like someone needed to do that) and then proceeds on displaying widely known info and footage. Just watch a youtube video or something and save yourself the time. The man spent his life being compared as a player to Bill Russell in an unfair comparison. Well, at least the documentaries about their lives have a clear winner. Nothing else to mention here, avoid.
L'Affaire Fourniret: Dans la tête de Monique Olivier (2023)
Netflix's recipe for mediocrity, now in French
This review is not about the case nor should it be. It's about the trivial format of the docuseries. Rehashed ideas now in French. The viewer needs to hear every aspect of the case so you bring in psychology experts who mock the woman and her appearance and mimick her behavior as kids. Then you bring in her lawyer who someone thought "hey let's have a scene of him running with his tights and earphones and next scene smoking outside of court so viewers know he means business". Should have been 1 episode, the rest is taunting the victims for more screen time.
P. S. People who complain about the voice over instead of watching it with subs should have the right of voting revoked from them, I mean come on humanity.
D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?! (2022)
It's a disgrace to documentaries to call this thing one
4 episodes in which the D. B. Cooper actual story gets about 10-15 minutes. The rest of this tiring series is about the obsession of a man (Tom Colbert) and his team in accusing a man (Rackstraw) of the crime. Whether they are right or not gets lost in wrong tactics, harrasment and forced conclusions and by the end, as a viewer you only have the feeling of "just let it go already". Searches with metal detectors with idiotic background music, connecting numbers with names, conventions that remind flat earth ones and many elements that could have been a youtube video, not a 4 part documentary. Not even entertaining to watch.