User Reviews

Yeah, Nicolas Cage is not here (at least not for know, who knows if there'll be a cameo or not). And yeah, if I were to change the identity of the person who gave Jess the first clue as well as the soundtrack, this (at least for now) could be titled anything else but National Treasure, and maybe then I wouldn't have watched it. You never know.

But it is titled after the National Treasure name, it comes with a light edition of the known soundtrack and it does bring that character back. So what?

I'm not gonna give a full series review until the season is finished (idk how people can rate a show based on 2 episodes), but the pilot is pretty decent. It has some weak points (where are Jess' tremendous knowledge and puzzle-solving habilities coming from besides genetics being less more than a teenager herself? How convenient it is that she works for the place where all that stuff is hidden and that she happens to randomly see one particular item just before almost throwing it away? How did she know the place in the picture so easily if it's that exclusive and hard to walk in? Just to name a few).

Still... We'll see how the story goes, so far so good. The main plot seem as interesting as a classic "run against the villain to find all the artifacts in order to find the treasure" formula and, I gotta say it, Zeta-Jones looks surprisingly good in the evil side of the tale.

We'll see how this goes.

The original movies played fast and loose with history, but its focus was on fun entertainment. This show is promising, but as per usual, the entertainment industry and its virtue signaling militants cannot help lecturing us about the evils of the Anglo patriarchy and its perpetual sins against pretty much the rest of the world. Way to suck the fun out of a potentially highly entertaining series.

Heaven forfend that we are not beaten over the head about DACA, the rudeness of requiring citizenship for certain public servants and the use of the idiotic Latinx - which the majority of actual Latinos find insulting and nobody uses except pandering academics and deliberately ignorant activists preaching tolerance and showing none.

It also ignores significant portions of history in favor of a preferred and inaccurate narrative. Not to mention an almost total ignorance of Masonic rules and rituals. For instance, non- lodge membees ar never allowed into masonic temples without being escorted by a ranking member of that lodge. And few Masons would be photographed performing any rituals- at least not knowingly.

The typical post millennial attitude towards viewing the context of history is revealed several times, most particularly in the outrage that the two young women express when they learn that Abigail Adams failed to persuade her husband to allow women to vote in 1776. Guess what, nitwits- there was a huge fight about slavery also.

Apparently, and evidently- by the way that young people have been conditioned to believe, compromise is a dirty word. This distortion of education results in a failure to see that there would have been no United States if everybody with progressive views at the time had remained as intransigent to compromise as today's progressives. But, considering how anti-anglo the narrative is, they would have been totally okay with that. Yes, it would have been far better for everyone if the Spanish Conquistadors had prevailed over the New World instead of those English tyrants inspired by the Enlightenment. The Spanish were so much more progressive. Zero religious tolerance- the Spanish Inquisition was still a thing in colonial times- even more hostile towards rights of women or indigenous peoples. Or better yet, let the charming Aztecs prevail and expand their society - well known for its gentle, tolerant and peaceful attitude. What's so bad about human sacrifice and slavery as long as no outsiders pollute the pristine paradise?

The intellectual bankruptcy of the entertainment industry is grotesque and insulting.