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The Royal House of Windsor (2017)
Engaging
The multi-part series that gave insight into the Royal House of Windsor was a well-done and engaging documentary. For those who enjoyed the Crown on Netflix, watching this series will give a bit more detail into what happened throughout the Netflix series.
My complaint about The Royal House of Windsor is the portrayal of Diana. The historians featured in the series talked about Diana as if she was a devious and conniving woman.
As a woman, I'm sick of this trope that mainstream media give to women who don't follow protocol. If Diana was a man, she'd be given the title of a trailblazer. Instead, the commentary gave viewers the notion that every single good deed she did was supposed to be a jab at her husband and the House of Windsor.
They portrayed her as a media manipulator while also decrying her as a mentally-ill uneducated oaf. Even if she was as manipulative as described in this episode, at least give her credit for what she chose to use her celebrity for. The woman went out of her way to hug AIDS victims at a time when people wouldn't even touch them. and yet there wasn't any commentary that praised this brazen move.
It may sound like I am a Diana superfan--I am not. It just seemed fishy that Prince Charles's affair with Camilla was mentioned in a mere sentence and the commentary on Diana's mental stability went on for the entire episode.
A well-done documentary would allow the viewer to make their own opinion about the events that have unfolded. While I was very engaged during the first several episodes, the Diana episode felt too editorialized and left a bad taste in my mouth. I came away thinking that this production worked very closely with the Windsors (funny how this series got hold of all these exclusive documents decades later) to send a message to the public that their former hero was really a conniving and dumb woman.
Sad that a series made in 2017 would make such a move.
The Mindy Project: Wedding Crushers (2013)
Very poorly-written
Mindy's ex-boyfriend Josh invites her to his wedding so she tries find a date. Meanwhile, Danny's younger brother pays a visit and a has a big announcement to make.
This episode is very poorly written. When Danny Castellano's brother leaves the party and Dr. Reed runs several blocks to catch up with him, all he had to say was something on the lines of "your brother was looking forward to you coming" and the brother responds with "oh OK." Not sure if that was meant to be funny but it sounded like dialogue a third grader could have come up with.
While some may find Mindy covering up for her cheating ex-boyfriend admirable, I found it ridiculous that she would purposely blame herself for the wedding screw-up. I'm all about forgiveness and getting over issues but embarrassing yourself for a scum-bag ex is another story.
Midsomer Murders: Written in Blood (1998)
too forced
When the murder was finally pieced together, I found it all to be too odd and unrealistic to appreciate this episode. The intentions of all the characters involved seemed too bizarre and outlandish. It seemed that the ending was only meant to answer the complexities of the case. It's as if you're forcing wrong pieces of the puzzles to conform to the right piece.
The acting was relatively good. I don't know if this is a common quality of British acting but I have to say that the climatic scenes ended up being anticlimactic because of the lack of emotion and realism behind these scenes.