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Kevin Can F**k Himself: Living the Dream (2021)
Is not supposed to be funny
At first I was like 'What is this? This show is really bad!', but then I started to get the hang of it and I really kinda like it now.
Very interesting concept, showing things from Kevin's perspective, where everything is silly, childish, sitcom like and everyone is laughing ... and then from Allison's perspective, where life is real, hard and she is the woman that acts like an adult and wants to do more than being mediocre in life. Really curious to see where this is going.
I really like Annie Murphy too, loved her in Schitt's Creek, her performances are really good.
I don't know what else to say, but I gotta reach the character limit...
Station Eleven (2021)
If it wasn't for the Traveling Symphony...
This series could've been so great without the whole Traveling Symphony fiasco and Tyler's story. I didn't like Kirsten's character as a grown up, there was just something off about her whole vibe. I didn't like any of the Traveling Symphony members, maybe just Alex. They are making such a big fuss about their silly plays, it gets so tiring. And the whole thing with Tyler, the book, the children, the revenge, the prophet and so on is just a total mess.
On the other hand, the first episode is great, just like the other ones with the story of Miranda, Clark arriving at the airport, Jeevnah and his brother, Kirsten as a kid is stupendous! I really liked this side of the series.
I wanted many times to stop watching the show, but I just kept on out of curiosity. I also liked the editing, the whole series has great framing, the snowy landscapes are great, everything is put into play very well.
But it had to be the Traveling Symphony story to ruin it all...
The Strays (2023)
Ignore the movie's rating
Ignore the movie's rating and check out this film.
For a very long time I wanted to see this film, but hesitated because of the rating on here. I really don't get what people find so wrong with it.
Yes, the story is a very sad and infuriating depiction of racism and abandonment, but if you find it hard to watch that doesn't mean the film itself is bad.
Yes, it is not a horror, neither a thriller, but it is a very well constructed and powerful drama. The characters play their part very good, the story is well organized and the ending is brilliant.
I am not saying it is a masterpiece, it has flaws of course, but the rating of 4 something is truly giving it injustice.
Succession: Connor's Wedding (2023)
Speechless
I don't know how to write this review so as to better honor this incredible masterpiece that I have just witnessed. Just incredible. So well written, such great performances, perfect timing, everything was just flawless.
I wish I could unsee this episode just to watch it again. To reach this climax after everything they've been going through was just unbelievable. You get to see so many sides of the main characters, you get to know them, to empathize with them... and after all the craziness that's been going on between them you see the inner broken children that are now grieving their father...
From: Belly of the Beast (2023)
Tiring
This has got to be one of the most tiring shows I have ever seen! Just say something to solve a bit of the mystery already!!! Enough with Kenny, I cannot stand his character anymore! And enough with Kristi. These two are ruining what has the potential to be a really good story. I do not care about their story together or about Kristi and her lover's story at all. They are annoying. Period. After one season and a half is time to give a sense of what's going. I keep on watching because I am waiting to know what is this place.
Very, very tiring. The writers are seriously mocking their viewers with all this dragging. Sometimes I feel like even those who wrote this show don't know what's going on.
From: Pas de Deux (2023)
Frustrating
Enough with Kenny's dad already!!! There is so much to this whole mystery and all we can hear of is about Kenny's dad, Kenny, Kenny's mom, Kristi and her lover. The whole action moves so damn slow!!! I want to know more about what Jade is investigating, Victor's history, Jim and his family, when is Tabitha going to tell Jim about the underground monsters, just move forward with the whole story already!!! It is getting so frustrating to watch that it just makes me google to find out what this is about. I understand shows that focus on character development, but this mystery is too good to not know more about it.
Poor Things (2023)
Didn't like the story
I just watched this film and I have mixed feelings about it, as I was really looking forward to watch it and it didn't meet my expectations at all in regards to the story.
Yes, I agree, Emma Stone truly deserved the Oscar win and Mark Ruffalo the nomination. All the actors are doing a terrific job, they go really into character, the costumes are amazing, the filming and video editing are exquisite, but I didn't like the story from a moral perspective. I mean, I get it, I get that Bella passes through all these transformations in order to know and understand herself, what is like to be a human being and so on.
But she does this through the mind of a child and a lot of the movie features too much sexual content.
Human beings are not just bodies, inside her body is the emotional intelligence of a child... so to me this whole thing is kinda disturbing. I haven't read the book, maybe I am missing the point, but this is just my review of the film as I have understood it today.
Maestro (2023)
Shallow and pretentious
I think Carrey Mulligan deserves an Oscar for how she performed in this film, but Bradley Cooper was hard to watch, his performance appeared, in my opinion, very shallow and pretentious.
I didn't like the editing of the film at all, the whole black and white, 4:3 ratio. Once more, it looked pretentious and lacking substance.
And was Leonard Bernstein such a heavy smoker? My God, there are hardly any scenes without cigarettes.
Overall, very disappointing film. Other than some really great performances by Carrey Mulligan, it just lacks depth and you get to a point where you just can't listen to Bradley Cooper's pretentious tone anymore.
Yellowjackets: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (2022)
Waste of time
I have wasted too much of my time watching the first season of this series, so I am done with it.
Maybe out of curiosity I am only going to read somewhere about what happens in season 2.
Some episodes were incredibly slow, you watch and keep waiting and waiting for some clarity on what really happened out there, and the show fails to deliver until and including in the very last episode of the first season.
This series could've been a lot better. Usually you get to at least sympathise with one of the characters, but honestly I don't like any of them, and one of the reasons is because of the fact that you fail to get their real story about what happened. You mostly imagine the end of their time in the wilderness, and you imagine the worst.
Bridgerton (2020)
Liked Season 1 better
Season 1 was much better than Season 2 in my opinion, it had more substance, romance, more thrill.
In Season 1 you can truly get a sense of the strong connection between Daphne and Simon, of "true love", you notice the looks they give each other, their relationship is gradually built through small gestures and meaningful conversations and it doesn't take forever to reach its peak.
Season 2 insists way too much on the negative sides between Anthony and Kate creating unnecessary drama, explores too much the "family" subject for Kate, and when they only share a few passionate interactions suddendly they're madly in love with each other. It lacks the build up and feeling of authenticity from the first season.
Kate's stubbornness and devotion to her sister gets to the point that is truly annoying.
Would've liked to have seen more positive interactions between her and Anthony and not so much time wasted with that farse of a wedding between him and Edwina.
The whole thing with lady Whistledown also gets to be annoying, so much fuss around the subject. And it is weird that, just like Eloise, we rarely see the side of Penelope that likes to gossip and is interested in the affairs of others.
Also, the complete absence of Simon in Season 2 was awkward.
I truly loved how complex and full of substance Season 1 was. Season 2 was good, but dragging and unnecessarily dramatic.
Euphoria: The Theater and Its Double (2022)
So tiring...
This episode started great, I was really excited to see Lexi's play... but it just went downhill for me when the order of the scenes got so messy, alternating between stuff happening in Lexi's play, some real stuff that happened long ago and some real stuff happening God knows when... while other things probably happening a bit before the play, like with Fez... it was all so confusing and I couldn't make sense of the whole episode anymore... maybe it's just me, but I like to have a clear understanding of the timeline of events when watching a film.
I feel like this show has tremendous potential, some episodes were truly masterpieces, the characters are truly good... but the way the creators present the story is sloppy, sometimes it feels like is taking forever to get to the point, they keep on dragging and dragging the drama of a particular moment.
Euphoria: Ruminations: Big and Little Bullys (2022)
Bit slow...
... is this show ever gonna get a bit more captivating? It's just so slow and nothing really out of the ordinary is happening. I keep on watching it because of Rue, I like her character, but I just want to see her getting better and ending her toxic relationship with Jules. She deserves so much more. Don't know why she keeps ruining her life making dumb decisions. I sometimes feel like this show glorifies the use of drugs and I keep waiting for it to finally truly show some of the dangerous consequences of drug abuse. Instead they keep showing ways of getting away with it. Truly hope I am not wasting my time with this show...
The Midnight Club (2022)
Too slow, not really horror
And just when the show got really interesting, after being so incredibly slow for a couple of episodes, it ended. It had a lot of potential at the start, but I feel like it just lost it along the way, because if you're gonna mix drama with horror you gotta have some drama like horror, not just some cheesy effects of scary dead people. I couldn't fully watch the last episodes, I had to skip their stories because I was so much more interested in what was actually happening with them. I think that maybe the show should've focused more on their actual lives, and not so much on the midnight stories.
Meet Joe Black (1998)
Just stupid
Is 2022 and I just saw this film for the first time. Honestly, I found it just stupid, the whole idea of a woman falling in love with Death in the body of a man, the same Death that came to take her father, a father who every now and then she kisses on the lips ?! What the ef... ?! And in the end the guy hit by the car in the beginning magically reappears in his body and she is just at peace with her father vanishing out of the blue ?!?! Seriously, who wrote this?! Anthony Hopkins is the only good thing about this film. Brad Pitt's character acts like a complete dummy when playing Death... and the actress playing Susan is just hard to watch at times due to her facial expressions...
Locke & Key (2020)
Pretty decent series
Don't know why so many bad reviews for Season 03, after reading the comments here I was expecting something much worse, but S03 was actually GOOD.
I watched all three series in a week and I gotta say that it is a really nice show, if you are willing to overlook some flaws, annoying characters... and just enjoy the story.