Reviews

It's a small film. But it's full of little moments that makes your heart warm and your eyes wet. How sensitive and kind a person he must be for Cooper to be able to write, direct and portrait such an amazing protagonist. And Dakota, I'd like to call her the rising queen of indie film.

First season finished. Man, all these could have been easily avoided if everyone could just stop being assholes for just one god damn minute. Like seriously, after watching Stranger Things I realized how long we have been trained to get used to lazy writing. These adults aren't even half as smart as the kids. Every time something new is revealed, their first reaction is always denial. At first it is understandable, but if in the 10th episode you are still doing the same thing that just becomes insult to the audiences. And all the "family secrets"? Just don't make any sense. Did the father want his kids to save the world or not? If he truly did, Pogo would have told everyone he killed himself to bring everyone back in episode one instead of hiding it to the very end. This is just lazy writing veiled under "twisted love" or "family secrets" to drag the story into 10 episodes. A lot of these tactics were used to drag the suspense longer to the point where i had to fast forward. I usually don't write negative reviews, but this one UGHHH. *eye roll.

The dynamic of the show sets in a situation where a mormon detective is trying to solve a mormon related crime. During the investigation he finds himself conflicted between his belief and the violent nature of the murder. The series takes a slow-burn pace to unravel the mystery of LDS and the appalling crime that is committed by the believers. Nowadays good crime thrillers don't just rely on the intricacy about solving a case but rather focus on the element of why and where this kind of tragedy takes place like Mare of Easttown or True Detective. It's refreshing and undeserving of such low rating.

Maybe I got my hopes up too high. I mean it's the spinoff of Jason Bourne but I just didnt feel that during watching the show. First, there is too many loopholes in the black journalist storyline. It's like the writers are trying to convince you what they write makes sense except it doesnt. For example when the CIA went through all the trouble locating the journalist, putting a listening device in her, sending her to a RESTROOM with no other spy equippemt set on the scene (omg you guys know how important this conversation is gonna be and you let it happen in a restroom with no other ensurance???) And the conversation went as far as the TREADSTONE was heard and then the general suddenly realized that it's not safe and asked the jornalist to dispose of her device, leaving the CIA with just enough information to know the project was compromised and they surprisingly couldnt think of any plan to save the situation, just letting the talk went on and the journalist walking out free. If this were to happen in HOMELAND, I am sure Carrie Mathison is gonna do a much better job. Not to mention later what happened in Paris. Just cliched, predictable ways of pushing the story going. And the dialouge, frankly, seemed pale, just giving out basic information, you can't feel the intense. Second, I just dont think this amount of infomation takes three episodes to tell aka the plot was protracted and not going smoothly, frankly. Sometimes I could feel that there is a surprise set by the writer, but when it happened it wasn't that much surprising because I had anticipated that and it wasn't that convincing either. It's not a good show if you can just easily guess where it is going. Other than that, the show is a typical usa show with good-looking cast so at least there is something I can enjoy. Btw, the Korean scene/storyline is a little bit unreal I am an asian so I think I have a say here.