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Hate Thy Neighbour (2016)
Notice who he doesn't talk to?
He never seems to venture into some Isl amic neighborhoods to ask them about how they feel about Jewish people, or their treatment of women and the LGBQ community.
You know why he doesn't.
Monk (2002)
My favorite show of all time
The writing on this show never slumped. It was clever, funny and inventive every single episode.
I don't know any other comedy show that was so consistent for so long. Each episode manages to make me feel comfy and give me a good laugh.
Weird Science (1994)
Really very funny
I found this on a streaming site and decided to watch, I've been looking for something new to check out and I wasn't disappointed.
It's still surprisingly fresh and some laugh out loud moments. I really enjoyed watching.
Miss Sloane (2016)
Another boring Chastain vehicle filled with lefty politics from the Hollywood bubble
Chastain doesn't make movies for enjoyment. She makes them to lecture people. When she's not lecturing people in the world, she only takes roles that are metaphorical lectures.
It's boring. America is tuning out in droves.
Secrets of the Underground (2017)
I enjoyed this a lot!
It was fun to explore all the underground areas. It reminded me of Cities of the Underworld which was also a fun show to watch. If you like history and discovering new places, you should enjoy this one.
People Just Do Nothing (2014)
Increasingly contrived as Flanderization starts to set in.
It was pretty funny for a few seasons but it starts to go off the rails as gradually increasing invented situations become more and more absurd.
I'm thinking of the scene in the aviation museum or whatever it was. The character is acting so over and the top and so deluded it suddenly doesn't feel very realistic anymore. Yes, they're all deluded idiots, but for the most part it felt like these situations could happen.
Instead of realistic, desperate idiots carrying on like they're on top of the world, they turn into cartoon characters bouncing off the walls.
The Pillars of the Earth (2010)
It's all so maudlin and earnest
No one seems to understand their character so they all just kind of mail in "Medieval townsperson" cardboard cutouts. Sarah Parish, in particular, is in the wrong production. She's doing an impression of a drag queen doing an impression of Lady Macbeth. If she was any more camp, she'd be carrying around a bag of marshmallows.
Hayley Atwell is a lifeless pingpong ball of a person, oscillating between strong and empowered modern woman about town to helpless, injured dove who just needs to remember how to fly.
Eddie Redmayne, drawing inspiration from Malachai in Children of the Corn, spends the first few episodes staring at women from afar. And this strategy, of course, makes Hayley Atwell fall in love with him. Because that guy leering at women on the bus isn't doing it because he's a creep, he's doing it because he's a delicate, artistic genius. I can't remember an actor who gave me the creeps as much as Eddie Redmayne.
The two actors have zero chemistry. So watching the subsequent love scenes between these two character husks is more reminiscent of waiting in the dentist's office than it is erotic.
The book was ok if not overly long but this series is off the mark. I don't think anyone in this production read it, because no one seems to know what story they're telling.
Feel Good (2020)
Narcissism.
Good comedians talk about humans. Bad comedians talk about themselves.
This is yet another in a long line of junk on Netflix, written by another self-absorbed young person who thinks their "gender identity" is their most defining personality trait.
Mae Martin is not an interesting person. She has nothing to say about the world around her because she doesn't notice the world around her. Mae Martin only notices herself.
Mae Martin is the perfect representation of a useless, unproductive generation who will never amount to anything more than begging other people to pay off their school loans.
Home (2019)
Agenda driven junk
If you want to be lectured to that any opposition to unchecked immigration is "racism" then this is for you.
If you're able to think for yourself without having actors and actresses feed you your opinion, skip this.
The North Water (2021)
Absorbing and haunting, very good television
I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered this and was instantly drawn into the world. For a few days after watching it, I kept thinking of that terrible boat and how paranoid and claustrophobic it was.
Colin Farrell is great. Unrecognizable as an animalistic brute terrorizing first the streets of Hull, then the corridors and deck of a creaky whaling ship. But is everything as it seems?
Jack O'Connell plays Patrick Sumner, a doctor with a past battling a morphine addiction.
Impending doom looms large and inevitable as morphine withdrawals.
Broadchurch (2013)
Mediocrity
When I see something with a rating this high, I think that it must be one of the most groundbreaking and innovative shows in decades. That it must be something that's going to change the game and influence generations of television and film. I think of The Sopranos or something similar.
But this is literally nothing more than a formulaic, made for television police procedural. Apparently, David Tennant being in something makes it a "stunning masterpiece". I can't ever remember the public fawning over someone so average.
It's like viewers see a nice looking shot of scenery and think that because the scenery looks good, somehow the show must be good. That's not how it works. Don't get duped by slow motion and gimmicky camera tricks.
But, most importantly, there is nothing new here. Nothing innovative going on in this show. One can find a million murder mystery television episodes. Just because this is stretched into the multi-episode "netflix" format doesn't make it any different.
Des (2020)
David Tennant is insufferable.
It seems that all he has to do is show up in something and Brits go arse over teakettle about how amazing it is. He could read the ingredients on the back of a can of beets and the crowd would go wild.
He seems to have never said no to a role in his life, either. An extensive career in mediocre television movies, comic book pap and cartoon animal voices. There's not a bar too low, if the pay is right.
I'm sorry, I just don't see it. Simply playing Dr. Who and constantly reminding the public that you act "on stage" doesn't warrant a lifetime supply of groveling reviews.
In point of fact, I find him to be an over-actor who, through endless "bits of business", attempts to draw focus away from his co-stars and monopolize the attention of a scene.
Tennant is an egotist in the real world. And this informs most of his performances. So I have no doubt playing this self-obsessed narcissist came very naturally to him.
One needs to do more than a silly accent to get glowing accolades from me.
Guilt (2019)
Well acted, nice looking, somewhat unfulfilling
An interesting enough story, in an interesting enough setting. Consistent acting, I especially liked seeing Ruth Bradley who was infinitely charming in Grabbers.
Unfortunately, it was padded out with an unnecessary interracial LGBQ relationship because, well, nothing can be allowed to exist without it being used as a vehicle for the leftist agenda. Everything must be in service to the agenda. It must be everywhere. The hegemony must be established.
Beyond that, the atmosphere was moody and claustrophobic.
Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps (2001)
The only thing I found worth watching in this was the perky Kathryn Drysdale.
There wasn't much else going on in this one. Standard sitcom formula.
Flowers (2016)
A nice looking, well acted, incoherent mess
It just wallows in depression, passive aggression and dysfunction and none of it is funny.
I like all of these actors in many other shows but this was excruciating.
Hunderby (2012)
Very, very funny
Absurd, raunchy, fearless and hilarious. Hunderby is another hilarious romp through the twisted inner workings of Julia Davis' mind.
No one does catty, undermining b---- quite like Davis and she does it again here.
I laughed pretty much from start to finish.
Big School (2013)
Enjoyable, clever, comforting
I found this show to be fun to watch. It wasn't anything groundbreaking but the chemistry and banter between Williams and Tate was very fun.
The humor never put me on the defensive and was a nice balance between outright laughs and self deprecating groaners.
All the teachers were likable enough, even the "amomnible" gym teacher!
The Last Man on Earth (2015)
Cancelled just in time
I loved the first few seasons of this show. I thought the characters were adorable, the jokes hilarious and the premise fun and uniquely done.
That being said, I'm glad it was canceled when it was because, in the last episode or two, they were starting to lecture me about Global Change Climate Warming. And for that it loses a point and goes from an 8 to a 7.
If I want to attend your doomsday cult meetings I'll find you, climate alarmists are everywhere.
Staged (2020)
To get through this
One needs to be as impressed with Michael Sheen and David Tennant as they are with themselves.
Since I am decidedly not that impressed with them, this was a job of work to get through.
Ladhood (2019)
Funnier when the writer was avoiding his wokeist tendencies
There were a few times one could sense Williams really wanted to let his woke flag fly...apologizing for being a man, all women are great, obsession with inherent traits like skin color/gender.
But when he stopped doing that, and instead observed simple humanity, the show shined.
Camping (2016)
It just gets better and better with each episode
Julia Davis is a fearless, constantly hilarious writer and performer. Her observations are so familiar there were times I swore she had read my mind.
The second episode is where this show really starts to take off. Tom and Faye bargaining with the shopkeeper in the "covered arcade" was so well done. Tom is such a fraud. From his head-to-toe denim, to laughing at someone else for not knowing what dubstep is, to when a reference to The Cult is made he replies "Oh wow! Well, I don't know their music but I'm aware of their impact".
It was then, I knew that Julia Davis was able to read my mind.
Nighty Night (2004)
This is British comedy
I hear people talk about how much they love "British comedy". So I ask them what shows, specifically and they tell me stuff like Black Books or The Inbetweeners or The IT Crowd. Basic, formulaic, safe sitcoms that aren't inherently British at all, they just have actors with British accents.
Nighty Night is dark, fearless, raunchy British comedy. I think Julia Davis might be a genius or misanthrope of the highest order to have come up with some of these character observations.
And I loved every minute of it.
The Young Offenders (2018)
Wanted to love it, but a few issues
First, there's such a huge suspension of disbelief going on. You know what it is, I know what it is. Everyone knows what it is but we're obviously not allowed to talk about it so I'll move on.
Secondly, I get that the two leads are supposed to be outcasts, social misfits yet lovable and endearing. But there are times where they're having conversations with people and I'm wondering if they've been damaged or dropped on their heads.
Third, everyone is angry and yelling.
Mr. Sloane (2014)
Absorbing, well made and very relatable.
I love discovering these lesser known gems in the wilderness.
Nick Frost has a very natural warmth to his performance style that I find heartwarming. Even when he's doing standard comedy like Hyperdrive, he still comes off as an everyman.
Here, Frost plays Mr. Sloane. An everyman looking for a break from the relentless, crushing reality of life. Sloane isn't a saint, he's certainly contributed to the unhappiness in his life in one way or another, he definitely shoulders some of the blame but is still incredibly sympathetic.
It's a great performance and an absolute shame it didn't continue beyond the first season. I guess TV needed to make room for the endless stream of soulless nonsense like The Job Lot or yet another mockumentary/fly on the wall style rehash of the month.
Cunk on Britain (2016)
Shouting at helicopters...
Diane Morgan could make me laugh reading the dictionary. But she has better material here than that, British historical documentaries.
She nails all the peculiarities therein, walking towards the camera while forming a triangle with your fingers, voice-overs and confidently stating complete mistruths as fact.
Starts very strong, though does begin to run out of steam in the later episodes where it devolves into standard political ranting from a liberal perspective.