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Toscana (2022)
The Danes and the world
Imagine Tuscany. Beautiful land. Filled with history. Juicy and tasty tomatoes. Grapes. Wine. Cheese. Tasty food, overall. Unfortunately, Tuscany is populated by Italians, who are lazy, dirty people who don't know how to make...food.
But from the far North, here comes the savior, the civilizing hero...the Danish chef!
To make an even stronger point, the Dane bets an Italian that if he makes food and shows the Italians how to run a restaurant, the price of the business doubles. Because Protestant ethics probably. Or simply because Danes are superior. Arrogant? Well, the Italian admits that where Italians make food, the Danes make the stuff of dreams.
If this kind of audacity piqued your curiosity, you can waste your time watching Toscana on Netflix. And you can puke at what the Danes imagine about themselves and the world.
The Crown: Mou Mou (2022)
Brilliant episode
This show has been consistently good, with each season having some moment of brilliance - an episode where the story, the writing and the acting just stood out and filled you with the utmost pleasure of viewing. Without having to see the remaining episodes, I can tell this has been it for season 5.
It stirred an immense curiosity in the actual story. I was left wondering who and how the characters really were, how much of what I've seen was true. I was amazed with the elements I did not know (like the Oscar, the Harrods or the Villa Windsor stories). Above all, I loved the chemistry of the characters.
White Lines (2020)
Funny show but the Romanian bashing is annoying
I've seen 2 eps so far. Keeps me interested and amused.
My problem is the Romanian bashing. It's tiring and unoriginal. If there are Romanians in the show, they must be criminals, drug dealers, prostitutes or smth of sorts.
It's pretty cool they used 2 actual Romanians, the language sounds natural and the slang they use is real. However, Grigor and Yuri are anything but Romanian names. More like Russian. And them buying drugs from Bolivia?! Seriously?
Anyway, it's tiring. British show - Romanian criminals. Spanish show - Romanian criminals. Danish show, Romanian criminals. Or Romanian gypsies. Would be cool if for once you'd pick on someone else.
Game of Thrones: The Bells (2019)
Whoever wrote this season, i wish them nothing but disappointment in life
It's the first review i am writing. This morning i cried of frustration. I thought it cannot get worse than ep 3. Then we got ep 4. And now we got ep 5. This season has surpassed all expectations. Al negative ones...
Where should i start? Where should i end? Varys caught as a child playing I, spy?! Tyrion betraying Varys for...what reason exactly?! How about his story arc: what did he see in the fire?! I guess we'll never know. As we will never know why the Night King blew up the wall and died in the shortest night ever killed by an assassin with incomplete training. As we will never know what happened to those kids he was taking. As we will never know what role those generals of his were playing. As we will never know why the fuss about the prophecy according to which Cercei will die on the hand of her little brother. So her brother was...a brick?!
I'm losing track here. But so did the writers. No character behaves as they used to. Cercei cries like a baby. Danny went coocoo. Drogon is fueled up and faster than an F35. Euron can't hit anything with the scorpions anymore, but wants to kill Jamie. Just like that. Ffs... Danny's burning the city systematically, street by street. Visually stunning, but her army was there too. Wtf?!No worries, the trailer for the finale shows all Unsullied restored. All of them! Forget mad queen. She's more effective as night queen, raising all dead soldiers.
Arya continues to have incredible plot armor. I thought at least her would die in that mayham, as absurd as the situation was. But no. Untouched by cold, she can't be touch by stone or fire either. The Mountain is not just resurected. He's made from iron now, protecting Cercei from falling stones. The impact must have made him forget his mission cause one minute later he refused to obey her and his creator. It's laughable if it wasn't so sad.
I felt nothing today. Nothing. No anger. No pain. Just that realization that i was not in control and anyone can destroy the things i hold dear. The writers of this show massacred 7 years of build up and fun. It wasn't enough that dialogue went downwards for season 6 and 7. They had to ruin the logic of it as well. And they succeeded. Epic finale?! No, epic fail!