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Bel-Air (2022)
Shameless reuse (or abuse) of iconic characters
After watching with The Fresh Prince in mind, this series is not only weird, but not interesting at all. It totally escapes me why they would reuse the characters from the original series and even advertise referring to TFPOBA. There's nothing in common at all. It can't even be classified as a mediocre spin-off.
The series tries a strange dramatic take on the original quest of Will going to live with his uncle and aunt. The drama doesn't work. The stories are flat, dialogues have a forced feeling about them and topics are mostly the terrain of spoiled rich people and shallow influencers which only serve content as a means to kill spare time for bored audiences.
Nothing authentic, nothing original, nothing nostalgic, just filling material for TV stations trying to bridge the gap between late late night shows and nightly tv shopping on repeat.
The Night Agent (2023)
Seen this storyline a hundred times already
Flat and inspirationless story with loads of gaps and held together with spit and wire.
The agent saying that he's trained in evasion and other secret agent stuff, but then parks his car nose first towards the cabin in the woods, while they need to be able to make a quick getaway?
The secret service superiors explaining themselves why they pull someone from her post and why the replacement is worthy of the job?
An air gapped system allows to install a WiFi dongle without admin rights?
The hidden disk is found by touching the first stone in the entire house?
It's a just a little too easy sometimes, and unconvincing.
Arcadia (2023)
Nice sets don't make up for bad acting and direction
Arcadia is an ambitious series with the sets and digital effects effectively creating a dystopian atmosphere. The locations in brutalist style look amazing and are stealing the show. Digital additions like extra floors and walls work like a charm.
Unfortunately that's where the good ends, and the bad and the ugly start.
There seems to have been no money left for proper casting, acting coaches and most importantly enough takes. The acting is bad with most actors performing as if they are reading the lines for the first time from a cardboard somewhere behind the camera. Any self-respecting director would simply request a new take, but real talent can't be faked obviously, neither on director nor actor side.
The toe curlingly bad story is also making the entire show more of a torture than a joy. Been there, done that. Nothing new, nothing original. 'Good artists copy, great artists steal', but the makers did neither properly.
If you don't like the first episode, don't bother to keep watching, waiting for this plane to lift off. It's not happening.
Murky Skies (2022)
Giving a forum to fantasts is dangerous
The series tries to tell the story of the Bijlmermeer plane crash and disaster on the ground. The makers have gathered an impressing amount of video material which could have been a good ground for a documentary. However it quickly turns into a disaster of its own when they focus on subjective and opinionated information. The conspiracy theories in this series should be removed. Giving a forum to fantasts is exactly the reason why fake news gets traction in the world of today. All conspiracy theories can be easily explained, but the documentary makers fail to do so.
Example: roughly half of the depleted uranium inside the construction of the crashed Boeing was not recovered. However minutes earlier they show diggers and cranes scooping trash into containers and they explain the rubble was never searched properly. Then please don't start coming with wild theories about the metals burning away and contaminating the area and inhabitants. It is possible, but don't sell it as a certainty. Most likely fragments of the plane were dumped on a landfill and never recovered.
It is good to hear multiple opinions, but some info is neglected in favour of the juicy fantasies of persons trying to sell their books and advisory services. They have everything to gain from more controversy, and nothing from the truth
To be avoided in my opinion. Biassed, subjective, largely fabricated.
Star Trek: Discovery (2017)
Crybabies and emotional blabla
Horrible storyline and the constant crying and whining of the main characters is downgrading the series from an original 8 rating to a solid 2. A maximum of 3 to 4 is the best you can expect in season 3 (with a 7 being the passing score on IMDb that's terrible). The directing is terrible with Michael Burnham crying every single episode and acting at an all time low. The best example being characters whispering when making a speech in front of a room filled with audience, none of which would be able to hear a single word. For a supposed officer or even captain all the whining and crying is simply toe curlingly irritating.
The absurdness of spore drive, mycenaeal network and parallel universes are the most irritating attempts to cover all the flaws in the story or the total lack of it. It also enables the writers to jump to bizar parts of the universe without the need for any regards to laws of physics, psychics or any rule whatsoever. Where is the cool pseudo-science, science fact and science fiction from other series? Wiped out by phycological blabla, long boring conversations leading nowhere and adding nothing to the story. Where's the heroism and strength of the officers and crew, none of which would ever have graduated from the Academy and ever have been allowed at the helm, in a captain's chair or responsible for even mopping the floors of a starship.
30% blabla, 30% crying, 20% boredom with zero action and only 20% Star Trek left. One less reason to keep your Netflix account.