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Major Crimes: Dead Drop (2017)
Another episode where a civilian is allowed to watch an interrogation
This series has a bad habit of depicting civilians being allowed to witness police interrogations via cctv as they are occurring. This episode is even more ridiculous because the civilian is recording the interrogation on his cell phone and the medical examiner is doing the interrogation. Is that even legal?
Jonathan Del Arco usually does an adequate job as the medical examiner, but in this episode he tends to overact, the excuse being that his father, an ex-cop, is visiting from South America. That's also the same excuse being used to explain why someone is sitting in the A/V room watching the interrogation.
6 Underground (2019)
If I'd seen this in a theatre, I'd demand my money back
If you're a person who likes to leave your brain at the door, you'd be doing yourself a favor by taking a 2 hour and 7 minute nap rather than watching this.
Direction, dialogue, humour, plot, soundtrack, most of the acting... all bad. The special effects could be considered impressive if they weren't so over-the-top. Mélanie Laurent was the one enjoyable exception.
WKRP in Cincinnati: Mama's Review (1979)
Only eight episodes in the can and already they resorted to a clip show?
I loved WKRP but this episode was a waste of time. It starts out pretty well as Mr. Carlson's mother stops in for her "quarterly review", however it quickly dissolves into set-ups for clips from the previous eight episodes.
Night Court: Undressed for Success (1992)
A rare unfunny episodes of Night Court
The plot features an unconvincing and unfunny story where Dan is offended that no one trusts him. He is given the chance to prove himself trustworthy when Roz asks him to keep some of her personal effects in his safe deposit box. Will Dan resist the urge to peek into the wrapped box Roz has asked him to keep for her? Even if you fail to see the highly predictable ending, chances are you won't care whether he does or not. The second plot story is about Mac needing extra money in order to buy the dream house Quon Le desires. Fortuitously, a man (Phil Proctor, formerly of Firesign Theatre, in an unfunny guest performance) offers Mac the chance to earn the extra money by posing for underwear ads. Will he go through with it? Will he be able to do it without telling Quon Le? Again, you likely won't find yourself caring what he decides to do.
Night Court: With a Little Help from My Friends (1991)
My Least favorite Night Court episode
I loved Night Court, but this episode was one of their worst. This one had more than its fair share of annoying characters... from Christine's self-help group to Jack the (cafeteria news stand guy) and his pathetic son. Rarely has there been a recurring character on this show I could do without more than Jack, with the exception of Craven, the tabloid reporter played by Terry Kiser in season 1.
The Simpsons: The Color Yellow (2010)
The Simpsons makes a "very special episode" in honor of Black History Month
If I listed my favorite Simpsons episodes, this would be somewhere between #500 and #509. In fact, the whole 21st season has been mostly terrible. It seemed like a sizable percentage of the plot was filler. For instance, why they needed to have Eliza's diary disintegrate in the middle of being read if they were just going to have, oh, I don't know, that guy standing over there can continue with the narrative. Then when that character's contribution to the diary ends, hey! there's somebody sitting on the Simpson's couch who has more of the story! And there were huge plot holes galore. Like why would Lisa (oops, i mean Eliza) have a fancy dress made for her so she could sneak into the ball if all she really wanted to do was sneak out to the barn to look for Virgil? Why would her parents expect that she should be going to the ball anyway if they were poor share-croppers? Finally, the whole episode just seemed to white-wash the whole slavery issue. There's only one slave on the whole of Burn's plantation and he doesn't seem to be doing anything but hanging around in the barn and yet, no other slaves are seen. It felt like all that time-wasting mentioned above was done so the writers wouldn't have to mention the pain and suffering that was endured by slaves.
Gigli (2003)
Terrible dialog, bad acting by the 2 leads, bad script, slow paced
Spoiler alert!! The story of the kidnapping in itself is not the problem, since it's not really the focus of the movie. It's all of that crap about the developing relationship between the two leads that just makes the whole story seem to drag. The dialog they exchange was just embarrassing... "God bless you penis!"... what the hell is that??? Equally embarrassing was J. Lo's New Jersey mobster accent. What was the big deal about why Ricki didn't want anybody to know her name? If she's so great at performing covert operations, how did her ex-girlfriend find her so fast? How about when Louis gets his brains blown out? The back of his head splatters against a huge fishtank a few feet directly in back of him... but the exiting bullet completely misses the fishtank? And we get to enjoy the blood oozing out of the entrance wound, but where's the mess spilling out of the exit wound? Certainly not soaking into the couch cushion his head is resting on. If Starkman is so convinced that the d.a. will trace his brother Brian's kidnapping back to Starkman, why would he even think about killing the only people who knew where Brian was stashed? Wouldn't that put Starkman in a bigger fix? The whole ending was just too incredible to believe... the whole Beach Rage scene was just ridiculous. Gigli decides that he and Ricki should split up and disappear to avoid facing retribution from the mob. So he needs to get rid of his easily recognizable antique Impala convertible. And how does he do that? He gives it to her! If the mob can trace the car to him, then giving it away would lead the mob to whomever has the car... in this case, her! I thought the "mentally challenged" character had some funny lines and that Bartha did a good job combining Hoffman's Rainman and DiCaprio's Arnie Grape. And I did enjoy Walken and Pacino in their respective cameos. I thought it was apt that Ben and Jen had few, if any, lines during those scenes... since the two leads in this movie could never hope to attain the acting abilities of either Walken or Pacino. Dismal sales at the box office will guarantee a short theater run, but that only means we'll be reminded of the whole mess when the cable movie channels start showing it over and over again in two months. Then there's the DVD and video release! Hopefully, no one will forget what a dog this was when BenJen release their next flick in 2004.