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Yawn,

This is (yet) another story of parents (the mother - who says she worked 'in TV' is seriously frightening-looking; I've rarely seen such cheap, botched plastic surgery on someone. Terrifying. Not only that, this woman can't have been that old and needing surgery), who - in their misguided attempt to not alienate their daughter, really never taught her anything about how to act responsibly, and then, when she becomes involved with someone (who mommy let's move into their home - STUPID!!!) only kicks this young woman out AFTER she walloped her daughter, causing her to lose a tooth.

I'm from a family that never tried to influence my personal choices, etc., but, they did teach me how to act like a grown-up, and take responsibility.

This mother's over-riding fear of 'losing' her daughter, forever (even though the daughter never said anything like that) helped to cause this tragedy

There are times when a parent MUST let go.

There ARE times when a parent says, 'This is your adult life. You can't live here with your partner, but, I'm always your parent, and will always love you'.

This parent is one who - though it's never made clear how much 'stuff' she has bought for her daughter, and the daughter wasn't as being spoilt, as some I've seen, this was a problem whose roots can be traced back to childhood, as far as I'm concerned.

Yes, it's a terrible crime to lose a loved one, but, this wasn't like something we all hear on the news. Stories like a person (minding their own business) being brutally attacked and killed after leaving their job, or something which truly had no logic.

This was a(NOTHER) parent, who, in an utterly misguided attempt to keep their child 'loving them', never put any rules in place, and when it became apparent the now adult child wasn't able to make rational adult choices, let her bring her (misguided) choices into their home.

Dumb.

I REALLY wanted to like this episode, but, it was next to impossible, due to the number of times one of the commenters said 'basically'..It's so hard to enjoy - let alone watch - any show, where there's people (some actually reading from a script!) In which they constantly (MIS)use the ('filler')word, 'basically (for those who don't know, a filler word is a word which people add to their speech, which adds NOTHING to the sentence. Filler words used to be the ones every teen says, at some point, 'like', but, in the past few years, with the reach of streaming media, and the internet, one of THE worst - 'basically' is constantly popping up).

Unfortunately, I can't stomach watching anything where there's such misuse, because, it's by watching shows, and videos, where people misuse this word, that people become 'infected' by it.

I've seen many such transferences (esp amongst people from the American south and Midwest, and though I'm nowhere near this, I don't accidentally become 'infected'.

This is one of 2 or 3 episodes, wherein the constant misuse of this word keeps popping up - more than 50 times (in actual normal speech, this word wouldn't be used even once. That should tell you something.

I put these in place of a 'review' to warn people of what the specific show contains, and hopefully, anyone reading this will keep their guard up.

'If - I-F - this wasexcised out, the suffering of Derrick really hits home. I wish him much happiness. He deserves it.

It's so hard to enjoy - let alone watch - any show, where there's people (some actually reading from a script!) In which they constantly (MIS)use the ('filler')word, 'basically (for those who don't know, a filler word is a word which people add to their speech, which adds NOTHING to the sentence. Filler words used to be the ones every teen says, at some point, 'like', but, in the past few years, with the reach of streaming media, and the internet, one of THE worst - 'basically' is constantly popping up).

Unfortunately, I can't stomach watching anything where there's such misuse, because, it's by watching shows, and videos, where people misuse this word, that people become 'infected' by it.

I've seen many such transferences (esp amongst people from the American south and Midwest, and though I'm nowhere near this, I don't accidentally become 'infected'.

This is one of 2 or 3 episodes, wherein the constant misuse of this word keeps popping up - more than 50 times (in actual normal speech, this word wouldn't be used even once. That should tell you something.

I put these in place of a 'review' to warn people of what the specific show contains, and hopefully, anyone reading this will keep their guard up!

It's so hard to enjoy - let alone watch - any show, where there's people (some actually reading from a script!) In which they constantly (MIS)use the ('filler')word, 'basically (for those who don't know, a filler word is a word which people add to their speech, which adds NOTHING to the sentence. Filler words used to be the ones every teen says, at some point, 'like', but, in the past few years, with the reach of streaming media, and the internet, one of THE worst - 'basically' is constantly popping up).

Unfortunately, I can't stomach watching anything where there's such misuse, because, it's by watching shows, and videos, where people misuse this word, that people become 'infected' by it.

I've seen many such transferences (esp amongst people from the American south and Midwest, and though I'm nowhere near this, I don't accidentally become 'infected'.

This is one of 2 or 3 episodes, wherein the constant misuse of this word keeps popping up - more than 50 times (in actual normal speech, this word wouldn't be used even once. That should tell you something.

I put these in place of a 'review' to warn people of what the specific show contains, and hopefully, anyone reading this will keep their guard up.

I'm a bit of a masochist, and I saw this (thing. A picture of them, anyways), stop, I said to myself, 'life's not too short. I can always waste a few minutes, here and there's. I turned it on.

I'm the first couple of minutes, your see a cartoon person coming down from above in typical cartoon style, likes snake, etc, all done to one of THE WORST attempts at incorporating a laugh track. It - or, rather, he (know the name starts with an 'L'. I'll call him Lancelot)'s one of a set of - get ready - twin boys. IGNORE the fact that the animation is TERRIBLE, and has NO relation to the other 'twins' look, nor the fact that of a person giving...birth (?!?') to am animated thing (which brings up the fact that being 2-dimensional should cause no pregnancy bulge)....

Within a matter of seconds, the rest of this 'family' (including the flesh and blood twin (another 'L' name, I'll call it 'Link'), the oh, I'm still smarty, yet I'm only 7'daughter, and the dumb as rocks sperm donor (i.e., the father)... wait a sec; it takes sperm and egg to name a biological offspring. What was involved in this animated garbage?!?!?!

This thing's PAINFUL, and here's a (guaranteed) prediction; by the time the real children are into/past puberty, they'll be hustling and hoping customers 'remember them'.

It's not '15 minutes of fame',, anymore, it's new seconds, and because so much of it is as bad as this, there'll be a LOT more people who's 'careers' will have included being in a TV series, only with so many outlets, instead of when there were only 3 networks (in Australia, America), there's almost an uncountable number. Instead of a hot being watched by 50% or more of the ENTIRE country (such as when little Ricky was born on I Love Lucy), a 'success' is 100 people streamed it.

This piece of sludge will go away, and NO ONE will miss it.

I was REALLY views today, ama I purposefully decided to inflict some mental torture on myself.

I did this first, by putting on a free streaming channel, and then looking at the collection of 'horror' films, they offered. Then - after scanning the brief synopsis of each (BTW; that comment I just made - about 'BRIEF synopsis' was meant for some idiot by the nickname 'H-ggo', who's apparently got NO life. He's made it his 'mission' to summarise EVERY single film. One - VERY big problem; this egotistical dummy doesn't know WHAT 'synopsis' mean's - as well as a few others. A 'synopsis' is a VERY brief summary -2-3 sentences, MAX - instead he writes the longest, most adjective-filled GARBAGE imaginable. He's writing VERY bad - and still MORE info than is asked for. Anything longer is a 'plot summary'. You can find this idiot's garbage all over IMdB, as well as others who use hinds role model. If you JUST want to know - BRIEFLY what a film's about, let IMdB KNOW this).. I came across this thing, and just from the brief synopsis, I could tell before I even saw a minute of it, it would be AWFUL...

...and it IS!

Aside from their being not one professional actor in it (a 'professional' is one who makes their livelihood doing a certain job. Actors - professional one's, that is, are also all members of a union. None of these people are either).

This is what your get when you have WAY too many media outlets, all of whom need 'product' to promote. The pathetic thing is, in the last hundred years, ALL the major film studios in the States, in the UK, and in many other nations around the world, have been making films, many of which sit in vaults - unwatched.

Rather than filling the need for material with GARBAGE like this, there should be streaming channels (like Criterion and a very few others) who offer up these vaults' material to viewers around the world.

Instead, we get a laughably awful production, such as this.

I can only describe this by saying it was made by 'born again' people.

I don't care what, per even if, a person has any religious beliefs. I grew up in a very big cosmopolitan city, made up of people from all over the world. A person's religious beliefs are between themselves and their belief - PERIOD.

It's NOT something you need (or SHOULD!) FOIST into others faces!!!

Moreover, a lot of these aforementioned types aren't accepting off others beliefs. They'll say something like you can believe whatever you want, but it's is the one true one's, or something similar.

They're very narrow-minded, ama someruing'like this only shows HOWclosed-minded they are.

A 'film' such as this is the product of people who have VERY limited world views.

What I mean is, it's very clear, after having watched this, that its made up from combining the worst possible clichés in film and putting this... 'melange' onto a generic story, all in the service of a born again religious bent.

Let me be clearer; the first 20 minutes, or so, play out like this; first, there's nothing close to a real film set. It looks like it was shot in someone's home, and fast food joint.

We see some 'kids' (a 20-something man and woman, actually) break into an 'abandoned house', and they're almost IMMEDIATELY set on by a genetic, psychotic-looking farmer-type, who kills them - though we don't see it (remember; this isa religious film).

The two lovebirds are just there to introduce the farmer, as a group of people (all wearing blazers and buttoned shirts and skinny tires, and sunglasses (even though the house is dark, and it's nighttime when they're outside). They shoot what look like lawn darts at this psycho/farmer; HUGE pointed-tipped... projectiles. I'm a 'real' film, or TV show, this would've been filmed with ruby little blow-dart sized projectiles.

They're apparently coated with some tranquillising drug.

We're immediately outside, with good ole 'Eb' (I'll call him that) in the front-centre, and a pair of the aforementioned blues brothers/MiB-types behind him in the distance - still wearing their sunglasses, though it's clear it's night. Some guy - dressed the same, except he's got a red skinny tie, and he's apparently the 'boss', tells 'Eb' he's got 'plans' for him.

Next, the viewer's fooled because it appears an infomercial's starting. We see animated (done quite well!) kitchen items - utensils and salad... stuff, 'dancing', and then the words, 'Cooking with Alex Creed'. Apparently, he's a film star, like an Arnold Schwarzenegger-type, now reduced to doing George Foreman-type commercials (if only he was that fortunate! Mr Foreman's made SO much money from that alone).

This one's with a woman, who's standing next to Alex, as he introduces her (wearing WAY to much makeup😫, and opening her mouth likes porn actress, and who can't stop touching her... shoulders and hair,, oddly) named 'Winney Swinney'.

I've no clue WHO, or WHAT she's supposed to be, but the ONLY pluses in this dreck are for BOTH it's these people. He's a serviceable, generic actor, and she's just...nuts. She's got this wonderful, scratchy-sounding 'Witchiepooh-type voice, and even though she ('Winnie', that is) keeps picking up and holding the cutlery in ominous ways, she doesn't stop cackling.. .

Right after watching this, we see 'Alex', sitting in a chair, kind of depressed that his life's come to this.

Trying to cheer him up is his 'agent''.

First, about the guy who's 'playing' the agent; his entire.... acting...'skill' - and I say that VERY, VERY loosely, is too attend there, and them thrust his arms, VERY fast, as of here's punching an invisible target

He does this several times, and his entire onscreen time is under two minutes.

I don't oredicta great future in film and TV for him.

I said, 'first', a couple of paragraphs ago, and this is the other thing; I'm not found to bore you with his (NON)-talent, I do want to say he's supposed to be Mr Creed's 'agent', and as someone involved in this business (professionally, that is), for quite awhile, it annoys me whenever I see something on-screen which is SO off from how/what a REAL agent does.

It's cluelessness like this which only helps to show how utterly without ANY understanding of ANYTHING the people involved in messes such as this are!

What do I mean?

Say you're a screenwriter, and you've decided to write a script about a small town bank robbery.

People, such as the ones who made this, think all they need do, is learn from watching films and TV shows.

Theirs A HUGE difference between reality and film and TV., and often-times things in realty are 'amped-up' - made bigger, simply because it works make the film's story pay better

All they get is from what they've seen, so their finished product will ALWAYS seem likes cliche - BECAUSE they used clichés they've seen, but don't realise there clichés.

A good screenwriter does something known as 'RESEARCH', and finds out as much as possible about how a bank operates in a small town. Then, the writer needs to find out everything they can about how a bank robber would plan it or, etc.

Even if they've very little money too work with,a small film can be just as good - and oft-times, these Lupé films are far BETTER, because of the pre-filming work done!

People who made this garbage didn't do any research, didn't do anything, except begging born agains, they decided to graft their Bible to a terrible, generic 'film'.

Instead of that small film I just mentioned, these idiots took what they've seen in big budget Hollywood films, and improvised.

They couldn't get hi-tech laser-scoped weapons, but they DOO have lawn darts! They've no makeup artist, so rather than trying too develop 'scary-looking', they took one of those life-like masks, put a little bit of green paint on it, sick it on some poor schlubs head, and voila! Instant monster (only this 'monster' can't make ANY facial movements (it also reminds me of Winbey Swinney, or more accurately, the person who portrayed her. I'm guessing either there person who wrote this thing never personally heard someone say 'VOILA' - pronounced 'vwa-LA', NOT like Winnie says, 'vuh-LA'.

First, you've got to remember; if you treat an audience as if they're idiots, they'll know, and they WON'T be happy.

The film's makers have one point and one goal; spread their myopic world view.

That's all.

The film, Dead Ringers, is based on a true story, of two (male) doctors, from New York city.

It only goes to further the fact that Hollywood's DEAD.

Ok, maybe not 'dead', just yet, but, they're on serious life support.

There's barely ANY film, which are original (and I'm NOT talking about ANYthing based on comic books, or video games).

The studios have done this destruction to themselves - they've gotten to the point that each film 'MUST' cost more. And more, and on,. And on....

Up 'til the 90s, or so, there were films for ADULTS.

There were family films. Comedies. Love stories, and many small quirky films. In fact, I remember when Robert Rodriguez just burst out with his first 'big' film, the major stories talked about how HE FINANCED THE FILM...on his credit cards.

Could you imagine someone tryi g to do that today, ' I see here a charge of 80 million, for costumes, and 95 million for basic budget, and 200 mill...')

You get the picture.

Recycling mold films is just a way of saving money.

It's pointless.

If the studios don't want to continue their accelerating ride to extinction,they best move fast, and think about stopping this idiocy, and making new films, based on NEW material.

In an episode which is probably both Ethan Phillips and Tim Russ' best of the series, we see a side of Tuvok we've never seen, and with it, we watch a wonderful friendship between these two, which we know ultimately can't be for the future of the crew, in toto.

On their way back to Voyager, Neelix and tuvok are abord the Delta Flyer.

As they're still several hours away, Neelix tries to engage 'Mr Vulcan' (as he always calls him) in various attemots, to play game, or just or.. anything.

Yet,each attempt's rebuffed bytuvok, who always has found ('Mr)Neelix's personality Tobe his polar opposite, and though he doesn't dislike him, he tries to keep his distance, so as to avoid his merriment

After Tuvok's incapacated by an alien's weapon, he's saved from death, but, at the cost of essentially losing himself - all his life's memories and experiences, which are what constitutes all of us, and he's left as a new person; a child-like person; Vulcan by appearance, but not by spirit.

To aid in his recovery is Neelix (Ethan Phillips, who feels he owes it to Tuvok (personally, I always found Neelix to be highly...annoying throughout most episodes), and as Tuvok begins to develop anew, so does the nascent freindship.

Rather than wanting to do all the boring Vulcan stuff, Tuvok would rather spend time with his best friend, Neelix, and have...fun.

Without giving the entire plot away, I'll just say that it's a given that in order to deal with the alien's who caused the problem to Tuvok, he's going to ultimately be restored to his former self, and the - actually, very sweet, and touching friendship between the two won't survive.

In a very emotional scene,Neelix tells Tuvok he must do the treatment to restore him, but Tuvok doesn't want to be a 'boring' Vulcan, and he asks Neelix, what'll happen to the friendship between the two. Though Neelix knows he will be losing a real friend, Ethan Phillips handles it honestly, and stoicly.

I really think this is easily the best episode featuringNeelix, and is also a terrific display of both actors' skills.

I'm guessing that many fans of this series didn't first watch it when it aired - most likely some time during the evening hours.

Instead, I have a 'day' which starts preturnaturally - very early.

Whilst I'd be getting ready for the day ahead, I had Forensic Files on, as I darted about my home, drinking my coffee, finding a sock.

A brilliant idea for a show of any type; it was very straight-forward; a crime had been committed, and over the next 22 minutes, we viewers would learn not just the 'who', did the crime, but'how' it was done, and how the pieces were put together.

One of the smartest things done by 'HLN' (I put it in quotes because I think one of THE DUMBEST things done was turning Headline News into just another outlet for shows - NOT news) was bringing Forensic Files back (hence the 'II' at the name's end).

Unlike so many shows brought back, they very wisely kept the format the same.

It's like people who are brought in to bring back (most ANY) show, series, film, etc. They don't realise the reason something's beloved has to do with what had been done.

Let me say that a bit clearer; recently, I heard a (cartoon) series would launch about the smartest passion in the'Mystery Mobile'; Velma.

I always loved Velma, and apparently, I'm not alone. What came on the air... well, it's one of the VERY few things on IMDb which has received MANY bad reviews, and a score of...1.

Other than Velma's classic, schlumpy sweater and skirt, everything about her was changed (and NOT for the better).

There's an old saying; 'if it ain't broke, DON'T 'fix' it'.

Wisely, the people who've brought us FF II clearly understand this.

I've very little to quibble about.

My only issue is ii's narrator.

The voice of the original series was Peter Thomas, who's mellifluous voice worked wonderfully in tandem with a show of this type.

Sadly, Mr Thomas died several years ago, and in spite off this, they found he couldn't work anymore.

A new cove was needed for II, and I think that - even if your didn't know Mr Thomas' name, his voice, and delete were so stunt associated with the series that he was somewhat like the original series' icon, so to speak.

This series' narrator, Bill Camp, has a voice which doesn't (for me) 'jibe' with the tone of the series, because his voice sounds somewhat like Stacy Keach, esp narrating American Greed (2007); slightly hyped-up,

Don't get me wrong; I love American Greed, and Mr Keach's slightly mocking tone, it's just that Forensic Files (either I or II) is something I like to relax and focus on. If it's night time, I'm probably going to sleep soon after. In the early morning, I don't want someone sounding like they're calling a horse race.

Other than that, it's terrific to have Forensic Files back, and since the crime of murder is not going to go away, w need a series, like Forensic Files.

This 26-part series is SO indebted to BSG, that even this series' 'enemy', as well as the 'resolution' are both knockoffs.

I rarely like remakes, and this one - other than a few performances - is SO slow, SO dragged out, the entirety (26 hours of all three series) could be summed up nearly I'm 3-4 hours, it a couple of night's-worth.

Saying this is virtually identical to BSG, anyone with a brain can easily tell who this 'war's against, but in BSG, the war of the colonies versus the Cylons was told over 4 or 5 seasons, giving much time to explore so much detail. Here, all the extra 'padding' is just that; airless 'fluff' (I will say this; as one's able to easily fast forward watching steamed programmes, any time any of a majority of the 'fluff' was happening, is move ahead. But even doing that, there's long dragged out scenes.

As I said earlier, I rarely watch remakes - because of the majority of the ones I've seen begging so dreadful. I never planned to watch BSG, and it was only through happenstance that I came upon it, in its unital first-run, when the (still called) SciFi Channel was showing the series up to that point in back-to-back episode marathons. I was drawn in to the brilliant story telling.

Here, however, it's hackneyed (and by that I mean 'clichè', asks NOT the idiotic 'trope').

I'm NOT one who needs everything rapid jump-cut, as many millennials have the mind span of a mayfly. I do want some 'meat' there.

As I was able to compress watching this into a considerably shorter time, the main performance I liked was French actress, Léa Drucker as Catherine, a scientist.

In spite of her being a bit distant (at first), I think her performance was by far the most memorable.

On the other hand, in the thankless role of the head villain/psychopath, Adina, I felt bad for Ania Sowinski, who was given a one-note role, and forced to repeat it over and over (much like this series).

I'm not saying her performance was bad, rather, it was a terribly written role which was never expanded on by the writers of this dreck.

Last, I saw that somewhere which had mentioned Greg Kinnear was to have been in the Gabriel Byrnes role.

Had that happened - as well as what idiot thought casting him, an American slice of one-note Wonderbread, would have our this middling series into the deep abyss. WTF?

As it is, I still like the beautifully directed (in glorious Technicolor!) Byron Haskin directed and George Pal produced version from '53, with the amazing ships designed by Albert Nozaki, followed by Spielberg's version (here the alien 'ship' is a giant donut, which, for some unexplained reason houses nothing more than a circular staircase. No, it needent be something akin to 2001: A Space Odyssey, but there's A REASON for LOGIC, and that's something quick is in short supply, here).

I don't know who who this is about , about, but that several things tucked me off right at the very beginning and I said; 'NOOOOOO'.

I really (REALLY) dislike American southerners. I hate stupidity, yet, within a few seconds of this starting, we're subjected to WHY I can't take them; this is being told by the ('bad' person's) brother, who's very first words were how he 'had to ask his (psychotic, bad brother)' if it was 'ok' to do this.

Gee, how thoughtful! I guess that give and take between the two just must've been a bit clogged when 'bad' bro was flint whatever.

They next show a clip of the brother, after his arrest, and he says how he 'used to be normal', , and then 'flip-flopped', and became a person who had a(n) 'alternate normal life'

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A what?

Yes , an 'alternate normal life'.

To make how utterly stupid he is clear, only a moment prior to uttering this but I'd brilliance, they show a picture of him; graduating from high school.

The world's frakked.

I'm sorry, I value my life, and even though I do like to watch true crime, I won't throw my time away on utter bumpkin-hood.

Before I say anything about my feeling about this particular episode, I want you to know some things:

I think having the 'perfect' family's, or 'perfect life', is a myth.

No one I've ever known has, but, the point of living life is that, no matter what, once we're adults, our lives, are OUR lives, and NO ONE can take that away. We can soar as high as we want, or just become a person, who's almost the equivepant of that old Warner Bros cartoon image,wherein Bugs Bunny sold look at them, and as he's looking, the person's replaced by a giant, lollipop, with the wrapper saying, 'SUCKER', in big, bold letters.

I won't allow ANYone to hurt me, and I hope neither do you, because the ONLY way we allow others to hurt us, is if WE allow them to.

No, I didn't have anything close to a 'perfect' life.

I was sexually abused, and many other things, the details which I'm not going into.

But, that was in the past.

I have a plaque,; 'learn from yesterday, dream of tomorrow, and live for today.

There's no 'scale', to 'compare' the troubles of our earliest years. No one can fairly say, 'well, I was emotionally abused for my entire childhood, and that's worse than being sexually abused'.

That's nuts!

So, with that, I'm not going to say that what this family (and the two siblings, featured) was 'worse than', or, anything than whati went through, or you went through.

I know growing up as I did, it was HELL!

But, I've made a good life for me. It's mine.

As, I just said, this episode features a brother and sister - talking separately (from different parts of the country, I believe) about the nightmare they had growing up, in their case, it was a hyoer-violent father.

I found it very difficult to watch (the brother, David) talking, as no matter what he says, it's in this droning, flat monotone.

By contrast, his sister (who, as I said, we're all suffered differently), but there's no 'scale' to compare 'badness', yet, she speaks ... normally.

Even though the brother says he's 'still traumatised' by what happened, it makes me wonder, what kind of counciling , and treatment has he had, and what, exactly has left him so 'dead'?

But, I have to wonder if this droning of David's isn't 100% authentic, because we've all heard of someone, or know someone, or, ARE someone, who's gone through hell and back, but, are now far closer to 'better' than David.

Even though the horror ended (tragically) appx a decade, or more, ago,and several years after that,, a pictue's shown, of a now adult David, wearing his cap and gown, and his two sisters, all with very real (not faked, not forced) smiles on their faces.

A fake smile's easy to pick out when you realise a genuine smile involves many more facial musclesl than just the 2 major ones, which pull your smile 'up' at the corners.

Those photos don't lie; they're all VERY happy. And that's a terrific thing, so, now - several years AFTER that graduation, and several years PRIOR TO THAT, when the nightmare ended, yet, David's sits there droning - on, and on, and on, and...

I prefer the tone, and style, this show used to have, wherein the person who's story's about to be told, sits, and an off-camera assistant pushes a photo towards them. This, is just the whine, and whine style, and it's horribly fatiguing to stomach.

Another thing going against David, is several times, he says a variation of this; 'obviously, my life has been indescribably difficult, and full of tragedy that most people will never experience in their lives'.

Those are HIS exact words.

'Obviously'?!?!

Just try and walk into a support group, and tell the other memebrrs, 'I'm sure you had tragedy, but, mind's head over heels worse'.

Aside from being offended, they'd probably say, 'David, this ended well over a decade-plus, ago. Since that time, you went through high school, went to a university, and graduated, and now - several years after THAT, and you're STILL whining?!?!

Then, how come you and you sibling looked deliriously happy several years ago?!?'

Either one's going to stay mired in their miseries, or they'll strive to get free of them. You DONT progressively get 'better', and, then , at the proverbial 'drop of the hat', turn on the droning, 'poor me' attitude.

I was brought up believing there's two roads one can take; one - after having something bad, terrible happen, and then just sit there, like the proverbial bump on a log, with such obvious gloominess, that it makes others run.

The other, is to do WHATEVER it takes, no matter how hard, but, to do THE BEST we can.

No one minds when someone they know's hurting. No one would be adverse to doing whatever possible to help the person overcome their trauma.

But, there ARE actual people, who thrive on being constantly miserable, and if all they're going to do is kvetch and whine, they're just a bottomless black hole, sucking the life force from those around them.

Though I can't be absolutely certain, judging by this episode, and seeing the massive difference between David, and one of his sister's (I'm guessing the 3rd sibling didn't wish to participate), I really think that David's (what I refer to as) an 'energy vampire' - someone who could walk into any room, and instantly suck all the energy and oxygen out, leaving just nothingness.

There's fun trash and bad trash.

This is the latter, and that's a shame.

This film's SO bad of the 'JC' (Jeeper Creeper) tales, it makes the second one (the one directed by the pædophile, and is about a bus load of really hunky teen jock boys trapped on a broken bus in the middle of 'Creeper's'b hunting grounds) seen like an academy award winning masterpiece.

This is sad-bad; i.e., you wish it would be fun, it worked revitalise am interesting original story, instead, it's so awful, you're sad it was allowed to be made.

Take one talentless pool of on-camera .

. 'talent', add a script which seems to be three, or so ideas which have all been thrown into a blender, take (what was) the original story, and bake.

This is the dreck you'd get.

The biggest 'name' is Gary Graham (you might remember him as Soval, in Enterprise, amongst his many appearances, elsewhere), who - either he's been made up to appear really old, or he's appearing 'au nauturel' (no! Not naked! Just without all the silicone fillers, no hair pieces/replacements which almost everyone uses).

He's gone after the first few minutes.

What follows is a mish-mosh of varying ideas, none of which seemed to every been filled out.

One is that the (previous 3 films) are just that; films, which led to less intelligent people thinking they're actually true stories.

The female lead is a 'scientist' - of what, who knows, and she really doesn't seem to have much intelligence. She's driving through this area where those films were set, and her boyfriend's really into this stuff.

They drive into a small town, ama wouldn't you know it, it's got a requisite 'creepy odds and ends'store, run but some 'eerie' lady ('eerie', if your idea of that is a day woman in a bowler, and a bit of goth makeup).

A scientist-chick's about to leave, she touched the hand of 'eerie lady', and as soon as she does, she starts having... VISIONS!!!

They're weird, and semi violent, but our intrepid sconce chick doesn't even so much as mention this to anyone (from this point in, it's almost like ANYTHING she touches, causes those 'eerie visions' to start up.. nothings every said - by her, and you'd fights tarry, Herr behind a scientist,...

The next scene - and this is midway, and up to this point, there have only been 4-6 scenes - really long ones - she and her (boy)friend(?) are at some seriously low-rent outdoor carnival, and the few who work there, all make comments to her (she goes to their knock down the pins, win a prize game, except, instead of a you rifle, it's those 4-VERY-pointed weapons used by 'JC' (creeper guy), and she gets yet, another vision, only sideshow guy starts in with the 'you DO know what it is you're holding, right', and that kond of babble.

This tries to be one of those clever break the fourth wall films, but it's terrible. I've only sat through the first half, and I KNOW exactly how this'll end.

This episode's gust star is Nick Adams, and, sadly, he looks barely recognisba.

Yes , I understand, he's portraying this 'prince', bit his face is bloated, and he was only in his mid-30s.

The episode's typical West;, but, even though I watched it all, I was just (sadly) shocked by Mr Adams, who died, not long after.

This is not one of my favourite episodes of the series (and I prefer the first season's black & white, as they were still a new series, just feeling their way). By the nextcouple of years, though there's a few stand-outs, most episode's fall into a very formulaic pattern, and I'm not that crazy about it.

There used to be an inside joke in the entertainment industry; many people worked as waiters, and there was a tee-shirt, which said on it; 'actor,msinger, dancer, model, waiter'.

Of those who want to have a career, less than 5% actually ever get anywhere (and a fraction of that actually makes it 'big').

Unfortunately, in today's world, where people are obsessed with being'famous', they don't think it entails anything more than that - a desire to be famous.

Here's yet another bit of dreck, and I can just here the conversation between the 'brain' behind this, and someone else, who has their feet planted in reality.

'Hmmm, I'm a twenty-something, and I'm gonna make my original mark I. The entertainment business.'.

'What can I make an amateur series about? I know - all I think about is how horny I am, so, I'll make it about a guy who tries to fight his libido, and put him into a world of sexxxx'.

'Erm, that's not very interesting, nor is it original'.

I'll call it Pillowtalk (one 'word', so I'm not too obviously tealing from Piloow Talk, but, hey; if anyone makes an inference between the two, good for me, right?'

Did you actually study writing, or, any aspect of the film and television industries?'

'No, but, I have seen a lot - I know the entire film and television industry, inside and out - since 2000 (anything before that's 'ancient')'.

'I also know how to make movies with my iPhone!'

'I think you should do what you're really best at . Get a job at a fast-food dive'.

I guarantee anyone wanting their time with trash like this; no one in front, or behind the camera will ever amount to anything more than 'wannabe'.

The moment I saw, The Asylum' as being the producer, I KNEW; trash awaits.

There's some garbage - just like certain food - which, even though you know are bad, fall of sugar, still beckon.

Then, there's the other type, which looks as bad as it tastes.

ThisIS the latter.

The cast is a who-who, of, who-the-f...? It only is worse when you hear these 'actors' speak.

In this day and age, with so many outlets for new material, you'd think that even a cesspool like Asylum could actually find enough competent actors to fill out their cast. The only names Bruce Davison, who's only one 'big' picture was the 1974 disaster click, Mame, the infamous musical version of Aumtie Mame, but rather than getting the talented original broadway star, who opened the musical (Ms Angela Lansbury), Ms Ball, who still had a lot of clout - stole it from her. That picture will's infamous for her frog-like voice (smoke a few more, Ms Ball), and the super-SUPER Soft focus anytime there's a shot just of her (watching that film, many people thought they were losongtheir eyesight).

I can't believe any reputable actor would agree to be in anything made by Asylum. I'd rather keep my reputation.

I'm not a fan of recreated action. In fact, 'til the early 1980s, if I'm correct, it was extremely rare.

Since that time, it comes in two 'flavours'; the physical movement recreation, and the breaking the fourth wall-type, wherein people portray the actual real people, and every once in a whilst, they say things - not true, nor necessarily even accurate, to the audience.

This is the latter kind.

There's a telling reason why there are only 6 if these. I'm not the only one who found this to be ABYSMAL.

Even worse, the 'real' people in this are the mother's of both the victim & assailant (the assailants mother; wow, is she wrinkled!). They comment on the story (the 'Greek chorus'... on the cheap), as do a couple of others, who knew the two people this story's about.

To 'recreate' this tale, apparently, wherever this was made - whatever backwater that was, their was a shortage of blond males.

To pay the athletically built blond, there've hired some short, doughty brunette who's for some bleached hair. Instead of him begging a tanned beach boy-type, they got someone who's a naturally swarthy complexion.

It just shows how cheap this is.

If you want to cut out all the cr-p, is highly recommend you watch this story as it appeared on Forensic Files. It's titled, A Husband's Secret.

Watching these two - one, clinical and honest, the other, so covered with dreck, you'll understand who/why the killer was with no doubts from watching the Forensic Files version, hands down.

I'm just willing to bet the person who thought up this 'clever-clever' title also thinks they came up with 'dogis God spelt sideways'.

Anyone so bereft of being able to come up - just with the project's name is someone who's lack of creativity is already being displayed before your eyes, is not someone who's got anything new to add to this discussion.

This is nothing more than yet another look at the admittedly dire situation some people in W. Virginia have found themselves in, and it's through the lens of someone with zero understanding of the situation, and it comes out

I'm not 'anti-dope documentaries - hell, I was involved with a very well-known one myself (I'm not going to say whether my involvement was in front, or behind the camera. That's irrelevant). What I am sickened by is more of the same old... same old, which this is.

How -riventing, unique, shocking, anything can this be?

Not very. It doesnt shine anything new onto the heroin situation.

Personally,I'd love for a documentary which would focus - not just on the drug/addiction aspect, but, what happens to those who want to get off the 'merry-go-round'?

The percentage of treatments the average junkie will go through will be more than 10 - EASILY. Some detoxes last such a short time (in-patient; 3 days), that, when the person's been detoxed, they're technically clean, but, they're no better than sending a person who's just had major heart surgery, & has recuperated just a couple of days. They're VERY raw, & the next step - rehab - is where many people don't/won't go (the first 10, or so times after detox), but it's necessary.

That's where people no really want to get their lives back need to go, bit, the problem is these places are SO tricked-out, in so many ways (their's detoxes where there no one with ANY p'rofessional sheepskin' to back them up. In cc alifornia, which is NOTORIOUS, all you need to open a rehab (which is a license to steal money to many), is a couple of hundred bucks for the license.

There's nothing about licensing only places which are being run by medical, psychological professionals - NOTHING.

West Virginia's a place where there are I'mmany who started on oxycontin. It was only after those became scarce, or the price/pill was way too high (a bag of dope is apps US$10/20, whereas 1 Oxy's MANY times that amount. MANY. The natural inclination is 'look for the bargains..

Unfortunately, many of the people who are making decisions on how to deal with this haven't been down the 'dark tunnel' themselves. Though they (mostly) mean well, they make decisions which can affect many (statewide, citywide) based upon what ten people trying to promote their treatment modus operandi, but, those people are interested in one thing; $.

That means until - if ever - a state such as W Va actually gets its hands dirty by speaking with those who are currently affected, & those who - after YEARS of trying to clean themselves, & who know how hard it is, when the only person you can count on isoneseulf, places like this will never - ever - even begin to see a light at the end of the tunnel.

I've always loved Maury Chaykin. He's been one of my favourite actors since I remember first seeing him in a standout performance in Atom Egoyan's The Adjuster.

If you're not familiar with Mr Egoyan's work, he's one of the best writer/ directors, and is easily a national treasure of Canada.

He works with a somewhat nebulous 'troop' of actors in many of his film's. I describe his story telling as pulling the layers off of an onion; There's a central theme, and we're introduced to a group of seemingly disconnected individuals, but as the film plays out, youvslowly - inexorably - come to understand these connections are a lot more important than they first seemed.

One aspect of Mr Egoyan's films is that - whilst they're not specifically categorisable as being of a specific type (murder, drama, horror, etc), they all encompass some of man's basest aspects.

In The Adjuster, Mr Chaykin's character is that of a wealthy older man married to a woman a lot younger than he, but more importantly, they seem to be of two totally different types.

Though often said, 'opposites attract', the actual truth is closer to the opposite; a person might be attracted to someone totally different than they, but people tend to marry alike types.

Simply put, a man will most likely find a woman who's got very similar qualities to the woman who had the most influence on his formative life - usually a mother.

That doesn't mean he won't go for the opposite, i.e.., in young adult-hood, he'll find women who are nothing like his mother.

In The Adjuster, Chaykin's character is known as 'Bubba'. I don't think we ever 'meet' the man he's supposed to be, as every time we see Mr Chaykin, he's playing a character (yes; a character - of the film, pretending to be another character, for those he encounters in his 'life').

I'm trying to not give too much away of the Adjuster, because it was the first Egoyan film I saw, and it played out with such a shock it unnerved me - not something easily done -and it still does, all these decades later.

It was so... hidden, that I don't think many people in the theatre watching it with me understood exactly what happened, and though there's no (visible) physicality shown (of either a sexual or violent nature), Mr Chaykin's Bubba is involved in something which still - 3 decades later - gives me chills.

I've seen Mr Chaykin's work a lot after that - many times I'd go to something BECAUSE he was in it.

He was in a terrific Nero Wolfe series in the early years of the 21st century.

Here, in Pieces of Eight, he's the head of a family which had ties to the original Commonwealth, but, as Tri-Jema says to Dylan, since he (he goes by the moniker, 'number eight') became the family head 300 years after the original Commonwealth fell, though he's figuratively in the same position as his ancestors, he's definitely not 'cut from the same cloth', as they were.

When we first met him, he's sitting there, pondering a very valuable gemstone he's holding (which is obviously his), and he obsequiously asks Dylan 'how it got that way' (not specifying whether or not he's referring to how the gemstone came to be, or how its exorbitant value has come to be). Dylan - already on the lookout for something, just replies, 'pressure', which can also be taken two ways - one for each of the two possible variations of Citizen Eight's 'question'.

He then immediately goes into a disarming banter, but as the episode plays out, though we - the audience - have been aware that Eight is hiding something, he doesn't let it slip.

He wants to appear to be the 'fool', in order to hide his true self.

I'm relatively new to Andromeda. I've been a Rodenberry fan since watching Start Trek (TOS), when it appeared in weekly syndication years ago, and I even watched the first couple of years of Earth; Final Conflict, before I felt it was just getting to messy, plot-wise, that is.

I first saw Andromeda only about 2 years ago (2020-ish), during the global COVID shut-in, and I really enjoyed it.

Right after seeing this episode the first time, and seeing Mr Chaykin in it, I immediately wanted to see what other work he'd been doing these past few years, and I was saddened to find out he had passed away.

I can't tell you how wonderful am actor he is. It's just something one has to see for themselves.

I watch a lot of true crime, and many times, they share a commonality. No matter what awful crime's being told on a particular show, the people telling the story almost always say (the bad person) 'didn't seem' to be anything but a lovable person, and they're always surprised that this supporsed 'wonderful' person butchered kids, or some other awfulness.

The fact is, a serial killer isn't going to look like the cliché most people have in their mind. If that were the case, they'd never be able to get close to anyone. The real serial killer ALWAYS looks like the person you'd never expect.

Like my (very few) other favourite actors, he's a master at misdirection. His character could be the most frightening thing imaginable - but he never lets that be seen, instead, he IS that goofy, slovenly, not-to-bright person. No one would peg him for anything nefarious.

It's that simple fact that makes Mr Chaykin's performances so terrifying., and here in Pieces of Eight, it's no exception.

I don't know why - I always thought of this as the 'Christmas episode', and that has mostly to do with the snow in Hatfield Corners, VT, and Will wishing Davey and his aunt a merry Christmas.

When I first watched this show (I won't say when), I had a B&W television. It didn't 'bother' me (as people who never had b&w think it must be) - in fact, I'm someone who appreciates things which are (supposed to be) filmed and seen in black and white.

It gives a sense of separation between you, the viewer, and the story being told.

This episode is one of Billy Mumy's best during she show. He's someone far away from those he loves, but no one believes him, I guess it holds a pace near to me, because when I first saw it, I was about 6 or 7, and we all can remember what is like to be the 'little person', and have our thoughts and such not taken as seriously a we might wish.

But, in spite of his problems, and even though the Robinson's are having difficulties surviving back on Priplanus, it's where Will wants to be.

This episode is also one which doesn't focus on Dr Smith. It's truelly Will's story, and it also shows the beginnings of Howe much the robot will do to help Will (when Dr Smith's trying to get the robot to ignore what he's been told to do - by Will -instead of cooperating,the robot sends out high electric charges from both of his claws, in a sense saying, 'back off'.

If you've never seen this episode, and are just starting to watch this series, the first 2-3 episodes are a must, and the other 2 which automatically come to me are t beautiful, My Friend, Mr Nobody, and this. These episodes are the ones which clearly show how this show had the ability to become something special, rather than silly.

Enjoy.

Take a pair of very stylish, elegant actors. Put them in chic clothing, and place them into a film directed by Stanley Donen, with an intricate plot, in a European city during the 1960s. The film should be somewhat 'Hichcockian', both suspenseful, but humorous.

The film's title?

Charade?

No.

Arabesque. The (much) weaker bookend to Charade.

This film stars Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren, as the 'Cary Grant' and 'Audrey Hepburn', respectively.

As this film has comedy woven into its melange, there's a big problem if the actor doesn't have that innate gift.

Sadly, not only doesn't Mr Peck have it, but I found myself annoyed with him/his character during those moments, because rather than feeling then flow naturally, there's a very forced wooden-ness to it.

No one would ever think 'Cary Grant' when someone says, 'name a great comedic actor'., but as anyone who's ever seen a(ny) of his film's, even during the most thrilling moments - such as in North by Northwest, he would inject a bit of levity into it.

Not so with Mr Peck.

What I can't understand is HOW, when this film was still Inn is gestation, someone thought he'd be good for this role. Moreover, Mr Donen, who's known for his 'elegant soufflès' his film's are couldn't see it was the wrong thing.

Watching daily rushes, Peck's difficulty with this had to be obvious.

All I was able to think while watching this was imagining Mr Grant in the role... And Mr Peck as Joseph Mengele (he was in Boys From Brazil).

The surprising part - for me, at least, was Ms Loren.

In Charade, it was the gamine-like Audrey Hepburn swathed in Givenchy. Here, it's the body-opposite - all curves and... - wrapped in Dior.

She looks gorgeous. She even handles the humour a lot better than i thought.

The story's actually simple, but it's told in such a convoluted fashion, your have to wonder what those who made it must've thought as it was begging filmed.

The only 'good' thing about this fallen soufflé is that I immediately 'cleansed' myself by watching the one and only Charade. Again.

This is utter horse ca-ca (I'm terribly sad that Mr Muphy's involved), which tries to make an utter mockery of science.

I wish everyone involved in this were to get seriously ill, and then see what happens to them when praying does nothing to save them. They only option left is the 'evil' science - Ana the wonders of modern medicine, to help save them.

These utterly misguided, uneducated, and thoroughly indoctrinated people see no connection in how far, how destructive their (il)logic is compared with those people who commit horrible acts of murder in the Middle East, all in their claim of doing it for 'their' god.

If you've got children, religion and education are two separate things. The people who make such garbage as this would be laughed at, by ANY religious overseer - Christian, Catholic, etc, even in the Middle Ages!!!

Dumb Iis 'dum', and if anything, this amateurish, homemade piece of garbage shouldn' should be used as an example of how dangerous being uneducated can be.

It's not about 'monsters', but that sites'name breed - the ace of lunatic's, 'American' monsters.

Actually, if it were truthful, the title world be Rehashed tellings - dragged out with filler - of ID Discovery Southern and Midwestern Monsters

This is the kind of series where, after a few seconds, if at most, minutes, a viewer will be scratching their head, thinking; 'I think I've seen this before'.

Then, a few minutes later, it's really clicking in; 'I HAVE seem this story before - bit it wasn't this long'.

Yes; you'd be correct.

The brains at ID Discovery (I always here that word's in my head being said as a whisper) - ever-needing MORE stuff to fill the airtime, but with only a limited pot to pull the proverbial 'poop' from (did you ever notice all - ALL stories in ALL these true crime shows - yeah, even The First 48 - all get they're material from only a few locations? You're not going to see NYPD become a regular part of the in-house police shows, as it were. They do throw in an occasional story - usually if it's one of the few which actually was nationally or internationally known, but otherwise it's Appalachian, Bible belt and the'waving wheat' area off the Midwest which are the big suppliers), theID people just recycle.

Here, the crime's almost always at the end. The majority of the airtime filled with filler.

Just an hour ago, I watched one. Endless video of holiday gatherings. Endless video Endless women in terrible outfits with the hair to match.

Personally, when I hear a southern twang, it's nails in a blackboard to me.

Audio-wise,, it's all, 'were a god-fearing folk. I met him/her at Jesus camp. We had nothing to do, so we went to church'.

On and on, and on and...

Something to really think about; is if any person who's either a supporter of that bond lunatic who was in the executive office beginning in 2017-2021, as well as anyone who actually believes the 'liberals' control the media to WATCH any of this pablum, and afterwards be asked; I'd everyone your just saw was a so-called god-fearing xtian, why, then is it THIS the MAIN source of stories - in particular, the people in the stories.

I'm not going to go on and dredge up how the stuff which goes on in these so-called GFC-areas (as in god-fearing ..) is BY FAR- MORE f'ed up than ANY East/West coast major city.

View at your own peril, but you'll be fast-forwarding a lot.

Though I initially enjoyed this episode (in particular, Nigel Bennett's performance), I soon realised a few things; how stupid would not just the commander of one ship have to be, but, the untold countless thousands, who all believed - never questioned - the increasingly erratic, and ever-more just plain loony commands, orders.. statements all issued but just one person. Yes; this is a TV show, but even in a real world's country, there's layers designed to protect such a thing from happening. Multiply this by the supposed myriad of homeworlds for all these vessels, and not one had anyone - other than this person who's undeniably starkers, and the 'reality' disintegrated.

Lest I forget, the supposed hostage - to lure Dylan, Triumvir, tri-Jemma, who I began to wonder; how did she get this position, of begging one of a group of 3 'supreme' leaders of an intergalactic federation of planets, when she's so dense?!?

In an earlier episode, the second series' finale, Tunnel at The End of The Light, in which all these delegates of the reconstituted Commonwealth were onboard Andromeda, when they're attacked by these tesseracting-capable beings, who's sole purpose seemed to be to kill, and cause mayhem, a question was put to Dylan; he should be a Triumvir. The person who said this was a noted statesperson, and Dylan said instead of he being Triumvir, the person, who managed to accomplish the seemingly daunting political task of giving the entire citizenry planetary population of her world equally rights of freedom.

Hell; that's a real accomplishment, and even though this is just a series, it's not a simple, minor task akin to doing the weekly laundry, but one which requires someone with finesse, intelligence eloquence and a lot of fortitude.

On this episode, the aforementioned Triumvir, tri-Jemna's being held - without restraints, but solely by the ability of this raving lunatic to convince her not only that Dylan Hunt's engineered this massive destruction of the reconstituted Commonwealth, but he's done it, and this supposed(ly) 'brightest-of-the-bright' intergalactic politician never said to herself; 'gee; let me just compare what I've known of Dylan, myself, personally, and compare that with JUST this ONE lunatic's rantings....'

Never crosses her mind.

If this was a real politician - I wouldn't let her be in charge of a street lamp.

When Dylan arrives - to save her - she just stands there - pointing a weapon at him, as if he's just demonstrated his true craziness in front of her by slaughtering 1000 elderly grandparents in front of her.

Her standards are really, REALLY poor.

I'd rather believe the self-levitating person who speaks one moment in calm, lucid tones, and faster than a pin drops, it's screeching raving lunacy with nothing bearing anything close to reality.

That's not just scary, it's pathetic.

She even says to Dylan - in a cave in a planner, which is literally falling apart as they stand there, she's 'safe' there.

Faster than a lightweight gets turned on-then-off, in less than 10-seconds (a minute after her ludicrous, 'I'm safe'comment), and Pario shows up - raving away, it's only AFTER Dylan shoots him and rather than intently dying, he does that weird 'possessed by the Abyss'thing (lightning bolts stream through him, blah, blah) that this 'apex politician' realises there's something wrong, and in her oddly third-person way of telling about herself, she commands; 'get us the hell out of here'.

Erm, you want to apologise? No? Ok, think about this; you've just governed thousands of planets, yet, in spite of having a(n obvious) maniac solely in charge of...whatever, BILLIONS are probably dead and/or dying, and you think your can just act more royal than actual royally? Get yourself a cab, lady.

I also find the actress who plays her (Carmen Moore) to be really... not one who can make such a poorly-written episode have that magical believability which is necessary (compare Nigel Bennett's performance in this one-off role with hers, and it's very apparent.

In spite of the thinness of the Paroo character (we never heard of him. Never saw him. Nothing), it's a tribute to Mr Bennett's acting skills that he was able to make (even a cynic like me) believe he was capable of all of this (I admit that had I not re-watched this, I'd have a much higher opinion of the episode.

But, in today's world of instant 'binge-watching', wherever and whenever one wants, viewing's a LOT different than just a few decades ago, when not everyone had a VCR, and in order to re-watch something,, you had to first, be aware of it, by reading it in TV listings, and then made sure you'd be able to watch it; even if that were 3a. Now, all one need do is say to themselves; 'i want to watch it, and 'click', just stream it, baby!.

Back to tri-Jemma for a moment; I had to look up the actress to get her link for this review, and normally, I'm not one to be judgemental able a person'appearance, but, in this case, I was...(unfortunately) shocked by the picture(s) me Moore's currently (2022) using as her headshot.

Oh....boy.

It's hard for me to say anything (esp in this day and age) -and with people not having any ideas about me - who I am, what I do, but, all I can say is; I don't mean this to be cruel, but Ms Bennett's current appearance is akin to what that person, 'Snookie' looked like on her 'best' 😩😳 day. This woman was at the time of this episodes filming was not bad looking. I'm not one who thinks a person 'loses' their looks as they age. Quite the contrary. I DO have A BIG problem with anyone trying to 'dress/look young(er)' than they are. It never works, and only accentuates bad.

She's got that awful flat-ironed long hair look.

Why anyone thinks flat, dead, hair is (1) attractive, (2) if it IS flattering on a small group, that DOESN'T mean 'EVERYONE' should do it.

It's really sad to see someone, become a victim of a misbelief that I'm other to be (considered) 'attractive' , as they age, they should 'dress/look young'.

I know if many people - both men and women - who look terrific - no matter their age. A great example (STILL) for men it's the incomparable Cary Grant. Mr Grant understood that is not you trying to 'fit in', but very simply, funding what you look best in - and that's all.

For women, look at Meryl Streep, who's always had enough belief in herself rather than to do 'what others do'.

There's many others, but it seems this ridiculous notion of 'fitting in'- which anyone as a youngster looking at such a person instantly knows how ridiculous it is, yet, for some reason, when anyone grows up, those who have less than a strong self of sense are easily tricked into this (even as Mr Grant aged, woman (and men), both young and old - found him 'stylish', and 'desirable'.

It's sad to see people who think they must try - no matter their real, current age, to look like they're still in high school.

It never works.

Very sad.

I know I'm not alone in my love of this group. I followed them on CBC, and in concert, and saw Brain Candy (which I thought was funny), and their last get-together, Death Comes to Town.

I only found out about this new series by accident, and I'm SO happy.

A big question I've thought about over the last decade is the fearfulness these so-called SJWs have inflicted,and it makes for the death of comedy, or more accurately, the silencing of anyone who doesn't thi k like they do.

Over the past few decades, the idiotic 'social justice' iidiots, who are MORE prone to censorship than any iron curtain natios have become the self-annointed arbiters of what's 'allowable'.

The days of being able to make fun of things and NOT worry have disappeared. If he were just starting out today, Lenny Bruce wouldn't need to worry about those group who silenced him in the 60s, instead, he'd be silenced by the very side who stood UP for him, back then.

When I saw a (pre-series launch) interview with the Kids o (CBC's) The National, though I was thrilled to see them all together, the inteciew only nauseated me because, if anything, free speech in a democracy IS what a democracy stands for, yet, the SJWs of the two nations of North America seem to want to crush it, and when I saw host, Ian Hanomansing talking how much of was was 'allowable' then, isn't.

As an example, Ian turned to Scott, who's Buddy Cole was easily the most outspoken, subversive character on the original series, and while tacitly summarising Scott as being the 'gay' one (which Scott is, and has no qualms about), and then says how when they (The National) went to pick a clip of buddy Cole's, they (The National) found "...there's nothing from a Buddy Cole skit satirising racial stereotypes that we (CBC) felt we could play now', and all they show was a few seconds ('... it reminds me of something Yoko Ono said to Malcolm X...'.) with NO context as to WHY he's saying what he's saying.

That's pathetic.

If anyone were to be 'offended' now, it's people like me, who are OFFENDED by such paranoia , a very sad indicator of how backwards Western democracies society's become - IN JUST a few decades.

I know I'm not alone being thrilled to have the Kids back, but, it terrifies me any HINT of either censorship, or people (or, in this case, a network) WORRYING that 'someone' MIGHT find something offencive.

In fact, the ones media should realty be worried about... offending are people like me, who are OFFENDED by such paranoia.

That's something everyone needs to understand - that (mostly) the very young, and young adults, who were inculcated with this victimhood ideology are being pandered to, and the actual adults - of all races,creeds and colours are being ostracised.