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Opening of episode one seems promising. Then, the Farrell tries to be stealth in his investigation. Surprise! He is driving a pristine early 60's Corvette convertible that sticks out like any proverbial sore appendage you want. He needs a 3000 Camry. Jump to episode three. WTF was that? Maybe because it was a week between episode 2 and 3, but it was a mass of confusion introducing so many characters where you have no clue what is going on. It appears all characters have some kind of hidden connection, as well as all seem to be playing both sides, while the hero is the only righteous character. My wife and I both had zero idea where this is going, nor care anymore. On a side note, I love Amy Ryan as an actress. She is horrid in this. Terrible acting, and a ridiculous character.

Housekeeper traumatized by walking into her rich bosses bedroom and witnessing oral sex? An acquaintance demanding Larry take care of his crazy daughter if he dies? Talking in your sleep to get out of responsibilities? All three plot points were simply stupid, and far fetched. Oh, and not funny either. I think it is time to hand the show over to JB Smoove, as he is the only one that generated a chuckle in this disaster of an episode. Can anyone explain how the artwork altered by the housekeeper was not discovered by Larry or the artist before they went to the gallery. At this point I am only typng to get to the minimum amount of characters required to [ost.

Why would a production company make complete replicas of an apartment and a bar, hire so many people to rehearse pointless conversations, and spend all the time and money so a guy can tell a friend he told a trivial lie years ago? It is repulsive how they secretly film strangers and then get people to imitate them on film. Have not even finished the first episode, and I feel like the whole thing is a prank on the viewer. Simply ridiculous premise.

Most of the logic failures have been pointed out. But how about this one? How does 6 or 7 people devise such a complex plan when one of them does not even speak English? How does Sun know what is actually expected of her without constant visual prompts? It is not like she could understand what the plan was prior to arriving without an interpreter.

Since there is an FBI agent and a Scotland yard detective participating in this documentary, it appears there is still some interest in finding this guy. How then, can the alleged victim go to court via zoom against her children without law enforcement at the very least checking them out? You can not blame covid. As others have inferred, there are so many gaps of credibility in this story, that maybe the greatest con was what the producers of this film pulled off. Like one long boring Punked.

And I was. This reminded me of an ABC After School Special from the 70's. I am giving it 2 stars because I have only seen one episode, but it was simply awful. Bad acting, terrible script, he is able to keep multiple fires burning while not attending to them, and the timeline of his eventual return to his old ways made no sense. From early morning to dark. He must have really slowed it down. As he walks through the town and every single person greats him like he is the most beloved person in the world reminded me of a Ned Flanders fantasy.

Liz Carmichael was born a man who initially was an undoubtable criminal, who ditched 3 women he had children with, and while in his late 20's, eloped with a 16 year old girl, and continued to be a criminal. He ended up with 5 more children, and around 1969, while being a federal fugitive since 1961 for counterfeiting cash, started to transition into a woman. The cons continued. Then in 1974, she creates an obvious scam to sell a 3 wheeler car for $2K claiming it is bulletproof and gets 75 MPH, even though the prototype was non functioning. After conviction for fraud, she jumps bail, only to continue shady practices. The second half of this is basically a misguided history of transgendered people and how her treatment was the actual crime committed by this clear cut sociopath. The focus continues to be how her involvement with the car, called The Dale, was over prosecuted because she is transgendered. She was a fugitive dragging 5 children around the US for 12 or more years, never staying anywhere longer than 2 months. But, according to every person she ever encountered, she was the most wonderful person in the world. Never mind her decades of fraud victims. Ironically, I lived in the LA area while this was a heavily covered news item in the 70's while in high school. I have no memory of any of it, which is even stranger as my name is Dale.

If you are here reading this, you already know the basic plot via the other reviews, so I won't get into that. Early on in the film I really enjoyed the premise. Unfortunately, the most interesting part of the film, Elysium itself, is never really part of the plot. It simply becomes a background for an extended cliched fight for humanity, in what could be described as a gigantic multi-leveled automobile factory. So, instead of going down the road with dozens of potential plot possibilities with this rather fantastic looking space station utopia that we only see a few glimpses of, we get an exoskeleton assisted Karate movie. There are multiple other ridiculous plot holes I could forgive if the story was more interesting, but the second half was simply a fast foreword adrenaline ride made for people who think action is the only point to make a movie. Included in this movie was the single worst edit I have ever seen in a movie not made by Ed Wood. Spider and Max have a tense moment. Spider picked up a dime(?) and flips it to Max. Immediate cut to Spider lying up against a wall like he was throw, all f his men pointing weapons at Max, and Spider tells them not to shoot Max. I watched it 3 times. No idea what that silliness was about.

This movie is like putting Independence Day, The Terminator, Starship Troopers, and Game of Thrones in a blender and making it far less than the sum of its parts. I could not believe the end was fighting White Walker aliens in Iceland, just like GOT. (I know it was supposed to be Russia, but it was filmed in Iceland, as was GOT) Dialogue was 90's sitcom like, plot full of holes, but I have to admit I have seen far worse movies in the 4 million hours of watching TV since the pandemic started late winter last year.

This may well be the stupidest show I have ever seen. Absolutely no part of the plot makes any sense. One minor example is the questions about a shotgun house. How could any resident of N. O. not know they vary? A more major examples are the mother accused of drug charges becomes the mother of the wrongly accused scapegoat in a matter of a day, with Cranston being involved in both scenarios. Is there only 200 people in New Orleans? Most of the obvious plot holes have already been repeatedly explained here, but soooo many more are too convoluted to put into words. Can't explain things that just make no sense at all. Had to quit at the beginning of episode 4.

From Frank emerging from a couch, Charlie attacking Santa Clause, and Mac's parents breaking into houses to steal Christmas gifts, few episodes have so may iconic scenes. The most incredible thing to me is the actor who portrays Mac as a 10 year old. He looks and acts just like the adult version. They both even throw rocks at trains left handed.