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The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window: Episode 3 (2022)
Is this a parody..?
I have an extremely dry sense of humor and typically enjoy dark comedies, but this isn't a dark comedy. Or a spoof. And the way her daughter died... is that for real? Is that supposed to be believable?
Swiped (2018)
Weak Characters, Dumb Women
I'm giving 2 stars because I've probably seen worse. The writing isn't good. The acting isn't much better.
The characters are caricatures of real people. There is no balance or character development. My biggest issue with this is how DUMB everyone is... the women are deliberately dumb and must be saved by outside forces. They have to be hand fed everything and have to literally be told (by a man) that they're being mistreated. The guys are dumb and they're sexist. None of the characters are the slightest bit believable. These people have no layers. There is 0 chemistry between any of them. Noah Centineo can't even save this melodramatic, hormonal train wreck masquerading as some kind of "coming of age" "RomCom." It's brimming with unhealthy relationships and romantic ideals. The lesson that "you are valuable and perfect and complete just as you are" comes too late to redeem anything. Plus they kept making Noah wear tight pants. They also mentioned once that he is very wealthy and have him drive a fancy car to prove this "wealth," that they chose to throw in the "nerdy boy's" face when it was convenient once. On the other end of the spectrum, they really laid it on thick that "Hannah is an intellectual" by having the only thing she ever does/talks about be reading, studying, and/or school.
They reused the same cast of characters over and over again making the college seem tiny and more like a high school.
Everything is very "on the nose." The audience is treated as though they are as dumb as the characters.
Someone says "I love you," and suddenly a girl just forgives and forgets all of the lies that they'd been told? Boo. In the same vein, the big "player" (Noah) of the movie randomly decides he's in love with some girl he has no chemistry with that he hung out with one time..? I JUST DON'T GET IT. THESE WOMEN ARE SO WEAK THOUGH.
Weird movie.
Plot holes.
Boo.
Game of Thrones: The Bells (2019)
Literally a dumpster fire
Here's the thing... this will be chock full of spoilers. I need to speak my peace. 2 things happened I was okay with.
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2 stars because Arya gets out alive and the final fight between The Hound and The Mountain was justifiable.
But... How do you spend 8 years building up a character to be merciful, strong, "the breaker of chains," have an entire army of people she gave the choice of either death or following her and being free?
As a member of the audience I feel cheated. It took 2 episodes to break down a character (Dany) who had been built up and strengthened over 8 years. I don't care if you're the daughter of "the mad King," as a writer, you do not lead an audience to believe she is the exception, and then flip the switch because it serves your story.
So much character regression.
Cersei died a more honorable death than she deserved, Jamie returned to her (what!?), Dany fell victim to the very thing all of the men conspiring against her said she would (her family "madness"...rolling my eyes sooooooo hard here), Jon Snow standing watch over the carnage and doing nothing to stop it...
Come ooooooooon.
Watching Dany repeatedly burn the innocent civilians to a crisp for like 15 minutes... really?! This is the second to last episode and THIS is how you're choosing to use our time? Showing a few innocents and mothers and children dying would have gotten the point across in a powerful way, but wasting time showing it repeatedly in an episode just doesn't make good use of the little time we have left.
I could talk about this for days.
The writers took the cheap way out. They're rushing 8 seasons... and I could care less what happens with the rest of the story.