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Who Is Erin Carter? (2023)
Ridiculous but can't stop watching!
Love the characters and the action and even the quirky humor. Now they go so far by the end that it almost all comes undone, but by then you've hung around that long you have to finish it. The last episode almost pulls it down to a six out of 10 but by then they are your friends so....
It isn't so crazy that you would label it a farce but they walk right up to that line for 6 episodes before they finally lose it in episode 7 and nothing really makes sense. Okay, thoroughly unbelievable. Think of those show where they want to kill the hero but it never dawns on them to shoot him while they have him. Or the Batman of the 1970s where you could kill him but why not put him in a giant hourglass instead and be surprised when he breaks out as he did the prior 20 times.
The story is well done and they do a good job of tying the past and present and slowly letting it all come together. This is not a BBC mystery. You may miss some of the twists but it's not quite the web you would get from them where anything is truly surprising. This is like a bit more like a somewhat more sedate John Wick 1 but with a family and no dogs.
Do I need a Season 2 (which they seem to telegraph at the end there could be a second season)? No. Just like with the Addams Family spinoff "Wednesday," one season is sufficient. The ideas are fresh one time but by next time it will just be more of the same. Pass.
Soul (2020)
Has that great Pixar feel.
I don't think this movie is as good as it feels. But it does feel great as Pixar movies tend to. They have such well crafted characters and such creative ways to make a point that I did enjoy the movie. And in true Pixar style they deal with a big topic (death) in a very engaging way.
That said, it's not as good as good as Inside Out or the best of Toy Story movies. It just isn't. The movie does feel like they forced a happy ending and kind of had to just wrap things up at some point versus having a great ending.
Intelligence (2005)
Almost as good as a BBC police drama
This series diea a good, not great, attempt at having a BBC style crime drama. And by that I mean a complex web of a plot driven by wonderfully flawed characters.
The cast is good overall and they do create a good plot that evolves over the two seasons. And there are no characters who are either pure good or pure evil. In BBC style, even a hero cop is probably a bit corrupt or open to being corrupted. Even the drug kingpin is not pure evil.
In a few cases however, they let a number of plot points just hang there and then just move on. And then, in season 2, the dealings with the encroaching Americans is borderline ridiculous. There is also the issue there is no season 3 so the main plot line is left unresolved. And there is the possible issue that, if there were a season 3, almost everyone would be a double agent as they just keep flipping.
Over 2 seasons there is also the minor issue of somewhat grating music that repeats over and over again. There is the also the odd need to add sound effects whenever anyone dials a mobile phone and the insistence of one character mispronouncing the name of another character. It's just odd.