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Every wonder what happened to people like Amelia Earhart, Judge Crater, and Jimmy Hoffa? Well now we know. They were actually vampires who burned to ashes at the sunrise. This is explains the mysterious last words of Fred Noonan, Amelia Earhart's navigator..."We're approaching the island at...Oh my God! Amelia is a vampire! And she's burning up in the sunlight!" Historians no longer wonder at what those strange words might have meant.

This entire second season was just "meh". It was only six episodes for some stupid reason. Nothing happened. People yelled a lot, got mad, talked and talked, and in the end you could skip this entire season and replace it with about a three sentence summary. I eventually just started fast forwarding a lot and skimming over boring crap. Plus, they started putting flashbacks at the beginning of every episode, a sure sign of a dying show.

But I gotta wonder....where does a mining company come up with so many goons willing to commit murder on their command? I mean seriously, the willingness to kill someone isn't something most people have. But apparently when companies are constantly portrayed as evil by hollywood, the writers just assume everyone who works for big company is a murderer.

And since we know those writers are never original, we know they believe in the power of the "super duper bad guy" who never dies the first time you try to kill him. Or the second or third time, either. He usually takes several tries, and normally will only die at the very end, at the very last second, when all hope is lost, and with a final dramatic one-liner from the hero. "Freeze this, loser!" or "Sink this, meanie!"

It started great but got more and more ridiculous as it went on. What they call tension at the end, I call drawing it out to monumental proportions.

One of the main reasons is because he is more relatable to modern viewers than the white actors, who play it straight the whole time. Moreland brings the needed dialogue, spices things up, and adds the laughs.

This movie would seem to have everything required for a good old fashioned black and white horror movie. A Caribbean island with zombies. An old spooky mansion. A graveyard, secret passages, and voodoo. However, there is a bizarre incongruity about it all. To find such formal manor house manors in the middle of a jungle, not far from America but very far from Britain seems odd. The black servants below stairs in the kitchen, a huge house than happens to have a room available that's already made up, dressing for dinner. When he told his manservant to get their bags, I was thinking, "Bags? What bags? You mean he has to dig through the wreckage of the crashed plane?" But they apparently got their bags complete with pajamas and dressing gown - everything a good manor house guest in England should have.

It would have been better if it could have been a typical 1940s style house in the Caribbean, instead of an old mansion. However, Mantan Moreland saved the day. He's the every man, he's comical, talkative, and a bit flirtatious with the girl. He was far more interesting to watch than the other two, who were straight arrows with little to interest the viewers.

This is the story of an underage model who is an exhibitionist, and likes to take her clothes off in rooms full of strange men. She and a young painter are in love, but when he finds out about her nudist lifestyle he is shocked.

She runs off with a hypnotist to sing across Europe. But in the end the young painter decides he can put up with her desire to be naked in front of lots of other men. See the shocking conclusion of this nudist/hypnotist/painter mé·nage à trois.

Evil white men are the real problem here. The good and noble non-white men, and the good and noble downtrodden women are the unsung heroes. We must never forget that when we make movies and tv shows.

It almost felt cheesy when she picked up the gun and showed off her skill. We knew it was going to happen. The man couldn't hit the plate because he's evil and white and male. We knew what would happen the instant she picked up the gun. And the instant we saw their prison was a person of color we knew he was truly innocent.

And the people in charge are always evil, the guards, the nobles, the police, all of them. Why? Because they are in charge.

I honestly don't think justice and honesty existed in the world until very recent times, and only in specific western countries. In ye olden days, everyone was crooked and corrupt. It's a wonder our species made it this far.

...lurks in the hearts of men.

In this case, we found out. The evil that allowed this guy to murder not only his wife, but two toddlers. Wow. That's just mind-boggling.

This is the story of a controlling and dominating woman who wanted the perfect life, she wanted her husband to be a very specific way, and she criticized him constantly and told him he wasn't man enough, didn't have the balls, etc. To her credit, towards the end she did start to realize how she was treating him and apparently was trying to reconcile her own behavior and make things work. I seriously doubt, however, that she would really have gone as far as it would take (and do what the average person would do) and truly change.

Unfortunately for her, she never realized until it was too late the kind of person she had married. It's easy to say she pushed him too far, and we'll never know what their last conversation was like. But he had it in him to do unspeakable things.

As for the death penalty, I can't know what it's like to face life in prison, but if I had done something that horrible I wouldn't want to live. How could she have known what he was capable of? It's horrific.

When they say "To the Lake", they literally mean an entire series about people trying to get to the lake. You would think that would be just the first episode, and then other stuff happens once they get there. But no, getting to the lake is what this show is about.

The first few episodes are just a game of "Three Car Monte", as they swap around, drive, swap around, things happen, swap around in their three cars. After that, there's a lot of driving and arguing and driving.

Of course the military is brought in as the quintessential bad guys. Every time there is a plague or pandemic, the military always comes in and slaughters everyone, sick or not. This has never happened in history, you can check. There have been plagues recorded in history since the Roman times and we never see any historical record of the military just killing people willie-nillie. But movie-makers the world over must honestly believe this is what happens. And it's so non-sensical. They never kill their own, but they kill all civilians, like once you put a uniform on you suddenly have a right to live. And they never have a conscience. They never say, "Hey, maybe we shouldn't murder these women and children", they all just do it like it's nothing...just because they have that uniform on.

The show isn't bad, it's just a whole lot of nothing to get to the good parts here and there. You will come to hate some characters that seem way over-the-top. Maybe Russia is full of folks who automatically kill or imprison anyone they see driving down the road, or knocking on their door, or wandering through the woods. I've never been to Russia, but I wouldn't think they appreciate this portrayal of them.

Imagine, just when Trump becomes president and promises to build the wall, that's when suddenly the fate of the world depends on a Mexican having to cross the border illegally. Who could have seen that coming.

But seriously, this feud between the characters of Grace and Sarah Conners doesn't make a whole lot of sense, and there is zero chance we would ever side against Sarah Conners. So that is the first mistake they made with this movie. We want to like both of them, we want them to team up from the start. But given a choice, Grace doesn't stand a chance in gaining our trust or affection against the woman who has been part of this for nearly 40 years. So Grace's smart-a** quips and threats only work against her.

With all the jumping back and forth in time this franchise has done, it's hard to surprise us anymore with weird new timelines. But killing off John Conners as a kid from the very start seems very incongruous and certainly unwanted. What we wanted was an ending where all the good guys survive somehow. How about Arnold absorbing just enough of the REV-9 to heal himself, same with Grace, and STILL change the past so John Conner doesn't die.

We now understand the Butterfly Effect probably isn't real. In most cases throughout history, too many forces are at play to rely on any single instance of an event. If Skynet doesn't happen, the forces that brought it about will still bring about something similar. If Hitler had been killed as a baby, the forces working in Europe would probably still have given rise to something or someone else equally perverse and evil.

So that part of the movie we can accept. We just want it on our own terms, giving us the ending we hope for. It's science fiction for crying out loud, you can write it anyway you want...why not write it to satisfy the audience?

I just binged 60 episodes of this great show. One thing that bugs me is how the daughter interacts with her father. One minute you think they're going to have a meaningful conversation, the next she runs to her room and shuts the door like a 12 year old. She acts like she wants to learn about what her father does, but only through the eyes of Money Chandler. Why not listen to her father? In 60 episodes I don't recall her ever doing a ride-along.

Season six felt forced in many ways. The whole sovereign citizen arc seemed unnatural and inserted for no real reason. First of all, they try to equate libertarians with terrorists? Wow, libertarians are about the most benign group out there. If recent events have told us anything, the left (progressives, anarchists, etc) are actively doing what would be called terroristic activity if it were any other group. Second, neo-nazis are hardly a strong force in America, and no one in any political party is sympathetic with them; yet they are trotted out by hollywood anytime a bad-guy is needed. Plus the ending of that arc was so blasé. Deus ex machina-ish, It was tacked on to the end of the show, with very little tension, and it just sort of fizzled out. After all the buildup for 10 episodes? That's all they had?

But the biggest loose thread was Billets being accused of sexual harassment, and then the sergeant making another accusation...and then nothing. We have to wait a year and a half to see season seven start with "13 months later", and a brief explanation of how it turned out without actually showing us.

And yes, I think it will be late 2021 before we see season seven. Apparently no one in hollywood can work during the virus. Too bad hollywood isn't run by school children, they seem to be the only group of people in America we are willing to shove together in close contact on buses and in classrooms without masks.

Just as the first episode of season 1 highlighted what slimy filth the media is, the first episode of season 2 is meant to highlight what slimy filth lawyers are. They will knowingly take a case where the defendant is guilty just to show off their crooked skills at abusing an already corrupt system, and get a guilty, murdering pedophile out of jail.

If this is what season 2 is going to be all about, I won't be watching it. If writers suck so much at coming up with new scripts, I would never even considering lowering my standards to watch the filth they spew out.

After watching two seasons of The Break, I have learned five things. 1) A lot of cops are crooked and, just like in real life, they often get away with it, 2) Deep down, all girls are lesbians, 3) The French do not yet have the technology to track cell phones, 4) Being the love interest of this main character will always turn out bad, and 5) The French have been secretly growing their own Steve Buscemi for years. They cloned him from skin scraping they got when Buscemi was in high school. They call their Buscemi Karim Barras.

Dumb ending.

This is too cliched for my taste. And the ending was pointless and stupid.