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Reviews
8 A.M. Metro (2023)
Tepid at best
Way too simplistic a premise with unconvincing plot twists and rigid acting. The main male protagonist seems to be recovering from a permanent hangover. He doesn't emote much even when he's trying to make the female lead learn to really love life. The female protagonist (Ira) dresses and behaves like a very professional domestic maidservant-she always seems to be braced and on the brink of rushing to her next dusting job. Her starched and tightly wound saris seem to bind her into her role even when she's coming emotionally unhinged at the beginning or loosening up as the story progresses. The younger sister is alternately hysterical, annoying, and pretty much unlikeable. Ira's husband's personality change happens too quickly to be believable.
This film could've done a lot more with mental health issues and the stigma surrounding them but it devolves into too long of a narrative with contrived passion.
Anne (2017)
Don't waste your time watching this show
Have been a fan of L.M. Montgomery's work for a long time, especially her Anne series of books. This show was both annoying in itself, and a total disappointment to me. I valiantly watched the entire first season and up to the middle of the second season before giving up in absolute disgust. I'm a very liberal individual and a strong LGBT ally, and I agree that Anne's tales need to be made more relevant to our current age with the addition of non-canon plots and characters based on such themes & issues. However, the storylines borrow nothing at all from the original novels-it's as if the showrunners are using just the name of the main character and have retained a handful of her friends & family from the book while stripping everything about her and about them that made her such a beloved heroine. Why, for instance, insist on sending Gilbert away to sea to earn his living and create too much drama around some visits to Caribbean ports?
I generally hesitate to criticize young children, but while I agree that Amybeth McNulty's appearance is perfect for the role, she comes across as way too shrieky, and the overall effect is of someone who is mentally feeble, not merely quirky and super imaginative.
The most wonderful part about Anne's tales in the books is that even with not very much happening in Avonlea, she manages to build a beautiful and rich inner life for herself. This series has pretty much managed to destroy the values and ideals behind that image.