Aishwarya B

Loved it. Watched it several times already.

Better than the first film The writers hit it out of the park with this one, or should I say hit it in the feels Anxiety is the best written character , as she's the villain as well as (one of) the hero of the film. This gives her strong, and relatable character motivations. The other new characters are also well written and fun (except maybe for Envy) and Riley's story while it maybe a cliche, it's still shown from a different perspective which makes it very engaging. Overall a must watch!

Season 3- The most troll season of all, every 'twist' and 'turn' (which happens way too many times btw) makes it feel like the writers are going "psych!" everytime and it's irritating to be honest. The character motivations make no sense this season, and there are way too many 'matches' being made. Except for Penelope, every other story feels underwritten , and even Pen's story towards the end makes no sense. It's all over the place and the resolution as a result was soulless. Season 2- This season was much better! The characters were great, had good arcs, story was compelling and the cliche of Love triangles was handled well. I've now got over the novelty and I'm interested in the plot alone from here on. Season 1- The Novelty Bridgeton is yet another tale of glittery romance in the Regency ra. Be honest, the only reason we all watched past episode 3 was the eye candy. And no I’m not talking about the duke. I’m talking about the gorgeous set decoration, expressive clothing, the fancy pish posh language all of which admittedly deserve major rounds of applause. I think if Bridgerton were to somehow go down in history, the mise en scene is what it would be lauded for. And the performances were great as well! Plot and character motivations made no sense.

A decent show with a terrible ending. Spolier alert, the therapist is killed, and the serial killer is validated. Yet another show that subtly glorifies the psychology of a serial killer, as if they are the most unique and interesting species with crazy labyrinths of eff -ed up things going on in their brains. Killing the therapist didn't make narrative sense, nor did it make the show look good in a 'moral' capacity. So much streched out set up, and a strange U turn that felt like the show decided to go 'poetic' and end with said serial killer locking himself up. Symbolically. I just want to ask. Why? Why have that twist ending? As a viewer Mindhunter did whatever this show was trying to do without glorification of the morally reprehensible, while being consistent in its narration. Even though it got cancelled.

A Film Barely Held Together by Contrivance and Plot Armour Damsel has a good start with an interesting premise. But somewhere along the way loses its plot and much like it's protagonist, scrambles it's way out of a cave. I was hooked in the beginning, in which a princess was thrown into a metaphorical fire pit, where chances of survival were slim to none. You see, an evil fire breathing dragon, lived in the cave she was thrown into. Basically shes a sacrifice. So the dragon can avenge her babies deaths by killing the royal family who destroyed her eggs. Only thing is, these girls aren't from the family. A ceremony where a blood exchange happens between said Damsel and the royal family whom she's marrying into, makes the dragon believe the Damsel is from the same royalty. But how she can smell the royal blood and not the Damselsbtrue blood, is a question we shouldn't ask. Anyway, that's the main plot, which has way too many scenes of Millie Bobby Brown escaping and getting saved by plot convenience. And once she escapes, the plot makes it so MBBs sister has gone through the same shambles. So it's upto Millie to rescue her damsel in distressed sister. And she does that. At the same time she saves the dragon as well, they have a heart to heart behind the scenes and together the dragon and her vanquish the main royal family. The same dragon who for centuries killed several young princesses, blindly assuming they're from the same royal blood. Technically speaking, the film was not bad, it had some beautiful shots, the acting was good and hair and makeup were beautiful even if not from that era. Though I should point out that the dragon's character design were very off, the scale was all over the place, the dragon went from blue whale sized to baby whale shark. And this was making it even harder to suspend disbelief. And there was a blue whale sized dragon amount of suspension of disbelief thatnwas needed for this film.

Not great. The acting was hammy, comedic bits weren't done well at all, and the characters felt very one dimensional.

Emma Thompson is amazing. The film has some good moments, but it's way too unrealistic in its portrayal of the main leads, especially Mindy Kalings character. She's the Andy to Thompson's Miranda, but unlike Andy, she's got no comeuppance and character arc. She shows up with zero experience in the field, cries when she's rightfully (slightly!) critized, chastises her coworkers constantly, and the film makes it look like she can do no wrong, and pffft, experience? Who needs that, you go girl! Other than that, I didn't dislike anything else in this film. The side characters are interesting and the overall plot is unique. But the best part of this Film for me was definitely Emma Thompson. She's got excellent range and is indeed, like Miranda,a legend.

One of the few good romance shows since 2020, with a well written will-they won't -they, but with a gut wrenching ending. Seriously the character Dexter, just can't catch a break in this.. I'll forever be salty about the ending.

Swipe right on this film. Zoya-Reema (and now Arjun! )have done it again! This film has an excellent screenplay that's gripping from start to finish, with a character heavy plotline and an underlying message of social media escapism. I thought that this film was going to be a typical eye roll worthy on the nose message about how bad social media is, validation, addiction bla bla. But, it's absolutely not the case. Social media here is used as a tool for exacerbating the characters problems, not being the cause for it. Social media is just a recurring character here, very reminescent of the devil on the shoulder arguing with the angel. Validation, addiction, escapism, keyboard -warrior-ing is just the result of new age human error. The direction by Arjun Varain Singh comes across as seasoned and experienced, despite his first time directorial. The cinematography, editing and music were seemless and perfect for this film and brought in the vibe that the writers were going for. The actors ofcourse also did a great job The ending of this film is bitter sweet but more sweet IMO, and is alone the reason to re watch this film.