Gigi Flaner

This show is a cringe fest. E.g., Her narrating at random times, thinking she is a genius revenge plotter, when really she has no clue what she's doing. I really loved Gone Girl, which was psycho revenge done correctly. And the main character there actually was an evil genius. This one misses the mark. The characters are so unlikable, except maybe Garth, before he also became unlikable. The mother, husband, wife, mistress, you sort of wish they'd all get into an accident. Also, too many scenes where random inappropriate and vulgar music gets blasted into the scene. It is jarring and it ends up bringing the show down to the level of young adult/teenager want to be edgelord. The legal scenes were such bs. The defense counsel is in the room, yet lets his clients speak and potentially incriminate themselves !? This is just bad writing. There's an ineffective assistance of counsel defense. Finally, I think most people who watched this wished she just left this guy.

Dumb movie. Pretty infuriating plot. The ending is really anticlimactic, and that's an understatement.

This show is terrible! If you want to get annoyed and even angry at characters and a storyline that lacks common sense, then you've come to the right place. It appears something major is going on in the world, attacks and calamity are happening globally, but these characters continue to be absorbed by their own personal drama. We watch the Japanese girl mope for far too long for her deceased s.o. Days and nights pass of her in bed, her in shower, her being lost. In one scene you see her finally put on clothes to go out, while in the background she turns on the TV for the first time and we see news feeds of crowds running in the city, and this is presumably the first time she learns something really major is going on, yet she glances at the TV without any emotion or curiosity. In another narrative, we have the house wife perpetually focused on her husband's infidelity even though the world around her is crashing down. Nobody seems interested in their surroundings? The British kid won't stand up for himself. It's all incredibly hard to watch. the characters are not likable, which makes me root for the aliens. The plot is so slow. I didn't come here to watch a soap opera masquerading as a show about aliens. 5 episodes in, and plot still advancing at a snail's pace.

I mean.... it's not the worst show Amazon has put out, but it's also not great. Writing is average, and some characters are pretty annoying. Some of them appear to be caricatures with little to no depth. Also, the pacing is pretty terrible. This far in, and every episode is still stop and go, cutting in the middle of something that could be more interesting if it let the momentum continue, but instead placing flashback dialogue scenes that slam the brakes on that momentum, multiple times in every single episode, and more than halfway into the season.

I heard this movie bombed at the box office, and that there was controversy about a same-sex couple scene. I finally watched it today. I went in with low expectations. To my literal surprise, this movie had soul, heart, and depth. It is reminiscent of the movie Up, where the first act invites you to ponder about themes such as the passage of time, of feeling left behind, of loss, and ultimately finding a way to move on. These themes do deliver a gut punch. Sure, the movie may be a little heavy at times, but it is still a well written story. It also provides comedic relief through most of the characters around Buzz. The visuals, music, and voice acting were all superb. I applaud them for creating a good story, and lament their misfortune of negative attention simply because the movie came out in such a dark and intolerant period in our nation (these last 4 years in particular). I am sorry the movie did not do better because this negative publicity encourages Hollywood to create mindless, conforming, status-quo drivel instead (looking at you, Marvel reboot #10000). The fact that it has garnered negative attention for whatever reason - e.g., because it is a story that is actually meaningful or because of a very brief scene involving a same-sex couple, further confirms for me that enlightened civilization is in major decline. Having now seen it, I can also say that the same-sex couple scene is absolutely trivial to the plot of the movie. SPOILER ALERT: It occurs in the context of Buzz watching Alicia Hawthorne, his space ranger best friend (who is a black woman, more on that later) meet her spouse and have a child. She is happy and lived a fulfilling life, with purpose. The scene in question involves a one-second peck on the lips between Alisha and her spouse, which has no relevance to the overall storyline. It is meant to show Alisha's growth, and how Buzz is happy for her, but how he feels left behind since he is watching his best friend move onto the next leg of her journey in life. The gender, racial, or religious identity of Alisha's spouse is OF NO RELEVANCE. I am disgusted at the conservative right for weaponizing this minimal scene and trashing the entire movie because of their own intolerance. They think that it's inappropriate and doesn't belong in a Disney movie. If we were to cave to their standards, we would never have had a female space ranger or a black space ranger (let alone both) depicted as characters in the first place, because we would still be preserving the status quo of pre-Civil War era America, where the only characters would be white, Christian heterosexual males. The only reason that didn't happen is because of progress, of people pushing the envelope over time to ensure diversity and inclusion, and to spoon feed a message of tolerance, representation, and respect into the mainstream media slowly so that over a period of time, it would not be regarded as being so out of place, and so that the future generation would not grow up with their forefathers' bigotry. These people cannot tolerate others' personal choices which have no bearing on their own lives. They try to control and brainwash their children from growing up in an inclusive world and prevent them from making their own decisions. My guess is if their children were to grow up gay, they would disown them? -Signed, a heterosexual female who is not at all offended by the characters in this movie, nor choices people make in real-life about who to love.

I've never seen this before, but watching it now - wow it's cringe worthy. First, the neighbor upstairs is a white guy playing an Asian guy, with fake teeth on, an atrociously bad accent, with all the Asian tropes... super racist caricature. Second, I feel so bad for the cat in this movie. There is a scene where she throws a fit, and it looks like the director really flung the cat around to get that scene made... and then at the end, she discards her cat by throwing it out a taxi and abandoning it on the street in the rain to be lost forever. This is basically an abused cat, stuck in a toxic relationship with this woman. This cat deserves an Oscar for what it put up with. Third, she spends the entire movie chasing after a rich husband- anyone will do so as long as he's filthy rich, and she has no care for anyone, except her own singular goal of money. She claims it's because she needs to support her adult brother, but this is a lie. Even after her brother dies, she still chases after the man with money. I really despise her character. Just because she has a pretty face and a worthless, silly attitude, doesn't make her a person to aspire to. I think the only reason this is considered a classic is because of her looks, the clothing, and some nostalgic music from a bygone era.

Went in with low expectations. Left blown away. 😳

What the heck did I just watch? Unfortunately for me, I was a captive audience on a plane who had run out of other things to watch, and really had no other choice. Sitting through this was almost as bad as the one time I flew home hungover and nauseated from Atlanta. In fact, the two experiences might have been equally bad. I came into this with no expectations, no background on the lore and an open mind. This is a story about a truly worthless main character who has no redeeming qualities and no talent, and so from the get go you are not invested. Worse, there is no character arc as he does not get any better. The story plods on and makes little sense for the rest of the film. Sure it's great they cast a diverse lead actor, but that alone does not save a horrible movie. I'm at an utter loss as to understand why this has over 80% rating on Rotten tomatoes, but I have long ago stopped trusting that site. I also wonder how so many people gave this 5 stars. Then again, these days, I often lament about the general public's taste. I'm not looking for mindless action. But this.... this is like mindless non-action.

This show is super mediocre. I've watched both seasons so this review is based on having seen everything that has been released. Characters are not well developed and there are too many new characters and monsters, introduced for 10 minutes only and you're expected to care about them, when you don't. Most of the main characters are not likable either, which makes it hard to care for them. Each episode has some new fantastical monster with some name you never heard of, but no backstory at all about what you are looking at. There's no payoff when they throw too much of the same at you. Less is more. Too many convoluted stories - show is an utter mess! - and a failure to build a coherent narrative. This is the problem with mindless trash TV and bad writing.