Hemanth Sreekumar

Never been smitten with a character like this before. Jinx! Mind-blowing. (At least until S2, E3)

It's a really good movie. Do not look at the Imdb rating to decide its quality. The landscape, the tone and style of the film, I loved it. Riveting after 60 mins or so. The film isn't about the IRA or morality. It's just what happened. FYI: I quit being the Oscar Jury, so I really don't care about the minor flaws. I deeply appreciate the craft nevertheless.

Hasty pre-production? Perhaps the need to come in the same year as House of Dragons. I don't know what it is. Surely, they have splashed enough money, but tried too forcibly, and too quickly, to make it feel like Lord of the Rings. And the result? Murder. Balrog peeps in from the mountain asking, 'uh, did you call me?', with subtitles reading, 'Balrog growls...' The cuts were too quick and hasty that it made everything look funny. Perhaps, they wanted to make it quicker than season 1. But at least S1 had an organic, natural pace to it. Here, Galadriel and Sauron were made to look like amateurs in fighting. Also acting. For an epic storyline like Tolkien's, time and perhaps patience should be more invested into making the next season. And let's hope the Lord of Rings and Hobbit fans forget how hard it was to get to the end of season 2, and come back again when the next bomb drops in.

Honestly, loved a few episodes of this. But save that, as a whole with its season 2 ending and all, HOD feels like a flicker of light, kept alive for fans to visit like in a children's GoT history theme park! What I loved in GoT sans last few seasons was the politics that like a tight and inescapable band interconnected the plot and its characters. In HOD though, there is a glimpse of such taut lines here and there, but overall, lacks depth and consistency. PS: Emma D'Arcy is brilliant.

My favourite after the 1st! The plot is not as thick or spiritually rich or subtle like the 1st part. But for some reason, it has that special feel to it.

Give this a watch and you will be suprised how entertaining this film is. Outstanding performance by Ambro Symon aka Jetty! Leaving a 4 and a wholehearted recommendation.

Watched Nadanna Sambhavam 👌👌 Vishnu Narayan's movie sheds light on man's insecurities, dressed in pride, out of their inability to understand their partners, the stress among women and housemakers, and the need for open conversation about it. A social satire struck on a different note and pace throughout. A slow burner, entertainer!

Good watch. Out of a very few shows that successfully take you to it's world and immerse in it. Feel-good genre, with a lot of twists & nice emotions.

Interesting End But Very Slow And Some Loose Episodes in Between - 7.5/10 By the time Will's arc comes to a full, and Ye advises Saul about the secret of personal jokes, the series had picked up pace again. You get that Star Wars story type of good feeling in the last two episodes, which must've been why the original book became such a hit. But the problem lay in the episodes in the middle that I felt were just stretching, having repetitive conversations and boring dialogues for lengthy periods. And I believe the makers, more than just catering to the fun fiction genre that 3 body problem book really would have been, tried to make it a bigger, and far more serious science fiction than it actually is, with little time for real research and space for invention (original story constrictions I meant). Result? Until the 7th episode, almost all characters were prosaic. Their bond lifeless. It was like watching some weird wannabe scientists with curtains for capes, who doped too much to even emotionally acknowledge their so-called friends dying so seriously. A bit too rushed, or maybe quick writing, I do not know. With more thoughtful scenes and dialogues, cutting down the duration of the whole web series to a 6/7-episode thingy, and better character dynamics with an authentic tone, rather than just trying to oversell it, I believe, would have made the show a banger. Like stranger things and star wars where you don't even worry about science. (But from a writer's pov, I can guess the horror when there is a lot of science involved in the storyline - guess 'not overexplaining' would have helped, with better character responses and attributes!) All this being said, there are scenes in the show that I loved a lot too - like the one where Saul meets Ye. Then, Saul and Will's last conversation. Though there was no bone to Cheng's credibility as a real scientist, or her feelings for Will - even though they painfully dedicated an entire episode to show Will's pain and his feelings for Cheng like it was too late to construct - what Cheng sees, after arriving late to see Will one last time was hitting. They were great scenes. Altogether, I'd give the show a decent 7.5 for the storyline, and because I was entertained in the last two episodes. Also in the first few. But boy, have I not laughed a lot hearing 'Lord, Lord' and that guy Wade!!!

I'd give a 3-star and double like on Netflix for the original character that teared me up at the end of the book called, 'A Man Called Ove', by Fredrick Backman, based on which is the movie made. The movie felt like a bland tribute. Only the character of Parvaneh has been elevated because of the cast, and of course Tom Hanks - if the screenplay or direction had been more taut as the real character Ove himself, things would have been far more interesting for that man.