Nancy Lorenz

It's a really fun show, I wish it had kept going. Better than a lot of paranormal shows, and procedurals that are still on air. It had a superb diverse cast that had a warm chemistry with each other. I enjoyed the mysteries and the supernatural aspect immensely. Not enough shows like this on TV or streaming, but what feels likes a hundred hospital dramas, cop dramas, emergency personnel dramas. Damned shame this show didn't make it past the first season.

I was not expecting the path this story would take, but it is one that brought much thought into my own way of relating to the world. As much parable as biopic, it is a movie that reaches within us as humans, and outside of us as a species, all while effortlessly paying homage to the remarkable man that was Fred Rogers. Every actor brought their very best, every line precise and yet natural. One of those very rare movies where, try as you might, you cannot really find a fault. I think it’s the sort of movie that Fred Rogers would have liked, if a movie had to have him in it at all. And that, in itself, is praise beyond measure.

Josh Whitehouse is the only good thing about the film; the music was unnecessary, the dialogue stilted, the essence of the time period totally missed. Plus casting poor Alicia Silverstone as a character ten years older than she is was a dirty move!

It was a confusing movie with great moments that would be more appropriate for a dystopian sci-fi. It wasn’t funny enough for a comedy, it wasn’t heartbreaking enough for a dystopian sci-fi. My biggest heartbreak was the mishandling of Ngoc Lan. She came off like Short Round stuffed into the body of an adult woman, which is staggeringly unfair on the actress, as you could see her fight to bring a deep humanity to a great character that would have been better without the goofy bad English dialogue. Ngoc Lan was arguably the best character of the movie. If she had been the central main character, if she had been given the opportunity to speak English better, and if this had been a straight up dystopian movie, it would have been brilliant. But it wasn’t. So it was just plain weird and vaguely fetishistic. Going with the burnt out Occupational Therapist with the inability to make anything great of his life was a bad plot choice. He’s incredibly boring. Ngoc Lan wasn’t.