Colleen Dunn

I watched all six episodes in one go. It started out with so much promise, but by the end I was sorry I had wasted my time. When the plot twist comes, you want to know a bit more about how the transformation of a key character occurred. But there is zero information. The viewer is left to guess at how trauma inspired the change. Similarly. the show hints at some major pathology with the character of James, but doesn't expand on it other than he is an upper class Brit. But his rape of his research assistant is egregious and suggests some sort of psychological displacement behavior. And the women who makes the allegation of rape is basically a prop - she has a few good scenes in court testifying, but then she literally disappears from the show. Maybe the British legal system is different, but her legal representation seems to be completely indifferent to the difficulty of her having to testify and endure a brutal cross examination, or how she might feel afterward. It's too bad - Michelle Dockery and the rest of the cast are very capable. But this show pretends to take feminism and the me too movement seriously, but undercuts it with afternoon soap opera plotting.

I love Justin and Christian Long on their Podcast Life is Short and have some idea from listening to them how goofy they can be together. Let's just say this movie celebrates male adolescent humor and if you told me it had been made in 1993 I would believe it. It just feels dated. The brothers are listed as the writers and directors of the film and they would have been wise to enlist some help from more experienced hands. Judy Greer has a few good moments, but most of the comic set ups go nowhere. Plus the movie is set it in the south and references the Civil War many times and involves black people being cheated out of their rightful inheritance - this is not typically the stuff of comedy. Worse yet, the two black actors in the film are 2 dimensional and must suffer the idiocy of the main character's ignorance. Not cute. I only finished it because I was home sick with the flu. Swing and a miss.