Ashleigh Armstrong

This documentary is just awful. It’s hard to know even where to begin. Amanda has no business contacting victims who were SA’d by her disgusting pedo man, without having a trauma informed therapist with child SA experience to be involved in this film and the interactions with victims. Amanda‘s grandmother is no better than her pedo husband she’s is an accomplice SA offender and is no better than Giselene Maxwell. Amanda filming victims reactions and having them make recordings to play for him as he takes no accountability is re-traumatizing them. I am truly sickened by Amanda’s mother’s behavior and refusal to take any accountability for what she allowed to happen to Ange. Amanda was insensitive to her and exploitative of her own sister, and the other victims. Shocking that she would hug her grandfather. Her mother seemed more concerned with her pedo father’s feelings, than her own daughter. Especially as she lied on the phone, saying that she protected her children from him, knowing Ange was subjected SA over and over again because she left her in his care. Disgusting. This film is extremely re-traumatizing for victims, so please do not watch it if you are a SA victim/survivor. I am shocked and disappointed that This film was even made by HBO. There is absolutely no healing in this at all, nor is there any bravery in the making of this film. I hope Ange gets the help that she needs. HORRIBLE

This series was just ok. Full disclosure i did not read the book. The acting was bad in parts and the time jumping between 3 different timeframes was pointless and tedious. The plot just isn’t good or complex enough to warrant it. It seems like every series is doing this now, so if that’s what you are going to do make it interesting and add something unique. I’m sorry but the wigs were so awful and made the characters look ridiculous- as beautiful as Kate and Tully are - you are definitely not buying that they are in their 20’s. The bad (and ill fitting) Farah Faucet wig that Kate wore that looks like it was picked up from the Salvation Army drove me absolutely nuts. The job they did “aging” the actress playing Tilly’s mom (who is younger than her in real life) is just so bad it made me laugh -putting her in a long grey wig and calling it a day. So many of the scenes were just plain cheesy and cringy. The plot is lackluster, boring and not believable. Here Kate is working a dead end job and barely making ends meet yet living in a 5 million + dollar home. Katherine and Sarah’s performances were just ok. There were a few poignant moments between them but overall nothing particularly deep or complex with either one.

I absolutely love this series!!! Helps to brush up on marvel Avengers movies like Age of Ultron and Infinity War where their characters and story were introduced and developed but even if you don’t, this series is just as entertaining. I loved Wanda and Vision characters in the Avengers movies and I absolutely love what they’ve done with them in this series and I’m only 4 episodes in. So creative, unique and suspenseful. A must see.

You would think that with a such a solid cast the writers come up with a better storyline. I'm not sure why they chose 1984 when there was absolutely nothing about the 80's that they tried to authenticly capture aside from the mall scene. No 80's music. What?! So what was the point of 1984 again? They could have done so much with this. You've got Pedro Pascal who's amazing to play essentially a disgruntled genie trying to take over a wishful world. Ugh. So boring. So long. So stupid. I love Kristin Wiig and yet her character Barbara is so unlikeable. How can you mess that up?Absolutely ridiculous fight scene when she turns into a cat. Embarrassing. CGI affects were so bad. So glad I did not pay to see this movie in a theater. My kids thought it was awful as well. 👎🏼👎🏼 I wish I could get those 2 1/2 hours back.