Mari B

i’ve rounded up to 4 stars even though I would love to give this show 3 1/2. I’m a little bit late to the party with regards to secret life of us, given that it’s 2025 as I’m binging through it I’ll get straight to the point. The first two seasons were great. The characters although sometimes annoying were great mostly and as someone who has spent a lot of time in St Kilda it was really nice to see that is based in an area that you’re familiar with. Storylines were fairly realistic. What was annoying to me? Was that some of the characters would get over things very very quickly we’re in reality most of us would be heartbroken for months. A nod for me after Alex left. I feel like the Evan/Alex/Kelly household were the heart of this show and once she left it fell apart. With all the new faces and odd storylines halfway through season three, I did find myself zoning out, and the new characters were highly unlikable (for me anyway)

I’ve watched countless kdramas and this is up there with one of the best. Every character brings something important to the show, every episode is fantastic, the ML and FL gave great chemistry, the storyline is so heartfelt and despite if having a heartbreaking ending, I’d still give it 10 stars if I could.

Heres what i love. Character development and clever writing. I decided to commit to watching SVU at the start of the year and I’m currently on the second episode of season 22. When Stabler left I wanted to stop watching altogether because I didn’t think the show would manage without him with Olivia, But with each new character I continued and I genuinely loved the way everyone interacted with each other. There’s a real sense of family as well as a fantastic storyline in each episode. Some of the episodes involving children were hard to watch (my mum heart couldn't take it) But thankfully there aren’t many of those. The story lines are gripping, the characters have great relationships with each other, so you really do end up caring for them as people. Here is what I don’t love. Once the world became woke, The show started throwing in a decent amount of “wokism” Into its dialogue particularly from Olivia. I know she’s meant to be the mother hen Who cares about everyone but sometimes it felt forced and unnatural. She is by far one of my favourite characters but given how stressful her job would be. I just feel like the whole “ Mother Teresa” Portrayal can make the show seem a little bit unrealistic. I’m hanging for Stabler to return and I can’t wait to see where the show is going to go next

I know it’s only ep 2 but unfortunately it’s impossible to stay engaged with these women. No one seems genuine at all. The way they look and especially talk makes me cringe

I fight saw MITIM at the movies while going through my “Leo phase” after seeing him in Titanic. At the time I made it a mission to watch everything he did a million times, with MITIM being amongst them. It’s an enjoyable movie and an easy watch. Nothing stressful or hard to follow. Despite the big names, the various accents throughout the movie does take away from the authenticity of it being played in France. Leo is still a fresh actor so you can really tell that he’s a tad uncertain on how to present himself on screen, but I feel he was more comfortable playing Lois than Philippe. I found the dialogue weak, some of the lines are worthy of an eye roll, however the cast have a great connection on screen which almost makes up for it. Gabriel Byrne is fantastic in everything he does, and he portrays D’Artagnan with such class, wisdom and love. He is the highlight of the movie.

I just finished watching it with my daughter and it’s a good movie BUT ladybugs singing voice does not even slightly match her talking voice and it’s so unbelievably distracting! We had to fast forward through the songs because my daughter was like “what’s wrong with her voice? Adrian is normal but what’s happening?!”

I literally watched this entire movie in fast forward because it was that bad. I hoped that the acting would get better, I hoped that the storyline would trail off being so cliche and throw in something a bit unpredictable, I hoped that at some point it would focus on something other than sex scenes. I was wrong. Some decent acting could have potentially made bearable, but from the second Laura opened her mouth and spoke in that monotone voice (which only changed when she was angry) I just couldn’t focus on anything else.Terrible If it were possible to give 1/2 a star I would and even that would be too much.

I have absolutely no idea who is writing negative reviews in the press because my husband and I loved it. The acting was absolutely spot on and Rami was remarkable, in fact everyone was fantastic!. There was a perfect combination of humour, sadness, anger, it was very well put together. While I do agree that Freddie’s “craziness” was toned down drastically I think it was done so because essentially that part didn’t matter. Who Freddie Mercury was inside was NOT parties and drugs, he was a soul looking for love and that was evident throughout the movie, all he wanted was acceptance and love. I was a little relieved that his death wasn’t shown especially after such a phenomenal performance from the AIDE concert. A tragic ending to a legend but one that will live on forever. All in all an excellent movie and one I will happily watch and sing along to again.