Allison Brickell

Definitely worth watching but it’s not a movie you’ll go back to over and over. I like Ryan Reynolds but it is his typical Deadpool-esque humor so if you didn’t like it in Deadpool you definitely won’t like it in this. I wish Zoe Saldana and Jennifer Garner had more screen time. And I also wish they explained a little bit more about how time just corrected itself after the villain was killed and time travel ceased to exist. It seemed a bit rushed and predictable at the end.

I have faithfully watched every week waiting for something exciting to happen. I am still waiting. The characters are flat and two dimensional. I can’t even tell if the main character, Marion, actually wants to marry Mr. Rakes because there is no chemistry or passion at all! I had high hopes with Julian Fellowes being involved but it lacks the something special that drew you into Downton Abbey. I cared about the house staff in Downton Abbey! I paid attention to their storylines. In TGA, I feel no attachment to any of the house staff or main character storylines. The only mildly interesting character is Peggy Scott and she doesn’t get enough screen time to dig deeper into her story. The costumes and set decor are fabulous and the only reason I keep tuning in.

I have loosely followed the Anna Delvey story for a couple years. I was really excited when I saw this preview. Overall, the dialogue and acting were pretty cheesy. The journalist, played by Anna Chlumsky, was a terrible actor. Every emotion she attempted to portray came off as raised eyebrows, a scrunched up face, huge wide eyes and shoulders up by her ears. It was distracting. The writers in Scriberia seemed straight out of a ‘90’s romantic comedy. I caught myself thinking one time that this story was actually supposed to be happening in the 1990’s, “why does this journalist have an iPhone back then?”. Only to remind myself to this is supposed to be set in ~2017. Nothing about it felt modern or relevant. To summarize the travel, art, fashion, luxury vibes are fun and entertaining the dialogue, reporter storyline, and dated overall feeling left much to be desired.