Phil Maggs

Fantastic special effects, it's a theme park style movie with lots of action packed moments. The writing is abysmal, coincidental and cringe worthy. A welcome end to three unworthy sequels.

Spree was one of those shows where you keep watching in hopes that it's going to warm up and it never does. Every character in the show is unlikeable, it's difficult to care what happens to anybody. Neither is the plot believable...which leaves the humor to rescue the film, and in my opinion it doesn't.

It does a fair job of wanting you to see what happens next, and keeps you asking questions. The serious tone of some of the nuns bounces off the protagonists immature, tonge and cheek amusingly at times. The pacing is all over the place, some episodes drag whilst others feel rushed. The main protagonist is never really that likeable, even towards the end when she loses some of her selfish, self absorbed ways I found her difficult to get behind. Characters intentions and desires change at the will of the plot. Half the season had the protagonists thoughts narrated, but then they dry up as if the season was written by different people with different ideas. It's generally a jumbled mess...I presume the original plot had been stretched or re written for some reason. Despite all this it had some interesting story ideas, as it plays between science, hell and heaven.

How often do you watch a show that everyone else raved about only to wonder what all the fuss was about? This is one of those shows. To get things started, you can probably tell just by the cast that this show does not take it'self too seriously so don't expect any groundbreaking Sci-Fi here. You must suspend any disbelief and enjoy this for what it is. On a positive not Paul Rudd puts on a decent performance and differentiates his normal and his better self very well throughout...the same positive things can be said for the rest of the cast. Whilst this show is easy to binge in a few sittings i found it dragged towards the latter half in a maze of sad normal self, happy normal self, sad better self, happy better self...but i pushed through to the end and ultimately found it pretty unsatisfying. If you want a simple, light hearted comedy where two identical men fight over their spouse for 6 episodes then this is the show for you. Just don't expect much more.

It's okay. Pros. It spices things up a little from the old star trek format, the special effects are nice. Some of the actors are great, with emotional expressive performances. The plot is very we always win, cliché co incidental, bad guys always lose, hero bridge crew forever but at least that's loyal to star trek I suppose.. Cons. A lot of the supporting bridge crew are nobodies, apart from Burnham, Tilly, Saru, Stamets, the Dr, Adira, Gray, and maybe the grumpy engineer everyone else is a nobody. Burnham - Her character is polarising...she ignores orders and does things her own way, which ultimately ends up being the right way that saves everyone, and everyone who ordered her otherwise looks like an idiot. She's clearly more brilliant than everyone in the room...they might as well make her Admiral and have done with it. Some of the cast can be annoying. I know the loveable awkward nerd genius thing has been popular since firefly..but there's something about Tilly that rubs me the wrong way, she's irritating. Saru has developed a bit but he's still a little dull, I do like his character though somehow. Stamets was better in season 3 yet he also can be a bit whiney at times...I know he contrasts the Dr who is much more likeable and steady...yet sometimes again he can grind my gears, not as much as Tilly. It needs some better supporting characters, a data, a Tuvok/Spock, 7of9, a worf...someone to contrast all this happy cheesy happy nonsense. Conclusion, I enjoy it for the most part and have watched every episode. But I do miss some of the cast ingredients that the older Star Trek's managed.