christine degyansky

Tom Hanks acted and directed this movie and it’s a 1960’s period piece, so I thought naturally I would love it. However, there was no stakes raised in the story, hardly any conflict or even just a smidgen of drama. It was all a bunch of kids hopping from one gig to the next, they play a song, go to a club, play another song, and this repeats itself over and over again for the next 2 hours… better put, it’s boring. The only slight challenge that’s offered in this story, is the main character’s curmudgeon father. Also, it’s set in the 1960’s, exactly what were they doing with Walkman cassettes , when they weren’t invented until 1979? Sorry Tom Hanks, guess they all can’t be winners.

I thought the story and character development was amazing. My issue with the film is that while it was described as being set in 1993 modern 21sr century things were seen throughout the movie such as flat screen TV’s and computers. modern cell phones. even someone mentioning sending a text message, and in the last scene when the protagonist is at the Brooklyn Promenade, the single Freedom Tower is across the river.

I found this series to be quite over the top and mellow dramatic. Maybe it’s the times we’re living in, where while the protagonist goes on rather extensively about how much she misses her family and uncertainty simply over a career choice she made and had to have known what she was getting in to , we are living in a time of fear, sadness, and uncertainty because of situations we don’t have full control over nor had a choice of it.