Howa Bouthat

Episode one, opening scene: Girl 1 (on phone to Girl 2, rummaging through closet, exasperated): ugh how do blind people chose outfits? Girl 2: I don't know. I guess they wear a lot of sweatpants. Me: jfc - nope. (Clicks back to search menu)

Boring. No big shockers. If you watched an episode or two of the actual show, you already know it was brutally insensitive to the contestants and that their mental and physical well-being was pushed too close to the edge by abusive, ego-maniacs Jillian and Bob.

Funny, clever, great performances - hits all the notes for an enjoyable film that left a smile on my face.

Great performances in this very watchable series. Not sure if I'd watch a second season, though - too much violence.

This movie tries so hard to be meaningful but the result is a heavy-handed, disconnected mess that often crosses the line into pretentious self-indulgence. Long-winded, cringey monologues and dialogue that comes across awkward in the rare times characters actually speak to one another. For a film that relies on a central theme of humanity as one - a theme that hits viewers over the head with the repetition of Whitman's 'I contain multitudes' line - the actors lack any human warmth and connection with each other. The performances are very good but emotions and responses are out of sync with one another. It feels very weirdly AI. The storyline is weak and relies on narration to explain what's going on. The three acts are told in reverse, a supernatural angle is thrown in and characters roam in the background from previous acts all to no effect (roller skating girl for one - just why?). Connections that don't connect, paths that go nowhere, scenes that are entertaining but irrelevant, in your face symbolism that misses the mark, performances adrift without direction. Oof.

Tedious with a mostly unlikable cast. One and a half episodes was more than enough for me.

Nicolas Cage + Jeff Goldblum = Connor

Watchable with some clever dialogue but too many gags we've seen before let down a pretty stellar cast with predictable cliche tropes (cringey big romantic gesture to win back the love they took for granted - seriously? We're still doing that?).

Disappointingly corny and cliched.

I only watched this because Octavia Spencer was in it (Juliet Lewis was an added bonus). Maybe it was good, I don't know. I don't watch horror movies. As expected, the ending was too grotesque for me and I ended up regretting having watched it.