Regina Anavy

What a relief to see some realistic sex for a change (no, it is NOT pornography). The characters are well written, and the acting is wonderful.

I’m only on Episode 3 but am annoyed at Jack’s passivity and naivety. Why can’t he lie? And why would his wife throw him out just for thinking about another woman? Doesn’t she want her daughter to have a full-time father? So far this doesn’t seem like a love story to me, more like a dysfunctional relationship. Jack has ruined his marriage for a damaged and manipulative woman. But I’ll keep watching to see where this train wreck ends. The acting is excellent.

Lots of galloping horses and battle scenes with interesting sets and costumes. Weak performance by Joaquin Phoenix, who is not believable as Napoleon. Also not clear why he was so attracted to Josephine, and vice versa. But I kept watching it because it was so bad it was funny. I guess the point of it was that his ambition got 3,000,000 soldiers killed. From a historical viewpoint it had me looking up a lot of info. But not Oscar material.