Lu Nadejova

It started off pretty good. Excellent premise. But it lost me when people started acting in stupid implausible ways. The movie had some oh wow moments that made you think but they were greatly outnumbered by ya ya i know moments. I got very impatient and ended up googling the plot which made me angry but also glad that i didn't invest any more of my time.

Fargo season 5 - i was well into episode 4 when i was still a bit indifferent about the random macgyver girl power. It took me to the limit of i don’t care unless i find out why she’s doing this NOW! and then it all exploded in storyline and character development. It’s got a little too much cruelty, fargo style, but set off by quirk and levity, and the characters surprise you without baffling you. It’s just good TV

I wanted to like the second season and it started off fairly promising but there’s nothing here. Once the drugs started it became a steady stream of trips I can’t bring myself to care about because i don’t like any of the characters. It’s more like dropping in on an improv class in the middle. The actors seem to be having fun, but I feel left out. And why do the patients keep escaping supervision? Nothing here makes sense. Waste of a good cast and beautiful location.

Is this what we’re looking for in entertainment now: Who can write the cruellest character? Is this the collective fantasy? I’m not screaming for family values, but how about a little levity, a little joy, a little respite from the melodrama. You can still tell the same story, you can still make it dark and moody but you don’t have to sap the viewer of all hope, or the courage to ever attempt to watch another tv show, since so many of them seem to go in this dismal direction in the past 2 decades. There should be a warning: thoroughly unpleasant, no likeable characters, will leave you want to die. otherwise the moodiness is actually well done. acting is good, and the problems in the story would be ever so much more forgivable if the whole thing wasn't so self indulgently tragic.

Good show with a few problems. I love the dancing and the bit of insight into the ballet industry. I have absolutely always crushed and will never stop crushing on Luke Kirby. There are some giggles. But it isn't hitting my funny buttons. The characters are overdone and cliche. Even Luke's acting isn't quite up to his usual standards. I find myself losing interest in everyone's story. Also, I hate reading subtitles. They take me away from the faces. It seems to be a trend these days, and I'm certainly all for authenticity, but while I love the IDEA of bilingual TV shows, in practise they are most suitable only for really fast readers, people willing to pause to read or toggle the audio descriptive mode, and for bilingual people. We are often asked to use our imaginations when watching stories. Older actors play younger characters, vice versa, English speaking movies have told stories in foreign countries since the beginning of cinema. We've always somehow figured it out! English or French please. Right now it's neither. I hope this bilingual experiment peters itself out. All in all the show is a bit of a downer. It should be funnier, and more nuanced, to make up for these tragic, understandably self-absorbed humans. It's still worth watching but don't expect the earth to move. I like the episode endings. Jump on Prime to let them finish, they're fun.

it's like someone had a nice house and wanted to write a story around it. the only way to explain the characters' actions is if you imagine they're all stoned. i watched to the end because i liked the scenery, and because i was knitting, and it's good for a scoff and a chuckle on the side. turns out the ending is very entertaining.