LA Carlson

Jeff Hiller and Fred Rococo are the best things on this 3 season show. It's a slow burn of a small town and wonderfully crafted characters. It is about relationships and of course, dysfunction. Not be watched in front of children as they are liberal with the F-word and C-word, nudity but this is HBO. No surprise this is a Duplass Brothers production.

If you grew up in the 70s, 80s and 90s Billy Joel's music was consistently apart of the environment. This documentary opens the door on his relationships, his upbringing and his music. Having seen him in 2023 in concert for the first time I will say he and his band were fantastic. Interestingly, he did not perform Just the Way You Are or She's Always a Woman to Me. Two songs clearly about his first wife. However, Joel is always going to be a New Yorker at heart; stubborn with a gruff exterior. He clearly does not want comparisons to Elton John. One of the most impressive parts of this film (the first part and the better part) is about his first wife, Elizabeth Weber, who was first married to his best friend. The fact that Joel felt guilty about falling in love with her doesn't make up for the fact he can't be bothered to say how instrumental, impressive she was in making him who he is today. She clearly loved him as well. Others have no problems giving her enormous credit. Joel effectively destroys all his marriages by his own self-indulgences. Against the advice of Elizabeth he hires her brother as a manager after she departs who effectively steels millions of dollars from him. It is remarkable that Joel doesn't seem particularly happy after years of success or for buying that mansion on the hilltop he admired and distained as a younger man. The only downside of a documentary like this is it will forever change how you listen to his music. Sometimes it is better to be left in the dark on certain subjects.

Terrible. Please don't waste 2 hours of your time. The writing is terrible. The two leads do not have much chemistry and when they do speak to each other it's neither funny or engaging. It's painful to watch. The plot isn't much better.

I recently went through the 9 seasons of this show since the parents recently received a gift pardon from our felon n chief for being convicted of defrauding banks and the IRS to the tune of 30 million. They were serving major prison time. This show is completely stupid and so is this family. No one seems to be actually employed, extreme helicopter parents who disable their kids at every turn and when they start something they never stick with it. Two of Todd’s kids from a previous marriage don’t really participate-there are separate issues there. The Chrisleys have no problem moving from home to home and Todd’s mother moves with them somehow affording her own home. Who lets their kid drive a Range Rover? Entitled and completely ridiculous. I’m sure Lifetime will pay them more money to film another terrible show about their prison life.

Stellar cast, excellent writing and it is plausible even if it were not already true. It's about life and it is a perfect movie to see for Mother's Day. Vaughn, for a change, does not play a fool and Sarandon looks amazing. All the women are outstanding and the food looks incredible.

As a the real life conclave is about to begin to select a new pope there's a great deal of discussion about this movie from 2024. The only place you can see it for free is Amazon with a subscription. I rented it on YouTube. The first half of the movie moves along as expected but the last half of the movie vers off into something unexpected and completely far-fetched. It ruins the plausibility of the movie up to this point which is beautifully shot. The excellent performances can't redeem the plot. I was so disappointed.

Please don't waste your time. The writing is simple terrible and so is the acting. It is the same old shtick from these two men who think their Ocean's banter is amusing and carries over. If I had seen this in the theater I would have walked out for sure.

Huge fan of Amy Adams. However, this movie was simply terrible and even she couldn’t save it. I should have continued to pass it over. It is not uplifting and frankly it is gross.

This would a big miss for me. While there's some talented cast members here I found the premise bleak and frankly, appalling. It would have been far more interesting if there had been more humor rather than explicit sex. But then you'd have to change the title. I couldn't watch it after epsiode 5 when Academy Award winner Sissy Spacek shows up as the mom. I mean honestly how much did they have to pay her for her one episode.

Having watched my share of medical shows I feel like this one is well above average. It's the writing. Being from Minnesota it's a bit funny it says it takes place in Mpls but there is little evidence of it. The night shots are not the skyline of Mpls but rather Toronto. Canadian Molly Parker is a wonderful actress who can do anything. She pulls this show off. The weakest character is played by Scott Wolf. The other supporting cast mostly American are also good especially Amirah Vann who plays the best friend.