Ashley G

Cute movie but I took off one star because it’s basically “Possession” the movie from 2002 staring Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckart. I loved Possession. I’m surprised someone published this book and didn’t say “hold on this has already been done”, and then continued to make the movie as well.

A pharma head takes a bunch of criminals, let’s them live like kings while he tests drugs on them. It’s really hard to feel any sympathy for the people who committed manslaughter and murder when Hemsworth plays a pretty nice guy and the protagonist isn’t at all likable or sympathetic. Had vague similarities between the Island (Gregor and Johansson), but failed to hit the mark.

The world's most boring series with a pretty stellar b-list cast. I am not religious, Mormonism offends me, and listening to them wax on and on about their bonkers theories isn't what makes this series bad, it's like watching a series in Korean with no subtitles. It's a mind numbingly boring series. "Murder Mystery" gives this thing too much credit. She's killed by a bunch of religious nut jobs, with a whole lot of boring religious theories thrown about endlessly, the end.

I love this show. I've watched it like 1000 times (I work from home and keep it on in the background). I can't even really describe it because the premise; husband puts chip in wife's head, wife leaves husband, chaos ensues, doesn't really do it justice. It's just a really good show, give it a watch.

It’s a shame Pam Anderson hated the series. If anything I think this series painted her as the only sympathetic character. In hindsight of #MeToo and women telling their stories, the fact that she went through any of this is shocking. I was only 9 or 10 years old, and watched Baywatch as a kid, but wasn’t cognizant enough to really understand what was going on. Now that I am older, I am absolutely appalled. Especially since Pam Anderson has always come off as a genuinely nice person. It’s sickening to think she went through any of that, and was basically forced to because the laws just weren’t there yet. I have a newfound respect for her. Regarding the show itself, it was good. Even Lily James, who is an abhorrent, wooden actress did a good job. Granted she still played Pam as kind of lifeless, but having watched Pam growing up I appreciated she got the look and the voice right. Sebastian Stan did well with Tommy but I’m not sure he played it up enough. Tommy was an insane character, and if anything Stan may have toned it down. The flashbacks to 90’s rock dudes was something I had completely forgotten, but they definitely got the douche vibes right. What a terrible time to be alive. The rest of the cast was good. I felt sympathy for Rogan’s character. But playing a bumbling idiot is kind of Rogan’s MO so I don’t think it was a stretch for him. All in all it was a nice little binge for a Sunday afternoon.

The most boring movie, in the world’s ugliest apartment? I wanted to give up 20 minutes in but stuck with it because I’ve never quit a movie, no matter how bad. Don’t waste your time. It’s not profound, it’s boring. I won’t even get into the point of inviting your family over to your hovel with no furniture.

Boring. Depressing. And I’m really confused by the last episode. I didn’t see any grooming in the beginning, he pursued her relentlessly, but in the end it was her fault? Not to mention as a Texan I was annoyed with the Texas overkill that they also got completely wrong (whataburger wrappers, license plate, architecture). If you’re going to go that hard to pretend it’s Austin, at least get it right. Very confused by the ending. But mostly just bored. Would not recommend.

It kept me through to the end hoping for some great mystery to be resolved. That never came. I saw this after that awful turd Midnight Mass and from now on I will never watch anything from Mike Flanagan. His shows are cloying. You could cut out 5 episodes just from all of those annoyingly endless monologues. Seriously one after another after another. You get the idea that the writer believes he’s more profound than he actually is. I’m sure he sits over these pages and pages of meaningless words thinking he’s creating something great. But none of the words or the ideas put forth are. They’re dribble from someone who so badly wants to be clever and deep. Red Rose is a better series. Watch that instead of this show to nowhere.

This move is really low budget. Kind of like a film school movie, but not even a graduation project, like first year film student. The material could have been great, with a better writer. The cast could have been better with a better director. It just feels like nepotism is how this film got made, and if it had been in better hands, the movie could have been great. Not to mention the out of place music that did not at all fit with the tone of the film (but the composer was the director’s husband so now it makes sense), the weird close ups, it all just felt so budget, and all around bad. Just bad movie making like I have never seen before. Which is a shame. I liked Nora. I identified with Nora. I’ve been chasing fireworks too. When it feels like everyone else is partnered up because they settled, I keep looking for that magical “the one”. Hell I moved to Paris 7 years ago looking for love like Nora. It’s just a shame the material wasn’t better. It had potential, but it never reached it.

So many twists and turns, I was shocked in every episode. You go into this thinking it’s going to be a routine murder mystery, or at least I did because I hadn’t read any reviews. But then it spirals into something else entirely. I was not at all expecting that, and now every documentary I watch after pails in comparison to the exquisiteness of this one. I mean this story is crazy. Even the last episode I was expecting it to be a wrap up of everything, and then bam! They hit you with new information. I really can’t wait until all of those old people are dead so we, the younger generation, can finally cut the head off of all churches. The Catholic Church is dying, and once all of those old people are gone it will be like in France, just old buildings people pass by. We won’t bat an eye passing laws to tax them, regulate them, put them under the same laws as everyone else. Watch out Catholic Church your time is coming and when you are taken down it will be glorious (I was raised Catholic, thankfully my mother wasn’t big on it and my grandparents didn’t push us to go). I may be agnostic but Sharon May, and all of the others have a special place in hell. But her especially, for destroying the evidence that could have exposed that monster. Boxes and boxes that were probably burned to hide all of the people he no doubt kept record of. Like Epstein I’m sure he was into blackmail. I hope it’s her (and Father Maskell) for all of eternity being inflicted with what those poor girls were inflicted with. Just one long continuous hell loop of being forced against their will.