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Bloodline: Part 33 (2017)
Unresolved, unfilled plot holes
So the final scene was left like that so we, the viewers could decide what John does. Isn't that the writer's job? And where'd Meg go? LA for good and changed her name? And we never find out what happened in Episode 9. Did John really almost die free diving? And who saved him, because he was alone in the middle of nowhere, with no other boats around. Or did he attempt suicide? We'll never know. The Kevin heading to Cuba was a good twist, didn't see that coming, but they went there because Cuba doesn't extradite. So then why did the DEA find Kevin and family in Cuba and arrest him? Or was he not in Cuba? The sheriff said his wife left her locations on, but didn't say where they were, and the police that led the DEA to them weren't US police, so I assume they were Cuban. So did the writers forget that they had Kevin flee there to avoid extradition? And what about the sale of the house? Sally was told the place would be underwater in 10 years, but here it is 2024, 7 years later, and there are no signs it'll be underwater in 3 years. Was that just to appease the climate activists? Netflix shows have a way of starting off strong, then fizzling out or just turning bad. This show is no different.
Bloodline: Part 32 (2017)
Shark Jumped
Was this a filler episode? I'm halfway through and I have no idea what's going on. Is John in a coma? Did he really go freediving? Alone? Or did he try to commit suicide in a car? It seems the writers hit their laziness crescendo in this episode, with flashbacks and dream sequences. It's completely removed from the rest of the show. This episode might be the reason there was no season 4. As for previous episodes, John's new partner is like 20 years younger and immediately hooks up with him, after telling the Sheriff, her boss, that John resisted her flirtations. Hello, sexual harassment? Fraternization? Then John's daughter showing an interest in Danny's son. THEY'RE FIRST COUSINS! I fast forwarded half this episode.
Treason (2022)
Cliché and just bad writing
I only made it about 10 minutes into episode 2, but if you can ignore the things I'm about to point out, maybe you'll enjoy it. Spoilers incoming: Adam, the lead character, is a spy. He works for MI-6 & with the highest security clearance possible, yet his wife is perpetually suspicious of what he's doing. She spies on him to figure out what he's up to & complains that he doesn't tell her stuff. Hello! He's a spy. The top spy by Ep 2 & he has secrets that she's not cleared for. She married him knowing this. Naturally there's a security escort for him and his family everywhere they go. Enter the cliché teenage daughter that doesn't want to be escorted & loses her detail like Day 1, which of course gets her immediately kidnapped. Back to the wife: her old friend from the states happens to be CIA "on vacation." Well CIA friend drops "CIA" multiple times while sitting in a crowded diner. Great tradecraft there. CIA friend gives wifey a recording pen so she can spy on her spy husband, & she's told it works from 30 meters. Wife uses said device the first chance she gets to spy on spy husband while he's talking on the phone doing spy stuff. When she plays it back...get this...she can hear the OTHER SIDE of the phone conversation. How's that possible? THEN, she tells CIA friend that he was on the phone with a woman with an accent, a Russian accent. That's funny, from a phone call 30m away, and on top of that, while Kurylenko (Kara) is Ukrainian, her character has a barely perceptible accent, if any, and I'd dare to say she has none. Upon hearing this, CIA friend, sitting in a surveillance van, turns her chair away from the other CIA officers in the van, and tells wifey that she's not on vacation, and she's actually there to investigate her husband! Yup, CIA officer tells the wife of the target of her operation that he may have been compromised. That's was the last straw, I had to turn it off. The cliche plot, characters, and the implausible breaches of security were too much. I can't imagine it gets better, but good luck if you can suspend reality in a non-sci-fi show and push through.
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Glad I didn't pay for it
I watched the movie on a plane, and found myself fast forwarding through at least 1/3rd of the movie. Once again we're watching the US Marine Corp working on behalf of Big Pharma to commit genocide and steal resources. For all the money America has made James Cameron, you'd think he'd get off his soapbox for a minute. 2/3rds of the movie is just showing off the CGI landscape and animals, with no relevance to the story. The kids must've spent 20 minutes just swimming underwater, another 20 minutes exploring the forest. It could've been a 2:00 or 2:15 movie, instead of 3:12. There's typical bullying that's 100% predictable, predictable speeches, predictable rescues, predictable outcomes. Even the same villain in a different skin. Some plot holes, and even the ending had me saying "why?" I should've slept on the plane instead.
Yellowstone: Half the Money (2021)
Great episode, but the barrel girls need to go.
Ok, great start to season 4, following a great ending episode to season 3. Things that bother me, though: 1. The barrel girls. Jimmy's girlfriend effectively tells him if he doesn't get back into rodeo (with his hip replacement and no job if he gets hurt again), she's leaving him. So basically she only wants a rodeo cowboy, and Jimmy being weak, says ok. Stupid. Oh, and let's not forget her climbing on top of him in the hospital bed, days after they met, while he is recovering from a HIP REPLACEMENT, and a BROKEN BACK. I mean, c'mon, man. Then there's the blonde barrel girl, who first sleeps with the oldest guy in the bunkhouse, who's probably 40 years older than her, and flirts with him from day one. Gross. Then she immediately jumps in bed with the guitar playing cowboy, in the same bunkhouse! And why are they living there??? Can you tell this series is written by dirty old men? 2. Nearly every guy the Duttons, et al, have killed has been justifiable self defense, yet they NEVER go to the police. Hell, Beth's office was bombed (hello, domestic terrorism), the ranch was attacked, John was gunned down in the street, yet no state police? No FBI? No ATF? Is 2020 Montana the same as 1865 Montana? I'll keep watching, but suspending disbelief in a modern western drama is hard.
Obi-Wan Kenobi: Part VI (2022)
5 stars for fight scenes, 2 for the rest
The Vader vs. Kenobi duel was epic, with more force powers than we ever saw, from any Jedi, really. But the plot craters are hard to ignore. Where to begin? Reva makes it to Tatooine with a whole straight through her stomach before the refugees even escape the star destroyer; Vader was left for dead, but his next scene he's repaired and back on his ship; Obi Wan doesn't sense that Vader survived; Obi Wan senses Luke's in trouble across the Galaxy, but can't sense that he's 100 yards away in Reva's arms; Obi Wan leaves his cave to go...to another cave? Luke has no lines? He was the star of the first trailer that dropped jaws, and the show had nothing to do with him. This episode was the best of the rest and still left me wanting more, but it felt like it was a 2 hour movie that got cut down to 45 minutes to fit the tv schedule. 7 stars is probably generous.
Ozark: You're the Boss (2022)
Pillsborough dough boy as a cartel heavy
How anyone can buy into Jason Bateman as a proxy cartel boss is beyond me. He's the softest guy in the series and the fact that he doesn't get whacked in the first 10 seconds in Mexico is not believable. Unless Marty having Cabrera tortured to get him to confess to a hit he obviously didn't order is intentional, that's just an insult to intelligent viewers. I found myself talking to the tv, telling Marty that he didn't do it. Navarro's mother gave him up - that should tell you something.
Colony (2016)
A cancelled series with cliffhanger ending
Season 3 ends with the intention of a Season 4, but there is none, so don't waste your time. What's packaged as a season finale turns out to be the series finale, and you're left wondering who lives, who dies, is earth obliterated, do we win? A lot of brutality throughout, public murder and executions, and what should end up with consequences in the end, gets left hanging like everything else because it was cancelled. I want my 40 hours back.
Colony: What Goes Around (2018)
I should've skipped this whole show
I should've read ahead to find out that the final episode was an unexpected series finale, when it was supposed to be a season finale. The entire 3 seasons reaches its crescendo, then get cancelled. USA and Netflix don't give a crap about their viewers. Netflix shouldn't have even picked up this cancelled series. We have no idea what happens, who survives, who dies. A good show, but what a waste of my time.
Blue Bloods: On the Arm (2022)
Jimmy Buffet x 2
His first role? Kinda cool to see him. As for the episode, lots going on & lots to keep track of, but not all that great. Big Goof when the Captain said she was 12 when her brother was injured in Iraq (1990 was when the first war started). The actress was 30 in 1990, and no one would buy the storyline that she was born in 1978. When she was 12, the Vietnam War was in full swing, so the writers need a history lesson.
The Book of Boba Fett (2021)
62 year old playing a 41 year old?
While it's cool that the actor who played Jango Fett is playing Boba Fett, he's about 20 years older than Boba Fett would be, and it shows in the action sequences. He was 42 in Episode 2 (when Boba was about 36), but that was 20 years ago. Other than that, the story is slow and not all that interesting. He was a silent character in the Star Wars movies, so how and why did Favreau choose to make him a comparatively chatty mob boss in this show? And why do his backstory to begin with?
The Lobster (2015)
Not sure what people see in this
A lot of 8+ stars & 87% on Rotten Tomatoes? I don't get it. The two leads act like it's a casting call and they're just reading the script. And I like Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz. Slow, dull, occasional dark, bizarre humor, but I'm not going to make it till the end.
Helltown (2017)
Complete fiction
The town was taken over by eminent domain in 1974 to create a park, but in typical government fashion, they didn't have the money to build it. There was also toxic chemical dumping nearby. Everything else is fake. No cult shootout, no missing kids, no girl killed by a wendigo. Look it up on Snopes.
Warrior POV (2013)
Good 1st hand stories, actors need some basics
Hearing some of the 1st hand accounts is terrifying to imagine what these guys went through. One complaint, as with most military and police shows, is that the actors aren't trained in trigger discipline or moving tactics. Nearly every dramatization contains "soldiers" with fingers on their triggers, barrels pointed at the "soldier" in front of them, or sweeping back and forth at their team. 1. Finger off the trigger until you're ready to fire (at least when clearing a house), 2. Don't point the gun at anything you don't want to destroy.
6 Underground (2019)
How'd this even get a 6 star average?
Is there a story? I couldn't figure it out. Chaos, in a bad way, despite what another reviewer said. I only made it through 38 minutes, and I'm pretty easy to please.
Arrested Development (2003)
Portia, what have you done?
I literally came here to see if they replaced Portia de Rossi on Season 4. I know 7 years went by between season 3 & 4, but the surgery she had done made her unrecognizable. It's distracting enough that I might just stop watching it (on Netflix).
The 100 (2014)
The best laid plans of mice and sky people...
I've binge watched up until Season 3, Episode 15, but it's become (much) less about "will this plan work?" and more about "how will this plan fail?" Devise plan, fail, rinse, repeat. If the plot of Season 3 carries over to Season 4, I'm hitting the kill switch.