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Sex Education (2019)
Fun insightful series undone by the final season
The first two seasons are some of the best I've seen with progressive ideas subtly woven around likeable characters who all have their own challenges. They are very binge-worthy. Easily 9/10. The third season has a slight drop in quality but it's still good. The last season was a mistake.
The main issue the shows has is that it introduces too many new (token) characters at the expense of the ones the audience was invested in. It felt as if the show runners had a checklist of causes they wanted to bring up, and focussed entirely on meeting their representation quota rather than giving us a good show.
Chhoti Si Baat (1976)
Pleasant movie. Poor editing.
The movie has a promising start and a generally good first half but the second half fails to impress. The actors have done a good job despite the clichéd characters. The story is predictable, but the movie is still fun to watch (and re-watch). The songs--beautifully sung by Lata, Asha, Mukesh and Yesudas--capture the pleasant and simple quality of the movie and have rightfully become classics of Bollywood music. In my opinion, bad editing weakens the impact of the movie greatly. It feels as if no attempt was made to keep the cinematography crisp (although some scenes have conspicuously been shortened as evident from the 'jumps'). The audience has to endure through minute-long montages and forced dialogue. There is even a half-minute long montage of the lead character walking. Just walking!