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Star Trek: Discovery: Scavengers (2020)
It's the Michael Burnham show!
First, this show has amazing special effects for a TV show.
Second, I like many of the characters on this show. It's got a good balance between younger and older actors. Michelle Yeoh is now one of my favorites!
Unfortunately, this episode once again has to be all about Michael Burnham and how great she is and that she knows more than anybody in every situation. She is the only one that can speak about anything. She must make every speech!
The other characters are literally reduced to background characters or only having two or three lines throughout the whole episode.
I don't want to watch a solo character show, I want an ensemble darn it!
Friday Night Lights (2006)
not what I hoped
I heard many great things about this TV series. I saw the movie of the same title but I told myself to discard everything I had seen and to give Jason Katims a chance with similar characters in a similar setting.
Granted, I think I have a unique perspective on a show like this one. I went to a small high school in a small town in Texas. High school football is extremely popular where I grew up, but nothing at all like this series. We had no "secret group" of local businessmen arranging recruiting of players from other schools, paying for the players' room and board, etc.
This show has dozens of people telling the coach what to do rather than his supervisors at the school. Like many movies and shows before it, this series has the usual broken down parents that "used to be great players" throwing out advice to the new coach. This may have happened once or twice in my community, but not on a daily basis.
My team and I ate together at a local hot spot once in a while, but not every meal with every other family in the community. The TV interviews with players? Nope. Simply not worth the coverage every week plus there were many other things to watch besides a high school junior fumbling over his own nervous comments. Kyle Chandler seems to be a great choice for the coach, but he is awfully young compared to the coaches I had. When his players run up and down the muddy hill after their loss, I was shocked. We had many rough practices, but running in the rain at 11:00 o'clock on a school night? Coaches constantly going to players' houses? Never would happen.
The show has so many clichés almost as if someone "imagined" what high school football would be like, not how it actually is. Even the girls in the pep squad sleeping with all the players? Wow, we had no official hookers in my day. Heck, I am surprised the actors' did not all have mothers and fathers working in the fabled "mill" and about to be layed off. Then again, I have only watched the first six episodes. Where is Uncle Joe, who could have been somebody if only he had not blown out his knee? Is he coming to the show soon? :-)
If you played high school football, stay away from this show. If you never played high school football, watch this show knowing it is just a show. None of its plots or characters are based on real people in small Texas towns.
In Time (2011)
Great idea, poor execution
This movie deals with something we all want in our daily lives: more time. People bet minutes, hours, and even years of their lives in the same manner in which we wager various amounts of money. The premise is very unique, but the execution is terrible.
Young Hollywood has a lot of talent, but they are all miscast in this film. Timberlake is quite good in his portrayal: street/poor kid suddenly faced with wealth/time. The rest of the cast though looks like children playing dress-up. The actors in the film have no sophistication or polish. The film looks thrown together as if it were finished as quickly as possible. There is simply no star power to be found.
From scene change to scene change, I could not have cared less what was happening. A good film could be made with a young cast, but this is not one of them. Think of a modern classic with Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, and then recast it with the likes of Zac Efron and Hilary Duff. There is simply no compelling reason to continue watching or caring. One of the pivotal plot points of this movie is the pursuit of youth, but the reasoning behind it feels weak. If you want to bored, then you should watch this film. Ask yourself afterward how it could have been fixed, if only the production company had more........time.
Endgame (2011)
not your usual fare
The first time I saw Endgame, I thought it would be your usual "brillant guy shows all the cops and those with real know-how how to solve crimes." The show is nothing like that. Endgame's protagonist has a phobia that will not let him leave the hotel he is staying at. After his wife's murder, he was so traumatized that he could no longer be part of the "real world," unless it is through quips of his knowledge and intellect.
The supporting cast literally marvels at his genius and scoffs at his arrogance.
Every character in every episode plays a relevant part in telling the story.
In one hour, we see one of television's most vulnerable characters show everybody what he feels and sees.
Great show, Do yourself a favor and watch it if you can.