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Fear the Walking Dead: Amina (2022)
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I guarantee most of them would be 0 stars if the option was available.
This episode is truly a low point for this garbage show. My patience has reached its limit in waiting for FTWD to become watchable again. After next weeks season finale, I'm done. From the looks of it, I'm nowhere close to being the only one.
How, oh how, did this awful show get renewed for another season? I'm starting to think it's an elaborate practical joke, or social experiment, to see just how bad they can intentionally make it and still keep people around to watch it.
Thank you for your service, Alycia Debnam-Carey. Now you can go forward with your career and accept roles that are more befitting of your talent and excellence.
Fear the Walking Dead: Follow Me (2022)
Believe the reviews. It's really THAT bad.
There's so much bad in this episode that I wouldn't even know where to start. But, since all the other reviews covered most of it already, I'll just list the 2 most annoying things about this episode. First of all, Paul is supposed to be deaf, yet he and Alicia have countless conversations where he is not even looking at her, or she is turned away from him, making lip reading close to impossible. So, the emotional connection we're supposed to feel by comparing someone who literally can't hear with with the fact that they both have "voices" in their head is rendered moot since, by all appearances, he can actually hear just fine. Secondly, Alicia finally escapes the Arno invasion and decides the best escape route is straight down the middle of the road where she eventually collapses? Just no. Who the hell even writes this crap?
3 stars for Alycia Debnam-Carey finally getting some significant screen time this season.
Legends of Tomorrow: Knocked Down, Knocked Up (2022)
I'm good if they end it here
I knew when Mick left the show that it was only a matter of time before Nate got the axe as well. This show seems to be systematically eliminating each and every straight white man on it. It's really hard to deny at this point, and I find the whole thing very disturbing. Coupled with the fact that the only remaining OG Legend, Sarah, is clearly being set up for her own exit, I would be totally fine if they end the show now. This episode was ok. Except for the unceremonious exit they gave to the actor with the third most episodes in the entire series, of course.
Suspicion (2022)
Uma Who?
Where is Uma Thurman? She had a grand total of 1:53 seconds of screen time in the first 2 episodes. Yes, with 6 episodes left there is still plenty of time for her to justify the prominent placement she has received in all the advanced marketing for this show, but it's beginning to look like the same false advertising Apple pulled with Sam Neill in Invasion. It's deceitful and annoying.
I'll keep watching because the show is fast paced and entertaining. The cast is for the most part really strong, and the music and cinematography do an excellent job of setting the mood and establishing the pace of this whodunit. But, I'm getting a little tired of celebrity-obsessed Apple mistaking cameo roles for starring roles and selling the former to us as the latter. Kunal Nayyar, Georgina Campbell, and Noah Emmerich are the actual stars here, and they more than carry the show themselves.
Home Sweet Home Alone (2021)
Believe the reviews
The 3.6 rating, at the time of writing, is honestly too high. Many people will read these reviews and watch this garbage anyway, and they deserve what they get. I get it...If I had come here first, I probably would have still watched it anyway, too. That's why I forced myself to sit through all 95 minutes, accepting it as penance for some past misdeed.
Free Guy (2021)
Sequel please!
This movie is what "Ready Player One" wishes it could have been. Reynolds and Comer have great chemistry together, and Howery & Keery had excellent supporting roles. I don't understand the person below who said this movie was shallow. I didn't have that reaction, at all. In fact, I thought that some of the philosophical themes it touched on made it a much deeper film than the simple comedy I was expecting.
SEAL Team: Nine Ten (2021)
Hope. Resilience. Unity.
I've seen so many 9/11 anniversary specials this year, and this episode was better than all of them. It served basically as the origin story of Bravo, a subject which I've always wondered would ever be covered. Now I know why they've waited until season 5 to do it, and it was well worth the wait. I didn't know what the episode was about before watching it, so when the third act began with the news footage from that morning, it caused me to sit upright in my sofa. The way it was done was so good...by tying together the story of the team flying together to NY to the story of the team experiencing that day alone 20 years ago, we get to see both the ways they've developed and they ways they stayed the same since the morning that set all of them down their current path together.
Home Economics: Windmount Academy, $42,000/Year (2021)
Like losing your car in a snowstorm?
I just don't understand why we can't celebrate one culture without shaming another one in return. Instead of using the plot to educate and entertain, this episode chose to use it to shame, yet again, with its blatant and unapologetic racism. It's almost like they are daring a large part of the audience to stop watching. So be it...I'm tapping out on this show. How much longer will people accept this type of "humor" as entertainment?
La Brea (2021)
Don't get invested...
It doesn't matter how good this show ends up being, because NBC will cancel it after the first season. It's all about immediate returns these days, and the major networks have no patience to allow new shows to breathe and evolve. So even though this first episode was halfway decent, I've learned my lesson with NBC and their sci-fi experiments, and I am canceling it before they do.
Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet: Breaking Brad (2021)
Great episode
One of the top 3 best episodes so far just for the Porsche scene. And Snoop.
Star Trek: Discovery: The Sanctuary (2020)
Why am I wasting my time?
This show is almost unbearable to watch this season. I came on here to see if I was the only one who felt this way, and thankfully I'm not.
Detmer and Dr. Culber finally get a chance to shine, but it took almost 3 entire seasons for it to happen. It would be nice to get to know them and some of the other side characters a little more, but at this point it's probably too little, too late. The insistence of the writers to make it the Burnham/Saru/Tilly show has, frankly, run out of steam.
Then, there is Adira. My problem with her has nothing to do with the whole pronoun/woke controversy that everyone is all worked up about. No, the problem with them is that they are just a REALLY boring character. They traded in Captain Pike, Spock, and Ash Tyler last season for this new character that gets an inordinate amount of screen time at the expense of all the other actors that have paid their dues for 3 years on this sinking ship. Pike, Spock, and Tyler for Adira is a shocking downgrade in quality and one of the main reasons for the sheer awfulness on display this season. I do like the Book character, but they don't really give him much to do, relegating him to the same background duties as the rest of the cast.
I'm really trying to be understanding of the difficulties involved in producing content in the middle of a pandemic. But, it seems almost like the attitude with this and many other shows this season is "something is better than nothing". I just want to say that it's not. I would rather wait an extra year for a quality show than have to sit around and watch any more ruined.
Fear the Walking Dead: Channel 5 (2019)
Are they trying to make it as bad as possible on purpose?
First of all, enough of the documentary-style narratives. It's been done before and is just lazy at this point.
Secondly, I really like Morgan, but his character is not strong enough to be the show lead. He was much better as a supporting character. It's just waaay too much of him. Meanwhile, other members of the core group end up getting 1 out 2 minutes of screen time if they're lucky. It would be nice if we could get to know some of the rest of the group instead of the typical Morgan and John/June snooze-fests.
Finally, it's insultingly boring. Everything the reviewers said before me is completely true. I too am glad this season is ending next week. And like some of the others, I'm giving it the axe too.