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Parish (2024)
Esposito deserves better
It felt like we were dropped into the middle of a season instead of the start of a brand new show. There's zero character development. You just have to figure it all out on the fly. We have no idea why Parish is who he is or why the bad guys are even the bad guys. Then there's Parish's family. These are all complicated characters but we get zero backstory. They just jump into the middle of things. And with that they give us only six episodes?
They also seemingly did things on as cheap of a production budget as possible. Some scenes it sounds like they were filming in a telephone booth.
This show might get a season 2 due to Esposito's popularity. Otherwise surely this would get canceled.
How It Ends (2018)
A heck of a lot better than Bird Box
Sure the ending wasn't quite enough, but it was a solid story that kept me interested throughout, despite not knowing who the "enemy" was.
I've seen far worse quasi-apocalypse movies, including one that's all the rage right now.
Bird Box (2018)
I'm not sure what the point of this movie was
It starts out with a bunch of fluff character side stories completely irrelevant to the ending, then it finishes like the plot line out of one of the Goosebumps series of books for kids with some Castaway in the middle.
The Americans: START (2018)
Why bother?
The writers just mailed it in. No loose ends were tied up. In fact, more created. Stan ends the series as a wussy pushover of an FBI agent. You knew Paige wasn't going to go. Henry remains a useless character.
Why is it that writers have such a terrible time ending shows?
Travelers: 17 Minutes (2017)
Seemed like the season needed some filler
This was by far the worse episode in the series. It seemed like some filler was needed and this was a good way to do it. The redundancy of the episode, without giving away spoilers, got old really fast
Travelers (2016)
Good main plot, but too many subplots
I really like this show for its main plot. I was a huge fan of Quantum Leap and there are enough high level parallels. Season 1 was better than a 7. But Season 2 just had too much focus, yet not enough continuity, on the individual '21st" subplots for each character. They focus on a subplot, then it disappears for a while with any hang-ups in one episode mysteriously forgotten in the next. One minute McLaren is getting in trouble for forgetting his anniversary. The next minute they're back in love. One minute Trevor is off to private school, yet that never gets revisited. One minute Carly is working on custody of her son. Then she disappears for days at a time again and yet all is well.
It seems the only subplot they really consistently focus on is Marcy.
Paterno (2018)
Paterno yes, but the movie couldn't decide where to go from there
I wasn't sure what to expect with this. Focusing on a figure in a scandal that isn't the perpetrator, a witness, and attorney or a victim seemed odd to me. There are so many different players in the Sandusky scandal and the movie attempts to peripherally include some of them, while omitting others. Yet even those included are there solely for background noise. I'm not even sure why they case the female reporter in the movie since her involvement wasn't contemporaneous with Paterno's. But I guess every movie needs a young female heroine.
Acting was excellent, and I feel that that was Levinson's whole purpose for the movie. One last crack at some award for both he and Pacino. But I just didn't feel like I got anywhere. Even the ending seemed like a "oh crap we're out of material, let's throw something outrageous in at the end" moment. Thank goodness this was just an HBO movie and I didn't pay anything at the box office.
Longmire (2012)
Entertaining, but hokey plots and B-level scripts
Think Dukes of Hazzard plus the A Team under the guise of Justified.
A podunk Wyoming town that manages to have a bunch of complex big city events. A sheriff and generally unqualified/inexperienced deputies that always seem to know key random pieces of info at just the right time. Inconsistent secondary story lines involving the characters. Character interaction that goes from being enemies one episode to being best friends the next.
I keep watching it, it's entertaining. But it's falls well short on the quality meter as other contemporary shows.
Hannibal (2001)
Ok...still waiting for the movie to start...
What a waste...I sat there for over an hour waiting for something to happen, then finally a couple irrelevant characters get killed off, and finally at the very end there's a "meal", but it was more of a comedic scene than a dark disturbing scene, then suddenly the movie ends, right back where it began.
What a waste.
Men of Honor (2000)
If you were thinking of seeing it...please do.
While it certainly wasn't the best movie I've ever seen, it was certainly worth the $8 (which can't be said for many movies these days.)
This was a pleasant account of a true story, although many of the details of the real story were twisted for the movie, (ie, Billy Sunday's character was three or four people in the real story combined together.) Robert DeNiro was of course good, and Cuba Gooding, Jr., was also impressive.
American Psycho (2000)
Further proof that some books don't belong on screen
I can't believe I wasted money on this movie. There was no plot, no suspense, bad acting, tacky scenes and an ending about a half hour too soon (based on the ending in the book). Dark Comedy? Sure, but it wasn't funny enough to be worth my $8.
Note to self: Do not go see movies based on books (A Thin Red Line is another).