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Black Mirror: Beyond the Sea (2023)
Good acting, great budget cgi, terrible writing and plot holes
I have been a black mirror fan since season 1 and really enjoyed it. The last 2 seasons were of inferior quality mostly due to bad writing and plot holes.
Similar in this episode. Things just don't add up and are just lazy:
- he is really easily overpowered by this small group of people, chopping of his hand without any decent struggle or fight
- after murdering the family there is 0 help from government or houston equivalent. I mean this doesn't make sense, it is clearly a billion dollar mission and they are world famous but they are just left unchecked and never contact anyone on the ground other than their own family. The mission is clearly at risk and the man has severe mental problems. They just let them stay there for another 4 years?
- the plot dragged on way too long, was utterly unbelievable they let him go back so often
- murdering the family in the end made zero sense.
Alien Worlds (2020)
Decent documentary with its limitations
The theme of the documentary is perfect with great opportunity for creativity and many potential alien worlds to portray. Each episode revolves around a potential alien world and its animals living there, which have characteristics similar to the animals on earth. The show goes back and forth between the earth animals and its alien world equivalent. The artist impression of the worlds shown and the animals living on it is well executed. Unfortunately most of the 42-minute span of each episode is spend on the earth animals and we only get to see 8-10 minutes each episode which covers the alien world, in which the same images are used several times. This is a significant limitation and probably due to budget constraints and is a major downside to the show. Other than that the concept is great and so is the storyline for each episode. 7/10
Undercover: Trojan horse power (2020)
Decent episode
Decent episode and good acting. I'd love to see a bit more of the prior season storyline , hopefully this will return in the following episodes.