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Fool Me Once (2024)
Started out interesting... but
I felt like the beginning started out decently and there were some good twists in first couple of episodes but then there were plot holes big enough to drive a truck through by the end...
One massive plot hole is the nanny cam frame... How did the Burkett's even know it existed to "deep fake" it?? Maya's friend gave her the frame, so they would have had no knowledge of it's true purpose unless the nanny happened to take out the SD card and check it (which they never showed her doing, nor do I remember her explaining that she did)
Just doesn't make sense...
And the daughter was 4 but would she not have remembered the Nanny's husband showing up and talking to her in her dad's clothes??
Shane's character's behavior also makes zero sense. It's hinted at that he's secretly in love with her at the beginning, but then he gets all stalkerish in the middle (mainly it seems only to further the points of implying it might be Joe stalking her. A point they lean into when the little girl runs over to the bushes and says "Daddy" which is never explained... as well as Shane conveniently showing up in the garage which he otherwise would have had no knowledge of)
Then he just turns into a convenient delivery guy to drop off the nanny and husband or whatever he was off. He then disappears until the last scene where he pops up 18 years later as the devoted (and apparently ageless friend)
And then there's all the subplots that go nowhere..
Maya's friend who gives her the frame and is supposedly her good friend is missing from the final scene and her subplot about her ex husband just disappears..
And the half-sibling plot seems no purpose other than to make Claire seem more secretive and give her kids something to do... and why introduce the half siblings father and not actually show them meeting?
And the whole younger detective relationship they build ends so abruptly with zero resolution as well...
And that's just a fraction of the issues....
Children of the Corn (2020)
I swear I just saw Jurassic Park:Corn
I swear I have seen adult films that have more exposition and story Development than this. The opening events just "happen" and there's zero explanation behind them.. That's a theme that pretty much continues. The next 25 or so minutes are pretty much splice a random "adults are bad" scene in with a "lord of the flies kids in training" scene... Theres so little character development with the adults that you honestly don't care when they're killed bc you don't even really know who they are. The "adults are bad" theme is so obviously in your face bc they seem to be paying for the film by the minute so they can't dally with being subtle...
There's a whole odd "mom's a prostitute? (they provide zero actual definition for the random scenes) subplot.. And apparently she's so tired from those labors that she can't seem to wake up or show her face until 10 seconds before they kill her off. This makes the "emotional" her daughter mourning her scene shortly thereafter useless bc we barely know who she is.
The two lead females are ok, though they aren't given much to do.. The little girl Eden pretty much just stands there with an evil smirk on her face and the older Bo just has to look horrified most of the time. The plot is so random you really start to question why Eden and the other kids keep letting Bo live other than the fact that she has to to bring the movie to a close.. In most of the later scenes the character feels like a human hangnail.
The CGI "character" (can't even remember what it's called bc they barely tell you) makes you feel like you're watching Jurassic Park:Corn and they just genetically engineered a corn dinosaur or something. It's SERIOUSLY cheesy.
It's so cheesy in fact that you really don't get why the kids are so devoted to it... despite the two of three random cult like worship scenes that get randomly thrown into the mix as "explanation"
You see the denouement coming from a mile away.. You honestly kind of want to shake the little Evilkind Eden for being dumb enough not to see it coming...
And then there's the "twist", which is pretty much straight out of John Cusack "Identity" territory...
I think I've decided to start writing screenplays... bc honestly if this drivel can make it to the screen, I feel like I stand a good chance with just about any story.
The Diplomat (2023)
Entertaining while you're not thinking too hard about it
SPOILERS
the series is somewhat engrossing in spite of itself. It's one of those shows that you get into watching and just try not to think to hard about certain plot decisions that really don't make a lot of sense when you really consider them.
The actors do a good job of making you suspend the disbelief. There's a certain House of Cards power struggle dynamic between Keri Russell's character and her husband. They are a marriage of talent and ambition that doesn't work on other levels and that is something that is prob relevant in a lot of political marriages.
But they repeatedly make a big deal of the ambassadorship to the UK usually being a token appointment, so why use that as a test of someone you would want to turn into a VP? Sending them across an ocean seems like a weird way to vet them. And the chief of staff seems to have a weird amount of say over the choice, esp when her motives for it are explained
And a lot of the political motivations and actions don't make a lot of sense. The CIA and other intelligence agencies seem to know every errant move Keri and her husband make but fail to find out any clues of what the UK PM is doing? And then there's the question of where and how said PM would have and be able to get away with paying for an event like that to occur...
The Russia laying blame on its own ally for the attack seems silly too. And it also seems silly that if they were that embarrassed by the Mercenary that they wouldnt just capture him themselves to find out who was putting the blame on them and then disappear him vs an elaborate effort to hand him over to the allies
The whole Iranian diplomat death was an odd false flag, ESP when it gets written off as a heart attack as if ambassadors dropping dead of heart attacks in other ambassador's offices is a regular occurrence
All that being said, the show does manage to be entertaining while watching it and I will watch the next season.
Navalny (2022)
WATCH THIS... Jaw dropping
This shows why the Kremlin is so afraid of Navalny
And what they did to him
One of the agents confesses on camera over the phone (and that person has since disappeared)
People should see this film. It's apparently being downgraded by Russian Bots but this man and this family have serious courage... They are putting it all on the line to fight against tyranny.
Putin won't even say his name out loud on air and says "who cares about him?"
It really shows a window into a world where any form off dissent isn't tolerated when the leader is threatened and should be a global lesson to the world.
They are shown arresting people for standing on the street by themselves protesting. It really shows a glimpse of a world where free speech doesn't exist.
Low Country: The Murdaugh Dynasty (2022)
Ok doc but has some pretty obvious discrepancies
The series was interesting overall... BUT Ep 3 has some pretty obvious discrepancies... They show his wife on security cam supposedly leaving the house that night to go to the dog kennels after an alleged family dinner... then a short time later they claim that she actually arrived at the property that night at the husband's request (after texting a friend that she was suspicious and"he's up to something") and say she went straight to the kennels where she was killed.. so was never in the house that night... and they also say that the husband, son and wife were all supposedly texting back and forth in a normal way when they are laying out the supposed timeline but then pull this other suspicious "he's up to something" text into the narrative shortly after... which would seem to contradict the fact that their texting that night was all friendly and not unusual....
They state right after that the husband had made up the whole thing about the three of them having dinner (right after they've made a point of showing all three of them on security camera leaving the main house and at what time each left)
Also they said the husband left and went to see the mother with dementia for a brief visit that night before he came back home (and show him on the security camera supposedly leaving, coming back from said visit and then leaving again to allegedly drive down to the kennels where he supposedly found their bodies) and that her health aid saw him and said he sat on his mom's bed and seemed normal and at ease, but then later quoted someone as saying there was no witness to the visit other than the mother with dementia and that didn't really count as his alibi...
so those are both pretty glaring contradictory discrepancies... was surprised that was not brought up before the documentary was released...
Also they never even mention the guns other than naming them by type... never say whether they were found on the property or whether they police had or haven't divulged that information... Given the supposed tight timeline that does seem like it's an important detail as to whether he would have time to dispose of two weapons before calling 911 and whether the route to the Mother's care facility passed places like bodies of water where the weapons could have been disposed of....