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Killing Eve (2018)
Season 2 such a mess!
Season 1 was so brilliant! Such a great villain, some great, completely unexpected sequences, so quirky and funny!
Had been greatly looking forward to Season 2 and its been such a disappointment.
SPOILER AHEAD
The story's a mess. The main plot was Villanelle hunting down and killing Eve. Instead they fall in love???!!! And even their crazy attraction to one another is so kind of pathetic. Eve looks forever confused. And she is SUCH an incompetent MI6! She doesn't know basic self defence - I was wondering for what is she going to Rome for (the climax) - and then she takes a paper cutter with her to save Villanelle? That was pure bathos!
In Season 1, Eve was interesting - a normal back office Intelligence Officer who through intuition and sharp observation proves she is right for the job in hand. But in Season 2, she displays no special skills whatsoever!
Season 2 became all about their "affair" and not a cat and mouse chase between two completely opposite women on either ends of the crime spectrum.
Also when Villanelle becomes an agent for M!6 - I just lost all interest.
Also, the owner of the world's largest IT company turning out to be a murderous psychopath is a bit too much to swallow.
The Fall (2013)
Uni-dimensional, a pseudo psychological thriller that's just meh...!
Got taken in by the superlative reviews here in IMDB and kept waiting for the series to live up to the fulsome praise some viewers have showered on it.
Found Gillian Anderson uni-dimensional, monochromatic and so infuriatingly irritating with her supposedly ice lady expressions. She had zero inner life, had no character arc whatsoever and if being a feminist means randomly picking up handsome men who are your subordinates and sleeping with them and then not giving a damn when one of them is shot dead and the other grievously injured, then it is the most antiquated interpretation of feminism that I've ever come across.
Her carefully blow dried curls which are never out if place and those killer heels makes one wonder when she gets the time to dress up so impeccably with a serial killer in the loose. And as some other reviews have mentioned, her whispering tone, was so grating, I felt like shaking her up.
The serial killer too is flat, boring, which is surprising, considering his brutality and his myriad festishes. Not once does one feel a morbid fascination towards him. Though in the end the writer does dwell into his traumatic past, I still felt unaffected.
The repeated incompetence of the police and then the shocking carlessness of the criminal psychiatric hospital which allowed a dangerous psychopath to move around inside freely, is beyond comprehension.
Designated Survivor (2016)
Had such a brilliant premise but then it just fizzled away (still to finish watching Season 1)
Got really irritated while watching this and had to vent so here goes! The series started off so dramatically but then just became so trite! Am surprised no one is discussing how similar the main plot is to Homeland - someone who is a war hero and nominated to become VP is actually a terrorist. Why would Designated Survivor take this line when it has already been done so brilliantly by Homeland?
And I don't understand if its bad writing or bad direction - but why is there absolutely no suspense/tension when so much is happening? Is it because we aren't allowed to dwell on the implications of it? There is a blip of a climax, a mild catharsis and we are immediately swept into some other crisis that is brewing. And what is it with the President's wife always looking so perfectly turned out? I mean the President is shot, but his wife still looks picture perfect, still smiles (that really put me off) dazzingly (why is she always so beautiful and poised? It would work so much better if for once she is overwrought!).
Then the FBI agent - Walls. She has no interiority. We feel nothing for her. The President's Special Advisor - Emily - whenever she has to show her inner conflict she plays the piano with a pained expression that looks so so put on!
I generally love political dramas and thrillers and am so disappointed by the quality of this one, especially since it had so much promise!
Miss Austen Regrets (2007)
A must watch for Austen fans
If you've read her novels and love the world she creates, you will understand them so much better after seeing this BBC production. Beautifully directed and acted, it captures the person she was, witty, sensitive, a romantic at heart and yet ever so practical - even cynical in realising a good marriage is the only way a woman could lead a comfortable life. But never, not once, does the movie seem staid, or boring. It is effervescent, delicately handled and poignant. Fans of Jane Austen will love the unobtrusive inclusion of quotations from her books, the references to her most loved characters and the irony of her never finding a Mr Darcy in her own life. It moved me deeply.