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Palm Royale (2024)
After a bumpy start this show is getting to be great!
For the first few episodes, I wasn't sure what direction it all was going. Even though the main actress is phenomenal, and decor and outfits are wonderful to look at.
But after watching episode 4, I'm sure I'll keep watching. It makes me laugh-out-loud really often, there are a few exciting storylines of which I wonder how it will end, and I can't stop watching Maxine's acting. She deserves an Emmy for it. I hope people will have a little patience and keep watching, because it's really worth it.
It's a true AppleTV show too. Everything looks beautiful, it lightly challenges a few things in which America has gone downhill, but without loosing it's entertaining value.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2024)
Hard to believe and extremely superficial
Nothing in this show makes sense. It is unfathomable why they fall in love with each other. Also, it makes no sense that they would just be given an passport with their ID's, no training about their backstory whatsoever. I don't think that would ever happen in real life. Also, they are both way too likeable to make them killers. There is no back story to support their characters. It's all just really weird.
And why save the target (lady billioniare)? Just because she has a teenager? AGain, makes no sense, when the day before they were busy killing someone and breaking their limbs.
Also, I hate it when a show goes straight to sex within 10 second from kissing, and then also don't use condoms.
All so stereotypical.
Fargo: Blanket (2023)
The sadistic violence has gotten so bad since the first seasons
The first two seasons of Fargo were amongst my very favorite in the history of TV. Ever since season 3 though, the show has been spoiled by sadistic violence that makes my stomach turn. I'm sure some people just love it, but it ruins the whole show for me.
Like this season, 5, which has such an amazing cast, and is brave in how it just goes against so many typical conventions, in all sorts of ways. It's stimulating, interesting, and really well done. But why the sadistic violence seems to be so important for the makers, I cannot answer for the life of me.
It's a good thing this season came out 1 episode per week. If I would have watched several episodes in a day or a week, I would not have gotten so attached to the series, and I would have definitely stopped watching because making me watch all this sadistic violence just makes me, as a viewer, feel used.
Poker Face (2023)
Great American roadmovie / detective
I'm so glad I found this TV show! It has a wonderful americana vibe, and it reminds me of traveling in the southwest. It's funny, and feels like a cool detective.
The only downside is, and I know it's not cool to judge people by their disabilities, but Lyonne's broken voice is so hard to listen to. It gets on my nerves tremendously and is very hard to ignore. Is there nothing to do about this in editing for example? It would make this show even more wonderful to watch. Apart from that she's a great and supercool actress and I love all her outfits (kudos to the costume director).
Yes, watch this show!
And Just Like That... (2021)
Pleasantly surprised, though thouroughly annoyed by Charlotte's botox mouth/speech
I'm pleasantly surprised by how this new show turned out. Loving how it deals with gender fluidity, race, and hardships in female friendships, while keeping everything we loved in the original series.
I had been looking for a TV show that made me laugh out loud, shed the occasional tear, and learn about life at the same time. I'm suprised it doesn't get a higher average rating on IMDB.
The one thing that intensely annoys me though, is that one can sometimes hardly understand what Charlotte is saying, because of her weird gross big botox mouth. Sometimes it's hard to hear what she says because of her talking impairment. Also Seema sometimes is unable to speak normally because of the swollen things on her face.
It's one of those things that is so apparant, that at after a few episodes it is sticks out like a sore thumb and really makes it hard to emerge in the show. I don't know if this is because we are Europeans and fortunately enough are still less surrounded by these terrible injections into faces, but for sure it diminishes the quality of 'And Just Like That'.
Bosch (2014)
Was enjoying until episode 4
I was really enjoying this show until episode 4 of season 1, when they were taking the serial killer on a field trip. Without a single prison security escorting him. While taking off his handcuffs. And his ankle chains. Why on earth these highly experienced police officers would do this, makes no sense at all.
Apart from that, this serial killer is on the news constantly, yet he is able to lure in two prositutes to kill. I doubt it neither of them had not seen him on the news.
And then, to top it all off: they find the serial killers home, his dead mother in the house and without a bulltproof vest or calling backup, decide to raid the place. Yeah right.
I was turned off and did not continue watching.
Unfortunately, because I was really enjoying the script writing, the sound track, the mystery and the romance. And that for someone who usually never watches crime or police TV shows.
Big Little Lies (2017)
I keep feeling homesick to this show, even after all these years
Recently the title song has been playing in many coffee shops I visit. And every time I hear it, my whole being just responds with nostalgia, bittersweetness and an intense longing for Big Little Lies. I don't think any TV show has ever left such a physical mark on me and I sincerely hope the cast will return for many more seasons!
It's just all so beautifully done: the connection the group of women has, the sneak peak into what life is like as a bay area CEO, the nature shots, the honest and raw look into domestic abuse etc.
Thank you, cast & crew.
Now I'm gonna rewatch the two seasons again :).
Shrinking (2023)
It's good, but not great
It's a basic TV show, with some good jokes, but not enough of them , for my taste. I've watched the first 4 episodes, and two things did not make enough sense for me: 1) why the shrink is being so impulsive to his patients. It seems to come out of nowhere and lacks backbone. 2) Liz' face. There has been so much plastic surgery there that she seems incapable of closing her mouth in a coherent way. It's hard to look at.
The acting is good, and the decor and pace are pleasant. But there just wasn't enough for me to continue watching. I've been really looking for a good new comedy show, but I think I will continue looking.
Mozart in the Jungle (2014)
Fun show, but could not stand Cynthia's fake face
I really liked this show. It's original, it's real, and the humour is quite good! It really makes you feel the city of New York. It's a cool combination of coolness and grittiness as well as the beauty of classical music.
I was sorry that I stopped watching. But I just got so distracted (and frankly disgusted) by Cynthia's creepy fake face every time she had a scene.
It's such a shame that casting doesn't realize how this can turn viewers off. Her cheecks were humongous, totally out of proportion. I wish people would just embrace their beauty, even when they're old. The most beautiful old people I've seen in movies had NO surgery or fillers or botox.
Instinct (2019)
Annoyingly unrealistic and desperately slow
There is no way anyone will believe she is a real psychologist. Also, her character makes no sense whatsoever. It's more like a music video, since it could have been portrayed within 5 minutes. Also, it is just plain irresponsible to make another movie like this (there are countless already) in a time where rape culture and victim blaming should be talk of the day.
The movie is annoyingly unrealistic and desperately slow. It's not even sexy or thrilling. Waste of time.
The movie is annoyingly unrealistic and desperately slow. It's not even sexy or thrilling. Waste of time.
The movie is annoyingly unrealistic and desperately slow. It's not even sexy or thrilling. Waste of time.
Dexter: New Blood (2021)
The original Dexter would not leave blood on his driveway
Oh have I counted the days to the first episode of New Blood. The Iggy Pop song made my heart jump (The Passenger -> The *Dark* Passenger'). But two episodes into the new season and I have to say I'm underwhelmed.
It feels like they tried to jam too much into the first episode: his new life, his new girlfriend, refusing to kill, conseding to kill, the the return of his son, the rejection of his son, the acceptance of his son. It did not feel balanced.
Him leaving a small spatter of blood somewhere would make sense after not having killed after 10 years, but leaving a trail right in plain sight in his driveway? Come on.
Michael C. Hall is excellent, and so far the only reason I keep watching. For the rest this new season seems to redeem the low expectations of sequals. I hope they prove me wrong.
The White Lotus (2021)
Could be absolutely amazing
This show is something else. Its atmosphere, its decor, its characters, the dark humour.
Unfortunately the tempo is extremely slow, things repeat themselves for too long, some jokes get repeated after their experation date, and there are too little of them as well.
Such a bummer, because this has the potential to become one of my favorite shows, but it's not.
About Time (2013)
Boring and predictable
Halfway through, I put the speed to 1.23, because it was just too boring and predictable. Really not my taste, I guess.
The OA (2016)
Too many gaps in relationship and character development, I quit watching after r episodes
I gave the show 3 episodes of my time, but quit watching. So many things seemed utterly incomprehensible, making it frustrating to watch. For instance: why would Hap allow Prarie to keep using that knife to make sandwiches? Why does he leave her alone so often in a house filled with things she could use against him? No foundation of trust between the two is established (on the contrary) and this just seems very odd. Also, the speed in which Prarie gets *all* the students to cooperate: very unlikely again. Maybe all these things get explained later on, but there were just too many gaps in the development of the relationships between the characters, that I quit watching the show. Also, for the most part, the protagonist is actually *telling* the story, which seems like an easy way to not put too much effort in the show-don't-telling of the plot. Lastly, I couldn't believe how a person could be only angelic, and there was also no explanation about the reason for this whatsoever. She also uses the 'tormented' expression way too much in my opinion.