You ever invest time in a program, and you watch each episode, and you think, “The payoff’s coming! This is really gonna be good!” - and then you watch the final episode and it’s a big load of crap?
Well, that was Grotesquerie for us…we just wrapped up the first (and hopefully only) season of this stupid, stupid show. For those not aware (and count yourselves lucky if you’re not), the whole thing revolves around horrific murders that include some Catholic overtones, all taking place in a town/desert that get more and more surreal as each episode passes, ending with a dud that’s, well, a non-ending - yes, I get that’s a way to boost chances for a second run of episodes, but it’s tacky to me. Give your viewers some kind of resolution, please. You don’t have to wrap everything up, but something!
Also, this thing committed the cardinal sin of a TV show/movie, revealing that
the first six episodes (out of 10 total) took place inside the mind of a coma patient - none of it was real
- that’s the cheapest sort of storytelling.
If you’ve not seen this and it’s on your list…run. Run like you’re one of the murder victims about to be done in in the most heinous way. Run like Usain Bolt with his ass on fire. Run like the Flash on amphetamines as far away from this turdiest of turds. Do not be sucked in. You have been warned.
Hey tasty I mentioned here a few weeks ago about a story of natalia ??? A small girl that noone knew her age? We watched for 4 hrs then the next said watch the final story. 3 hrs later still no end.
We quit it. Thetes still ads saying watch the ending. F off.. I wasted enough time already.
I feel your pain tasty.
Night before last was A Simple Favor, with Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively. It’s meant to be a dark comedy, but to me, it never really hits. It’s neither funny nor particularly dramatic, just completely unbelievable - I would have liked it better if they’d gone full-on farce with it. Apparently enough people liked it, they’ve made a sequel.
We also started watching Daredevil Born Again before realizing we’d chosen to skip the entire last season of DD, after getting whiplash trying to follow the overall story arc between DD, then Jessica Jones, then Luke Cage, then Defenders, then The Punisher, then back to DD - we gave up trying to get the order right…and here we are again with DDBA.
Last night was The Widow Cliquot, about the founding of the champagne brand, and while it was ok, be warned that it takes significant liberties with the true story.
…and tonight, we started Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale - sort of Midsomer Murders meets…some show about witches.
First episode, and I don’t really like anyone in it. The murder victim is some entitled BMOC teenager frat boy type, his mom has her entire existence wrapped up in him, his dad is a jerk, the resident witch is a little too hippy-dippy-earth-mama for me (just once, can we get a good witch who’s more sciencey and less touchy-feely nurturing?), her daughter is a grumpy, sarcastic teenager, and that’s about it so far. Secondary characters aren’t any better.
You ever invest time in a program, and you watch each episode, and you think, “The payoff’s coming! This is really gonna be good!” - and then you watch the final episode and it’s a big load of crap?
….a non-ending - yes, I get that’s a way to boost chances for a second run of episodes, but it’s tacky to me. Give your viewers some kind of resolution, please. You don’t have to wrap everything up, but something!
We restarted watching the Sopranos (it's been probaby 15 years since we watched the last episode of season 6, the final season). I was talking to my husband about a week ago and mentioned that SSOAP had just recently watched it, and he said, 'Oh, we should watch it again" so we started back up. We are getting close to the end of season 1. It's amazing how much of it I had forgotten.
We restarted watching the Sopranos (it's been probaby 15 years since we watched the last episode of season 6, the final season). I was talking to my husband about a week ago and mentioned that SSOAP had just recently watched it, and he said, 'Oh, we should watch it again" so we started back up. We are getting close to the end of season 1. It's amazing how much of it I had forgotten.
I can see myself watching it again at some point.
Tony Sopranos character development and the flicking between him in killer shark mode and a human being was so good.
I can see myself watching it again at some point.
Tony Sopranos character development and the flicking between him in killer shark mode and a human being was so good.
What's really funny to me is the Italian American stereotypes can be so true in some ways. My DH and his family are not thugs (well at least none are to my knowledge) but there are some things...
What's really funny to me is the Italian American stereotypes can be so true in some ways. My DH and his family are not thugs (well at least none are to my knowledge) but there are some things...
Well I will have to ponder that, but what first comes to mind is how Tony's mom reminds me of my husband's late grandmother except his grandma was a much more pleasant person. But just some of the things she says and the delivery. And of course there are all the food stereotypes. When we watch it next I will make a mental note of other things.
I just thought of something: the names. The Sopranos and other shows and movies about Italian Americans there are lots of people named John or Johnny, Paulie, Frankie, Tony or Anthony, Mary or Maria, Adrianna or Adriana, Angela or Angelina, Carmine, etc. Same in my husband's family.
Last night, we watched Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum (or Tatting Channum, I can never keep that straight) in The Lost City, a very lightweight action-adventure-romedy - it was actually quite good fun.
Tonight, we watched Paint, with Owen Wilson, and it’s not fair to say we disliked it, it was just sort of all over the place - it felt like a 25-minute story that someone worked really hard to s t r e t c h it out to 90 minutes.
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