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  The Count of Monte Cristo 2025

  Watched 23 Feb 2025

  You're gonna boast about his prowess with guns and swords and then don't let him show it off? Whatever happened to "show, don't tell"?
  I'm also just so annoyed with the insistence on anglicised pronunciations of names in this show.

  All in all a pretty good show, but I've gotta say, out of the recent adaptations, I do prefer the Pierre Niney film. I implore you to give that one a go as well.

  Anyway. Slay, Edmond Dantès, king of…

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  Downton Abbey: A New Era 2022

  Watched 08 Jan 2025

  I get that they're used to doing this as a show.
  But when most of your scenes are 1-2 minutes long and cut abruptly to the next (a lot of them also being unnecessary), you're in danger of losing your audience.
  The story is honestly more than fine, but the editing really threw me off.

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  Interlude In Prague 2017

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