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Lopez vs. Lopez (2022)
LAUGH TRACKS SUCK
Why in the world do sitcom producers still insist on adding laugh tracks? Are they afraid their shows just aren't funny, that audiences can't judge for themselves? In the case of this particular show, yep. These producers need to check out Abbott Elementary and Young Sheldon, shows that are huge hits that don't need laugh tracks. (A big mystery there is why Chuck Lorre continues to produce other sitcoms that are still plastered with those dreaded tracks).
I tried to get my teenage granddaughters interested in Lopez vs Lopez. They watched about ten minutes of the pilot and said no way, we hate laugh tracks.
All that said, I still like this show, even though my husband doesn't for the reason I keep harping on.
Dix pour cent: ASK (2018)
Confusing episode
I don't understand what Mathias printed on the printer that was so terrible.
Who graffitied the door? Why were they scrubbing it? Paint would be so much easier. I know... its all about theatrics, but still...
And why did they have to find another Isabelle with the same name as Huppert when they could've just found someone with a fake name?
Dix pour cent (2015)
The Color Turquoise
We're in the middle of season 2, watching an episode every few days. Love this show, but i'm obsessing over the color turquoise permeating every episode... Clothing, walls, cars, even file folders! Sometimes every character in a scene is wearing some shade of that color. I can't find anything about it doing an Internet search and wondered if anybody knows why this color is so prominent in this series.
FBI: Most Wanted: Exposed (2021)
BAILING OUT ON THESE FBI SHOWS
After watching the new season opening episodes for FBI and FBI Most Wanted, which ended two minutes into an apparently new FBI series, which we didn't know about and aren't going to try to find, we're outta here. There was no warning that this plot would arc over three episodes.
There are too many good crime shows on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Apple, etc. Even tc. We're fed up with Dick Wolf and his clueless foray into the world of the FBI.
Suck it, Dick!
Law & Order: Organized Crime: Forget It, Jake; It's Chinatown (2021)
Will this thread ever end?
I have only ever watched the original Law & Order series. I thought I would give this one a try. But it is absolutely nothing like the original, and I guess SVU isn't either. So does the story thread last for years, as long as people keep watching it? I was hoping this thread would end with this season and a new thread will start with season two. Obviously not the case. So I'm bailing. There were too many ridiculous and implausible instances throughout this season anyway. This is fiction, sure, an entertainment of sorts. But what cop, fictional or real, would risk his own life saving the man who murdered his wife? I have no interest in watching this drag on for years.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: The Good Ones (2021)
Disliked for a different reason...
... no spoilers here, just a warning...
While I agree with most of the comments/reviews from longtime fans of the show, which my husband and I are, the big question we had for this first episode of season 8 was WHY ARE THEY TALKING SO FAST???
Did someone speed up the tape? The breakneck speed was ridiculous. We watch with subtitles and couldn't read them fast enough. Probably just as well for a not very funny episode.
A President Show Documentary: The Fall of Donald Trump (2019)
Prophetic
This show may not have gotten great reviews a year ago, but watch it now, late November 2020. This unpredictable POTUS turned out to be very predictable after all.
NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service: On Fire (2020)
RIDICULOUS PLOT
I know you're supposed to suspend your disbelief with these procedurals. My husband and I are fine with doing that because NCIS is often funny and the plots are sometimes even a little believable. But this one started losing me early on when Bishop announced that Torres pushed her out of the way of the 95 mph speeding car, then ran back to basically attack the car. Okay, just ignore that plot development. But I couldn't ignore the over the top ending.
First off, how on earth would that blonde girlfriend of the Russian psychopath possibly have known Torres and Bishop would be running the streets of DC (and on the street instead of the sidewalk next to them where they should have been running) and when to direct her boyfriend to hit them. The car was pretty much out of control anyway,
Then the writers go even farther over the top by sending the girlfriend into the hospital to kill Torres. How did she know where he was, much less which room and how to insert dirty heroin into his IV? Maybe she was a nurse in an earlier life.
Meanwhile, the psychopath boyfriend's body is found in the girlfriend's bathtub, shot in the head. No sign of struggle. The show leaves us with the suggestion that Gibbs shot him. Really? How did he know the psychopath would be in that apartment sans girlfriend? The man is never without his bodyguards, except maybe when with the girlfriend. So where was she?
We'll keep watching NCIS because we like the characters. But from now on I'll sport an illegal smile while watching (since we live in Texas).
NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service: In the Wind (2020)
Too many threads dangling
So wtf, this episode spent too much, time with cast goodbyes and silly interactions and left strings dangling. Like if the club owner Victor knew all along about the kid Phineas, why would he clue Gibbs in to his existence as Sahar's son? And how did he hook up with Phineas, since the kid obviously didn't know him? Was Victor the one who planted the GPS in the broken pendant? Who was wearing it at the airport? Had to be the kid, but it didn't set off the TSA alarm. And who was waiting for Phineas in Egypt? And why?
And how many episodes will it take to get rid of Ziva permanently? Come on, she's history. Cote de Pablo left the show of her own accord- move on, for crying out loud!
The writing for this episode was the worst ever, and there have been some recent doozies with this tired series.
Camping (2018)
We know some of these people!
We liked this show a lot. The pilot episode had us rolling with laughter, as we have a daughter-in-law who Catherine must have been modeled after. She has planned trips exactly like this one and behaved accordingly. You may not have family or friends who fit these characters, but some of us do.
We're so sick of sitcoms with laugh tracks on network TV. This was a joy, because we can laugh - or not - when we choose to and not when someone presses an obnoxious laugh button.