Reviews
The Lazarus Project (2022)
Had to Rate it Down due to Unrealistic Storyline
Like some reviewers said, the time travel premise is quite solid. Very little holes insofar as the time travel bit is concerned and overall an interesting concept. That made it a very promising show.
BUT, and here's where it broke down for me. The storyline requires you to suspend your disbelief. I don't want to give away the plot so I'll use an analogy to describe where it went wrong.
Imagine you were hired out of college by an individual who became your mentor and your teacher. Showed you the ropes in the company, help made you who you are in the company. Fast forward 10 years you are now very experienced, both of you still work there and you trust your mentor with your life. The entire dept is close with everyone becoming familair through years of working together. In come a new hire, green and raw. And after a little while he starts bad mouthing your mentor, saying he stole money from the company etc etc. You couldnt contact your mentor to verify because he's away on a business trip and he's phone is off for some reason. Without waiting, without verifying, without speaking to your mentor of 10 years you decide to take the word of the new hire. Not just you but the entire dept and the boss too. No one took a minute to question the new hire. Maybe he had a bone to pick with the mentor. Maybe he has an ulterior motive. Nooooo. Nobody bothered and so all of you villianise your mentor.
That's what the writers want you to swallow and this becomes one of the main pillar themes of the show.
When this was introduced I thought the writers will use an ingenious way to make up for it later to make me go - Aha, good one. But nope. They just kept on with it. And then the big slap on the face came when everyone found out the new hire was lying all these while, framing the mentor and.... nothing happened. The new hire continued on. No punishment. No sacking. No nothing. That definitely broke it for me.
Won't be watching Season 2.
Suspicion (2022)
Good start let down by sloppy end
Show started off great. Good premise and plot. By halfway it started to get sloppy with holes appearing everywhere. The last episode was just full of holes. Feels like they spent too long building up the story that they ran out of time and just patched together a quick ending. Disappointing.
Reacher (2022)
Two Wrongs and Still Can't Get It Right
Cruise didn't fit the physique but fits the character. The intelligence and attitude that we all come to know of Reacher from the books.
This guy fits the physique but is way off on the character. He's like a robot with a forced attitude.
The other major difference is Cruise could act. This guy, well he's good at reading the lines.
My pick : I would rather the guy that could act and had the character to bring Reacher to life, and I suspend my disbelief on the physical bit - than a guy that looks the bit but the moment he opens his mouth, I gag.
Since this show is a meant to be a representation of the character from the books - to me they have failed miserably (except for the looks). As a crime show, it is mediocre at best.
Cruise's Reacher was more true to the essence of the books and of course the production value of the two movies were much higher than this low budget TV show.
Shadowplay (2020)
Glad I Watched It
Glad I ignored the naysayers and tried it. What a great show. Humanity put on show without window dressing.
If you want to get a glimpse of post WWII Germany, the good, bad and ugly - watch this.
The Undoing (2020)
Fizzled out at the End
For the first 5 episodes I kept thinking wow, that's what happens when you get good script and good acting. It just keeps building and building, episode on episode and you are so looking forward to the big twist or climax at the end. Then you get to Ep 6, the last episode, and it fizzles out and I can't help but think I've wasted 6 hours of my time and the show has wasted the talents of 2 good actors. Save your time. Watch something else.