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Scenes from a Marriage (2021)
Great performance from both actors, kinda hard to watch
While I loved the script, the acting, the cinematography.. the realism in the relationship and all the emotions.. and I wanted to binge watch it, all five episodes..
That urge to finish is was also because I didn't want to get back to it later.
The actors and director and writers did a beautiful job, making it so recognisable. So Probably for a lot of people, and maybe some will recognise themselves, (of some of their, precious or current, relationships), in just a few moments, some will feel it resembles a lot of a their own struggles or pain in a love that's lost..
Eitherway it's very human. It feels very real. The cheating on one another, the fights, the conversations, the sex, the personal psychological process a person goes through, the process of saying goodbye, but then also the not wanting to let go.
Like you keep longing for something that is not there anymore, maybe you'll never be able to recreate what was there once.
I really loved that realism, and the moment the moment the moral high ground is lost in the middle of the characters. I loved the last episode. Cause it just rings true.
And the concept of love, and how love can hurt you so much, but how we keep longing for that love.
Okay it's just plain good. But for me, the first four episodes where a little hard to watch, the last one made it, for me personally, less depressing and painful.
I guess that is what really good stories do to you right? They make you feel something.
I wouldn't say I was entertained. I was more touched.
Happy I watched it, wouldn't recommend it to anyone who hasn't lived through a very serious break up... or to someone who is in the middle of one. For the rest of us: i think it's a beautiful story. Not one to miss. It just rings true.
The Watcher (2022)
The entire tone of the show just seems off
Like a untuned piano. That sounds just off, but when played by a good pianist; you still enjoy the sound, but it will still feel like you're missing out on some very good music.
Or that waiter at a restaurant that is too jovial, at your table in a restaurant, in the sense that it feels insincere, and the other waiter who he shares your table service with, who is too stand offish, but he is polite and does everything right etiquette wise. If you look back at your experience at that restaurant, you would rate it as average. Because neither of your hosts got the tone right.
I don't know how to explain it any better. I watched the whole thing with that feeling. Like you cannot put your finger on what is wrong, or not good. It all felt just weird. Off tone. Kind of fun, annoying at the same time, just not as good as it could have been.
The acting is good enough.. with a few exceptions, on the positive and the negative side. But then premise could have been fun, the cinematography is up to par, but every episode has lines or actions in the script will just make you go: "wow that is just not.. realistic enough to be either believable or entertaining."
In the end I felt like I watched something completely irrelevant. But why did I keep watching? Maybe because it is that average, not bad enough to not watch it till the "end."
Maybe I was hoping all the good factors would lead to a gripping or surprising conclusion. Even that felt like; okido.. that was just; not satisfying or the opposite.. it was really just: nothing much.
And duh, with that cast, you want to root for it to be really good. Maybe that is what kept me watching.
It's not good, not that bad. Not that scary, not exactly boring. There are a lot of really good things you can watch instead. In hindsight I think I wasted a few hours on something that I could have rated either a 5 or a 6. Gave it a 6, but maybe that is to justify my watching it till the end.
My recommendation would be to just skip it.
2 Broke Girls (2011)
on the good side of mediocre...
It's not bad... It's not good. It's exactly what it needs to be. Very okay.
Lots of sex jokes, sometimes cheesy, sometimes raunchy but most of the times enjoyable. The actresses that play the lead roles are perfectly cast. Especially Kat Dennings, who, even with material that isn't always up to par, lights up the screen with her wonderful, sensual, charismatic, yet sometimes almost painfully sarcastic and bitter sense of humor.
I don't know. I've watched a lot of episodes of season one, and somehow I just keep watching whenever I need some harmless, simple humor. I think that this show completely proves that good leads really can carry a show and capture an audience. It's just a sweet concept, literally, with the cupcakes and all, and it's a warm show, made with some love and fun. I'm not impressed by it but I like it. At the moment it's the only comedy show I watch. Much better than a lot of other crap out there. Maybe not as good a some shows, like modern family and community or 30 rock. It's not brilliant in any way, it's not new and original in any way, but you really feel for the characters, maybe not right away but after a few episodes you start appreciate them.
This sounds like such a "meh..." review, but it's really not. Beth Behrs, who I really haven't seen in anything else, portrays the part of the naive rich girl who just landed in the gutter just fine and endearing. It's a joy to see Jennifer Coolidge working again, she's just wonderful in portraying "over the top" characters, sometimes I almost feel ashamed that a movie and TV fanatic like me likes her, but hey, everybody has their guilty pleasures. At the moment 2 broke girls is mine. When I don't want to think and just want to watch something fun.
Plus, I really dig the fact that this show is not shy about the sex jokes and sometimes gets really rude. Don't we all sometimes?
Monster-in-Law (2005)
eradicate JLo please...
Very very painful. This was not good. This was very bad. It was almost painful to watch. It made me want to kill little puppy's and eat their intestants, just because that would be a fun way to pass my time compared to this.
The acting was horrible, I always thought JLo would be better than that, because I didn't necessarily dislike her in Cell. But to my utter discontent she wasn't. But I do have to say that she stood out. The rest of the cast acted like they were disabled people jumping around, the only thing that was missing was the restraining jacket.
Just plain stupid, because the story didn't have to turn out so bad.