Omg I am so disappointed.
I had high expectations.
He took his helmet off WTF!!!!!
Where are the grunts?? I only sa elites.
It’s notebable that the dint researched the original ip.
Again Hollywood took an ip and did there own cheap thing with it. To get maximum money out of it. With less effort. generic story writing. Human on human
Baby sitting a human girl. Do I need to go on?
Only plus point is the look of the Spartans
Action it self is good.
Everything else is bad generic cheap writhing.
Lowered my rating as I was so bored on S2E1 I turned it off.
They managed to turn the epic story of Halo into the same nonsense that US has been pushing out the last few years:
"Let's make everyone corrupt, there are conspiracies everywhere, everyone is evil, and everyone whines a lot! We're such great writers, wow!"
Oh look another show that has its natural flow interrupted by the same ol' industry standards plaguing everything else in the last few years. Hire hack writers who don't care about the source, hire every checkbox in the book, and then blame it on the fans for not liking it. Next.
I´m a gamer and never played Halo more than 5 minutes. I dont care if it doesnt follow the source material or if he took his helmet off. This is an incredibly awesome action sci-fi show! Just enjoy it!
I think its very good for people without much knowledge of halo. I am one of those :) For me it was very very good.
Good Story, good cgi, good acting, good action, good scyfi.
Just some episodes with to much Kwan Ha where boring and a bit childish but the spartans are bad ass.
Spoiler free review
Do yourself a favour, don't waste your time on this. It's a perfect example of all sizzle no steak. The show starts off weak then eventually hints at a decent mystery which you expect will come to some satisfying conclusion, but as the season reaches its crescendo it turns into one of the biggest let downs ever.
Admittedly it has some pretty moments but is mostly shot in drab, uninteresting settings, which doesn't really feel intentional. All the characters apart from the OA are wildly predictable, but she eventually falls into this category once you learn more about her. Any character relationships that are built up don't feel at all worth investing in, and any semblance of a subplot is swept under the rug quickly. Despite being eight episodes the show feels heavily padded, yet they decided to barely dedicate any time to develop side characters, because Brit Marling has to dominate every scene she's in, and the result of which feels massively self-indulgent.
If there's one thing I have to warn anyone watching The OA is that it completely cons viewers with a vague, nonsensical ending. I can only assume that they thought they were a shoe-in for a second season from Netflix and left it completely open, or they were trying to create an ending that was open for interpretation - which this show definitely didn't have the smarts to accomplish. The ending literally makes no sense, and only serves to add another gaping space to a plot already filled with holes; after seeing it I thought "wait, is that it? What the hell was that?" It's honestly like they reached the deadline for the script and figured "screw it, we'll make it vague, I'm sure Netflix will throw cash at us next year, we'll pretend to explain it then".
The OA is a interesting but lazy and frustrating mess. If you can put aside common sense and a desire for a decent plot and story for eight hours, then by all means go for it. The ending was such a huge "screw you" to the viewer that I refuse to return for resolution should they get another season. Oh, and this show shouldn't be called sci-fi at all, it couldn't be any further from it, if anything it's profoundly anti-science and unashamed of it.
Getting really Tired of The anti-Obama political rhetoric this show spouts. I don't want Political snide remarks in a sitcom. I can watch the Daily Show for that. Terribad second season.
It's one thing to recast a character, but to recast about three of them and completely change the family (ages, etc)? Come on. How are you supposed to develop any feelings towards the characters and suspend your disbelief? Did not like the directional change for season two. What a horrible mistake the series executives made.
The show was enjoyable even though it had very predictable punchlines. I haven't seen an episode in which Mike wasn't right and/or got his way in the end. Now it's pushing political ideologies way too much.
Also funny how the supposedly dumb characters in TV or movies are very often the smartest ones in real life, kudos Molly Ephraim.
Anyway I'm done with it and let's see how long it takes until Tim Allen has his Roseanne moment on twitter.
Writing this comment a few years after the show ended, and my 5 star rating stands.
I really enjoyed the show at the beginning and enjoyed it enough to watch it (not hate watch) it through it's first cancelation. The show was cast very well, everyone played their role really well, but the constant hard line political views and commentary were just annoying. I am not political, this is not an "I find it offensive" response, I truly just found it annoying to have any political ideal thrown at me in ~75% of the scenes the star is in.
That said, I would have given it a 6 if they had not come back for a few more seasons. To start, they replaced Molly Ephraim with Molly McCook, and while I have no issue with McCook at all, both my wife and I thought she was great, something was off (and we accepted her as Mandy, roles get recast for a myriad of reasons) and we still cannot put our fingers on it, but I think McCook was dumbed down too much in the role, neither my Wife or I could imagine her as that stereotypical "dumb blonde" character.
The show dragged on, it felt like people were contractually obligated to be there, more than they wanted to be there. Just one guy's opinion, take it as you will.
Also, I missed Kaitlyn Dever, Eve was such an awesome character, and I understand the timing was bad for her (I thought I read), but her absence was noted.
becomes more and more contrived and ridiculous from episode to episode and season to season.
Pretty good little show. It took me a while to relax and feel confident that Maigret was not going to turn into Mr Bean. Atkinson is nothing like Maigret from the novels but he does a good job playing a serious, talented detective nonetheless.
Was one of my favorite Shows and still is..I've just started to watch this again with my kids and it's still funny after so many years.
It's really bad. The writing is terrible. Even my tween daughter was making fun of it making comments like "why is Ashoka afraid of Sabine turning dark? I thought Jedis aren't afraid." And "Why is Ashoka lighing her saber first? That goes against everything in the original triloty of Jedis not attacking" . Yeah I have been a fan of Star Wars since seeing the first one in 78, so maybe I am just too old for this, but it doesn't feel like star wars at all. Thrawn was great in those Heir of the Empire books, but he was so weak and not convincing in this series. The lightsaber fights have gone from masterful sword fights to dance routings. I don't know... pretty disappointing. I hate how they keep changing and cheapening the whole force/ jedi thing too. and there are too many modern tropes that they cannot get away from in modern Star Wars movies - particulatly how there has to be a weird light saber and there has to be a differnet stormtrooper. I guess in this case, zombie stormtroopers. ugh...
Many characters are a little unbearable and they rarely remind me of the ghost crew. Shame. Rebels was very good. This show seems lost already.
Corny dialogue, uninteresting characters, extremely predictable writing
Another boring and predictable show that relies entirely on nostalgia bait (Hayden Christensen cameo).
No interesting dialogue at all, it looks cheap and mostly plays on barren planets again.
Wonderful nature docuseries. The only downside is that it was made before the era of 4K HDR video. More recent nature documentaries tell many of the same stories, but are more visually striking. (And are also narrated by David Attenborough)
Although they allocate huge budgets for star wars movies, they cannot achieve the success they have achieved in this animated series or clone wars series (unfortunate).
Great series somewhat let down by the pretty pointless sexual encounters / relationship material that adds literally nothing to the story and, worse still, breaks the pace of the story and becomes a distraction for the addition of nothing but padding. The Inquiry scenes were OK showing the lengths that senior intelligence officials will go to to cover their asses once it hits the fan! Just goes to show what the intelligence services can fail to achieve when they really put their minds to it.
The whole thing is fantastic, but so chilling to watch. You know what will happen, yet you find yourselves screaming at the screen for them to get it together.
Complex, intelligent, and sobering; superb television
Based on The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (2006), Lawrence Wright's exhaustively researched and critically acclaimed winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction (2007), whilst the book is about how al-Qaeda succeeded (with a lot of time spent delineating just why they hated American culture so much), the TV show is about how the US failed. It's a story of arrogance, incompetence, ignorance, and tragic inevitability. And although the binary of CIA=bad/FBI=good is more than a little reductionist, and whilst there's a real dearth of information on al-Qaeda itself, this is a deeply sobering series, which is at its infuriating best when it shows us, as it does time and again, just how easily these globe-altering events could have been prevented.
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What a shitty job the CIA did! The only thing they were able to do right was covering up their asses... They probably didn’t want to ruin their almost perfect “record” of failures.
This is one of the most BORING show I've ever seen, I'm only watching it to keep up with the entire marvelverse but jeez, this is the sleep fest
It feels like you're realistically following a company from World War 2, complete with the showcase of realistic action, characters and operations. You do, as the name suggests, feel like you're following a band of brothers through a war.
A worthy sci-fi series that never got the chance to truly shine. Not without flaws, but deserving of the screen time.
Western animation at its best, they don't make them like this anymore. Iconic, the best Batman, enjoyable by all ages, highly recommended!
This show is a mess! It’s even worse than it’s lead character Cassie…
The Flight Attendant tries to hit all genre boxes there are at once: Drama, Comedy, Crime, Thriller, Adventure, Mystery and probably a few I forgot. While trying to address all of them it actually turns out to be really bad on delivering on every single one. It’s just trying too hard to be something unique with all its fancy scene cuts and the soundtrack which is just annoying by the time the show reaches season 2. The story gets so confusing especially in Season 2 at times that it’s becoming seriously hard to follow and it has to be said, that at least in this show Kaley Cuoco does a bad job at drama acting. I think she’s really funny in TBBT and I thinks that’s where her acting skills lie.
I wouldn’t recommend watching this show. While S1 was still okay-ish S2 really wasn’t and consequently the show was canceled after that. Even if you’re a Kaley fan - don’t waste your time with this one.
