I dropped the show in this season multiple times because it got so bad.
It gets better again, when the next couple seasons upset the status quo significantly, but this is easily the worst season of an otherwise mostly decent show.
this may just be the one and only good episode of the show, if only for the bonkers twist
this episode would have felt perfectly at home in one of the classic Simpsons seasons - bravo!
this could have gone so, so, so wrong, but it went so, so, so right
possibly the bravest episode the show has ever done, THIS is what doctor who is all about
everyone in this show has the same face
it's really disorienting
The most expertly crafted 80 minutes of TV I have ever seen.
started off pretty good, had a terrible middle section, and then picked up a tiny bit again, but after starting the season off with a surprisingly good episode, this makes me less hopeful about the rest of it
I am legitimately shocked: Doctor Who is great for the first time in the better part of a decade!
Nobody in this whole damn episode can pronounce a simple German word. Not even the advanced AI.
Just a content warning for people like me who didn't know the details of this crime before watching: the first episode features explicit footage of a gruesome real life death. There is no cut-away and it isn't a recreation, but actual footage that shows someone dying terribly in real life. It would have been nice to know this in advance so I could have at least looked away. It's ethically extremely dubious to show footage of someone's final terrible moments for entertainment like this and of course also potentially deeply disturbing. Anyways, having only seen 1 episode so far, that is all I have to say at this point. Be warned. A less exploitative documentary would have cut away, this one does NOT.
Not a religious nut here, actually quite vocally anti religion and pro poking fun at it, but I just felt this episode was weaker and had more non sequiturs than usual, as well as a bit of a bottle episode feel in parts that it didn't really make up for with sharp writing. To each his own. Was still a decent watch but I won't be coming back to this one.
In addition to just being a god-awful episode that rushes through what could have been a decent if predictable season arc in one episode, this episode pulled the good old rape as backstory. But not just that, gang rape of a teenager. There's nothing wrong with dealing with those tough issues in media, but this show does NOT have the tact and respect necessary for these issues, and it comes across as anything from pandering and misguided, to being unsure how to deal with female characters, to oddly, uncomfortable and almost certainly unintentionally voyeuristic. There's one moment, in a flashback, that shows one of the main characters as a teenager (no exactly defined age, but implied to be around 16) just after being raped, with her breast hanging out of her bra and shown on camera.
This may just be the single most tasteless moment I have ever seen on TV. This is a teenager (in this case portrayed by a 23yo actress, but that doesn't change the text) after being sexually violated by a group of men in what the episode sets up to be her lowest moment...and you feel the need to show us her breasts? WHY? What is the point of that? That was a completely unnecessary shot and there is no justification for it anywhere else in the episode - which is prone to gratuitous nudity in an unusual departure from the rest of the season - either. Just disgusting. The entire way this was framed was disgusting and in poor taste. And while this may not come through clearly in this comment, it will be absolutely clear to you when watching. Just let me reiterate: the problem is NOT the subject matter. No subject matter is off-limits for art. The problem is the framing of it.
Definitely the best episode of the season. Very tight writing, but not necessarily what the Family Guy audience is looking for. It lacks much of the show's signature humour.
Some people seem to have bizarre expectations for this show...it's a The Soup reboot under a different name. It's Joel showing clips and making fun of reality TV. Mindless entertainment. The aim isn't sharp multifaceted comedy of the type we got in Community.
I still fucking hate the terrible fake German accents in this show.
This movie is pretty much The Prestige without everything that made the Prestige a masterpiece.
The biggest pile of trash I've seen in a while. Absolutely embarrassing. Think you've seen stupid protagonists in horror flicks? Well, you haven't seen these yet!
The cinematography is legitimately quite good, so I didn't give this a 1/10, but my boyfriend and I both spend the largest part of this film offended over how bad it is.
would be pretty great if we could have just one post-Matt Smith Doctor Who episode that isn't trash
I absolutely adored this film. A great homage to classic golden age Hollywood musicals that subverts and puts a modern twist on JUST enough elements.
I made a video review you can watch over at youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_pSwcuAfsM
Started off ok, but ended up relying entirely on the same few (weak) jump scares, possession tropes and massive plot holes. Weak acting and writing. Decent direction and cinematography.
The more you think about this movie, the less sense it makes.
A lot of the "scares" involved CGI that just looked hilarious.
It's more messed up sexual fantasy than movie.
We got a main character who gleefully "grabs women by the pussy" and a rape that the victim ends up enjoying.
Is every episode this season going to have a beautiful, famous guest star who remains disfigured/hard to recognize throughout and dies in the end? Because I'd be up for that.
It's dumb, but ultimately in a good way. Lots of fun.
It's just absolutely terrible on every conceivable level. A laughable plot full of paper-thin characters stiffly delivering terrible lines in front of CGI that would be disappointing in a video game cutscene. The cast is pretty good, but is given shoddy material to work with and incompetent direction. At it's best, it's utterly derivative and forgettable, at it's worst it's offensively bad.
Pretty shit film, but always happy to see a big asian star like Jay Chou in a western movie, even if it's a small role.
A movie for people who hate movies.
A bit of the plotting was obvious, but all in all a fantastic season opener, probably their best. The first half of season 5 was shit, the second half was by far the best this show has had - and this seems to continue in the same vein.
I never thought they would top episodes 6 and 10 of season 1. But...they did!
It's BEAUTIFULLY shot, but just about all of the actual content is stuff you should already know if you got through high school.
The Rachel/Mike relationship drama just seems so fake and unnecessary. I'm all for a good romantic subplot, but every single conflict they had for the past 5 seasons seemed over the top and unrealistic.
