Meh. I'm not impressed. Not at all.
I'm pre-emptively giving this a meh cause I'm sure this show is not gonna surprise me. Halfway through we have one filler episode and one of the most uninteresting reveals possible and cliches so expected and boring that I feel I know exactly how this will end
I dunno why I expect anything interesting from these shows. I keep hoping that we'd get Legion again cause Disney owns Fox and Legion was an X-Men property. I don't mean we'd get a reboot or whatever of Legion, just that they'd take the interesting ideas from Legion and make something interesting and zany and truly whacky and avante-garde. Instead, WandaVision was uninteresting and terrible and this takes a genuinely interesting character and flanderizes the shit out of him
I should probably give up on the MCU shows and just watch the movies. At least they're short
Edit: watched the last episode. Yeah I'm not changing my rating. The pacing was awful. The finale was messy and the cliffhanger ending was unearned. The fights were heavily edited poorly choreographed chaos
An utterly delightful and absurd romp through "an occasionally true" story of Catherine The Great's rise to power. A powerhouse cast, great visual design and acerbic comedic writing all pull together for an entertaining ride that's short enough to not be tiresome.
The script is TERRIBLE, super clichéd and predictable. As a hardcore fan of this kind of genre, I still can't bring myself to continue watching this crap past episode 5
Ok Tyler Sheridan did not disappoint with this one so far, two episodes in and loving it. Great cast and the story keeps getting better, not for the faint of heart, the show has a lot of violence and scant language.
If Yellowstone, Mayor of Kingstown are your jam, do not miss this one.
When did the Aussies start making great tv like this? With zombies, love triangles, murder, mystery and drama, it delivers a great story with minimal special affects. Well worth a watch.
Interesting premise. Of course Netflix had to stuff it with nonsense to drag this onto an 8 episode snoozefest. This could have been a great 90 minute movie, if they trimmed all the rubbish off.
The first five episodes have a lot of padding. We get a good idea of the premise during the pilot. Then they beat around the bush until the fifth episode. After the 5th episode, the "science-fiction" part comes into play and things pick up speed. It's brilliant from that point onwards.
As a fan of Vikings I simple had to binge this. Set 100 years later we get introduced to the next generation of mythical figures. You don't need to have watched the original to be able to get into this story, at worst you'll miss a couple "I get that reference" smirks. What is clear from the start is that this show has been produced with a little tweak to the original. Same quality sets and world building but somewhat lighter. I'd say 20% less nudity, 20% more action and the drama needs to share the spotlight with political intrigue. Looks like they have a big budget, so we see bigger battles (like the siege of Paris in the original series) as well as the skirmishes. I think it lands somewhere between the original Vikings and The last Kingdom. If you are a fan of either I can highly recommend this season.
I mean... Sort of wasted my time here but a bitch’s gotta watch at least some 2020 releases.. no, seriously, the performances are pretty good, but that’s about it. boring story with nothing but absolute misery.
Pimps hoes drugs jive talkin n tittays tunes n rides..goddamn I love the 70's
Just watched the first two episodes, and am finding it hard to relate to these ultra rich 0.1% teens with first world problems and cardboard cutout parents. Implausible. Indeed all the characters seem to be predictable stereotypes so far, and it feels like every 3-6 minute scene could have been slashed to 20 or 30 seconds without loss of plot or art.
And WTF is up with the opulent wealth that every character in this show is wallowing in. The world they portray of rich parents without real world problems (or day jobs apparently) frankly pisses me off. It's like the 99.9% of us who live in the middle and lower classes, and who actually must watch our money, don't exist. Rich ass white writers is what it smells like to me.
Anyway, I'll give episode 3 ten minutes, but if something doesn't become relevant, interesting or believable soon, then I'm done.
Just watched the pilot and this is a superb show!
Slickly written with good choice of cast and well acted, the directing is pretty top notch.
It's not dumbed down like allot of trash; it shows the emotional reasons why some smart poor kids turn to crime and has a sinister political twist to boot.
Hope it gets the audience and recognition it deserves, think this is going to be a hit!
This is great news for us Justified fans. Can't wait, hope it's as good as the original show.
Typical crapflix show made by bunch of first time film makers who asked ChatGPT to write, cast, film, edit, and produce the show.
Huzzah! That is all. Now, fuck off.
No clue why this has been so low rated. The first episode was great and sounds we have another HBO good series.
If you like drama, thriller and comedy don't miss this one.
The first season started well with suspense, intrigue, and promise. Unfortunately, the second season reveals it's only fantasy horror with little or no meaning. Characters and their motivations began breaking down rapidly. It's a shame, as I had been enjoying Boyd Stevens very much.
I was hoping I was going to like this, but I really didn't.
Maybe because I had high hopes due to the cast.
The pace is really slow, the back and forth is dull and the story failed to keep me interested. Will try and see the second and maybe third episodes to see if it improves.
This is seriously the best thing I've watched in a long time. Sometimes gruesome. Always amazing. It kind of reminded me of "The Princess Bride" meets "The Royals". I binged it and want a LOT more.
John Wick has nothing to offer outside of ridiculous and repetitive fight sequences. It is unintelligent and uninteresting. Just a little mental stimulation is all I ask.
I really loved Thor Ragnarok, and I love Taika Waititi as a director, but this movie was a huge disappointment for me. The humour was too much, the pacing felt off, and the actual plot of the film was exceptionally weak. Aside from a few scenes with Christian Bale as Gorr, I really struggled to enjoy this one. There was a really nice use of colour in the film though, and I thought that it ended well, but overall it just truly felt like a mess, and I think it's easily the weakest of the Thor movies. I think the only MCU movie I disliked more than this one was Eternals.
The movie jumped from incoherent plot point to the next with a super idiotic big villian and a super obvious ending. A random series of unevents just designed to be whacky. I tried to like this but it was hot trash
boring and too predictable. I felt like a time traveler watching this. I could predict what was gonna happen at every scene.
Hopefully it's the start of more Stephen King adaption shows on Hulu and also Netflix. This is definitely better than Under the Dome. With a solid plot and fine acting.
I don't mind that this is a comedy. I do mind that it's not funny.
Before watching, I expected this would be a good cyberpunk, but no...
In reality, Altered Carbon is weak, extremely weak even.
To the point I actually have to say that I would suspect the majority like this series based on the reason why it has an M-rating, which is the nudity.
Sure, it doesn't follow the amazing books of Richard K. Morgan in quite some ways, but far more importantly, it is actually quite boring.
I could give a long explanation, but I know I can expect people to be against me for saying this regardless, so let me just be short about it.
Among the problems are: scenes that feel unfinished, too many filler scenes, sloppy acting, and explanations that feel to be repeating forever throughout episodes.
Also, missing the understanding of the importance appearance, like the impossible way how certain wounds are apparently healing throughout the episodes...
Of course, it has also good parts, like the amazing special effects.
But to me personally, the bad parts outweigh the good parts.
That are my 2 cents about Altered Carbon. Maybe you don't like it either, maybe you do like it. This is just my opinion.
A big disappointment. Flat and stereotype story. Only seen the first episode though so maybe it changes...
If you go in expecting there to be a lot of monster on monster action, then let me tell you this , it's a huge disappointment. In the 5 episodes that I have watched there is hardly 2-3 mins of monster action.
The acting is sub par , character development is weak. It's like a soap opera , where in every new episode they bring up a new topic.
Update (12/01/2024) : Just finished watching the finale. This show should've been called Monarch : Siblings with Daddy Issues.
The trailer was super misleading . And this was an utter disappointment. In the 10 episodes , there's probably only 10mins of monster action. This is a family drama , not a sci-fi series.
