Trakt for iOS
Works on iPhone and iPad.
evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and destroy what is good
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holy shit, chef
I thought the first episode was interesting, if not a little slow. I am now 4 episodes in and I am hooked. Really familiar tropes are turned on it’s head and it’s such a great watch. I wasn’t a fan of umbrella academy as I thought the pacing was terrible, however with ‘the boys’ I feel so far they’ve nailed it. Everything feels relevant and not filler, I can’t wait to see more!
Edit: finished now, a brilliant watch throughout. The quality of this show put into context what has been wrong in other superhero shows for me. A breath of fresh air in a stagnating genre. Great job guys.
Yes, yes, yes this is what the super hero genre needs. Fresh but gritty thanks to the R+18. Hooked after 1 episode. Keep up the heroics Amazon.
You know those shows where the main character does EVERYTHING wrong and you scream at the television the entire time? Be prepared. It's exactly like that.
One word: masterful. They've edited a very naturalistic sort of narrative in a way that's gripping, intense and full of details you just want to sink into.
You just don't see coming a plot so simple produced into such a piece of fine art. It's everything you ask for and more in both the technical and the emotional departments.
The depth of all characters, the cinematography, the balls of that episode 7. FX at its finest.
This show is a pleasure for the eyes and a pain for the mind.
Elves act, talk and behave as if they are high, drunk and extremely stupid at the same time.
With their budget it is beyond me why they didn't hire a great writer and storyteller, and a person who can create characters that viewers care about after 1 dialogue. Hollywood has several people like that.
Instead of taking Tolkien material, leave it as is and think how to improve on top of that, AMZN decided to just take the character names, world map and create some random BS script to show off CGI. Well... It's a trend. Wheel of Time did the same thing. Now I pray to all gods that if Hollywood finally will make a TV Show based on Raymond Feist novels - they will ask someone who knows what they're doing...
Very disappointed so far. Seems like they just threw a bunch of ideas at the wall hoping something stuck. Four episodes in and didn't care to finish
i just don't get why people are loving this. acting is over the top, script is predictable. oh yes lets put a 56kg woman to work the machinery, while mr f**king ripped boss is just watching. 81%? imdb 8.4?
getting a bit tired of this low ratings at trakt.tv on shows that even had a start date or on pilot day if they dont have any super hero attached. great pilot. yes, it´s better than 3/10 .
I looked at it according to the chronological order. Find it makes no sense at all otherwise.
VIOLET: 24 YEARS BEFORE THE HEIST
GREEN: 7 YEARS BEFORE THE HEIST
YELLOW: 6 WEEKS BEFORE THE HEIST
ORANGE: 3 WEEKS BEFORE THE HEIST
BLUE: 5 DAYS BEFORE THE HEIST
WHITE: THE HEIST
RED: THE MORNING AFTER THE HEIST
PINK: 6 MONTHS AFTER
This show serves as yet another reflection of television and movies made in 2022 without feeling like middle earth at all. Years from now we will look back and laugh at how pathetic woke movies and television shows where when we noticed we always had great movies with characters of all backgrounds and gender identities without having to smother people with it. I'd even argue shows like these are going to be seen as pandering and destructive in the near future.
1/10
Outstanding!! Funny, serious, and hilarious! Perfectly executed. Binged watched it in a day and then hated myself for doing it; next season please.
this looks really good, can't wait. The fact that its on AppleTV and not Netflix series gives a big hope
I grew up with Tolkien's work, I loved the Lord of the rings trilogy and the hobbit was still very enjoyable. And to add, I am from the middle east. I don't really care about diversity, i just want likable characters.
This show..... I despise, the first half of the episode made me feel uncomfortable (Because it is not even close to the source materials.) and disappointed, I would have loved a series talking about the first and second age of middle earth but they aren't even close to telling the proper story.
I stopped watching because I was just THAT uninterested in it. That is a very hard feet to do as i generally watch through episodes before I make my opinion. In this case? It just made me unable to finish the episode and I doubt ill even finish the series.
I highly recommend anyone to actually read the books or just watch the 2 trilogies, as they are far better than the show both in story telling and visuals.
Very intense Chef!! But enjoyed it a lot, very bingeable and some really fantastic scenes. Hope they make more.
They pulled a Star Wars on Tolkien and took the most expensive dump on a well established universe and lore for the sake of equality and virtue signaling. Congratulations, Amazon. You've just closed off Tolkien estate from allowing future iterations of one of the most beautiful and rich universes ever created.
This show is so bad, other sites like imdb where I normally do reviews, won’t let people review the Rings of Power!
The review I’ve submitted a bunch of times on imdb, and it seems to have disappeared into the ether:
There are some great looking shots in this. There is where 2 stars come from. But having some stunning visuals does not make a show great, or even good.
I would like to know how much they spent on writers. That was definitely a part they skipped out on the bill.
This is what 1 billion dollars gets you? Feels like old Bezos got fleeced.
I think if you convince yourself the show had a budget of 1 million per episode and you may enjoy it more.
As a studio you have Tolkien’s world, and works beloved by many 10’s of millions the world over. What level of incompetence and narcissism does it take to think you know better and you should start changing the fundamental character characteristics, and world lore in that world?
"Tolkien write, this he did not" -- Probably Yoda.
It feels like this show is a bit under the radar, it's pretty good though. (5 episodes in)
Hope it doesn't get cancelled.
It's the worst show I've ever watched. After one episode I can say that it is not suitable for watching. The series was filmed to scare, upset and bring a lot of negative emotions into life. Completely different than, for example, The Walking Dead. It introduces anxiety, elements that were during the last war - a scene with a boy with a child admitted to quarantine. Then thrown on the pile. Probably a series for subliminal coding of negative emotions. Don't watch it. The whole thing is probably filmed according to the current pandemic narrative.
Episode 3's generator event must be one of the most mind numbingly stupid scenes that I have ever seen.
What were the writers writing? Even a child would know, out of instinct, to not do what the main character was doing. It simply breaks the laws of physics and has nothing to do with reality.
Not to mention the engineering aspects of the rest of the design and the so-called fixes and repairs applied, which are just ridiculous.
It's not about suspension of disbelief, it's about sheer stupidity. This episode makes me want to stop watching.
A visual feast, with an excellent musical score... but the rest just falls flat. There's nothing to hold the viewer's interest.
Can't see myself following this season beyond the 2 episodes that premiered.
The characters and their dialogue are so poorly written, it feels like I'm watching robots. They don't make choices or drive the story forward, things just happen to them.
(Potential exception: Elrond and his emerging storyline. But we see so little of him it's not worth slogging through the rest)
AND, If you're going to spend insane amounts of money on a project like this - why not hire ONE director and ONE main writer to take care of the whole season, instead of employing these no-vision, direct/write-one-episode-and-I'm-out hacks?
Give me low-budget creations by a team of passionate people who actually have something to say over this soulless "content", any day.
Watched up to E08 and I’m really enjoying it.
Do not watch and expect it to be as the original The War of the Worlds, it’s very different, but at the same time sharing similar elements.
It’s perhaps why it’s missing ‘the’ from the beginning of the title and called ‘War of the Worlds’.
Strangely, there’s another show running at the same time called The War of the Worlds; this is the one to watch if you’re expecting a show reflecting the original.
However, I’m loving this show. It’s a collaboration between the UK & France, and therefore expect subtitles in places.
It’s a much simpler show, although that’s probably the incorrect terminology, as it has a great plot which you don’t know where it’s going.
After watching 8 episodes, I’m getting the impression it’s nothing to do with the original we all know and love, but something very different.
It has an excellent cast and told well. It’s very down to earth without lots of CGI etc. Probably a more realistic version if something like this did happen.
I’ve absolutely no complaints about this and I’m sad to see it’s so poorly rated; which I suspect is because people are expecting the original War of the Worlds.
Watch this with no preconceived ideas, and you should enjoy it.
A solid rating of 8 from me, it’s twisting off in a direction I never would have of suspected.
If you want something closer to the original, watch the other show; which I’ve only seen clips of. But, it is definitely based on the original.
I’ve marked this in my list as British, when technically it’s not. It’s a collaboration of UK & France, made for American TV. But, I don’t have list for that lol.
Enjoy!
Holy shit this is good. I know there have been a lot of hitman series this year, but I think I prefer this to both Barry and Killing Eve, for instance. It's beautiflly shot, it's funny but also jarringly real and sparse. And it's only 6 half-hour episodes!
Well this is another Taylor Sheridan project and he can't do wrong.
Solid start of the season, solid actors and what seems to be a solid plot.
I'm bias because there isn't yet a project started by Sheridan I haven't liked. Can't wait to see Bass Reeves and all the actual new seasons of all his running shows, from Yellowstone to Tulsa King.
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This is bad, jokes are not funny, hardly any action scenes which was bad also. I gave up after 2 episodes.
I really like this show. Ray is one evil dude but I find myself liking his style.
it's got sloppy dialogue, muddled motivations and a diverse intersectional cast. this is 100% written by an AI because NOTHING makes sense and NOTHING is explained. 2 episodes in and i'm none the wiser.
SUPER excited for this. The Silo series books were fantastic, and I always thought they would make a great movie or show. Fingers crossed that the show is just as interesting as the books!
I really wanted to like this show because I'm a fan of several cast members, but while the acting was great, basically everything else fell apart. The worst was the characterizations. I didn't really understand why these characters were motivated to do what they were doing beyond like Ray/Leo. Why did Judy stay with Bob? What was going on with her and Stan? It's really never explained. The characters feel super shallow and I think part of that is because of the show's structure in trying to allow people to enter from (basically) any episode, they can only reveal so much in each installment. It limits the writing and it's to the show's overall detriment. Just overall a huge letdown. So many things don’t make sense.
