Really great performances, but the movie is pretty messy. It genuinely felt like I was watching a movie trailer that was almost 3 hours long.
Wow, season 8 is of to an awful start. They are really perfecting the art of ruining characters. If it wasn't for me having this completionist urge I would have spared myself a long time ago.
At least this is the final season, soon I'll be free :pray:
From reading the first few reviews on IMDb and the low ratings here, I can only imagine the raters/reviewers were either the wrong audience for this show (they expected fictional high-stakes Homeland) or didn't grasp what they were watching was a version of an Israeli-Palestinian-Lebanese reality that has a highly-contested, multifaceted, and many-charactered plot.
It is a complex story, too many events, too many characters that cannot all be explored in depth, too much backstory that cannot be all explained in 4hrs. Real life is complex. Trying to boil it down to simple terms and singular titular characters reduces it to a caricature of itself - I'm glad Ghosts of Beirut hasn't done that so far.
So far having only watched episode 1 (more to come), I'm excited to see more. The characters feel real. The Arabic and Hebrew spoken are real. The main characters are very well known in the middle-east and the political circles everywhere else.
All I can say is that I'm pleasantly surprised that this show is made, that we can get complex stories on TV that don't try to dumb things down.
Dont know who is giving this low ratings,first two episodes have been top notch.
Legend has it, that the script took forever to finish. Every time they finished a line, it disappeared
There are demons and other supernatural beings, sure, but I don't think this show was titled for that.
The real and true EVIL is represented by those four girls chaotically shrieking every time they get even a second of screen time.
Ok.. Let me make this a short one: this show is decent, has potential and a twist. But it's annoyingly over-dramatized. It quickly becomes old and thank god it's only 7 episodes.
Terrible screenplay where the same setup is repeated in every act, without really changing anything. Dialogue is good, even though it is more a couple of long conversations with time jums mashed together, but it becomes boring pretty fast if you aren't interested in the history of tech companies and/or Jobs. Thank god for Fassbender, Daniels and Rogen's great performances, otherwise it would have been even more of a pain to watch.
