When it takes itself too seriously it's a bit clumsy, but overall it's still fun as hell.
It takes two or three episodes to get the rhythm but by then the series becomes amazing. Great writing, ambitious direction, a very good cast, nice themes and an actually marvelous actress.
Nice and fun until it finally becomes great. But jesus I hate how it uses songs. Not always. But most of the time.
So much better than everything Marvel/Netflix did after the first season of Jessica Jones.
Even better than season one: the humour is more on point, the themes are very well tackled (and probably more relevant now than when the show was written) and the acting is getting better.
It's not that atrocious, a couple of actors are well casted and there's some potential for growing up (but I assume we won't see anymore of this, so... ). The problem is that it's so naive... it's written like a show from twenty or more years ago, it really is out of its time. And yeah, of course, even if you look at it that way, it's not particularly good.
OK, it's true, it's much less gripping than usual, but come on, you're making it bigger than it is. It's still a beautifully written and acted show, and I kind of liked the slowdown, the setting up stuff for the final season and the dedication to characters and relationships. Plus, when it wanted, it still was emotionally quite strong.
Great writing, acting and directing, relevant themes, a lot of cliches that get subverted in smart and elegant ways.
The usual Bojack: sometimes it's great, sometimes it's decent, sometimes it's amazing.
What the fuck wow yeah.
The first three episodes are amazing. Gripping, romantic, thrilling, deep, sexy... it trojan horses a spy story inside a drama/romance/thriller thing and it does it in a wonderful way. Episode four is where it collapses by letting the uninteresting sci-fi/spy element take control. Episode five doesn't particularly get better. Still, the amazing start and the great cast deserve a view.
A really brave and ambitious final season.
The whole web of mysteries is quite fun, even though a bit predictable in the actual twists. The whole philosophical part is frankly really basic, but also decently fun. What is missing is the human element, a bit of fun, some deep characters and some really engaging storylines. It's made this way on purpose because of the themes, of course, but still, I feel it's lacking. I mean, "that guy" shooting himself was powerful, but it instantly deflated because it didn't really mean anything. And that's just an example. And - jesus - too much exposition. Info dumps after info dumps with no elegance at all. They know it, they joke on it with the "show, don't tell" line, but that doesn't make it better. That being said, the production is amazing, the cast is great and I think this could be a good prologue to a much better second season.
It's a slow burner and episode 7 is atrocious in spite of its good intentions, but overall it's almost as good as season one, even though it's even more derivative and predictable: the cast is still amazing, the characters are still adorable and it's nice that it gives more time to the ones that had less space in season one.
Two episodes to warm up the engines, then that fight and only love for the rest of the season. Amazing.
Basically it's like Masters of Sex but with people getting to intercourse through rape and murder instead of counseling.
It's the worst season, lacking the creativity and the crazyness of the previous one and with a cliffhanger that never got resolved, but it's still quite fun and with some occasional stroke of genius.
Michele Placido's direction for the first two episodes is really bad and the older actors are made of pure wood, but if you can tolerate that you will get a pretty good crime drama, quite engaging when it's about the younger characters (which, fortunately, is most of the time).
Maybe it's not as good and crazy as the first two seasons, but there's still a bunch of amazingly creative episodes, plus the whole prison and coma storyline ar quite fun and inventive. Also, there's a good ending, which I guess is not what we had with season 4 and the whole series. :(
A lovely series, that talks about puberty in a smart and fun way.
I'm not sure I dig this "necessity" to reboot everything with an edgier, sexyer, whateverer approach, especially when the recent Archie comic book is such a smart reinvention without giving up the upbeat spirit. That being said, this is very well made. Great visuals, decent acting, a funny parade of guest stars from the old times, smart, witty and entertaining in its reinvention of a classic. I hope the upgrade to 22 episodes for season 2 is not a mistake.
Still a deep, funny, emotional, greatly written, directed and acted series. And that final episode, gosh, I was a mess. Such a pity that it's been canceled.
Even better than season one. The level of not giving a fuck and doing whatever it wants is amazing.
This is probably My Name is Earl at its best: funny, stupid, smart and full of crazy ideas.
A wonderful send off for a great series. Really, every single episode is amazing and the way it wraps up everything with the final three is... wow.
This is Girls at its best: abrasive, gripping, funny, adorable.
The production value is always high and Idris Elba is alwasy Idris Elba, but this honestly felt like an empty filler. Plus, I miss Ruth Wilson.
This is really amazingly stupid.
The whole nodding to the eighties is a bit too heavy at times, especially when it clones scenes, costumes and stuff, but it's a lot less annoying than I feared. That being said, it's a very entertaining show: fun, well written, acted and directed, it uses all the cliches but it also subverts some of them. And thank god it's only 8 episodes, with no fillers at all.
