This was great, specially the biblical flashback part. Not only is this hilarious but it is also much deeper on morality and so interesting in the foundation of the character's friendship.
The whole "giving birth" scene is extraordinary: the pair's con, Tennant's superb performance, the wife catching on it while Job doesn't, Gabriel pretending to be an expert, while the rest have absolutely no clue. One of the funniest things I've seen in a while.
But it's also showing the very foundation of the main characters. They both know and love mankind, while the angels (and probably God), and we assume the demons, are totally oblivious of their lives. Well, not only mankind since Crowley doesn't even want to kill goats. The completely impossible understanding between Aziraphale and the other angels when it comes to children is the first real break in his blind faith, putting him on the path we know. While at the same time, Crowley and him implicitly share the same understanding and opinion on the situation. And thus they enter in their symmetrical/opposing roles.
This is such a great insight on how they became what they are in the book.
The present day plot pales in comparison, but John Hamm is still great. And more of the angels' weirdness. Maggie/Nina thing still uninteresting though.
Everybody in this is unlikable. The show has no interest in telling you what characters you're going to follow here in its initial episode. No one is really established except one has anxiety, one other has a thing against technology and the third is gay getting fondled in a club in the open. All is being done in a "we don't have too much time to focus on one thing so let's hurry getting the point accross", making it unbelievable and weird. The pacing is off due to the lack of this.
The acting is incredibly bad and towards the end rather cringeworthy. The mystery that is being set up in this episode somewhat uninteresting and lacking anything creative. This is trying to be bigger than it is with a lower budget.
Should have some already established young actors in this but either the budget is too low, or potential casts didn't want to do this for good reasons.
Many like me are drawn to this because it has SMG involved but that's her only reason to be in this, in front of the camera while executive producing this as well. It's bad. Not funny bad, or so-bad-it's-good bad but really, really bad.
Definite skip for me.
This piece of trash starts with the white washing of the Native American tribes right off the bat. It's well documented that cowboys, mostly cattle driving, both during and in between cattle seasons, regularly murdered and raped homesteaders on their homesteads and en route to the West. The US Army officers of the time often wrote to DC about this problem and many were told, or voluntarily, blamed local tribes to justify annihilation of the Native Americans.
I had a feeling this crap would be white washed but I thought, give it a chance. The very first scene gave the false history a big pat on the back, with a minor nod to how awful the white settlers were because of the false narrative white America used to justify stealing the lands, forcing Natives into tiny sector, now called reservations, and even used to keep them poor, unemployed and without running water even to this day.
Plus, if you're going to make garbage like this, make sure the actress isn't a damn bottle blonde whose natural hair color is darker than most Natives. They didn't have hair dye in 1883 and homesteaders couldn't afford it.
I'm so disgusted. Paramount should be ashamed. This piece of shit is critically acclaimed? Of course it is..... welcome to whitewashed Amerikkka.
"Baby, yesterday is what eats everybody. That's why I don't think about it."
I have no idea why I am still watching Yellowstone. :upside_down: Just one of those things where you watch the first seasons and feel obligated to watch the next ones. This show has lost its edge and the story has lost the plot. This usually seems to happen about season 4 or 5 in a series, but I had hoped it wouldn’t happen here. This season is getting really really slow, I would expect this from the first 2 episodes but we are on the 5th episode and I fell like nothing happened in it story-wise at all. I feel like I could have skipped this episode and wouldn't have missed anything. l find myself wanting to fast-forwarding through parts.
I can't get past how ridiculous that dinner scene was. Nobody in Summer's situation would act like that, not even the most self-righteous and obnoxious vegan/vegetarians. Summer's not 12 years old, I'm sure she has being in a place where meat is served to non-vegetarians before so it would not be some shocking, novel experience where she'd experience uncontrollable outrage. And does the Dutton house not have vegetables in their kitchen? I'd expect it from people with a personal chef.
Another potentially good character fed to Beth so they can keep writing her this way since this show is a love letter to her. Summer could be a good character that challenges the view of the main characters which could make for a compelling objective more balanced thematic narrative but now she has become worthless as an character and will fall into oblivion like Jamie. A person with that many years of BJJ training would absolutely beat the living out of Beth but this was just another “liberals are weak and whiny” trope we constantly see in this show.
Why are the writers making Beth a caricature at this point? All her lines are written to be Instagram captions and she's shown 0 growth. A character whose only lines are punchlines is not a well written character. Beth is a 40something professional, married woman acting this way? It's so ridiculously over the top.
John's dialog in the scene with Rip was weird to me. How does he see Beth as being "free" when she's just a petulant child who doesn't suffer any consequences for her immature actions.
When is Jamie gonna stand up for himself?
The end was too corny/cringe to me. All characters acting as if they are going off to combat or something when they're just gonna go brand some cattle.
Wasn't a big fan of this start to the season in the first two episodes. They seem to want to push as much Beth down your throat as possible and I'm honestly just sick and tired of her character. Not growth, no arc, she's the exact same person she was 5 seasons ago with some added backstory to try and make her feel more sympathetic. Kelly Reilly's acting is some of the best you'll see, but I'm sick and tired of Beth. And I'm especially sick and tired of her dogging on Jamie in the same exact way season after season after season. The show seems to want to keep showing you Beth treating Jamie like dirt, and it's just way too old and repetitive at this point. I still think they should turn Jamie into a full on villain, they've set him up to be a perfect villain but they're not taking that step. I think if he started outwardly fighting the Duttons and actually getting some major victories, especially against Beth, it would add so much to the show. Really anything different and new would make the show better, but they mostly just keep on making the same show season after season. The added politics were fresh and new and very welcome, I actually found this to be the most enjoyable part of these first two episodes simply because it's not just the same old thing. But everything else has gotten too stagnant and overdone. The show also desperately needed more Kayce in these first two episodes. He's the easiest character to root for and without his presence I found myself having a not knowing where to aim my support and therefore not really caring about anything. It also feels like they're bringing in a new character who's whole thing is just going to be being Beth 2.0 so... yay. So there are pieces to enjoy (the politics), but overall disappointed in this premiere. There's a lot of show left this season so I want to be hopeful but I just didn't care for this start.
This was so disrespectful to TJ! He deserved so much better!! I think he has the saddest story from all the passengers, before this episode I thought Bethany’s cousin’s boyfriend had it, but nope TJ wins, as if what happened to his mom (his only family) wasn’t sad af, then also losing his home and belongings, and now dying like this... I feel like he might not be completely gone cause in a show no one is truly dead until we see a body or we have a funeral. But still, so disrespectful! And I think the worst part was dying because of Olive!
She’s so lost and dumb! Talking about emancipation just cause her parents wouldn’t let her join a cult.
Oh and also the guy who just donated his kidney to his lost kid!! That was sad too! But also if he just donated an organ I don’t think he could’ve been drinking?
This season has been terrible.
And I feel like Saanvi’s project was too easy? Like she could inject every passenger with that and problem solved! Also obviously bisexuality exists, but I feel like a big part of Saanvi’s character was her crush on Ben but now it’s like that never happened? I guess the writers prioritized keeping Ben and Grace together because of the baby. I kinda shipped Benvi!
Once again the most interesting part of this whole fucking show is the stuff that gets the least amount of time. I could not care less about the sitcom shtick and I wish they would stop ripping off other shows when it serves little purpose except to make this all ridiculous when it could've been so much better.
In the movie Far From Heaven, you get this practically picturesque town and home life of a housewife in Connecticut. It's gorgeous and full of colors and 50s/60s "retro", what have you. It looks so perfect and lovely yet hides all sorts of ugliness underneath the perfect veneer of "All American Dream". Imagine that kind of set up but with horror and mindfuckery and that could've been THIS FUCKING SHOW.
Each episode continues to disappoint.
Each episode shows me how this would have been better served in a binge-watch (if they ever fucking do anything with the reveal).
Each episode annoys me with a pointless, obnoxious laugh track.
And each episode has me not giving a single damn about this couple or buying into any of their "chemistry" or love. This relationship was developed completely offscreen, and now I'm just supposed to believe they are some shining example of True Love because Marvel clearly wants Young Avengers? Nope. Not happening. I demand better writing and pacing, thank you.
Olsen and Bettany are very talented and capable actors in other projects but here, I can't buy anything between them.
The pacing is just painful and not at all suspenseful. There's tension and then there's annoying the shit out of your audience. This show is the latter.
This show continues to be the epitome of "my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined".
