This episode was awesome. Ignore the bad reviews you see here. This episode allowed each of the characters to shine. Raven uses her powers on purpose. Gar kicks ass in tiger form. Dick does a hallway fight outnumbered 8 to 1 while still being druged. Starfire gets a Khaleesi walks out of the fire scene.
Way to go Gar!
This was probably the silliest, most over the top episode of The Flash yet.... and I loved it.
It's funny to see bad reviews for this movie, and a lot of criticism towards JJ, but it's clear that all the choices made in this movie was to correct the choices made in The Last Jedi, the movie that was hated by all the fans till yesterday, but now people are praising.
The Rise of Skywalker is a great movie, specially for fans, it's a great way to end this saga, filled with fan service. I don't think I can say more than that without spoiling the experience for everyone.
All the critcs you see here, or on twitter, are coming from people who thinks star wars, a space opera, should be a deep and complex movie with fanfics about romances.
I cried so much. It’s bad enough knowing what our government is doing to families at the border. It’s worse to see what that might look like. And let’s face it; it’s probably so much worse than they can show on network television.
I'm so glad this show has never shied away from controversial topics. This episode is no different and extremely relevant in today's political climate.
I've never felt so defenseless watching a TV show. Rollins and Stone acted like total jerks on this episode. I understand the law is the law, and everything, but their lines implied (and sometimes explicited) that the deceased was right because he was a cop, as if he was infallible or something, and didn't deserve what happened to him. I was psychlogically abused by my ex husband and I can assure that this kind of violence is much more harmful than a punch or other physical damages.
I quite enjoyed it. Sure it's not a masterpiece, and some of the cgi wasn't very good (mostly in the elevator scene), but overall it was still quite an interesting experience.
Went into this without having seen the previous movies so wasn't really familiar to the storylines that were happening, but I'm intrigued.
Yeah, we get another season!
In an age of superhero movies with a Feige-approved tone, Birds of Prey is a breath of fresh air. It swings for the fences. Is it always a home run? No, but it hits more than it misses. The action is on point and clear, with a crisp line of sight and progression. The characterization is solid, particularly with Winstead's Huntress, McGregor's Black Mask, and Robbie's Harley. Winstead owns every scene she's in, alternating between badass and endearingly awkward with so much ease she begs for more screen time. McGregor is both entertaining while being a complete dirtbag, his misogyny all too true to life but never glorified or sexualized for the audience. And Robbie does an admirable job of anchoring the film.
The film falters somewhat in rarely being as funny as it wants to be, outside of Huntress, but the tone is fun enough and the action and visuals distinctive enough to make it a blast anyway. For mostly the better, every shot feels like Cathy Yan's vision, and the entire project bleeds her, the writer's, and Robbie's passion, something too lacking in hero movies these days.
What stuck out most to me was one scene of Black Mask's cruelty. Where most films would've lingered on it, the camera gratifying as much as it condemns, Yan keeps the focus strictly on the pettiness of Mask, the reaction of his victim, and the horror of the witnesses. It doesn't linger, but it doesn't make light. It's true to life but it's not gratuitous trauma porn. It serves a purpose, and it is so rare to see in any movie. That's the feeling that makes Birds of Prey most worth seeing. For a fun time through a distinctive lens, it's more than worth your time.
This film is epic! It's fun, i love the mix of different personal motives and the disregard for moral "right and wrong", the cartoonish style of acting from margot robbie was awesome and i loved it! People said it had "forced diversity"???? and "forced feminism"??? what?? Just because a film has more women characters than men does not make is forced feminism, it just makes it a refreshing change to the usual, and i thought it was great!
I’m glad that Lucifer is getting a season six because if this is how the show was going to end originally, I would not be happy. It felt rather bland.
I’m intrigued to find out how they choose to bring back characters that have passed on.
As OA’s number one supporter(lol), I felt his pain with this one. How could he not feel the way he does!
Wise and powerful episode…one of the best ever written ever!
Amazingly written. This is one of the most important messages out there right now and the episode was amazingly written by the star of the episode: Azie Tesfai.
As allies, if you choose to be, we should keep asking the questions Azie and the other writers handed to us. Let's do better instead of commenting that it's all political.
Also, human rights isn't propaganda or political bullshit, it's a f*cking RIGHT. Thank you and goodnight
happy to see, even with a limited, partially new cast, this show still retains it's best characteristic, it's humor!
Listen I’m an easy mark. It’s a sentimental episode where LeVar Burton is having a blast and kicking ass, with a lot of nice character beats for Elliot.
This is a nice episode. Nice to have this show back. When I say it is better than most shows on now, I am really not just saying that.
highly recommend this episode. as someone whose mom let me watch this show at an entirely too young age who's seen a lot of these characters and flashbacks years ago, it was such a wonderful experience. the way it tied together old scenes with present day was amazing, the writers on svu are honestly really great at that. long-time viewers and people who stopped watching ages ago alike will enjoy the episode, i think. it also articulates incredibly well the issue of power imbalances, and touches on olivia's past with her mother in a great way. amaro's appearance was so fun, and honestly olivia saying cold case work suits him was SO CUTE. no idea if it was a cheeky nod to the actor's time on the show cold case but either way, god i love reunions on long-running shows. AND CRAGEN ON FACETIME. GOD.
biggest takeaway though: the acting in this episode, top notch. that scene in benson's hallway with the cassette, bye, i needed a minute even knowing what was coming. and like, i don't really watch svu beyond my nostalgia and love of mariska hargitay and procedurals. in procedurals, where the crime of the week is the focus, the acting is usually solid, if occasionally stiff and forgettable. there are obvious exceptions, particularly with special guest stars and unknowns who later go on to be famous in their own right. but man, mariska? shining throughout the entire episode, understated and raw. danny pino embodied a grown version of his character that straddled the line between maturity and hotheaded, and i love it. (as an aside: i remember so much criticism being lobbed at amaro's character being a pseudo-substitute for the "angry cop role", and this episode feels like a great illustration of the nuances between the two characters. amaro was always aggressive in every sense of the word, and continues to be with time; stabler's aggression has always been set off by specific situations and stressors, and has been tempered significantly over the years. there's a self-righteousness and passion to displays of anger when it comes to amaro, and stabler often seems almost ashamed of his own outbursts, even in the earlier years when police aggression wasn't being talked about so seriously in the media and he felt compelled to defend his actions.)
anyway, like the topic of stabler's ptsd in the organized crime spinoff, the stuff explored in this episode was so great, and highly memorable. they really did make episode 500 something special.
Tricia Helfer a pleasure as always
Good episode, I like Randy so long as they use him in small doses.
Really liked the clothes shop scene and how they handled that. Show is going from strength to strength!
I liked this episode - but I didn't quite understand the ending with Omar's denying any wrongdoing by that counter-terrorist-agent and therefore preventing any kind of supervising action.
That was a twist! So glad they didnt use Doomsday. Even using the suit was a great red herring!
Fantastic episode!! From start to finish. From Johnny Cash in the beginning to Elias in the end. Reese's terminator like hunt through the city was something I had be wanting to see. Unlike the rest of the group Reese would have ended both Quinn and Simmons if he could have.
Root with her two fisted gun fighting caused me to have Matrix flashbacks. Harold shut the door again because he knows that she may have helped them but if she thought she needed to kill them for the machine she would. She doesn't shoot at kneecaps.
Again they give Fusco some choice bits. His flashback and his fight were both good scenes for him. Normally I might be bothered by Fusco taking Simmons in a fight but Simmons had been shot (and we give him a little extra for righteous indignation).
When I saw the shadow in Simmons room at the end, I knew it would be Elias. Carter saved him and treated his with some respect. Hell, the whole group treats him with respect but I knew he had grown fond of Carter. He gave a great little speech and had done what needed to be done. Sometimes it better to watch.
Started strong but with this episode the story line just got stupid. So they were not suppose to have a kid & they did. Got screwed and want to now destroy everything. And the fool was suppose to pay attention knowing his girlfriend was going to get pushed and didn’t pay attention. So now he wan to destroy the world so he can go back. Very stupid. Let’s see if it gets better…
After these two episodes, is a spin off in preparation ? Weird if not with all the backstory put in place.
I'm guessing the writers of this show are serious catholics, which I am too, but getting kinda tired of it being such a focus on a show about cops. Last episode it was the baby's baptism and now this...
Did they magically move Amsterdam to London? Everyone is English. More cockney accents than Eastenders.
The streets & canals might be Amsterdam but everything else about this show screams England. Nothing is ‘Dutch’.
A waste of a great setting.
