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holy shit, chef
A beautiful, twisted and bleak story filled with awesome moments, music and cinematography. It shows an alternative love story completely different from all those cliché-dramatic moments overused in Hollywood. Just 3h20min of fun, love and crude humor of two characters that love each other but not the world around them. The ending is beautifully shot, showing the danger and automatic assumption that James is a psychopath. His narration, followed by him running for his short life while being on his birthday is so heartbreaking that made me cry in the last second. A boy that had no feelings, made a choice of love.
The best spinoff out there!
The fact that Dear White People has such a low rating proves the point of the whole show
This series is so mindblowingly great
Great show -- if all the episodes were released at once, I wouldn't sleep ;-)
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.
Pretty much a perfect miniseries. Intriguing characters and overall story with amazing actors, great cinematography and an absolutely fantastic soundtrack.
After Season 2:
I was really worried that this season might be shit but it actually turned out great. It's IMO as good if not better than S1 (although quite a bit less funnier and even more depressing at times) and it provides a lot happier ending for the characters which is nice. It also deals with the psychological aftermath of S1 really well.
But the best thing in the show still was the soundtrack. It somehow got even better than S1.
Very intense Chef!! But enjoyed it a lot, very bingeable and some really fantastic scenes. Hope they make more.
Wow. GLOW is such a fantastic show with a lot of unexpected depth to it. I didn't know what to really expect (other than Alison Brie wrestling other women) after just skimming some reviews online and trying not to spoil myself, but it was very well made dealing with a myriad of different social issues and themes. I never thought that so much drama and intrigue could come out of making a female wrestling league/show.
There are definitely a decent amount of feminism and SJW vibes, which can usually turn me off to a show/movie if taken overboard. However, I thought the tone of the show struck a very nice balance to those themes with wisely timed comedic dialogue and chose not to go too overboard on stating some of the "obvious". I really liked the emphasized theme of "things don't just happen; people make choices" that is expanded upon. There are some times you can't just blame society and everyone else for everything, and at times, you have to just take some responsibility yourself.
Alison Brie did a great job as the lead in this one, and hit the humorous parts quite well. She definitely doesn't play the typical spunky girl who never gets down in order to overcome all obstacles in this one. Lots of bad shit happens to her constantly in this show (some of it self-inflicted), and she has to eventually deal with the consequences. Some are dealt with better than others. She really developed her character throughout the course of this season, but she never really crossed into that "totally likeable" realm for me.
However, this is alright because the other supporting characters in GLOW were fantastic in their roles as well. I was pleasantly surprised that the show was really able to flesh out almost every single character/female wrestler introduced and give them all some plot lines and conflict to overcome (even Sheila the wolf girl!!). My favorite girl/wrestler was probably definitely Debbie, played by Betty Gilpin. She is just badass and goes totally YOLO at times. The end of episode 1 was just pure f'n gold. I could watch that entire scene over and over again. It was so well acted out between Alison Brie and herself. I also really enjoyed Marc Maron's character, the director Sam Sylvia, who adds a ton of crass humor into all the dialogue that he's given. He could have just mailed it in as the sleazy coke'd out director, but he completely owns the role and adds so much to the show.
Anyway, I really enjoyed GLOW and I'm hoping for confirmation of a second season ASAP because the creators definitely left a few loose-ends hanging and we still have a lot more potential story to unfold. Looks like Netflix has another hit on their hands. Watch/binge it if you can at least before GoT owns all our lives starting in July.
I really wish the season was longer. Really loved how it showed how teens use technology nowadays. Overall pretty great show.
Netflix is really killing it with these international shows. They are 2 for 2 for german shows IMO which is saying a lot seeing how 95% of german TV is absolute shite.
I am so pissed that I have to actually write whatever the fuck I'm going to write after this..... This show pretends to be "science" when it is completely NOT that. The first thing they want to find out if there is a correlation between good dancers and fertility, but there's seriously ten test subjects. Ten! And it's nowhere near a double-blind study. This show contributes to the average American that wants to watch something in which their "feelings" match the content which they already believe. Good job Netflix. One more show based on pseudoscience. I'm kinda done.
Although (I am sure) lots of things slipped my understanding firstly because I am white and secondly because I am European, I believe that shows like this one are extremely necessary for understanding others, changing ourselves and making society a better place.
new (old) episodes on youtube every week:
This looked kind of interesting based on the description so I gave it a try. I quickly learned there is no science behind this show. It's purely entertainment. And entertaining it is. Mostly. The pacing could definitely be better. But overall, it is a fun show to watch. Most of the experiments that are conducted are kind of interesting, but there's always a different, bigger experiment behind the experiment that the 100 humans are aware of. That makes it a little more interesting. Overall, if you're looking for something fun, silly and mindless to watch, this is it. If you're looking for actual science then look elsewhere.
Don't get me wrong, it's great fun to watch! But what's with all the food waste?
one of the few German Shows that I really enjoyed. Kinda funny that the Story is from my Hometown only a few Blocks away ^^
This show was such a suprised! But a really good one! One of my favourites
Great animation. The art isn't perfect, but it works. Glimpsed a mixture of Lord of the Rings and Avatar the Last Airbender; though not as good as either. I wasn't emotionally invested as I had hoped to be. Hopefully this will change in season 2.
Season 1&2 are amazing but season 3 is disappointed
Well, the only thing I liked about this show was that parts of the cast of 'Community' were in its first episode. Otherwise this show is barely even bearable. Go watch something else, with this you'd just be wasting your time...
If you're into Joel McHale, Community is far better!
The show is important and eye-opening to the impact of the decisions we, as consumers, make everyday. However, Rotten tends to focus too much on one specific issue while neglecting others, and at times the episodes seem badly streamlined. Many of the episodes could be broken down in 15 minutes or less and yet they'd contain the same amount of information.
I liked the concept of the show and the story it tells–but when it comes down to the details, there were many things that it could've done better.
The fact that many of the couples in this show are homosexual is an encouraging move which, I assume, was a decision made by Netflix—those couples felt out of place in the show to some degree though, I'd even say it felt forced. Now, I'm not saying that you shouldn't challenge the common believe that heterosexual couples are the norm, in fact I do encourage that! It's just that the way legacy works in this fantasy universe sticks to the traditional system and there are no efforts made to explain who is the heir to a throne if its current king/queen is married to a person of the same gender. This and other things threw me off about that. What are your opinions on that?
In terms of script, there were many references to modern real-life which also made me feel less immersed in the world they are trying to build. That, and the fact that many of the six 'primal sources' of magic don't seem to have any relevance at all in the world; up to the current season, you can only see people utilize the powers of the sky and of the moon in their spells (and, of course, those of dark magic, which is the 7th kind of magic though), correct me if I'm wrong. Also, why the f*** doesn't anybody teach Callum any new spells? Perhaps I'm still hung up on the way you could see Aang grow and become stronger in The Last Airbender over the seasons, but it gets really boring to see Callum do the same spells over and over again and also getting rejected by all the potentially interesting people they meet. Additionally, there were many plot-holes in the show, that sometimes were far too obvious. You'll notice them when you see them, so I won't go into more detail here.
On the positive note, though, it was really easy to fall in love with almost all of the main characters and even for the evil characters, it wasn't impossible to understand their reasoning and all of them have good intentions at heart even if they deny the existence of a better approach. Many of the characters a subject to change, which is also something that's great to see and one of the aspects that kept me watching the show for all of its current seasons. The story, so far, and overlooking all of its flaws, has been one of love, peace and unity, and, let's be honest, that's the kind of story that's easiest to enjoy.
Designated Survivor is a good show, but it struggles with problems similar to the ones Prison Break has: It just goes one or two steps to far at some point (starting somewhere in season 2) in my opinion.
I realise this is "what Joel does" but it's nowhere near sharp enough for my taste.
