First 2 Episodes were horrible.
Good characters but no real story.
3rd Episode saved it for now - I'll at least check out Episode 4 before it gets kicked from my toWatch List
Please don't be cancelled please don't be cancelled please don't be cancelled...
"Did Schrodinger's cat write the plot?" is the first question that comes to my mind while watching this show.
Typically, stories have plot holes and paradoxes that are either intentionally left open for future seasons or unintentionally created because of lazy writing. However, in a quantum world, paradoxes are the plot and plot holes make the story, and the audience is expected to keep up with this unnecessarily and overly convoluted ride, hoping that the creators will come to it and close the loop before the network wakes up cancels the show.
I hate science fiction shows that take up more than they can chew and create quantum worlds that are both utopian and dystopian at the same time... in their eagerness to create paradoxes and oxymorons... they only reveal themselves to be absolute morons...
Brilliant actors, but like I said, the plot and the speed of narration means I won't be too surprised if the show gets cancelled before the showrunners make a point.
Starts off pretty bad then all of a sudden you've been awake for 20 hours and binge watched the entire thing.
Persevere through those initial few bad episodes and you're in for a right treat.
Should have been labeled 'loosely based on the books by Isaac Asimov'.... Absolutely butchered the books... Disgrace... Woke nonsense
On a positive note, it is beautifully made and the actors do an excellent job.
Beautifully shot but writers have butchered the characters, really disappointed.
Good god this was HORRIBLE.
I can't remember the last time I felt actually annoyed to my core just by watching TV. 20 mins in and I pushed hard to reach that far and I couldn't go any further.
This is absolute trash on all aspects. There's absolutely nothing redeeming here and it's all just bad. It's not that it wasn't good. It's actually BAD.
This isn’t going to work at all
This show is awful. I thought I’d give it a chance and watch both episodes. The characters are dull and the acting isn’t any better.
listen i've seen a lot of awful tv shows in my life but nothing (and i mean NOTHING) compares to the idol, this show is so horrible it really takes the cake and i'm actually impressed with everyone who accepted getting involved in this project and went through with it despite being shit (and im sure everyone knows it's shit, unless they have no critical thinking and/or are getting paid a lot of money), for real they have GUTS, i would never accept getting dragged into this mess (except for watching it just for the sake of criticizing)
nothing about this show is appealing at all: poor plot, terrible acting, dialogues that make no sense, empty unralatable characters without any charisma whatsoever, cringe sex scenes that add nothing to the plot itself and steal half of screentime, leaving the other half to be filled with lily-rose depp smoking half naked or crying, i'm 4 episodes in out of 5!! (it's so bad hbo cut one whole episode off omfg) and i have yet to see a character or plot development, or even the point of this show at all lmao i mean if they're trying to show how hollywood is fucked up or something they're not doing a good job at all, in fact, the only thing they DID do good was making me disgusted and astonished at how they managed to get every single thing so wrong from the start
i feel like if this exact plot was written by a woman or someone who is not a disgusting freak like sam levinson, the show could actually be good, cause the potential and intentions were there, too bad they didn't do the right approach and it became a 13 year old virgin girl wattpad fanfic (dare i say most of those fanfics are better anyway), i don't think anyone has ever done something so rotten and unappealing before in the history of american television
i could've stopped watching after episode 1, that's true, but it's like im stuck seeing a horrible car crash happen right in front of my eyes and i can't look away, even if i'm watching it in 2x speed and not thinking too much about what im seeing for the sake of my braincells (or the last 2 baincells i have left after watching this shit) i can't imagine anyone unironically watching this and actually enjoying it and wandering what would happen next etc
cause even if im hate-watching ironically, i still feel like the idol is a SNL skit in a parallel universe where laughter and cognitive ability do not exist
What can I say Taylor does it again. Seems all his shows are great everything he touches turns out to be good TV.
Stallone ia awesome and the story seems to be heading to a great place.
Guess Taylor Sheridan is to drama what Chuck Lorre is to comedy.
Taylor has now 4 major franchises that are doing very well, Yellowstone, 1883, Mayor of Kingstown and now Tulsa King.
I was a fan of the original GG. It wasn’t great, it had plenty of flaws, but it managed to have a cast of talented actors and an enjoyable story focused on spoiled rich high schoolers. I wanted to give this one a try out of nostalgia and.... ooooh brother, I should have just rewatched the original.
The first episode starts with a large cast of characters, parents, teachers, etc. all having their drama in the most nonsensical plot I’ve ever seen.
In the original, Dan being GG was creepy and weird but he was a loser character in high school so it made sense. In this... the freaking :asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol:teachers:asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol: are GG. Lmao yes, the teachers. They have a talk about how the students used to behave and respect the teachers because they wanted to go to college and GG kept them in line... now they can just be influencers so they don’t care about school... so the teachers start being gossip girl.
I just... did the writers even watch the original? If “kept them in line” means “they were never rude to the teachers” then sure, but that’s cause they were too busy getting pregnant, running off to opium dens, getting high, ruining each other’s lives, committing fraud, blackmailing everybody, getting statutory raped, all under the age of 18.... like... yes clearly GG is what kept them “in line”.
The fact that the teachers - actual adults who claim to care about helping these children and have dreams of changing lives - could read the old GG posts about all the drama and bs I just mentioned, and then - actual adults who claim to care about helping these children and have dreams of changing lives - decide that creating a new gossip girl to harass :asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol:children:asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol: is appropriate is just mind blowingly insane.
So clearly the writing is lacking in this reboot. Teachers acting like children, people getting mad irrationally or inferring things that weren’t at all obvious from the performance, it’s bizarre.
The acting is also a little dull. It feels like the characters are trying to act, they just aren’t all very good at it. A lot of performances just feel off.
There’s a knock-off Dan Humphrey, a knock off Chuck, a knock off of Jenny/Serena/Blair. Overall, the first episode just felt like a cheap attempt to reproduce the magic of something that had barely managed to capture any magic itself. I’ll update this if episode 2 changes my opinion, but for now this is worth skipping.
:asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol:Rating on my scale::asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol:
Exceptional
Memorable
Entertaining
Corny
Boring
Unpleasant
Two episodes in and it’s a boring snooze fest.
LE: After finishing watching the show I can conclude it was a boring senseless show. It had a few moments here and there but it was just not my "cup of tea". I have a feeling the actors and director just wanted a vacation and thought yeah, let's just have some stuff that happens without anything actually happening so we have a paid vacation.
I see there are people that liked this, no problem, good for them, everyone has different tastes and likes different things and that's fine, I've enjoyed many movies/tv shows that others rated low, but this one was far from being enjoyable.
Do you know what. I love good gangster flicks. Gomorrah is one of my recent all time faves. I'm not going to say this beats that but it's really really good. At the pace it's building this is starting to look like it may get close to or even equal Gomorrah. I have to be careful though. This is more like the Goodfellas movie (that I loved!) than the raw Italian mafia living in council blocks (like Gomorrah). To even say Godfather of Harlem is in the same breath as Gomorrah is saying something. Not totally convinced yet but what I will say is this is great tv. Really good. If you like mafia stuff you really must check it out. Watched Peaky Blinders and enjoyed that? Then check it out. Anyway forgetting comparisons... this is proper enjoyable popcorn mafia tv with great actors and acting. I love it. Currently at a 9 but I may have to upgrade it to a 10 if it keeps on going the way it is going.
Looks like I was wrong about this one,by episode four it has become a joke of a show..terrible.
Forest Whitaker deserves an award for this series. Best series on TV.
Another bad remake born of wokeness.... A black female with an irish name We're suppised to believe is a tough guy. Such garbage they're pumping out now.
Great show!
I don't know how "historically correct" this series is but, it's must see tv! A GREAT cast! It's one of the few shows that always leaves me craving the next episode!
Hillary Swank is always a great actress, but the show definitely lacks of deepness and originality. However the cauliflower contest managed to raise the level of the show considerably.
Take a scifi pillar and destroy it like one of Trantor's space elevators. Awful butchering of the story.
Daneel is not. genderswapped is fine, but he's unmasked immediately and is made into a weakling
Dors Venabili---gone
Hari is no better than a kidnapper
Reych...kills Hari what?
Pretty trash is still trash.
One word to describe this show...FUN
It's entertaining enough but, like all the Emergency Service shows out there, the medical aspect is wildly inaccurate, among other things (CGI is poor, crazy unrealistic emergencies... lol). I like the actors though.
What is happening, how misleading was the trailer ?
not happy so far, first two episodes juju-magic and that stuff are stupid, hate the "witches" angle. 3 episode a bit save it i don't know yet. i will probably see the rest and come back with more.
