How is this rated so low? It's a great show! The participants' performances and skills really impressed me, and the whole setting of a traveling bus is done beautifully. Xuxa and Ikaro are fantastic hosts, proposing fun challenges and inviting great guests. I cannot wait to see more!
It's been a long time since I have not enjoyed a show like this. It's cute and light-hearted, the characters and easy to like, and none of them are annoying. There are some very nice ice-skating scenes with pretty costumes. No petty relationship drama, the friendships are sweet, the family is adorable. I definitely enjoyed it and I hope there is a second season.
The content is good, the series is funny, and the cast delivers what they have always delivered, no disappointment. What could be improved is the editing. A 20 minutes format would work better than the half hour episodes, as some jokes just seem to stretch for too long and would benefit from brevity.
At first I thought this would just be a lot of eye candy and no substance, but oh, I was mistaken on that second part. I became totally addicted! I cannot wait for the confirmation of season 2!
It is a very well done show, and I like the mystery aspect of it - in a way, it reminded me of that old cliche plot in which a rich man dies and leaves his will behind to torment all his relatives. But it is just SO melodramatic, and the episodes are too long for so much absurd teenage drama. It is just plain surreal what goes on in a single class. It is hard not to eyeroll. Finishing it is out of the question for me.
I love this series, and I wish it would get a few more episodes. I admire Amanpour very much, as she acts with genuine curiosity, rather than admonishment. She expresses how strange something sounds to her white western culture and rather conservative upbringing, without passing judgment on the more forward cultures or demonizing the more conservative or extreme ones. I like how she talks so naturally people in each country, always showing the two sides of women's lives and opinions, the ones who are conservative, and the ones who are progressive, and also the ones who found stability in the middle, and still making the whole thing very cohesive within each place's cultural context. Each episode is very well thought of, brilliantly written, and put together perfectly. Each minute of footage counts for the story being told.
Quitting while you are ahead is an art. I will miss The Middle, but I love how I can remember its final season as a great one, instead of a "meh", or worst, as the season that ruined everything (does it not happen too often?). The show was solid entertainment from beginning to end.
I survived through 8 episodes. The show is beautiful, the acting is great, and I just love seeing fellow Brazilians working in cool shows like this (go, Santoro!). I got to enjoy most of the characters too, I thought they were well built, and I got to see a lot of development during these 8 episodes. I specially appreciated Jimmi Simpson as William, as I think heroic characters of this particular type are a very rare find nowadays.
However, episode after episode, I found myself less and less interested in the plots. Some scenes caught my attention here and there (Dolores's, and Maeve's scenes really stand out!), but I was most of the time pretty indifferent to what I was seeing. It came to the point when I began dreading whenever my randomized media list would fall on an episode, and I kept skipping it several times before I could convince myself to watch it. Finally, I just decided to give up entirely.
I was severely disappointed with the themes the series chose to explore, as they were not what I thought they would be from the pilot. The development outside the park was also extremely slow, with most things left obvious but unsaid through several episodes, until they were finally "revealed" making it all just very anti-climatic. I really cannot make myself go through it.
This comment is about season 1, which I have just finished. I should say that although I have read the book, I do not like it, it is the one thing Gaiman wrote that I did not care for. The fact that the TV series was suddenly not following the book precisely was a plus for me, but now I am wondering if they somehow managed to make it worse.
The cast is great - I think every actor involved did a fantastic job in their characters, and the characters came out much more interesting and likable than in the book. I particularly enjoyed how much screen time Laura is getting, and I loved how Browning also played Essie. The "Coming to America" sequences were my favorite parts in the book, and I am not surprised to have enjoyed them in the series also.
However, in 8 episodes, I mostly got the feeling that nothing happened.
They added a lot of new things, specially with Laura and Mad Sweeney, and Wednesday and Shadow felt more like secondary characters than main ones, as their storyline is basically empty while everything happens to everyone else. In 8 episodes, Wednesday has had barely any advancement in his cause, and while the congregation at the House on the Rock is one of the first things to happen in the book, the entire season ended before old man Mr. Nancy could ride the carousel, and that was a sight I was looking forward to!
With the current positioning of the gods, I feel like the series is aiming for a far more complicated plot than the one in the book, but the creative team is, unfortunately, failing at writing it to work with an 8 episode season. They have set what looks like a very big stage, but the plot does not feel yet big enough to fill it.
I am quite disappointed, as individually the episodes are ok, but they just fail to be cohesive together and convey a good story. I will probably check out the second season premiere, but unless they fix this awful writing, I will just look for better things to waste my time on.
Sai de Baixo was very funny upon its release date and an incredible success that created iconic characters and catchphrases that were repeated all throughout the country by people of all ages. It being one of the rare Brazilian-produced sitcoms, it aired very late at night on Sunday, and I remember fondly how it brought families together to watch it, even my own - it was one of the rare moments when my about-to-get-divorced parents would sit together with me in the living room (as this was a time when houses usually had only one TV, or at least only one big TV).
Unfortunately though, the jokes in this show have not aged well. The humor relied heavily on stereotypes, sexism, racism and specially classicism (Caco Antibes' main catchphrase was "I hate poor people!", uttered with a face of disgust...) which at the time, wasn't even considered scandalous or anything - those ideas were current, and our concept of what was disrespectful and offensive was mainly related to aggression. Watching it again with the mindset and education we have today is pretty much impossible (I barely could make it through 4 episodes), but I will always respect it for the place it had in the homes of so many Brazilians. It's very important to understand the show did not mean to offend, but rather to reflect what went on the minds of the middle class Brazilians in the mid-90's, good or bad as it was.
For an updated version, that includes Brazilian's more socially evolved points of view, try Toma Lá, Dá Cá, a show that features the same format and production - another excellent mirror of the Brazilian middle class, with it's all it's improvements and shortcomings during the mid-00's.
Brazil rarely produces sitcoms, but when it does, they tend to be pure gold and this one is my favorite of them all.
What struck me about this show was simply my reaction to Miranda, as I often found myself hoping things would go very wrong for her, or that another character would be mean to her. While she is most definitely a sociopath, showing no understanding of the concept of other people, these aren't fair feelings to have for someone who obviously just doesn't know any better, and I guess this show ironically made me wonder if I am, in fact, a hater.
I thought it was a bit too sappy at times (don't all Korean dramas tend to be?), but it was overall funny and cute, and quite enjoyable. I felt the boys, specially Ji Woon, took a little while to grow on me, but they all eventually did. All actors were quite competent too. It looked like Park So Dam struggled with some scenes, but it didn't ruin anything. Some characters were terribly annoying, and I suppose not everyone's ship will make it to the end, but I promise Ji Woon's smile eventually wins over any heart, making up for any couple you might hope would never happen.
A very likable trait of this drama is that it keeps negativity to a minimum. Even the antagonists who plot against Eun Ha Won or the Kang cousins aren't the overly cruel sort and even they find their own balance eventually, making this is is really a great option for everyone who might be looking for a very light-hearted romantic comedy. The show has been fairly compared to Hana Yori Dango, and though I think plot-wise things really are similar, Cinderella and Four Knights still stands on its own, besides having less of a comedic focus than that other story does. This is mostly a show to make you smile rather than to make you laugh, and I think this is a very pleasant watch I'd recommend to most rom-com fans.
(At the date of this post, the show has been freely and legally available at DramaFever, from December 24 to January 2nd, 2017. There's still time to catch it in case you aren't a premium user already!)
So many shows turned awful this season I nearly dropped everything I was watching. Scream Queen though, is a beacon of hope. There's still TV I can endure out there.
I agree with Shanice entirely. The script can be very silly, but every situation just ends in a beautiful note. Not so similar to the content in Boy Meets World in my opinion, this show stands on its own. It's also the sweetest one Disney Chanel has come up with in a long time and it's just impossible not to love Riley's pure heart.
I haven't enjoyed many Nick shows for the past, well, 15 years or so, but Big Time Rush was great! It reminded me a lot of older shows I used to love.
Fourth season was a bit of a disappointment, but it was nice to see these characters again.
