Trakt for iOS
Works on iPhone and iPad.
7 hours of Guy Ritchie and a bunch of crazy british gangsters. What more could you want?
Unlike the other review I actually watched it and understood it, and enjoyed it. Very different and something new, in a good way. Look forward to more.
Edit: After watching the whole season wow, just wow,. Haven't enjoyed a show so much in a long time. Hope to see a season 2.
Recommended
I did not expect this show to rigidly follow the path of John Spartan shown in the Halo franchise, and was delighted with what I saw. Despite the comments by the trolls and the Halo purist's the elements are all there and a central female character is needed for a television audience, the storyline is just a slight detour in a Halo multiverse (to mix metaphor's). I thought it was a GREAT start for a television series and want to see more. Way to go Paramount!
Just found this on netflix and ended up getting through it very fast. I found the way they handled the underlying addiction topic to be fantastic, as they represent it pretty accurately. This was a hidden gem for me, and my only complaint was how season 3 ended in 2020, and it is now 2024 with no update...
I´m a gamer and never played Halo more than 5 minutes. I dont care if it doesnt follow the source material or if he took his helmet off. This is an incredibly awesome action sci-fi show! Just enjoy it!
I was a little worried due to all the backlash I saw about the first episode. Watched it, and thought it got too much hate. Please don't cancel this.
why are there 3 votes with one star, when the first episode hasn't even been aired yet?
This is the freshest show I've seen in a while. Absolutely flawless.
It starts out like this fun, sharp social satire about the different worlds that the working class and upper class exhibit (as well as the lack of understanding they have about each other). As the season goes along, the social satire gets pushed aside and instead it goes completely bonkers with the plot. It’s over the top, it switches genres whenever it feels like it, it’s unpredictable, and most of all it’s very entertaining. In fact, it might actually be one of the most accessible A24 productions, there’s a Tarantino feel to it that might just click with general audiences. I just don’t understand this show’s obsession with alt rock from the late 90s and early 00s. I don’t see what it adds to these characters, it doesn’t comment on the story in an interesting way, and most of these particular songs aren’t even that good. To me it feels like a middle of the road, safe choice for a show that’s otherwise so bold, exciting and carefully assembled.
8/10
Definitely an interesting production. It feels like I am watching a noir film, but in a modern setting. Timeless story and personalities. Self-described addict to movies, which we see glimpses of from time to time, as if to show he imagines his life to be like one, with Bogart. The protagonist is a bit like a relict from the past. Lone gentleman in a suit, driving a vintage car, caring for the vulnerable, dealing with his own demons, longing for a mysterious woman, and who can see right through your deceit. Obvious allusions to the Golden age of Hollywood, but I also sense some inspiration by the French new-wave (inspired by the former). It also simply looks beautiful. I eagerly await new episodes.
EDIT after the finale - I love the topic of trying to understand what it means to be a human, the pensiveness and sensitivity of Sugar, the eerie quietness of every character, even the ones who are supposed to be aggressive.
WOW. This is a masterpiece of storytelling. The casting was stellar and the performances were magical. The cinematography captured the grittiness of occupied France and the horrors of the invaders were on full display. If I have any complaints in the storytelling they might be twofold, all Germans were portrayed as the darkest of evil (I don’t believe it was that black and white) and the connection between Werner and Marie was a little too much of a rushed fairytale at the end. But, the whole was a wonderful romantic journey, in the classical sense of the power of lofty ideals rather than in human attraction. I give this limited series a 9 (superb) out of 10. [Historical Drama]
WTF, again another canceled Scifi show? This is disgusting. This madness has to end. Fucking producers steal our time and leave us with cliffhangers.
I am a sci-fi fan, not a gamer...don't care about the game story or the books.....All I saw was an excellent first epidode of a new sci-fi series. I don't think they ever intended for it to be an accurate representation of the game. I mean who would spend millions to make a series or TV show only to appeal to a limited number of hard core game fans??? This series so far only 1 episode, but I for one am loving it.
Very enjoyable indeed. Binged the lot and it was a blast.
You need to like mystery, sci-fi, subtitles (heavily used as there are migrants going to America) and having said that you need to be engaged continually to keep up.
There were a couple things that griped me, but it's more personal. I'm getting quite frustrated by the lead actor (not only in this show but others too), that has a husky voice and on top of that she is a quiet talker and whispers 90% of the time making it very hard to hear her especially the way these shows are mixed, always seems to have higher than normal background noise or music. It isn't all the women actors. Just damn annoying.
Then there are the predictables. But all in all the season engaged me, the actors held my attention.
The beetle... interesting. My overall rating for this season would be 8.5/10
So happy to finally witness a tv success from Neil Gaiman. Sandman is one of my favourite comic books ever and this show fully respects the atmosphere and the solemnity of the Endless. We all were orphans of the greatness of the first season of American Gods, the only other tv product that truly expressed Gaiman's language, but this time it was much more difficult due to the original medium.
I'd like to spend a few words about the theme of diversity. I'll admit it, when i saw Kirby Howell-Baptiste casted as Death I was a bit disappointed at first and in general the high diversity of the full cast, because I was very afraid that Netflix forced the production - as it often does - to smash tokens on scripts only in order to avoid any racism allegation, but my judgement was obviously suspended because I trust Neil. And I'm happy to confirm that my expectations were satisfied, there's plenty of characters that have been casted with black actors but none of that felt forced or changed the balance of the story, imho for one simple reason: because the original comic was years ahead of its time and was already very inclusive. He already was successful in narrating the wide range of people living in metropolises, telling us the deep thoughts and feelings of the human being regardless of gender, ethnicity or age.
There's a huge difference between changing the ethnicity of a character in an adaptation because you need diversity and changing it because it doesn't f'ing matters .
Chapeau Neil, you did it. I love you.
P.s. If you appreciated this first season go and buy the comics, you definitely won't regret it.
P.p.s. I so want to hear from other people, really would enjoy a good chat over the show!
Oh fucker it got cancelled? What a bunch of wankers they are up at producer land.
I don't get people complaining about Dion being "annoying." He's an 8 year old child, for god's sake. What were you expecting? Of course he's going to react the way any normal child would react when faced with scary or unusual circumstances. If you can't comprehend this simple fact, then this show is not for you. Also, don't ever have children, please.
As for the show, I loved it. I loved that, while one can say that it is a "superhero show," the main protagonist of the story is Dion's relationship with his mom. Alisha Wainwright was absolutely FANTASTIC and Ja'Siah was great for being such a young actor. Their dynamic felt so natural, it was a joy to watch their scenes together.
I came for the superhero bits, and I stayed for the compelling story and the beautiful bond between a mother and her child.
A wild ride which takes anger management to a whole new level
Beef is a highly engrossing dark comedy which gets wilder with each episode. Two depressed characters feuding over a road rage incident and pushing to extremes is a savage concept which is beautifully handled by immaculate writing, dark humour, carrier defining lead performancess by Steven Yeun and Ali Wong. The screenplay is a bit stretched but is likeable for the most of it. Overall a show which is diabolical but has lot of heart, which not everyone will decipher. Its unique, messy but still worth your time.
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Very good show... keeps you guessing who was to blame right up until the end. Solid 9/10
Looked very promising, but after 3 episodes we're done. Got much more exciting things to do like watching paint dry.
Skip it
2/10
[tv+] A story of lunar real estate sellers that has a curious retro-futuristic staging that offers entertainment in the details that, however, cannot be found in the characters and the dialogues. The unique approach hides a traditional story about family, abandonment and the broken relationship between parents and children. And although in the last episodes, when it focuses more on fraud, it manages to have more interest, in the end it seems that we have wasted too much time on subplots that lead nowhere.
An adaptation from a novel that actually feels like a novel, The Last Thing He Told Me is a slow burn. And while that usually pisses me off, I found myself sucked in by the story and engrossed by the characters. Except for Bailey. (She annoyed the crap out of me- though, to be fair, that was exactly the point. So kudos to Angourie Rice, I guess?) I thoroughly enjoyed the deliberate pacing and incremental unraveling of the mystery. Jennifer Garner's Hannah is pulling at threads in desperation, and her grounded performance is what makes the show work. Her moves from clue to clue never feel like they've been pulled out of thin air, or like Sherlock Holmes-ian strokes of genius; rather, she always looks like a normal person just trying to make sense of the tragedy and chaos that she's fallen into. I also appreciated the structure of embedded flashbacks. Sometimes they were there to provide story details for us, while at other times they served to illustrate what the characters were thinking. In just about every case, the context they provided felt earned and none of them were wasted.
When the show started to lose me, however, was when the mystery finally gets solved. The performances don't drop off - if anything they get more intense and affecting - but the motivations shift from "What the hell is happening?!" to "How do I deal with all of this emotional stuff?" It can make for great storytelling, but the slow pace starts to feel more like a liability after that shift happens. But by the time I was getting impatient I was closing in on the story's endgame, so it didn't detract too much from my enjoyment of the piece as a whole.
A final note about my overall rating. I had an average rating of "7" for all of the episodes (all "7s", save for a single "6" and one "8"), but I added an extra point for the consistency of quality. There wasn't a bad episode in the bunch, and I only felt the urge to skip through scenes a few times throughout. That's quite an accomplishment in this day and age.
Good looking people having sex everywhere, braless boobs, nipples, with patchwork lore. That's about a good summary for his show.
It was intruiging enough for me to watch the whole (first?) season, which only consists of like 8 episodes and not all of them are 45minutes long, the finale is just 37minutes. But overall, a bit light on content.
A lot of stuff just happens to enable the plot, or doesn't happen because of plot. Specifically the two kids are nothing more than plot devices. Mixed with a lot of back and forth between the plot device places.
It's something different, though. Even if the mermaid lore is somewhat shallow and mainly a backdrop for the main storyline.
First 6 episodes and last 5 episodes are basically two different shows.
Hard to keep track of story overall because there is almost no time given to development of any plot
Sometimes slowly paced but once it picks up IT DOESN'T STOP. The final two episodes were FLAWLESS. Season 2 can't come soon enough.
Let's have 30 seasons of Kardashians but 8 episodes for something good. Truly don't get it.
Daddy abuses his children for 4 seasons. Not sure why people compare this to game of thrones.
When you reached season 3 you heard the title melody for 99 times. Not a testament to a great soundtrack.
Terribly overrated but not bad.
Ted Lasso is a perfect show. It's funny, it's heartfelt, it's impeccably crafted, and it's the kind of show that makes you feel better about the world. If you haven't watched it yet, do yourself a favor and dive in. You won't regret it.
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this show. I also live in the San Fernando valley and relate to many of the angles of life portrayed in this mini-series. Life is messy, complicated, and never really how it appears from someone else's perspective.
