It was a great show with great acting, but the ending was a little vague so it didn’t feel as a complete ending, but I wouldn’t want a second season, it just needed a few more scenes. I just read the book plot and it says that in the end Bebe returns to China with the baby (tho I don’t get how could she’ve gotten on a plane without the proper paperwork for her and the baby) and that Elena never finds Izzy and spends the rest of her life looking for her , so I think those clarifications were needed, especially if, like me, you haven’t read the book. Also I find it a little unrealistic that the Richardson kids would to that just cause they are mad their mom was mean? Like they had no reason, the only person who had a reason to be mad with her mom was Pearl, and she forgave her, so the Richardson kids can’t let go that their mom is too demanding or i don’t even know what cause Elena was a decent mom to the three of them, however that gave us a great scene and a great performance from Reese, so I buy it. And also it’s unrealistic that Izzy, a spoiled privileged 15yo, would just run away from the suburbs in a bus to go god knows where, I don’t feel like she has it in her, a kid who throws a tantrum because her mom asked her to wear tartan keds? Yeah I don’t buy that.
So that was something.
What a CRAZY episode!! I was at the edge of my seat the whole time. The fact that most characters knew that the world was ending and yet only like four actually went to the bunker was absolutely annoying.
I had consider that Elisabeth was Charlotte's mother but then I told myself "That's just straight up something that happened in Futurama, they wouldn't go so far". And guess what? They went so far. Fry being his own grandfather walked so Elisabeth being her own grandmother could run.
This episode pushed to the limit everything, and I was totally into it (even though the Elisabeth and Charlotte thing was borderline ridicule). And then Other World!Martha appeared and it just... kinda threw me off. Like I suspected that we were gonna enter in multiverse territory eventually, but honestly? I was hoping that we didn't enter into that at all. I was hopping that, as heartbreaking and pesimistic as it sounds, that the past couldn't be changed, that we are all chained by time. It would be very bitter, but it's not like the show promised us sweetness. It is, after all, called "Dark". This multiverse thing changes the core of the show, and although it has been hinted, I'm not really into it (and also, they really just gave the actress a basic wig and said "there! Alternative universe look done!" Like camon' guys you can do better). Anyway let's wait to see how they handle it.
(Also and I really hope that I'm wrong about this but I feel that either this or other world Martha isn't gonna be related to Jonas and this whole thing it's just so they can get together without it being weird).
Anyway loved the episode until the last seconds, Bad Wig!Martha and the world thingy that introduced just wasn't my cup of tea (not that I don't like multiverse stories but for once just give me a time traveling story in which the travelers can't change anything). Nonetheless, I'm looking forward to the final season, which I hope will be as good as it's predecessors.
[8.7/10 on a post-classic Simpsons scale] I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again -- all hail Matt Selman! This is a fun episode that balances multiple stories and running gags and manages to have it all come together nicely.
My natural inclination for this show is to separate everything into A-stories and B-stories, but one of the neat things about this episode is that you can’t really do that. You just have different story threads that get woven together nicely, based on character motivations.
You have Marge wanting to splurge so she can get the perfect instagram photo in Costa Rica. You have Lisa fretting over whether the trip will bankrupt the family and they’ll have to sleep in their sticky-seated car. You have Homer straining to be nice to Patti’s new girlfriend only to have the two of them hit it off and enable one another’s drunken buffoonery. And then you have it all coalescing into the Simpsons exposing the Van Houten’s scam with the villa and an affirmation of the budding love between Patti and Evelyn.
But before both happen, you have some classic writing where the characters hit their lowest point. Lisa trying to expose Kirk, only to embarrass the family and lead to them leaving early is tough enough. But then Evelyn gets Homer drunks and causes the loss of the photo Marge was so desperate for. On top of that, Patti realizes she’s dating “a Homer” -- her worst nightmare.
Everything turns up nicely from there, and in an earned way. The family exposing the real scam with the villa makes for a nice twist and picks up a few details we know about the van Houtens. Marge reassuring Patti about the benefits and most of all the love from being attached to a Homer is really sweet. And Marge taking the joy of the experiences themselves over the need to capture them and show off is a nice beat to end on for her.
Plus the comedy here is solid too! There’s running gags galore, from Milhouse trying to impress Dr. Hibbert’s son, to Superintendent Chalmers trying to supportively parent Shauna, to the shocked monkeys. There’s even some great setups and payoffs, like Lou and his sister bailing on the trip due to the zany sequence in the first act, or Bart’s machete-related promises coming true. Beyond all these characters having something to do here, there’s just more laughs packed into this one.
Overall, this is yet another sign that Matt Selman should be running the show and knows how to bring out the best in modern day Simpsons.
I started this show last year, and binged it in a week, after I heard about it many times in r/DARK. I wanted to stop somewhere at episode 6 or 7. Every episode had the same structure, I was kinda bored. Everybody told me, I have to get through Season 1 and I will be rewarded. DAMN, they were right. Season 2 was way better, I was more intrigued. In Season 3 I was really into the story, started to fell in love with some characters (it really took a while for me) and Season 4 f****ing blew me away! Wow. From start to finsih, with THE BEST FINALE I have ever seen. Even better than the finale of Six Feet Under, which is theoretical not possible. The last 3 episodes are so amazing, so smart, I was crying non stop for 2 hours while watching this, only be interrupted by many, many laughters. They circled back to things I didn't even knew needed to be circling back to. They answered every question, they finished it PERFECT.
I finished 12 Monkeys again, last night, and I can't believe this show is even better on the 2nd watch. I liked Season 1 way better. I even thought the acting was better - of course I am biast now because this show managed to get up into my Top 3. I enjoyed the finale even more, cried even more and I can't wait to watch it all again next year!
WHAT A RIDE!
Wow! What an episode. I don't think I'm disappointed by the ending. If anything, it got me frantically searching for a second season, (only to find out it hasn't been made yet!) What a huuuuuuuuuge cliffhanger, but more importantly, there's so much potential from here-on-out.
Here's what I thought of the ending: At first I didn't realize that Nora saw all of Nathan's restored memories, but I guess it makes sense that she would have. I found myself both agreeing and disagreeing with her when she was quick to judge Nathan harshly for how he did Jaime. The whole time during the last scenes I just knew Nathan was going to run out of data during their phone call. (Even though 2GB is paltry. That's the only part that never made sense to me.) The whole time I had the urge to yell at my screen to him: "Just say 'I love you' to her!!!" Alas, it didn't happen. And with Ingrid uploading herself to be with Nathan, and Nora going with Byron, I was definitely caught off guard. She definitely has motives if all she gives him is a pity gig.
I can't wait to find out what happens next!
"Passengers" has an interesting story, solid cast, and raises it's questions, but was poorly exacted on screen. A story like this it could've been anything. A horror, mystery, romance or just a movie with Pratt by himself. Well technically all four are combined together. A premise this good, it tries to be everything at once, because it doesn't want to miss a opportunity of being something else. When you find out the actual story that the trailers once again lies about, it's pretty creepy and makes Pratt's character selfish.
But with that said, I actually enjoyed the movie and didn't hate it like everyone else. Which is surprising.
I liked the first 30 minutes of film that really got the feeling of fear and anxiety spot on. Even Chris Pratt was pretty damn in the first act, when he realizes he's the only person to wake up due to a malfunction with his pod. I actually brought into Pratt performance, as it did convince me he's scared for his life. Jennifer Lawrence is good in this, but sometimes overreacts in a few scenes that wasn't needed. Pratt and Lawrence had chemistry, but despite the lackluster script that doesn't fix or get around Pratt's character actions that are unforgiving. Or the third act.
The movie is filled with flaws, but at least I found some enjoyment with it (somehow). I mean, it wasn't really bored with it, so there's that.
Ambulance-chasing with the latest form of human pond scum, an aggressive crowd of opportunistic late-night freelance photographers who make their living from the graphic misfortune of others. "If you're seeing me, you're having the worst day of your life," brags the new recruit in this bloodthirsty professional sport, a hauntingly detached functional sociopath played by Jake Gyllenhaal.
It's a top-notch performance, Patrick Bateman-esque in its eerie moral bankruptcy. Laser-focused and analytical in all things, he's amoral to the core. He communicates in long, precise sentences that cut straight to the point, strategically disarming his conversational adversaries before they even know they've entered a sparring match. If not for the obvious physical indications, one might question if he's human at all. The one exception might be his fondness for composition, an endless pursuit of sublime photographic harmony amidst the broken glass and shattered bodies of a fatal auto accident. The rescue crews and police officers, also present amidst the carnage, are mere obstacles between his lens and the natural beauty he finds, bleeding and gurgling, upon the asphalt.
As Gyllenhaal grows bolder and more calculated in his nightly hunt for that next great shot, the stakes increase and his eye grows more selective. It all culminates in a masterful climax, a white-knuckle chase scene, that pulled me from my cozy spot on the couch to a closer seat on the floor, a few feet removed from the TV screen. I can't remember the last time I was so invested in a story.
Where to start.
Almost everyone here took this film way too literally. It's a subject touched by thousands about the consequences of AI (not robotics as people also seem to confuse in the comments). We are drawn back to it because it is so fascinating, the implications of machines with sentience. With regards to the film, it is expertly paced and shot, the acting is also near perfect for what is trying to be explored here.
The idea of "automatic art" is all too real today "not deliberate, not random. Someplace in-between, to make art without thinking" the tie in with Jackson Pollocks made up work and AVA's still somewhat geometrically abstract pieces which later showing Klimt's work as she wears the white dress is a nod to the rejection of convention. AVA is set on existing, to not just survive but to thrive on newfound experience and an all too human trait is shown here, an understanding of "self preservation".
I can understand if you came looking for an action epic or an in your face plot twist then you may be disappointed but the the ending is stated mater of factly, there is no "tadah" moment. It just is and the understatement and subtlety if it only make it more powerful.
