huh, this episode just seemed wooden, clumsy, or just landed wrong-felt like it jumped the shark by itty bitty skips.
Kinda adorable rag-tag comedy set in gold rush days with some modern sensibilities.
Maybe think a more modern Aussie version of Plebs, has some great quotes in some episodes too!
"You know what? That's such an entitled question brother. Sorry Mr Business Guy - didn't realise The Man was invited to give us an update on privilege. Go check yourself, Captain Patriarchy."
"Bro she doesn't nee a cis white man telling her what to think. Check yourself too."
"Sorry, chief - last red flag. I'm scrappy but killing an innocent dude, even if he is such a bitch, is not my vibe."
It's not Trailer Park Boys, but it is still worth a watch.
Except for the actual welding and use of tools, when actors often are just fiddling with random bits of metal, that are clearly not well part of the scene or logical.
Good fun, nice to Giacomo in a different role, and although it's a standard trope, this pair add something extra to the mix, as does the script.
I really liked this season, and the anthopomorphosing aspect of it too, as well as some very twisted benevolent serial killers?
Some more conspiracy theories too - Was the start of AIDS really so innocent or a deliberate plot...?
I'm really digging this so far... psychology, smart, and a bit of fun too.
Talking a hostage holding a baby into giving up and putting down his gun by laying out alll the options after he gets a helicopter , will he kill the baby, the helicopter pilot etc?
Not much of a spoiler, that is first 2 minutes of ep 1.
WHAT'S with the writing this season?
This episode in particular has SOOOO many plot holes.
ugh, seems it might have jumped the shark, or more like crashed into it.
I'm coming to this new, not knowing the webcomic, and I love it!
Love the 'tiny snacks' and 'mild poison' lol.
Of course almost no transition pleases dedicated fans, the standout that breaks the rule is The Shawshank Redemption. Though I think Stephen King's original was more of a short story at 70pages from memory!
Ooops my ADHD brain gone sideways there.
Maybe I need to seek out the webcomic!
Season 2 had some real highlights and throw off one-liners that seemed to hit home for me more than the first, and made me go and download both seasons, to rewatch and also chop some highlights for some projects and ideas. Some of them even made it into my quote collection!
Like "And hey, sex work is Work, Bitch!" and in another ep You're a cunt just like the original cunt, Eve. .
Quality entertainment, if a little inconsistent!
Not exactly spoilers, as you see in almost the first scene the main antihero driving a Subaru WRX on low-profile street tires thru hails of 50 cal and rocket launchers in a twenty-year post-apocalyptic car chase where every man is for himself.
Now while I'm not a huge fan of massive American metal muscle cars, big older chunks of metal are much more likely to survive than horizontally opposed boxer engines with all-wheel-drive in the absence of regular maintenance.
Or if you have to have something more technical survive and endure, it'd be a Hilux, as we know they are almost indestructible!
There are way more plot holes, but these hit me straight away.
Be patient b4 writing off this show! I almost stopped watching after three eps, and it has at least three levels of humour:
1. the very obvious, almost slapstick style.
2. darker, more British, slow burn style, that it took me a few episodes to tune into, underneath #1
3. more in your face, a combination of the above two, still kind of subtle, almost ironic commentary on small town life & discrimination- sexism, racism, classism, homophobia, heteronormality and probably more;...
cos I was busy writing it off for the level 1 humour, which is in itself perhaps a fourth level of humour - In small town Aussie life it is the crazy larger than life characters and attitudes that take up all the space.
Perhaps it tries to be too many things. work at too many levels, but it is rewarding at different levels too, if you give it a chance
I really wanted to like this, I've read all the books, in fact all the author's other books.
SO many inconsistencies and big plot holes in first fifteen minutes I had to stop.
Getting her best friend to guide her thru her established blog like it was the first time?
Having a formal dress fitting the day before the friend's wedding?
Clumsy introduction interactions of characters kind of to the camera as if they wouldn't have met before?
And this is supposed to be about true-crime enthusiasts, who see these kind of things, and there were more blunders... the horror!
OMG, hilarious, 10/10. This show just gets better and better! St Louis sushi! Oh oh Ohhhhhh! And it is Episode 2.02, titled #2
Oh, for the hastag generation, # means number... Number 2. If you're not laughing yet, you need to go watch the episode!
Starting each episode with an upside-down NYC skyline seems a fitting way to look at almost an autopsy* of a relationship in decline and divorce, yet funny and thoughtful.
Great start, go Sly! Very glad I stumbled across this. Great acting, some gentle and not so humour, a bit of violence, and a few plot twists just in the first episode.
Very nice.
Interesting, intermittently funny, but a lotta inconsistency too - Like for people focused on creating spooky events, a lot of variation in quality. Episodes 3, 5, + 6 just seemed a bit half-hearted compared to the others.
This is really weird, I thought this was an episode from last season - I swear I knew everything that was gonna happen from start to finish... WTH?
And I'm not psychic? Huh.
This is my favourite foreign language show right now. Mostly not in English, anyhow. This is pretty funny, in a rather offbeat way. Quirky like "What we do in the Shadows", Wellington Paranormal, "League of Gentleman" kind of way. But different! Enjoy!
Remember this is billed as a comedy too, and admittedly the humour is a little quirky. Jean Reno (a la Leon/The Professional) is rather a treat, and makes watching it worth it by itself, as he is a somewhat reluctant aid to our protagonist's bold foray into policework as a woman.
So far I do prefer Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, which feels quite similar, and may be more enjoyable for many.
I kind of wanted to like this, but under Half- Assed fire might have been a better title.
The urgency and drama is in the dialogue and scenes. Kind of. But not in actions or action.
I guess I'm used to American standard fires, but he fire in the first scene seems lukewarm, as does the delay of the two firefighters removing a victim from it, and discussing whether to do it straight away, and then who will take the legs etc. But they're talking about how intense it is and everything
Then they go to all this effort introducing developing character of Adjutant Steve, who according to IMDB is only ever in one episode. We hear about his drinking problem, him avoiding calls from his wife, him working on his boat, where he lives. Drama over him missing work, his mistress and blame on her, his separated wife, the discussion over food shopping his wife does, and even another totally half-assed scene where he is sitting on a surf board with his mistress, waiting for a wave at what doesn't even seem to be a surf beach, and then when they hop off to kiss, the water was only halfway up his ass. And he is only 175cm tall. That's the sort of height waves die, not where you wait to catch them!
OMG. Then the next scene and supposed ongoing drama over what comes next over where it went wrong, seems kind of well, half-assed, and the tragedy in it is what the other victims do, as opposed to the firefighters themselves.
I only watched the second episode to make sure Steve didn't pop in. His locker and photos did, but...
Like playing Firefighter TV trope/stereotype bingo in first two episodes. Hot Air Balloon, fire in a grow-house, a plane, then first scene is ep2 is a six month pregnant woman in a car who has gone into labour at side of road.
Then they coach her into pushing? Delivering a 26wo premature baby not in the ambulance, or even the backseat, but in the front seat, driver-side. Not a car crash, so nothing restricting them moving.
A baby's lungs aren't fully developed until 36 weeks, not 26. That baby needed to go straight to NICU or at least some sort of respiration, not handed over to mother's arms and reported over radio that both were OK.
27w:" Your baby's brain, lungs and digestive system are formed but not fully mature and are still developing."
28w:"baby weighs around 1kg and is perfectly formed. The baby's heartbeat can now be heard through a stethoscope. Your partner may even be able to hear it by putting an ear to your bump, but it can be difficult to find the right place."
https://www.nhs.uk/pregnancy/week-by-week/13-to-27/27-weeks/
Wow I really enjoyed this. Just clicked on this thinking I'd drop off after a few minutes but I felt like letting my Inner Child have some downtime. This is by Industrial Light & Magic, and the animation and CGI work is great and flows.
Childlike elements integrate with deeper themes and darker betrayals, as well as overcoming adversity and oversized bullies.
Although this arc has ended, I'm sure Netflix and the creators could make a few more seasons, we need more of this!
I think this is my favourite show this year. Bloody Brilliant.
I really liked this show. I wish I had known as much about myself at that age as some of the characters. Best Aussie drama I've seen in ages.
I didn't fit in for different reasons, but really related to the show. I was only diagnosed with ADHD after high school, and autism in my 40's.
Took me a little while to get into, but well worth staying for!
What an awesome start to the new season... I'm going to drop the last line, cos it dsoesn't really spoil anything, but so good! Call me Hondo.... There's probably something I should tell you about myself...
A promising start, intrigue and plotting and orgies at the North Pole!? Is this The Santa Clause/GOT animated mashup some twisted kid asked for? Or a crampus gift?
We'll see if it maintains...
Yes, Miranda was better, but all British TV is better than remakes.
If however, you take this as its own show, it does reward. It does still have the oddball characteristics I guess.
It is my fave new show of this year, which isn't really saying much yet I guess, nut it just seems like they really enjoy making it too.
ugh, disappointing ep. I got something 9 mins ahead of the investigators before it literally hit one of them over the head.
Did anyone else think one of the investigators knew earlier, if only vaguely, until the last second?
Interesting, but somethings they telegraph too far out! Ugh ep 4.... I got something 9 mins ahead of the investigators before it literally hit one of them over the head.
This feel like Netflix has got to get in on the genre, and it feels like they thought they should get in on the "I’ll be Gone In the Dark" buzz and vibe, but like many cash-ins, this is about half as good.
https://trakt.tv/shows/i-ll-be-gone-in-the-dark
