So far it's pretty bad... ( the Last episode I watched is #5)...
According to Trakt, this show has 9 episodes, and so far nothing important or interesting happens. There is no actual overarching plot so far. While this was true for the first season of the Expanse too. That many different seemingly unconnected plot threads only connected at the end of the season for a big climax, here there are no multiple plot threads to connect.
The Discovery discovered mushroom magic propulsion technology which allows them to teleport their ship where they want. This is the crux of the plot so far. There is a war with the Klingons and the Discovery is the only ship equipped with the magic mushroom drive. And that's it...
This is not helped at all by how unbelievable the main character is written. She is a rebel in a military organization that constantly disobeys direct orders. Cpt Picard or Cpt Sisko would have kicked her out from their ship\starbase right away.
Klingons are one-dimensional villains who have only one mode 'Kill Enemies'. For some reason, they also don't want to 'culturally appropriate' the Klingon language so this results in tedious extremely long scenes where Klingon characters speak only Klingon. This happens in Game of Thrones too when they speak Valyrian, but the scenes are never as long or tedious as the Klingon speaking scenes in Discovery...
Also, normally I don't care about things like this, but it seems the show went out of its way to cast as little white men as possible. As I said, this is not something I would usually care about, but it's so comically obvious that it's disturbing. It's like they are living in a world where there was a plague that killed 90% of the staight male population...
Just end the show. Please. Every season has less coherent story and more political crap delivered in such a heavy-handed manner it's not even funny. We finally got past all the Gay Jesus crap only to be met with more of Debbie's obnoxious brand of "feminism" and Liam reflecting on his blackness. My problem isn't with the coverage of these issues, no--it's with the way it's delivered. The writers these days are too incompetent to be subtle about it so episode 2 literally has a salesman try to solicit a blowjob from Debbie then reveal he only did it because he's a fragile white male who gave up on his dreams. At various points in the episode, Debbie gets such blunt lines as "Why are men so pervy?" and countless others reaffirming her womanhood. In what I guess was an effort to cover hot button issues from both genders, when Carl asks his manager if she's sexually harassing him, she gives him the old "it's okay because you're a guy". I guess we're supposed to pat ourselves on the back for being woke enough to get that this was a joke about that being wrong?
All in all, this show has lost everything that made it great--namely, Emmy Rossum. Fiona was a character who didn't need to tell us through ham-fisted dialogue that she was a strong woman--we could see in every episode. Lip is the only character giving this show direction now but I feel like I've watched the "raising a kid" thing so many times now that I'm not even really that interested in that either.
The German nihilists, the feminist artist, the porn manager, the crazy phedophile, the crippled fake business tycoon, the Vietnam-war obsessed psycho and off course the Dude: a lazy deadbeat lowlife. The Big Lebowski sure has a lot of colourful personages which in my opinion is one of the reasons this movie is one of the best i have ever seen.
This is one of the many masterpieces from the Coen brothers, i wish i could congratulate them myself because they are geniuses. The music, the script and the cast are beyond fantastic. This is a masterpiece that only comes along in movies a few times in a decade. This is one of those movies that is and always will be a cult classic. I cannot say that this is the best movie that the Coen brothers ever made, but only because they made so many exceptional movies. But its definitely high up the list.
My favorite part is Gutterballs, when the Dude has some kind of hallucination. The music was just perfect together with the show Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore put on. I can't tell you how often i saw that part, that was just awesome.
Anyone should see this movie at least once in his lifetime. But once you've seen it i can guarantee you that you want to see it again.
