why has their always got to be incest in shows???
it feels like its happening in more shows than ever! - got the vibe from episode one
Season 3 was pretty awful but my main surprise here was that the girl who tricked Tyler into a date (the friends were never invited come on) and then drove hundreds of miles uninvited to see him...wasn't a demon out to get him?
Even if this season wasn't awful that alone shows how badly thought out this all was.
I didn't expect much from this film and while it won't go into the hall of fame, it was really good.
Was pure action with a little plot but sometimes simple works. If you're looking for a movie that is essentially one long fight scene and love swords then this is for you.
I know some people don't love the idea of monsters and lore but it fits really well and expands the universe in a way that works - why can witches, wolves and vampires exist but not other mythical creatures? Vampires and wolves come from magic, but other magical creatures are where things don't make sense?!?!?!
It's younger than VD and Originals because they are all in school in this series and are exploring topics about growing up and you guessed it... Learning (as one does in school). Yes, Hope is the all-powerful tribrid but she's also a teenage girl and I think the show balanced those two things well.
The last season was super messy but it's understandable and they did the best they could with what they knew. I'm guessing the Gods were supposed to expand over a season or two rather than essentially a few episodes.
I'll truly miss this show and hope the universe can expand into something else. I would love a spin-off with Jed and Ben exploring the Gods as we've only just touched on it and I think the entire thing was rushed due to the cancellation and we could have delved deeper into the lore.
Will really miss this show but it's definitely on my rewatch list!
The series could end here and it would be a perfect end (but boy do i hope its not) because this season was phenomenal and by far the best one yet.
When Jim died by heart broke but the post credit scene has given me some hope, because there's no way they can take the only real parent she's ever had away right??!
Glad everything wrapped up nicely at least without a cliffhanger. Seems they had planned from the getgo to cancel this.
Just like episode one this feels like they're doing things for the sake of doing it. I spent so much time cringing at the bad acting and the forced social issues.
Feeling more and more like this remake is only here to show how awesome phones are now and to have a lesbian and non white female actors.
Anyone else notice that in this episode a phone saved the day and in the last episode their phones were everywhere?
It feels like the brief wasn't "make a charmed remake" it was "make a remake of any show but make sure we address x, y and z"
This is truly the best thing marvel has produced post end game and one of the best thing the MCU has created, period.
I love marvel unapologetically and even i can say this is more than the superhero genre, this is full on sci-fi and its up there with some of t best.
bash was infuriating in this episode and i had to skip most of his scenes.
the firefighter had it right, how could he think he had more info and skill than the team of 20 experts? i know the show started with him being a hero and a risktaker but he just crossed right into suicidal hero with a god complex... which again i understand because of his past but it's still quite frustrating having a character with zero development season after season.
Amazing episode and has only made me wish that this was a longer season more.
But what on earth was the colouring in the scene in the dessert with Perrin? I thought my TV was broken for a second.
there is a fine line between an annoying character, a stupid character and I want to maime them character. if you don't get the balance right, then seeing them on screen becomes an irritation more than anything else.
in short; the kid needs to die asap.
It took me three years and multiple attempts at the first few episodes of season one to finally get through this (the trick is just skipping through the awkward and cringy, second-hand embarrassment scenes) but I’m so glad I did because it’s such a beautiful coming-of-age story.
This show is definitely best watched as a whole as I don’t think I would have loved it as much if I hadn’t watched all 4 seasons together and got to see the amazing character growth. I can’t think of a single show that has done character development so well (outside of Schitt’s Creek) and in such a way that every choice is justified and makes sense.
I’m firmly in the Paxton x Desi is end game park but even then, I’m happy with the way everything ended, because while I didn’t get the ship I was hoping for, even that made sense.
Desi became obsessed with Paxton as a way to avoid dealing with her father’s death, which is why when she finally got to the goal post that seemed unreachable, she didn’t know what to do with herself, but being with each other changed them both for the better and made them into the best versions of themselves.
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story = 8/10
acting/cast = 9/10 (minus fabiola's first girlfriend who is shockingly bad at acting)
music = 4/10
rewatch value = 3/10 (while the character growth makes the last seasons great, rewatching all the bad decisions desi makes would be physically painful.
overall = 7/10
I love the Daddario siblings and will watch anything they are in. I loved Alexandra in this and so i was immediately pulled in.
Unfortunately, I think, like many shows recently, this has fallen victim to a short episode order. This needed to be in the 22-episode tv format and not 8. They tried to cover too much in too little space and nothing had a chance to build out and be adequately explained.
This was a 22-episode script compacted down instead of being written as 8 episodes and so, everything was rushed and at times confusing. I'm hopeful that season 2 is better as I think it could end up being worthwhile.
This was a really poor season finale. Felt like any character development with Rowan just went right out the window and didn't make much sense. Nothing about the last few episodes had any rhyme or reason.
I've never watched this as a kid but with the willow series just launched, I thought it was a good idea to get some backstory. From the reviews here I can see that a lot of people like the movie... For me, not so much. It's not bad, and it's not good - It just is. It might be because I don't have the nostalgic childhood feeling associated with it.
I really can't say much happened in the story. There wasn't a lot of depth, backstory or reasoning behind anything. Honestly, from start to finish, nothing truly happens. One major thing that made me want to give up was the pacing - an hour in and I was sure 2 hours had passed and that this was a 3-hour movie. Nothing happens for a really long time and then nothing continues to happen. All in all, it's very lacklustre.
For anyone about to watch because of the new Willow series, you can skip this because you won't miss anything and it won't give any more backstory than the wiki page (and in episode 1 the first two minutes summarise this entire movie just as well as watching it did).
Story = 2/10
Acting/Cast = 3/10
Music = 1/10
Rewatch Value = 0/10
Overall = 3/10
This has been on my watchlist for years and I’ve finally got around to watching it. For the most part, it was fantastic but the sheer number of plotholes is outstanding.
The first season is excellent. Second, less so, but still okay.
Third and fourth? The writers were scrambling with no plans or clue as to where anything was going and it was clear a few episodes into season 3 that they hadn’t thought this far ahead. Anything they couldn't figure out they just washed away or created an alternative timeline for.
Season 3 basically made it so they didn’t have to answer any of the pressing questions from the first two seasons and could just wipe away anything they didn’t know or understand. No more flashbacks, no acknowledgement outside of Kiera saying that she wanted to go home. The last season is where they try to tie everything back in, but it feels rushed and desperate.
The ending was the perfect mix of bittersweet and made the poor planning and odd filler episodes worth it. It was great to see that both Alec and his brother had become a better version of themselves. Keira not understanding that her son wouldn't be born was frankly baffling though - everything they had done was so that future didn't exist so how was her son and marriage supposed to? Plus, why did they have him look exactly like her son with two totally different parents?!
Key unanswered plotholes:
The CIA/NSA investigation just magically went away, even after the lead was mysterious murdered.
Did the husband know what Alec was planning? Scenes would indicate that he did, but this was never answered.
What was the deal with Alec's father? Nothing there was explained including his reasonings for everything. Same as how Alec's son escaped from the freelancers.
The big cooperative overlords that told evil Alec to slow down and were halting production... Who were they and what was their purpose?
Liberat8? Oh, we don’t need them anymore, so let’s let them just fade away and have a few turn allies. Never mind the fact that they were a nationwide (global?) organization at that point.
The freelancers were only talked about for half a second and things were never adequately explained. Plus, who was the original freelancer and why was Curtis so obsessed? Nothing about the freelancers was even slightly explained well. It had the vibe of when a show is desperately trying to create a spin-off and using the current show for momentum.
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Story = 7/10
Soundtrack = 0/10
Acting = 8/10
Total = 6.5/10
Overall not a bad show and it's a nice cop/time travel/saving the world mix of genres that mesh quite well together.
All together great, but this needed another 5+ episodes to let stories play out correctly + I wish we could have got more than 2 minutes of all the couples happy together.
While it's sad that Felix ended up without Pilar/Lake, he got what he needed the most - a family and I think they did that really well.
I've loved every episode so far but this was very 'filler' which is normally not so obvious for an adventure of the week type show.
Was the equivalent of a musical episode on the pointless and boring scale.
Also, Rebecca Romijn was in, maybe, 2 minutes of this episode but even then you really see how weak of an actress she is. I notice it every episode, everyone else is fine so she really stands out as someone who is visibly 'acting'.
All things considered not a bad ending.
Despite understanding why Landon and Hope couldn't end up together (as all signs pointed towards it from season 1) I was still hoping that they would end up together until the bitter end, but I get it, it's been understood from the get-go that their destinies were not to be together. I just hate that he has to spend eternity alone, slowly losing himself. Ethan staying with him would have been good and fits what Ethan needed in his own life.
All in all, it ends well and while there are aspects I don't like I love that the reasoning behind everything - the series is ultimately about Hope going to school to learn, and she learnt the most important thing (as her dad said in his message), she will love and lose and end up being the last thing standing. Her most important lesson and one she struggled with from the start.
Everyone came out learning things and being a better person, which made the ending full circle.
Abandoned 1-hour and 10 minutes in
The pacing of this was awful. I looked up and 1-hour had passed but it felt like only 10 minutes worth of the story has been told as it was so slow and nothing of worth had happened in 50 minutes.
I don't understand why they market movies as something it isn't it. It can only lead to disappointment. Everything in the trailer was shown within the first 20 minutes because they were trying to show this movie as something it wasn't so used * all** the noteworthy scenes and what was left was bland and boring.
The main issue here was pacing though as the Alexander was brilliant.
Couldn't have asked for a better goodbye for her, having watched her since she was Baby Callie in The Fosters it's been wonderful see the character and the actress grow up over the years. They really did her justice.
Plus, Callie and Jamie have been endgame since the get go, so the final few minutes felt beautiful.
I hope we see her again and she pops in with the rest of the family every now and again.
A dreadful backstory that makes you think the entire movie has a £5 budget and no actors who took acting lessons, but if you sit through the first 5 minutes it is a good enough movie.
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Story = 5/10
Production Design = 6/10
Soundtrack = 3/10
Acting = 7/10 (ignoring the backstory)
Total = 6/10
I feel the phrase "I'm lost" can't quite sum up how I feel about the last two episodes. The Weeping Angles episode was unbelievably good and it just turned so bad so quickly. Totally lost on all of this and I understand more will be revealed soon but right now... I'm not sure how much I care.
Not sure if it was due to COVID but this was far too rushed, the last two episodes needed to be doubled if not tripled.
will really miss this one!
I remember when the first episode came out and I gave up in the first 10 minutes (what awful acting!} but binge-watched it all this year and it's soo good, happy I waited though.
middle of the season was odd with them killing practically everyone off and assassinating all character development but it turned itself around.
nice to have a show that doesn't end awfully for once, feels like a rarity these days to even get a finale.
No real depth to the characters or plot. Feels like they tried to fit 3 seasons of a tv show worth of plots and characters into one movie and just decided to ditch all the worthwhile bits.
I love this show, that's it. that's the whole conclusion.
it's been a wild and messy ride and I've loved every second of it. thank you shameless.
couldn't have asked for a happier ending
Because the year 2020 wasn't awful enough, it had throw one last curveball at us... This movie.
this was a shocking zero budget film. what was this??????
2 minutes in on the first scene and you can tell its awful with the actors on their second lesson of acting class.
I very rarely leave a film unfinished but I couldn't take even 10 minutes of this. Ryan Phillippe must either had a gun held to his head or been in some serious debt and needed fast cash, though I can't image they had any money to pay him.
Shockingly bad, avoid like the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is so bad, I'm actually embarrassed I watched an entire episode.
Shockingly bad writing and terrible overacting.
Even if this wasn't from 'no renew' Netflix that cliffhanger still wouldn't be okay. Didn't even truly feel like a cliffhanger, more like they just didn't know how to continue the story or have the budget too.
The plot only really started 2-3 episodes ago so feels like a massive let down... Wasted a shocking amount of time on a love story that isn't going to lead anywhere (where is he, is he just not going to be mentioned again??) as it seems Sister Beatrice is the next love interest.
A lot of hours to get zero conclusions and a non-ending.
In short; subpar storyline, pointless love story, no ending and a let down for what was an interesting premise. First ten minutes and the last ten minutes are the only interesting parts of the whole of season 1.
Tip to the people over at Netflix:
If someone has watched the last episode and can't figure out why the 'next episode button' hasn't shown up, you've done something very wrong. When you get an interesting story idea, make sure you get the correct people to write the story.