Stiletto LB

I usually never write reviews for anything, but I felt the need to write this review because I feel insulted as a viewer. Do the writers/directors think that little of their audience? Do you think we have zero logic? And these well known famous actors, how could you take on such bad script? The events make no sense at all. The people telling the story are not the main characters, dont live with the main characters, dont live inside the main characters heads. Nothing makes sense! For Falak's character, even the world leaders don't have such powers... This is such a joke. I stopped watching the show halfway because I truly feel insulted. Its as if the producers of the show think of me (as an audience) as someone with zero intelligence to follow such a ridiculous story line.

Not everything needs to be sophisticated and intricate. I see Stiletto as the TV equivalent of junk-food, it's not very nutritious but it's a nice guilty pleasure. The plot is extremely drawn-out and needs to be significantly condensed. The actors were okay, I especially liked the performance of Falak (Dima Kandalaft) who commanded a very powerful presence on screen. Besides the acting, and mediocre writing, my major gripe with this series was the lack of originality in the screenplay and soundtrack, you see the same cuts, transitions and scenes repeated endlessly, with the same soundtrack blasting throughout, it gets so repetitive and made the series so hard to watch. I think Levantine drama could be so much better than Stiletto but nonetheless I still enjoyed the series.

The whole show's purpose is to maximize the number of episodes. While this doesn't necessarily correlate with a bad thing, this show manages to create one of the worst shows I've ever scene. Nothing is realistic in this show. Falak is given extreme power and Alma's stupidity is beyond measure. If the silent moments were cut, the show would decrease to 20 episodes maybe. It has big name actors but the acting is sub par, except Falak. It's a headache to watch and it's an insult to the audience. No idea why these big name actors agreed to it. Writing, directing, acting is just a shame to be part of.

Kinda like watching a Lebanese version of desperate housewives. It's not the worst thing I've watched I've seen a lot worse. The main reason I came to review this is because of how frustrating it is just watching Alma. The character is so annoying I can't deal. I don't feel I want to even see the end because of how annoying her and Karim are. If it wasn't for the rest of the crew and the fashion in it I would have given up ages ago but I'm stil watching it in hope someone kills them both off. It's quite entertaining though in a frustrating kinda way. The overall film production is beautifully done and can't fault it at all.

Too long for a very basic story that could have been ended in 5 episodes. Killed my brain cells for sure. Overacting and exhaustingly long and silly I gave it 2 stars just for the effort they spent to make this overrated, basic and boring story. My only reason to watch to the end was out of curiosity and eager to the watch the finale and turn it out its even worse than the story it self. It's actually made me laugh so much at the level of nonsense that the show have. Not recommended to anyone to waste their valuable time and watch it trust me not worth it very fricking not worth your time at all.