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After watching I, Tonya I felt like taking a couple of showers to clean off any scuzzy residue that might have jumped across the screen to my viewing chair. It's an effective piece of schadenfreude American Theatre with characters right out of those single-wide rusting trailer parks you were told to avoid. Every part is played expertly and watching Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, and of course Allison Janney chew up the screen fills you with admiration and slimy dread. This underbelly of a harsh skating and relationship world puts you at complete unease because you almost can't believe how this violent tragicomedy plays out. I do wonder whether the constant 4th wall breaches are an effective presentation method but that's what you get with a biopic that always puts Tonya front and center, jump by jump.

This movie is really about extreme depression in all of its forms and how it plays out in a family. This is not to give away any plot point specifically but to warn you that it is a very, very depressing film that I really got no enjoyment watching, even though I thought the acting was extremely compelling, but I really can't recommend this movie because there was really no point to it. Even in the most depressing of Shakespearean tragedies, there is a point that obviously needs to be elucidated, and I don't see illumination as being part of this film's character. Just because a film has excellent acting does not mean that you need to see it.

OK; so now I have six hundred characters (600) to explain why I'm giving the first three seasons a 9/10 rating but then suddenly the 4th season appears and it's abysmal compared to the first three...why? What happened? Somehow the energy, intelligence, intrigue, sci-fi bonafides, etc., so prevalent in Seasons 1-3 were sucked into a hopeless void for Season 4. I'm not going to reveal plot points nor give away spoilers but I've got to say, in S1-3, there's an amazing range of social issues and conundrums illuminated by these on-the-edge parables of tech-gone-wrong but largely focusing on human foibles and thus there's much universality to be appreciated whether the subjects are themselves human or not.