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I'm at a loss at why there are so many positive reviews for this episode. It was very weak and doesn't merit any positive words. It's also very clear that this version of Futurama is a "reboot", meaning the audience needs to forget what they knew about the characters they knew and cared about for decades and begin again with static characters who won't change.

The last episode of season 7 was bittersweet because it ended with what we wanted to see: Fry and Leela in love and together. If there were no more episodes after that, at least it ended on a happy note. This reboot has destroyed all of that. We care about these characters, and Netflix has thrown all of that out.

Every episode of Futurama is now a one-shot, that is, it's a standalone episode and everything is reset at the end, so there's no continuity. Since nothing changes, we don't care, we can't care, about what happens to the characters because they're static. The episodes can be watched in any order because everything resets at the end and nothing moves forward.

Lastly, I'll just mention in passing the gratuitous swipe at Christians when Fry finishes relieving himself and says "I finally found a use for the Bible". Mind you, I'm not a Christian, but I found this grossly offensive and insulting.

It's obvious Netflix simply doesn't care about either Futurama's legacy or the viewers. This was the last episode I watched of the new series and will ever watch. My time is more valuable than this idiocy.

I've been a member of the church since the 90s and thought almost all of the documentary was terrific. The only exception was the ending, where the film maker decided to insert her own biased commentary on current events. I'm hardly a Trump supporter, but it was gratuitous and annoying. She should have just stuck to the facts and interviews.

In other words, I can make up my own mind and think for myself. I don't need someone else's perspective to influence my thinking.

Other than that, it was very good work, but the documentary ended on a sour note. I would have given this a 7 because most of it was really solid and the interviews were well done. I took of a point for the clumsy political bias at the end.

This is a repellent movie. Based on the true story of the trial of Frank Di Norcsio and his court trial, Sidney Lumet tries his hardest to generate sympathy for both Di Norscio and his mobster peers. It's irrelevant that he was found not guilty. The movie tries to create some sense of irony that he was able to successfully defend him pro se in court. At the time the trial ended, he had already served 17.5 years of a 30 year sentence. He was released after serving his full sentence in 2002 and died two years later. Good riddance.

It's baffling to me why Lumet would try to make him a sympathetic character. This was not a good man, and that's made clear throughout the movie. Yes, he adhered to the mob rule that you don't turn rat, but who cares? Does that make a good person? Was he a person of good character?

No, he wasn't, and trying to present him as anything other than a thief, extortionist, drug user and distributer, and murderer is not only disingenuous, but it's gaslighting the audience by trying to whitewash a monster into a guy who just needed a break. The hell with this movie.