TheRGV
Joined Jan 2023
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I like Eléonore Bernheim in The Art of Crime, a part she plays well. The jury is out on her playing a gritty cop in the two "Murder In..." that she has done.
However, no one's acting could save this contrived, clichéd catastrophe, "Murder In Le Mans". The story is stupid, with an LAPD cop, former Le Mans racer and apparent father (Jason Priestly) aiding in the investigation.
Jason Priestly, an actor from the English/French bilingual Canada, couldn't read a stop sign in French. It was so painful to hear him speak I turned off the sound then just read the subtitles.
His new-found daughter from a race-time relationship thirty years earlier? Don't know, don't care, I gave up.
However, no one's acting could save this contrived, clichéd catastrophe, "Murder In Le Mans". The story is stupid, with an LAPD cop, former Le Mans racer and apparent father (Jason Priestly) aiding in the investigation.
Jason Priestly, an actor from the English/French bilingual Canada, couldn't read a stop sign in French. It was so painful to hear him speak I turned off the sound then just read the subtitles.
His new-found daughter from a race-time relationship thirty years earlier? Don't know, don't care, I gave up.
... but the first thing I did was laugh.
I think to enjoy this series you have to have enjoyed Shameless. Some describe this family as clichéd but that falls short. Dysfunctional doesn't cover it either.
The main character returns home and to her completely over the top family members in an attempt to maintain her fragile, six-month sobriety. She couldn't have made a worse choice.
The eight-part series details everyone else's shortcomings as well as her own, making you want to reach for a drink yourself. But it is very well done, humorous, gritty and for someone who finds the theme close to the heart, very difficult to watch in parts.
It is the woman's sponsor who is the lone voice of sanity and some hard truths. The series is very well done, very well written and very well acted.
Some would like to see additional seasons but I think what had to be said and done was accomplished in these eight, half-hour episodes.
I think to enjoy this series you have to have enjoyed Shameless. Some describe this family as clichéd but that falls short. Dysfunctional doesn't cover it either.
The main character returns home and to her completely over the top family members in an attempt to maintain her fragile, six-month sobriety. She couldn't have made a worse choice.
The eight-part series details everyone else's shortcomings as well as her own, making you want to reach for a drink yourself. But it is very well done, humorous, gritty and for someone who finds the theme close to the heart, very difficult to watch in parts.
It is the woman's sponsor who is the lone voice of sanity and some hard truths. The series is very well done, very well written and very well acted.
Some would like to see additional seasons but I think what had to be said and done was accomplished in these eight, half-hour episodes.
I got hooked by the first season of Candace Renoir. The character was different, bubbly and out of date due to her seven or so year absence from police work. A cute hook.
The next few seasons were okay with good story lines solved in an often quirky way by our heroine.
A continuing thread is her love life, or lack thereof. The first guy was believable but soon gone. The second guy, played by the same actor who portrays the detective ex-husband of a detective in a different French show, Tandem, got hokey quickly.
The third love interest is a just plain stupid story line dragged on ad nauseum. I'm nearing the end of Season five and getting ready to give up.
The next few seasons were okay with good story lines solved in an often quirky way by our heroine.
A continuing thread is her love life, or lack thereof. The first guy was believable but soon gone. The second guy, played by the same actor who portrays the detective ex-husband of a detective in a different French show, Tandem, got hokey quickly.
The third love interest is a just plain stupid story line dragged on ad nauseum. I'm nearing the end of Season five and getting ready to give up.