tomjoyce-14947
Joined Oct 2023
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The good:
Thornton is a joy to watch. Sheridan did a great job writing this part and he deserves credit for giving us peak Billy Bob.
The scenery and beautiful long tracking shots give you a sense of place; another thing Sheridan's shows do well.
But... the Bad:
1) Every episode spews completely inaccurate data about renewable energy. It feels like a polemical defense of oil and an effort to discredit solar/wind/EVs. Solar IS NOT 4X MORE EXPENSIVE THAN OIL! Please stop. I get it, Sheridan is from Texas and has a point of view but you don't have to just lie to viewers and plant misinformation in their heads.
2) The show has a sky high bimbo factor. Wall to wall string bikinis. I am trying to watch this with wife and daughter..... Dude. It's 2025.
3) The music and many other elements are a total ripoff of Friday Night Lights and Longmire. I feel like I have seen a lot of this before, but done better.
4) The great Jon Hamm is pretty much wasted here, with a one-note character.
5) We are bludgeoned with product placements. Michelob Ultra, Bentley, Four Sixes Ranch, etc etc.
Thornton is a joy to watch. Sheridan did a great job writing this part and he deserves credit for giving us peak Billy Bob.
The scenery and beautiful long tracking shots give you a sense of place; another thing Sheridan's shows do well.
But... the Bad:
1) Every episode spews completely inaccurate data about renewable energy. It feels like a polemical defense of oil and an effort to discredit solar/wind/EVs. Solar IS NOT 4X MORE EXPENSIVE THAN OIL! Please stop. I get it, Sheridan is from Texas and has a point of view but you don't have to just lie to viewers and plant misinformation in their heads.
2) The show has a sky high bimbo factor. Wall to wall string bikinis. I am trying to watch this with wife and daughter..... Dude. It's 2025.
3) The music and many other elements are a total ripoff of Friday Night Lights and Longmire. I feel like I have seen a lot of this before, but done better.
4) The great Jon Hamm is pretty much wasted here, with a one-note character.
5) We are bludgeoned with product placements. Michelob Ultra, Bentley, Four Sixes Ranch, etc etc.
Super high quality show.
I read some of the bad reviews and they are either (1) complaining that it is a remake of the French show, (2) nitpicking about parts of the plot they don't like, or (3) think it's slow.
Viewers have gotten REALLY spoiled.
This is a weekly TV show that has Richard Gere.
Let me repeat that:
RICHARD GERE. ON A WEEKLY TV SERIES. And Michael Fassbender and Jeffrey Wright. The performances of these three are excellent, nuanced, and subtle. Multiple times I have rewound just to watch Richard Gere do his thing again. His character is tough, damaged, angry, empathetic, funny. The whole range. A pleasure to watch, as is Jeffrey Wright.
Fassbender is uncomfortable to watch. High tension. Is he damaged? Is he a psychopath? Is he the only sane person in the picture?
The sets are amazing and expensive and they spent a ton on locations. I am not crazy about the Sami character but I think she is meant to be a cipher and is well acted if that is the case. I took a star off because some aspects of that relationship don't quite work.
We are fortunate to have such high quality stuff and don't have to watch crap like Roseanne and CSI: Cleveland anymore.
I read some of the bad reviews and they are either (1) complaining that it is a remake of the French show, (2) nitpicking about parts of the plot they don't like, or (3) think it's slow.
Viewers have gotten REALLY spoiled.
This is a weekly TV show that has Richard Gere.
Let me repeat that:
RICHARD GERE. ON A WEEKLY TV SERIES. And Michael Fassbender and Jeffrey Wright. The performances of these three are excellent, nuanced, and subtle. Multiple times I have rewound just to watch Richard Gere do his thing again. His character is tough, damaged, angry, empathetic, funny. The whole range. A pleasure to watch, as is Jeffrey Wright.
Fassbender is uncomfortable to watch. High tension. Is he damaged? Is he a psychopath? Is he the only sane person in the picture?
The sets are amazing and expensive and they spent a ton on locations. I am not crazy about the Sami character but I think she is meant to be a cipher and is well acted if that is the case. I took a star off because some aspects of that relationship don't quite work.
We are fortunate to have such high quality stuff and don't have to watch crap like Roseanne and CSI: Cleveland anymore.
I am enjoying this a great deal. You can't beat an expensively produced spy thriller with all the 007 trappings - classic clothes, cars, houses, gadgets, disguises... all well turned out in The Day of the Jackal. Eddie Redmayne is very good, playing it cold and low key. I never completely buy it though as I can't help seeing Newt Scamander with a gun. He's good but Daniel Craig he is not. All knees and elbows, the clothes do not make the man...
Good fun but you absolutely have to suspend belief to a tremendous extent. This version of MI6 is nonsensical. None of these people act anything like any law enforcement agency in the world. Perhaps Austin Powers but no other. None of these people act people are even remotely believable and their dialog isn't either. Lead actor Lashana Lynch is a capable actress, if kind of "standard issue" for this type of show, but the role is absurd. She's riding a desk as an analyst, then flying off to do counterterrorism, then leading an armed strike force (badly) all with basically no help.
One thing I can't stand is that every cat-and-mouse show like this has to spend tons of time on the families of the lead characters. The Type-A lead is always running off to work in the middle of a family dinner and the teenage kids and significant others are all annoyed and pissed off. Yeah, I have to go save the world or shoot a guy, and so I'm going to miss your stupid middle school kazoo recital. Deal with it. Why do I have to watch this crap over and over??? And the families are always some blended lost divorce mashup with tons of money where everybody is expert on what $100 bottle of wine to pair with liberian couscous mousakka with confit l'aubergine.
Good fun but you absolutely have to suspend belief to a tremendous extent. This version of MI6 is nonsensical. None of these people act anything like any law enforcement agency in the world. Perhaps Austin Powers but no other. None of these people act people are even remotely believable and their dialog isn't either. Lead actor Lashana Lynch is a capable actress, if kind of "standard issue" for this type of show, but the role is absurd. She's riding a desk as an analyst, then flying off to do counterterrorism, then leading an armed strike force (badly) all with basically no help.
One thing I can't stand is that every cat-and-mouse show like this has to spend tons of time on the families of the lead characters. The Type-A lead is always running off to work in the middle of a family dinner and the teenage kids and significant others are all annoyed and pissed off. Yeah, I have to go save the world or shoot a guy, and so I'm going to miss your stupid middle school kazoo recital. Deal with it. Why do I have to watch this crap over and over??? And the families are always some blended lost divorce mashup with tons of money where everybody is expert on what $100 bottle of wine to pair with liberian couscous mousakka with confit l'aubergine.