pnwgirl

I keep hearing how this was received as a comedy and the acting was over the top. Maybe so, I won't debate that. But this movie absolute reality if you are looking at it to the lens of an emotionally abused child. I'm a child of a mother who was very much like this, as Joan Crawford was depicted on screen. In this movie, I can assure you none of her meltdowns are over the top. Holding her children responsible for her anger is not funny. Making everyone around you have to deal with your emotional meltdowns is not funny. The movie is telling a story of a real person, CHRISTINA. The CHILD. The other adults in the room don't appreciate her emotional immaturity either, but they do what most adults do is uncomfortably bear it . She's so oblivious and inside her own stuff she can't see it. I thought they did a perfect job of depicting that type of depicting an abuser. The movie showed repeated emotional abuse and over control. I don't find any of it funny. I wonder how funny the audience would find it if they were the small child being screamed at and unable to leave their home? That's super funny, huh? Nope. Not really.

I love the two principal actors in the series and if they have been given better material they could have carried it better. When is Hollywood going to stop depicting old people as incapable of making good decisions? Their characterizations were just too difficult to suspend the disbelief for.

I really love the premise, but it's just poorly executed by giving the principles bad interpersonal skills and decision making ability.

Episode 2 would have been better served by easing us into the secondary storyline as opposed to making it primary at the beginning and having to figure out what in the world was happening. I actually checked to see if I had selected the right show! The connective tissue for the B story just wasn't compelling, it was confusing. I had to stop watching.