callierawlins
Joined Jun 2019
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**Note my review is only for Season 1**
Watched this after reading the novel the first season of this series is based on, The Terror by Dan Simmons. Simmons' novel is a thorough and intricate historical deep dive into a famous mystery surrounding the pursuit of the Northwest Passage. Though quite long, it is masterful and gripping storytelling. This adaptation is not.
I lost count of the many ways the adaptation diverts from the original story, and NONE of those diversions were logical or beneficial. They deprived the season of key narrative elements and made the result, particularly the decision making of several characters, random and disordered. Acting legends like Jared Harris, Tobias Menzies and Ian Hart deserved a better script. Simmons' novel deserved a better script. Very disappointed. Highly recommend the book - skip the TV series.
I lost count of the many ways the adaptation diverts from the original story, and NONE of those diversions were logical or beneficial. They deprived the season of key narrative elements and made the result, particularly the decision making of several characters, random and disordered. Acting legends like Jared Harris, Tobias Menzies and Ian Hart deserved a better script. Simmons' novel deserved a better script. Very disappointed. Highly recommend the book - skip the TV series.
She does it again. Few people can make me literally chortle the way Steph Tolev does. Might be too vulgar for some - but they should grow the hell up and get off the internet. She's honestly in a league of her own. So glad Bill Burr spotted her obvious talent and downright insane energy and got her out there for the world to see. I mean, I think the first time I saw her perform on one of Burr's specials - she was doing some sort of bit with the gravelly man voice and gremlin waddle - I literally spewed my drink. She might be my spirit animal. Shine on you crazy diamond! And come perform in Asheville, NC!
Shockingly bad. So many questions - so many plot holes. Not scary, just bizarre. Josh Hartnett (who has played great villains before) is wasted on this. But M. Night Shyamalan? Bro literally made this entire, terribly constructed, movie, just so his daughter could play a superstar in it. I knew something was rotten in Denmark when there was so much focus on the singer. I can't believe he conned everyone into this. He is in desperate need of oversight (ie, he funds his own films and it shows). Props for fatherly love, I guess? But I suspect this will have a negative impact on any career she might have had in film. Shyamalan has hit bottom with this one - super disappointed.