rabbitfish63
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We've only watched the first season so far, but we love it.
This show is extremely well structured, written, and edited. Every episode carries you along with great confidence. This is a show that is obviously aimed at kids, but we enjoyed it as well. Even when we were seeing things we are already familiar with, like the lifecycle of the monarch butterfly, the intimacy of the cameras, the details were all a revelation.
It is completely incomprehensible to me how people didn't enjoy Awkwafina's narration which was funny and sweet. The writers gave her some corny lines, and she pulled them off beautifully by not overselling.
This show is extremely well structured, written, and edited. Every episode carries you along with great confidence. This is a show that is obviously aimed at kids, but we enjoyed it as well. Even when we were seeing things we are already familiar with, like the lifecycle of the monarch butterfly, the intimacy of the cameras, the details were all a revelation.
It is completely incomprehensible to me how people didn't enjoy Awkwafina's narration which was funny and sweet. The writers gave her some corny lines, and she pulled them off beautifully by not overselling.
I watched some footage of the actual Cassandro after we finished the movie, and it showed just how tame and bloodless this movie was. Why was Gael locked into this one bad haircut when Cassandro had great, grand hair?
This tameness also brings the storytelling down to a very banal level; the love story, the career rise-nothing felt like it had any real stakes. Only the relationship between Saúl and his mother raised this by-the-numbers biopic above the snooze-level.
I'm glad to have learned of this fascinating world of Lucha Libre and this interesting corner of queer culture, the Exoticas, but it could have been so much more fun.
This tameness also brings the storytelling down to a very banal level; the love story, the career rise-nothing felt like it had any real stakes. Only the relationship between Saúl and his mother raised this by-the-numbers biopic above the snooze-level.
I'm glad to have learned of this fascinating world of Lucha Libre and this interesting corner of queer culture, the Exoticas, but it could have been so much more fun.
You can tell Stephen Moffat and crew were very pleased with themselves when they came up with the concept. Trouble is, they weren't smart enough to realize they don't know how to write mysteries.
There are two halves to this show... David Tennant as the possible murderer in England, and Stanley Tucci as the death row detective in America. The England part is... pretty good? But Tucci's detective set-ups and resolutions are laughably unrealistic. You can poke holes in his "detective work" in two seconds.
The show just feels cutesy. There's a potential interesting story with the (possible) murderer being a good man who thinks he can remain good. The show could have been about that and left the Tucci character on the cutting room floor. Good actors wasted.
There are two halves to this show... David Tennant as the possible murderer in England, and Stanley Tucci as the death row detective in America. The England part is... pretty good? But Tucci's detective set-ups and resolutions are laughably unrealistic. You can poke holes in his "detective work" in two seconds.
The show just feels cutesy. There's a potential interesting story with the (possible) murderer being a good man who thinks he can remain good. The show could have been about that and left the Tucci character on the cutting room floor. Good actors wasted.