aarpcats
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Before you watch this movie, look at the interview that inspired it. Letorneau is fresh out of a psychiatrist hospital, and CLEARLY has not yet adjusted to her medications. Fualaau, who for what appears to be the first time, finally understands that he was the victim of an adult predator. Not only does he understand that he has been victimized, but he understands that he is married to his abuser and has children with her.
Does a man child's pain sound like fodder for a black comedy to you?!?! Me, neither.
The actors in this movie are terrific. In the right hands, they might have been part of a good movie. However, this is not a good movie. It's a gimmicky attempt to milk one more buck out of a tragedy.
I found it distasteful. I think it revictimizes the victim.
Does a man child's pain sound like fodder for a black comedy to you?!?! Me, neither.
The actors in this movie are terrific. In the right hands, they might have been part of a good movie. However, this is not a good movie. It's a gimmicky attempt to milk one more buck out of a tragedy.
I found it distasteful. I think it revictimizes the victim.
High school is indeed hell on earth. Most of us only have to spent four years there. Imagine the horror of the four years becoming eternity!
On the surface, this series is one more supernatural teen drama churned out by Netflix for the TikTok generation. The impossibly attractive cast of twenty to thirty year olds don't look like teenagers, the script is redundant and predictable, and every character is a trope that has wandered in from another supernatural teen drama.
What sets this series apart is the writing. The writers stubbornly resist the urge to have any character be all good or all bad. They rely instead on the Jungian idea that characters (and people) are motivated by "shadows."
The shadow is the part of personality that is repressed by our conscious selves. We hide it from ourselves, but the people around us see it come out in our self defeating actions.
In this case, our heroine, Maddie, has a boyfriend who loves her, a bright future at Northwestern, and two ride or die friends who adore her. However, in the dark basement of her high school, Maddie loses everything,
The mystery here is an actual mystery. The characters are likable and interesting. The story is sadly familiar to everyone who has lived with an alcoholic, and the ending is intriguing.
Watch it. You'll like it.
On the surface, this series is one more supernatural teen drama churned out by Netflix for the TikTok generation. The impossibly attractive cast of twenty to thirty year olds don't look like teenagers, the script is redundant and predictable, and every character is a trope that has wandered in from another supernatural teen drama.
What sets this series apart is the writing. The writers stubbornly resist the urge to have any character be all good or all bad. They rely instead on the Jungian idea that characters (and people) are motivated by "shadows."
The shadow is the part of personality that is repressed by our conscious selves. We hide it from ourselves, but the people around us see it come out in our self defeating actions.
In this case, our heroine, Maddie, has a boyfriend who loves her, a bright future at Northwestern, and two ride or die friends who adore her. However, in the dark basement of her high school, Maddie loses everything,
The mystery here is an actual mystery. The characters are likable and interesting. The story is sadly familiar to everyone who has lived with an alcoholic, and the ending is intriguing.
Watch it. You'll like it.
Losers tend to be full of themselves, but what sets Amy apart is just how full of herself she was. She needed drugs, alcohol and colloidal silver, not food and water like normal people. She was a very sick girl.
Sick people attract people as sick as they are, and Amy collected a dozen of them. Together they didn't try to feed the hungry or clothe the poor. They got high, had sex, abandoned their children, and scammed people out of money with snake oil remedies.
These people were imbeciles, junkies, felons and fools. They needed psychiatric help, and, instead, got drunk and took drugs. The result was the stupidity you would expect, but at least this cult didn't kill Sharon Tate. That's about the only good thing to say about them.
My heart goes out to both the families of these people, and to the people of Crestone, who had to put up with them.
Sick people attract people as sick as they are, and Amy collected a dozen of them. Together they didn't try to feed the hungry or clothe the poor. They got high, had sex, abandoned their children, and scammed people out of money with snake oil remedies.
These people were imbeciles, junkies, felons and fools. They needed psychiatric help, and, instead, got drunk and took drugs. The result was the stupidity you would expect, but at least this cult didn't kill Sharon Tate. That's about the only good thing to say about them.
My heart goes out to both the families of these people, and to the people of Crestone, who had to put up with them.