MongoLloyd

The the title sequence is really all you need to know about this film. I probably would have walked out of a theater if I even had the poor taste to pay for a ticket to see this. It's not a bad premise for a movie, and Wright and Washington of course are great actors, but in typical Spike Lee fashion, the score is overwhelming and out of place in pretty much all these scenes. His sense of what's appropriate for movie scores is totally whack, and his annoying promotion of the dirtiest, most disgusting city on Earth, New York, is cringey af.

I suppose every established filmmaker gets to a point where they just want to forget everything they learned about making commercially successful movies and go off some artistic deep end with a "personal project." That's what this feels like. Margaret Qualley, I'm sorry, is just not lead material, so there's that. And what is the point of casting Plaza as some kind of serious character and totally neglecting her comedic strengths? And a private investigator in a town that looks like it has only three gas stations, really?

I tried watching the first season and just ended up scrubbing through most of it until I gave up after realizing what was going on. Nothing. This show takes the concept of character development to obscene lengths, giving us sub plots as plots and plot as subplot. The title should be "Invasion Or Nah?"