mwbenz
Joined Jan 2007
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Ballard is a total letdown, especially for a Bosch spinoff. This police procedural is loaded with overused tropes gruff detective, shady conspiracy without a damn bit of originality.
It's a cliché pileup. Horrible writing.
The LAPD cold case unit is fake as hell real cops fight tight budgets and red tape, but this show acts like they've got cash to burn and no rules. It's so far from how things work it kills any immersion, turning it into pure drivel. The writing sucks, barely holding together with lazy plots and flat characters. Maggie Q gives it her all as Renee Ballard, but the script drags her down like a bad 90s cop show. The conspiracy arc is predictable, weekly cases are snooze-fest filler. Pacing drags, visuals are meh. It's just background noise for a second monitor when you're bored skip this crap for something better.
It's a cliché pileup. Horrible writing.
The LAPD cold case unit is fake as hell real cops fight tight budgets and red tape, but this show acts like they've got cash to burn and no rules. It's so far from how things work it kills any immersion, turning it into pure drivel. The writing sucks, barely holding together with lazy plots and flat characters. Maggie Q gives it her all as Renee Ballard, but the script drags her down like a bad 90s cop show. The conspiracy arc is predictable, weekly cases are snooze-fest filler. Pacing drags, visuals are meh. It's just background noise for a second monitor when you're bored skip this crap for something better.
It's slow. It doesn't create much mystery. It's about rocks and PTSD with very few Sci-Fi elements besides the setting. Most the dialogue is weak/pursuit/chase dialogue and very little nuanced sci-fi fun.
Quite honestly, for MGM+, this is a huge disappointment. I cannot watch it without fast-forwarding through 1/2 of it because of how slow it is. Not holding tension, not really holding much.
Great VFX though for a TV series which is nice.
It's a plot that entails a lone beacon in the depths of space, not reachable without special laneways.
Doesn't even explain the ship crash in the opening scene of the series that sets up the whole plot of this show and why it happened.
Many many plotholes.
Again, it's fun as background TV, but this is not something you're tuning into weekly and can't miss.
Quite honestly, for MGM+, this is a huge disappointment. I cannot watch it without fast-forwarding through 1/2 of it because of how slow it is. Not holding tension, not really holding much.
Great VFX though for a TV series which is nice.
It's a plot that entails a lone beacon in the depths of space, not reachable without special laneways.
Doesn't even explain the ship crash in the opening scene of the series that sets up the whole plot of this show and why it happened.
Many many plotholes.
Again, it's fun as background TV, but this is not something you're tuning into weekly and can't miss.
First small bar in a small town has about 50 glass mugs... Not common/very rare in 1886 especially in USA.
These little things pull you from reality.
It's good, phenomenal acting, but many little historical inaccuracies.
Sets are good, casting is good. Writing is purposefully bositerous to help push a narrative, but it leans towards fun and realistic, for the most part.
Lots of authentic moments that make it fun, however, the small blurps of fanaticism take away from that authenticity, making it just trying to score those "big moments" with little payoff.
All in all, worth the watch but definitely hard for picky people like me that like things historically accurate.
These little things pull you from reality.
It's good, phenomenal acting, but many little historical inaccuracies.
Sets are good, casting is good. Writing is purposefully bositerous to help push a narrative, but it leans towards fun and realistic, for the most part.
Lots of authentic moments that make it fun, however, the small blurps of fanaticism take away from that authenticity, making it just trying to score those "big moments" with little payoff.
All in all, worth the watch but definitely hard for picky people like me that like things historically accurate.