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This is a show with no idea what it wants to be (comedy, drama, thriller, etc) and it's not good at anything. The writing is hackneyed, the plot is beyond ridiculous, and the acting is pretty bad all around. Zosia Mamet, in particular, is extremely lucky her father is David Mamet because she is horrible. I suppose Kaley Cuoco plays the main character well, but not great and it's not enough to save a horrid show. The only bright spot is Rosie Perez, and it's a stretch to even say that.

Completely missed the mark. It's a mouthpiece for the subject made by a major fanboy of his on top of essentially being a documentary about making a documentary. There was, maybe, a total of 7 minutes towards the end where they tried to make the point they should've made from the beginning. Not worth the time.

Where to begin? As strictly a movie, forgetting about the social commentaries, it's arguably one of the worst I've seen. Ever. That was clear about 15 minutes in.

The point being made is very clear, however there should still be some story and character development. There was none. The choice to make this simply a "day in the life of" movie really killed any opportunity for development and to draw the viewer in. That's a difficult enough concept to have work even with a good story, good script, and interesting characters. None of which this movie had.

There's so much buzz about Gardener's performance but I fail to see how we can call it a performance. She was convincingly unhappy - not a feat of acting in any way - and had about 8 lines of dialogue. Great job! Give her an award!

I guess visually it was...fine.

Now, to the social commentary. The most glaring to me was the small allusion to Harvey Weinstein. Either make it more of a plot point or just leave it out. That's too big of a situation to barely make note of - and wasn't really done well anyway.

As for the daily harassment, annoyances, lack of respect, sexism, etc.. My wife has been in the music business for 13 years and her first number of years as an assistant, her days were filled with these, as was the main characters. Now, there is most definitely a story to be told there, but to take such serious situations and turn them into mundane everyday occurrences was an injustice.

Supposing the point was to show how these things are everyday occurrences, and to do so somewhat accurately, then that was achieved. Which is why I gave 3 stars. It's just that, like I said, as a movie it is terrible and as a way to shed light on what women face in the film, or any other, industry it was an utter failure.

I believe the point for this movie was to have the social commentary points stick with you, to have the movie stay on your mind. It certainly does, but not in the intended way. It stays with you because it's hard to forget just how bad this movie really is.