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Sommerdahl (2020)
Very silly
The female lead is a disillusioned wife, who's solution is not appropriate.
The husband acts worse than the most spoilt brat one has ever encountered.
The male best friend is not much better.
The interaction of these three is a pathetic, annoying saga.
The sub-tales unfolding are all right, nothing up to the usual excellent standard of Scandi TV
About the same level as US Network and soap abominations.
Watched whole of first season. Erasing second season, unwatched.
YMMV but I hope not.
The Mosquito Coast (2021)
Apple you must do better
The original movie was great.
This complete rewrite was rubbish.
In line with todays norms high on gratuitous violence, characters were wooden and not fleshed out, storyline completely changed.
It's only resemblance to the original was that the lead was a crazy "McGyver" type.
All in all the only thing worth watching, as it appears Apple realized, was mom in a red bikini in the final episode.
Apple you are supposed to be a high class outfit. Fire the wonder-kin and employ real original story tellers.
Summerland (2020)
At last a film worth watching
With the continuous stream (releases and awards "shows") of depressing "woke" films this is welcome refreshing change.
No poverty stricken, depressing people, places, themes.
Just a story about real people doing real things, living normal lives (well as normal as one can be during a war) with a slight bit of drama and surprise.
Ms Arterton. Gives a lovely performance, she also seems to have been an executive producer of the film, so she is putting her money where her mouth/performance is, clever lady!
Tom Courtenay, as always, doesn't act he just IS the character.
The whole cast is also well chosen and accomplished..
All in all an excellent film to spend a heartwarming hour or so.
Well done to all.
Mary Magdalene (2018)
Everyone is entitled to their own myth
Very interesting and well told story.
Good acting by a well chosen cast.
Since humans began living together in groups, large and small, they have struggled to understand things which happen, around/to them, which are inexplicable to them.
Primarily because, up to that point, nobody else has understood the happenings.
Along come slightly more perceptive beings who see opportunity to gain importance and standing by professing to understand and claiming knowledge, and ability to change/foretell these actions.
Enter all manner of gods and goddesses and wondrous tales.
Within these individual groups all members claim that their particular dieties are the only real ones and all other group's dieties are false.
Most of the well-known myths (religions) hold gods AND goddesses to be equal.
Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Viking,
Only the "Christian" religion, actually the various Popes; all supposedly descendants of the original misogynist Peter' cast males as superior and females as inferior.
The male recorded stories of Jesus recount who stood with him constantly and who was charged with spreading his doctrine, hint her initials were MM
All this was changed by Popes who relegated MM to the role of a prostitute with long hair who cried a lot.
All the Worlds religions have excellent stories and should be viewed and appreciated.
Just don't let anyone persuade you they are true depictions of actual events.
The basis of any religion is a guide to how to live ones life.
However, the leaders of all religions only mission is to control and exploit their fellow men and control, exploit and subjugate women.
In doing so, it also increases their power/influence/wealth,
Make up your own mind about these myths but don't let someone with ulterior motives make it up for you.
Bridgerton (2020)
Unbelievably bad.
So, we have a Duke and a Duchess.
One white one tan.
Deceiving their families and friends.
Firstborn son named A*****
Real or Rubbish, difficult to tell, if one can be bothered.
Real is a ridiculous charade for attention (read money)
Rubbish is well eight hours of ones life squandered.
Miss Austen would be much amused that $Ms and a cast of thousands cannot come even close to her genius, created on a small table in two-up-two-down modest houses.
Netflix, try harder and stop hiring poseurs who's only talent is to pirate and plagiarize their betters.
Even the weather is a phony.
The Queen's Gambit (2020)
Read between the lines
The Queen's Gambit
An extremely well done series.
It is designed to draw one in and binge watch to find out how well she succeeds with the seemingly stacked deck against her.
Of course, it is all propaganda.
Beth is a liar, thief, drunk, drug addict, user of others to her own ends.
Her real mother and her unfortunate upbringing are supposed to elicit sympathy for her poor behavior, personal responsibility is never addressed.
All the old childish Spielberg tricks are used.
The Goodies (US) are bathed in bright light, dressed in pastels with Rockwellian behavior., all pulling for the team with implicit trust in the Captain and generally good sorts.
The baddies (USSR, once a Red always a Red) are in darkness, dressed in black, or like extras straight off the set of Dr. Zhivago, surly, bad tempered and distrustful of their aggressive leaders.
The overall impression is that the goodies know how to succeed and have a good time whilst doing it but the baddies can only lose.
Whereas, due to the US Governments decades of misappropriation and misdirection of infrastructure spending the reality of the dystopian decaying wasteland is actually America.
The fact that only 20% of Americans actually hold a passport, considering there is nothing worthwhile to the left/right/top/bottom of the promised land, helps immensely in furthering their isolationist belief in their superiority and acceptance of this type of brainwashing propaganda.
The lead actress was very good as were most of the supporting cast.
YMMV
Young Wallander (2020)
For Profit TV (and everything else)
Talented people write stories
Talented directors/actors/studios turn them into watchable experiences.
Less talented (if they were talented they would create ORIGINAL experiences) try to cash-in with minimal effort and create rubbish!
If you want to see the original EU offerings get yourself a cheap subscription to "MHzChoice" and enjoy all of them in their original old/stylish/original language/multiple series glory.
One does have to be able to read (sub titles), however could be a drawback for some latecomers to what was good television..
Usual disclaimers.
Just old, grumpy and still sad no one was able to help Johanna Sällström (the original Linda Wallander)