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Masters of the Air (2024)
Tom Hanks made a show
First, production value in terms of scope is amazing. The costuming, scenery, set design, everything is a chef's kiss. The acting is mostly phenomenal except I hate Austin Butler's character. However, I cringe that he's written that way. Tom Hanks and Spielberg CLEARLY made this. The intro is so corny, I'm tempted to turn it off every episode. I have to push through it even if I skip it, just knowing it exists upsets me so much. The music is corny as hell. The day of forcing the audience to feel is over. Stop it. If you only want white boomers to love your show, voila. Also, WW2 is tired!!! Pick a new subject Tom Hanks and Spielberg! Older white men love WW2 so much but these two are obsessed. There are a million movies about it. You've done your part, we get it. Nobody wants to see old rich men playing the same note. Now go enjoy your retirement. You clearly have nothing new left to contribute to filmmaking. You can see the talent did a good job and then these clowns walked in, watched it and screwed things up with their old ideas that used to work on audiences in 1994.
Suits (2011)
Tropes and women characters are written flaaaaaaat and by men
Oh my god, these ratings make no sense! Who is watching this show and rating it so highly? Was this show created by Harvey Weinstein? These poor women actors!!! The clothing is so tight and the lines are so pathetic! The men get all the complexity and the women must support them and admire them. I don't know what I was expecting but this is worse.
Also, the show runners are clearly conservative. "Smoking pot" is a really dramatic deal on this show. My boomer dad says pot.
I can't imagine the pay inequities in the cast but it's all I can think about while I watch this celebration of the patriarchy. Yes, the managing partner is a Back woman but she's still required to wear a full face of makeup, a blowout, tight dresses and high heels. Meanwhile, Megan Markle must deliver these lines that are so frustratingly meek and even her walk is overtly sexual. I feel like I can hear the director telling her to add more hip movements to her walk. It feels like Mad Men but not in a good way. I want to file a lawsuit for taking back the women's movement back 100 years.
Maseukeugeol (2023)
Better Call Saul rip-off
The story is crazy and wild and riveting and cinematically very cool. However, it's as if the director is a huge Vince Gilligan fan and has assumed that the audience for this show hasn't seen his work. At first, I was impressed with the beauty of some of these scenes but it started to seem way too familiar. Once the prison scenes were turned to black and white, it started to anger me. Not only did the storytelling style start to resemble Gilligan's work but also the cinematography style. Of course this show is good. It's just not original.
The acting was really well done for the most part. I still struggle with some of the tropes in Korean cinema, but I think it's built into more cultural based stuff. I also kinda hate seeing the same exact people in all of the movies and shows. Can't they find anyone else? I can't imagine how bad the favoritism and nepotism is in that industry. Its taking away from the quality of the work.
Trying (2020)
It has it's moments
I don't want it to annoy me but this show kind of can't figure out the human condition so it's just flailing. To make matters worse, the theme song is just terrible. I suppose if you like man buns and making kambucha, you might enjoy it but otherwise it is intolerable. One of the main characters, Jason is played very well. Some of the side actors like the social workers are good. However, I just can't get the point of this show. It has its moments but the cohesion is lost.
Is It Cake? (2022)
Has nobody seen SNL?
This show feels like it was pitched as a joke skit and then Mikey Day was just actually offered the job for real. He's in on the joke. This show feels like we're all in a simulation. Just, get stoned and enjoy it for what it is.
Midnight Mass (2021)
Hope you like monologues
Clearly, there were some good writers and there were some writers who had something to prove. Perhaps they were given the assignment to fill episodes with the mind numbing Christian dogma or show off how well they can research random biblical passages and place them into an unnecessarily long monologue (trigger warning for anyone raised in any traumatic American Christian setting would've been nice btw). It was so painful. I felt serious pity for these actors who had to deliver some of these lines. I know some of the actors from other shows and I know how good they are. They did their best but these lines were insane and so out of left field. You'd have an urgent scene but wait, let's make time for a monologue. It was clear they were trying to make you care deeply about each character but some of them, there was simply no need or purpose to it. The actor who played Beverly Keene delivered the lines beautifully but that character had WAY too much screen time. And why? No idea. This could have been condensed into 3 episodes.
Also, was it about demons or vampires? I still don't know. It's a mess. The production was fantastic, thanks Netflix budget. Oh yeah, what's the deal with the missing baby? No explanation? Just gonna skip over it? Cool.