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The Orville: Electric Sheep (2022)
Eh, it wasn't bad, but...
Isaac's eyes are too high on his head. It's a small thing that's bothered me from the first episode. I even tweeted Seth Mcfarlane about it. I can handle it, but I really wish they'd fix it.
Utopia (2020)
Darkly funny & overwhelmingly brutal
My main reason for writing this review is this: fans of the original need to get over it. Rating this series low simply because of your nostalgic love of the original does no one any good. Give those of us who've never seen it a chance to enjoy this version, and maybe petition the BBC to release the original so we CAN see it. This is just like those that griped about the Office: no, the first 2 seasons of the US version weren't as good, but over time, it became its own show and in the end was a better series in many ways. Judge things on their own merit. No need to tear down one to make another look better. You're not high school girls.
That being said, I've only watched the first four episodes thus far, but I like what I've seen. It's funny, dramatic, brutal & mysterious. My only major gripes with the show so far is the Jessica Hyde character isn't a very sympathetic hero (although I'm sure that changes) and Jessica Rothe is only in it for one and a half episodes. I like the way mystery is unfolding, but I would like a chance to examine the pages of Utopia & Dystopia myself, just to get a better idea if what the characters are seeing/talking about.
The Accused (1988)
Foster is superb, the film is pretty subpar.
5 stars because Foster is great, but the film itself is pretty movie-of-the-weekish, with the obvious exception of the very hard-to-watch gang rape scene. Perhaps it just hasn't aged well. I don't know.
But this isn't why I write this review. I'm writing this just to state the defense attorney's final summation is quite possibly the worst closing argument I've ever heard in a movie or TV show. He literally says, "If you believe the main witness, convict. If not, acquit." That's the entire point of the testimony! His job is to convince the jury WHY they shouldn't believe him! He gives no reason for them to not believe him. The prosecutor gives them more reason to doubt than he does! The other lawyers on his team should've been completely up-in-arms! Who wrote this?! If this had been a real case, he'd have been disbarred.