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40-Love (2021)
Almost 100% trash
If the studio hired a good screenwriter, and asked that person to write five or six witty scenes, and the scenes were well acted, and then the studio hired the worst screenwriter ever to finish the plot ... the studio would end up with this movie.
And the tennis is awful, the players don't move or hit like professionals at all. When the opponent gets beat, falls and rolls into the net ... its like being at the circus.
Some of the atmospherics around the tennis are realistic. And the male tennis announcer is like the guy from Best in Show, except that otherwise this movie is not trying for Best in Show humor.
And the "special effects" were done by someone with a TRS-80 and about a half hour of budget, and bear no resemblance to anything.
I'll give the actors credit though, they were not the problem. But they were also not the solution.
Salvation (2017)
Predictable characters, pace too fast, but good concept
If this series gets renewed, the writers need to go back to the first couple of episodes and recapture the mojo. By the end the capers were coming fast and furious. Just too fast-paced and increasingly implausible (not that I was really looking for plausible). What's good about this show is that it combines a realistic challenge - threat of an asteroid - with complex character motivations. What's not good is the stale gender roles (she has to be pretty and in an affair with a male lead to have a good part) and the roller coaster ride every episode. Slow it down, try to work your way out of the excessive layers of plots and subplots, and focus on the sci fi question at the heart of the series.