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The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon: Alouette (2023)
Man, the Plot Armor is THICK
So obviously the show just started and we don't know how it'll turn out in the end or what they're trying to do here just yet, but so far it is just...odd.
I'm surprised they went the route of finding a religious convent situation where the people believe a baby born from a woman who turned walker mid-delivery is somehow a miraculous messiah. Always an odd take in these apocalyptic storylines.
Then the use of medieval - 18th century weapons is another oddity. I mean I get it; 10+ years into the apocalypse and it'll be hard to find ammo, but they learned how to use muzzle loading rifles/pistols without YouTube? Interesting.
Finally, the plot armor...Daryl falls 15 feet from a bridge and into a crowd of walkers. Any other time this happens the person is immediately dinner, but when it's a main character it's no big deal. All the walkers beneath him fall over and leave plenty of room for him to get up and handle them one at a time. They don't swarm in on all sides like they do everyone else, leaving him to easily slap them with a mace and not be in danger.
And I also find it hard to believe that one guy would've held onto his patriotism this long into the apocalypse. "I'm an American!" Over and over was just stupid.
And lastly, the group of kids with their chanting call. Why is there always some weird stuff like this in all these shows? They can't just be normal; gotta make strange noises and such. I don't know.
Anyway. We'll see where this goes but so far it's just more of the same.
Justified: City Primeval: Adios (2023)
How?
So they get Clint in cuffs and he's asked "Why'd you kill the judge and girl?" And he replies "...does it matter?"....Does that NOT imply he did kill them and as such could be held for that? I mean wow. Idk if that's poor writing or what but that's kind of annoying.
Other than it was fine I guess (just filling words now). Villain is kinda lame. No where near likeable as Boyd Crowder was (surprising to say). This dude is just a low life thief who's just annoying.
I love original Justified and am all for bringing the characters back but aside from Raylan this one kind of falls flat. Hopefully the end of the season brings about a good ending.
Knock at the Cabin (2023)
It was fine, but not what I expected.
I liked the acting for the most part, as well as just about everything else (cinematography, direction, etc). I guess just in the end a few minutes before the credits started I found myself scratching my head. Not because I didn't get it, but because it did not go how I thought it would.
I've seen most of his movies so as I was watching this near the end I kept saying to myself, "Okay, M Night...Where's the twist?" And it never came. I guess he just wanted to do something more straight forward for once, but I was just hoping for more of the same in a new light than this.
I was kind of expecting more of an ending similar to The Village, where reality is far from how the main story seems to be. Thinking maybe someone gets killed only for it to truly be a hoax or scam and everything is fine in reality. Definitely not expecting the "Yep, it's God. He's real and the apocalypse was stopped" storyline.
Oh well. Enjoyed it otherwise, just don't expect a typical M Night movie resolution.
Hijack: Final Call (2023)
Just...Hope it makes sense later
So all it took was one threat to have the experienced, well trained captain open the door? Great. Now instead of the stewardess dying you all can die and then some, right? He just goes from "We can't open the door" to "I'll open the door" all because the gunman said he knows about the affair. Makes 100000000% sense. Sure they'd kill all passengers but even that loss of life would be small in comparison to what they could do with the plane itself (Do I really need to mention 9/11? Well...I guess I just did.)
I hope the story has a deeper connection relating to the captain as episodes go on but I have a feeling it won't. That scene really killed this for me. Oh well. We'll see what happens I guess.
Fear the Walking Dead: Remember What They Took from You (2023)
Just..Wow
Does anyone else feel like a final season for a declining show is like a waiter/waitress that knows they're getting no tip so they dgaf how they do with the table? It just seems like they went "We haven't done well lately and AMC gave us one more season so what difference does it make? Why try to improve when it's ending anyway?"
How many times are we going to watch Morgan go from badass to most annoying? It's like every time there's a new season Morgan is doing a complete 180 on his character. One season he's walking around saying "clear", then not wanting to kill anyone, then killing everyone, then hating padre, then believing in padre...
You bring back Madison just to make her some kidnapper, and bring her back WITHOUT letting her and Alicia reunite. Like WHAT?! I'm still not over that.
I know it's only the 1st episode and I hope they really redeem this story somehow but it seems like they already knew they weren't getting a tip so, why bother...
The Conners: What's So Funny About Peas, Love and Understanding? (2023)
Not So Sure About Messaging Here...
This is mostly regarding the decision Darlene made for Mark's education. I get the message about how expensive college tuition is today, as well as how parents throughout history have made tough sacrifices for their children, but I feel like this didn't have to be the black & white decision it was. Ruling out community college was odd reasoning as it ruled out how helpful it really can be, as well as teach Mark about having to make his own tough decisions. I also feel like most parents out there would not have made the decision Darlene did, so I'm not sure how it was supposed to be considered smart as they portrayed it.
Yellowstone (2018)
Declining
I started watching this show because I'm a Kevin Costner fan and believe he signs up to do good movies and shows (for the most part). The first few seasons got me hooked as I didn't start watching until Season 3 was on the air so I binged through them. When season 4 and then 5 came, I noticed it started to decline.
What you get with each episode now is 70% scenery and b-roll, 20% filler and 10% story. The constant shots of country scenery and b-roll of all the cowboys and cowgirls wearing their cowboy boots and hats dancing to country music is what most of the recent episodes depict. It's essentially cowboy porn. We all know exactly which type of people this stuff is meant to attract and they milk it for all it's worth at the expense of good storytelling.
The drama needs to be toned down. The stuff between Jamie and Beth is just too much and needs to end. Either kiss and make up or one end up dead. Many of us are tired of it. Beth needs to come back to earth a bit as her character has gone way off the deep end. And they're really milking the Jamie storyline. Will he betray his family or support them? I guess we'll never know as they just keep kicking that can down the road.
Also, the woman playing Angela (at odds with the tribal chairman) needs to tone it way down too. Every time she comes on it's almost unbearable to watch. Things like this in addition to very simplistic, soap opera level writing make watching the latest episodes more difficult.
It's also just gotten a bit much with the action. I mean that in the sense of how do these people survive multiple gunshot wounds and explosions all the time? It's getting to a point where the viewer will stop worrying about the main characters dying as they have ridiculous plot armor all the time.
If it could just come back to reality a bit more and focus on the storytelling instead of "country is the only way of life now watch these cows get branded" all the time, it would be back to its season 1-3 draw.
Five Days at Memorial (2022)
Great Show About A Terrible Situation
This show was a great portrayal of a terrible event. It's unfortunate that all those deaths were essentially chalked up to being footnotes regarding hurricane emergency response. It was such a great point that all those people essentially survived with little care for the first few days and all suddenly happened to die on the same day. Pretty suspicious if you ask me. There's no guarantee any of those patients would've died if left behind seeing as a doc would just have to say "there are still living patients we can't move" and those officials would've likely done something. Gives the people a chance instead of just being like "Well you could die so I'll just make it easier." I'm totally not in Anna Pou's corner (or anyone that helped her) and hope when their time comes they receive no such help and have to endure it all. Harsh? Sure. But since they're off the hook due to "oversight", then I don't care.
As far as the show, for the most part it was great. Their message was clear and not really unbiased as I'm sure most viewers were upset with the outcome. The CGI was fantastic. One issue was that Vera started the show in the first episode with a strong accent for Anna that essentially disappeared as quickly as it arrived so that was kind of annoying from a character standpoint.
Blue Bloods: Risk Management (2018)
Good Except for One Thing
Like most episodes this one is fine, however one thing that bothered me was when Danny did the classic "bad cop" routine in the interview room and actually threatened the guy/threw him around making all kinds of noise that should've easily gotten him in trouble (including getting the case thrown out). The show always seemed to make a big deal about cops, particularly anyone in the Reagan family, going by the book or at least walking the line, not full on going over it like Danny did (which got him in trouble in the very first episode of the show). The writers should have come up with a clever way to get to that girl without compromising their usual stance on police conduct.