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Reviews
Lucifer: My Best Fiend's Wedding (2021)
Lucifer has lost it
This episode repeated the mistake of the previous episode by pandering to the 'social justice' hysteria currently ruining young minds and hitherto respected productions.
It is possible to deal with issues such as corrupt police and domestic abuse intelligently and when you do the audience will usually be carried along with the story. However, this and the prior episode were evidently written by immature and under-educated children (note: 'toxic masculinity' is not a psychiatric diagnosis and there are not 'thousands' of racial miscarriages of justice every day) and they do not deserve the attention that your viewership confers. With that in mind I refuse to watch the remaining episodes of this series. Treat your viewers like idiots and they will treat you with contempt.
Lucifer: A Lot Dirtier Than That (2021)
Lucifer becomes preacher
So far this series shows little in the way of purpose or direction but it had retained some element of what made this show popular - i.e. The humour.
However, it's clumsy attempt to tackle social issues in this episode failed badly. This is because the people who write the scripts for TV production companies tend to have very little knowledge about those social issues and rarely have direct experience themselves, so they get things badly wrong. This leads to hackneyed lines like 'we give them (i.e. Black people) thousands of reasons to mistrust us (i.e. The police) every day'. Anyone familiar with statistics on this issue will understand how absurd lines like this are.
And the key point here is that Lucifer is probably the last programme that should elicit this kind of feedback & response. It's supposed to be light hearted, frivolous and just a little bit bawdy.
Spy in the Wild: The Tropics (2020)
Antagonised animals and amateur animatronics
The title of this documentary suggests that what we should expect are disguised and discrete cameras, capturing intimate footage of animal behaviours
Whilst there is indeed a lot of excellent footage, very little of this appears to originate from the 'spy' cameras.
The only value (and I use that term loosely) from the spy cameras comes from interactions between the animals and the animatronics. In other words, we have a form of zoological 'candid camera' which is ethically dubious (elsewhere, cameramen have been criticised for interfering with nature) and leaves one to ask what the purpose of the documentary is.
At least in part, the aim seems to be to show off the latest 'puppets' that the crew have put together and whilst the artistry of the models is perfectly respectable, the robotics themselves are rather amateurish when compared with the state-of-the-art achieved elsewhere.
The War of the Worlds (2019)
I'm with the martians
Having wasted 3 hours watching this awful series, I'm loathe to spend more time reviewing it, so I'll be brief:
Not so much an adaptation as a decapitation.
Hammy acting.
Tainted by BBC's relentless obsession with identity politics.
Not very coherent narrative.
All of which made for a rather dull and irritating rendition of a much lived classic.