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Bridgerton (2020)
Entertaining but leaves a lot to be desired
If you're expecting the wit and chemistry of Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle in Pride & Prejudice, or the anticipation and scandal of the 1995 Sense & Sensibility, you won't find it here. What you will find is a splashy interpretation of these era complete with contemporary music turned into classical and a host of other anachronisms (like garden string lighting?). The writing of the show leaves a lot to be desired.
However, if you take it at face value, it is entertaining and I admit to binging the last three episodes of the second season. I love that they cast diversely and that women play commanding roles. Nicola Coughlan is an Irish national treasure and she deserves all her flowers
However, all of the sexual tension and ab shots of the first season are lost in the second, and there's a drop off in sex scenes. Which may be a loss or a gain depending on what camp you fall out. I myself found myself wanting something a whole lot sexier when the entire internet went bananas over how "sexy" this show is. It's definitely no HBO show. I haven't quite finished season three and if there's no sexy nude scenes with a curvy woman like Nicola, I'm going to lost it hahaha.
This show is incredibly cheesy and leaves a lot to be desired, but if you need respite from your internal world and a show to fold laundry to, this is the one.
The Crown (2016)
Some seasons are great, others are miss
I overall really enjoyed "The Crown". As someone who grew up with a monarchist grandmother, and also someone who is an Indigenous person who's life has been irreversibly impacted by colonization, I felt the series did a good job of being entertaining, creating empathy for the characters at appropriate times, and also being critical and poignant along the way. The first two seasons could be dull, but Princess Margaret's storylines were always interesting. Season 3 and 4 are really the pinnacle of the series. I also enjoyed season 5 and the first half of season 6, with Diana present (the actress who plays her is UNREAL, it was perfection) and the casting for Charles is wonderful. Really, most of the casting choices are just perfection and watching these characters age as different actors is wonderfully done.
While I understand the focus shifts to William (in season 6 part 2) because he will wear "the crown", I felt like the lack of focus of Harry was deliberate and a let down. Of course I have great sympathy for the lack of care he and his wife have received from their family, but it really felt bizarre to leave such a glaring chapter out. The last part of season 6 is a BORE. They are trying to pack too much and it felt much more generous to the royal family than they deserved.
Colonization has been such an atrocity to the world and I wish there would have been more care in mentioning it and pointing it out. No family should be treated as special or appointed by god. That being said it's entertainment, not education. I only hope viewers who are steadfast monarchists will be open to the criticism offered in the show.
Father Christmas Is Back (2021)
So much potential, but just really bad
I decided to sit through this movie even though after the first 20 minutes it became painfully obvious that this movie was going to be terrible. Everything is absurdly overacted by most of the cast (except save the oldest three cast members) and it could be campy, but it wasn't. It's like it attempted to be campy but couldn't find it. The score is terrible, like a Hallmark movie meets a Loonie Toons score. The story isn't great, it has some moments but the resolution was pretty unbelievable (spoiler: you're telling me that if you found out your uncle was your dad in your late twenties/early thirties you wouldn't be upset at all? Just "it's going to be weird calling you dad now"...). It's just really disappointing overall because with a cast this good, it should have been a banger.
I Like Movies (2022)
I didn't turn it off :/
I really really wanted to like this movie, but this movie needs to decide what it wants to be. I feel like a lot of movies can mix dark humour and serious subject matter well, but this one fell flat. It treated serious subject matter dismissively and lacked depth, and the main character was ultimately pretty unlikeable, but not an anti-hero either. I watched it through because I really wanted to see where it was going and it probably could have ended 20-30 minutes earlier than it did. The nostalgia factor of being a teen in the 2000's and the lead female characters (mom and Alana) boost the rating from a 1/10 to a 4/10.
Licorice Pizza (2021)
Why do people love this?
If you're wondering wtf licorice pizza is (it's a vinyl record btw), you'll probably also be wondering "what the hell is happening" throughout the movie. Maybe you have to be from California, but this film started out promising and slowly drifted into dullsville. 4/10 stars because the 70s aesthetic is amazing, the soundtrack is good, and the lead actors have a lot of promise but it's a snoozefest.