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Daybreak (2019)
Starts with promise but crashes hard
This show starts with promise of being a revisionist/parody mashup of the apocalypse, YA, and HS genres but about half way through devolves into a bad teen drama with interesting set dressing. I would only recommend this series to those who are die hard fans of the HS drama series and watch for the clamminess. This series is just a big clam wrapped in a little apocalypse goo. The final nail in the coffin for this show is the last four or so episodes are heavy handed preaching, and they pretty much give up on story telling.
The Monster (2016)
Lost potential
This movie had a lot of potential going in, very classic monster movie feel. The relationship between the mother and daughter has great character dynamic as well. However, everything is basically thrown away in the last act. It's a shame that a lot of talented people did so much apparent hard work to make this movie of good quality, only to have it all trashed by terrible writing in the last act. The movie would have been better had they ended it when the ambulance went off the road. That wouldn't be a great ending but it would be better than the trash they tacked on at the end. The whole monster doesn't like light thing is clamy and not consistent in the movie. The Mom suicide/sacrifice is unmotivated. The girl stopping the monster in midair with an aresol can, is just bad all the way around. The monster can stop a moving ambulance, but aerosol yielded by a little girl is too much for it. Then is the monster made of purely flameable material, because it went up like a bonfire with just a kiss of flame? Really? All this throwing away of a good movie for some half baked, backwards message that little girls are empowered to fight the monsters on their own.