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The Curse of Oak Island (2014)
Another Fake Scripted Gold Hunter Show
This show is absolute drivel. Take an urban myth and every week do a show finding nothing. All the items the crew bury are wait for it ..... Knights Templar Treasure.
Worst of all the story is so utterly flimsy, pirates bury treasure and spend millions of pounds and hundreds of years building a deep vertical tunnel, shame on the terrible actors and the crappy writers.
The only amazing fact is these fakers managed to make so many seasons. Nothing has been found or will be.
Vikings (2013)
One Viking Is Able To Kill 100 Without So Much As A Scratch
The acting can't be faulted, everything else can. The Viking warriors are clearly built by Cyberdynne Industries, no matter how hard you try you can't kill them. All Saxons, Gauls and Arabs are so pitifully weak you'd find it hard to believe they had the strength to breath let alone walk.
As well as all Norse being invincible and superhuman they possess a much higher level of intelligence and tactics then their feeble foe. I don't understand why they haven't conquered the known world, had 1 Viking from this series fought at Thermopylae the 300 Spartans would have all survived, not a single Persian would have survived, just one Viking would have destroyed the combined Roman Legions.
The clothing, armour and weaponary are fantasy from a great range of ages, mostly from many hundreds years after these events.
It must have been a very boring life being a Viking as life must have been with challenges, even starvation and plagues can't kill these characters.
Real events were far more challenging hence sagas, well done Hollywood you've destroyed yet more history, one redeeming feature is there aren't any navy seals saving the world for once.
No Offence (2015)
One of those that you need to watch multiple times to get everything
Bad luck on my part as I rewatched Utopia a week ago, a few Utopian actors in this stellar cast so struggling to keep focussed. Third well deserved series, when channel 4's on form it's great.
Suffragette (2015)
Brilliant
Great film, well acted and surprisingly accurate though not based on an actual individual freedom fighter but an amalgamation of various heroines.
Sadly women's suffrage has been widely ignored in education which is a great pity as these women were lionesses who in ancient history would have been feisty Spartan mothers. From the little I know about the torture, humiliation and brutality used against the Suffragettes this film captures some of the awful abominations like being force feeding nasally whilst on hunger strike. This happened and I was privileged enough to listen to a veteran Suffragette who was recorded by the BBC in the 60's or 70's describe her own experiences and the impact of torture physically and mentally she bore for her remaining years.
I respect the Suffragettes in the same way I respect all abused groups who sacrifice everything for liberty at great cost to themselves, perhaps the soldier in me understands courage against overwhelming odds. These great women went on to lose husbands, sons & brothers in the carnage of World War 1 & to some degree in WW2. They helped win if you can call it that both World wars to despite how they were treated, I can't help but feel that that fire and determination was due to the Suffragettes & Suffragists.
People have felt the film drags in places but I would prefer that to an action film. The cast was excellent and the scenery,costumes and sets were as authentic as possible.
Great film now useless vile politicians both male & female build a permanent memorial on the empty plinth to remember the movement.
Hate Thy Neighbour (2016)
A look can paint a thousand words
I wasn't sure if I'd enjoy this series as I'd missed it he first series. Expecting some lame, trendy, tedious Londoner who'd be so portentous . Well it didn't happen, Jamali is a Londoner but surprisingly isn't an arsehole. Proof then that out of 10 million people some are ok.
The show is less intellectual and pious then Louis Theroux, Louis's a serious documentarian whereas Jermali's a stand up comedian.
What I like about the episodes is the openness to engage and interact with the subjects. Jermali is very expressive with his facial expressions which at times are hilarious considering the subject matter. Interspersed within the individual episodes is reflections of the subjects during stand up shows. During the free speech episode he's getting a lot of you look Muslim looks to which he responds during his stand up that he's actually a Buddhist, asks if anyone in the audience is, and mocks the guy for having ego. Realised then he's an intelligent dude who respects his audience enough to let them draw their own conclusions, before that he reminded me of a friend who used to get stoned and join groups like AA, Women against the Israeli Occupation of the Middle East, amnesty international, weavers against knitters, the people's group for concreting nature and use more ozone for better summers just to argue with them.