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Manifest (2018)
Don't waste your time
As someone who watched Manifest right to the bitter end (and I do mean bitter), I felt compelled to write a review. Most folks who don't care for a show just stop watching, but for me it felt like a car wreck and I just couldn't look away. The 10/10 reviews and 7.1 overall review make me really concerned about the future of television. This show rinses and repeats the exact same phrases over and over, the same expressions, and the same character tropes (how many evil military ladies can there be?!). Anyway, if you're interested in time travel watch Dark, if you're interested in symbology and religion, watch Da Vinci Code. There are so many better shows to watch, don't waste your time with this drivel.
Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off (2022)
You don't have to know skateboarding to appreciate this doc
Caught about 90% of this movie while my husband was watching it. I know who Tony Hawk is but that's all I knew going in. Don't know skateboarding, don't know the history, and don't know a thing about Tony's life. This was an excellent doc that told an incredible (and devastating) story. As a therapist, I hope those men have good ones.
Dexter: New Blood: Sins of the Father (2022)
If this ending "didn't make sense," you're not getting it.
I get it, Dexter is the always-cool bad-boy who channels his anger in a way that benefits society, that's his game. As men, anger is the only emotion that society has deemed acceptable to express, but how to do it?? Society also doesn't appreciate how you express your anger. Then you meet Dexter. He has dark thoughts too, rising anger that he's just not sure what to do with, until he's shown a path. Now, you can watch him channel his anger in a way that you only dream of. It's a sweet release to watch, in any case. But there's another part of Dexter that is alluded to: his emotions. For many seasons he has lamented his inability to feel. But other times, we see that this isn't quite true. Surely his dead sister wouldn't "haunt" him unless he was experiencing guilt, right? Emotion. How about fear for Rita? Also an emotion. What's this with Harrison? He's willing to discard his whole code to be. With. His. Son. Sure seems emotional to me... maybe love?? Here's the deal guys, you thought the point of Dexter was that he was devoid of all these emotions that you wish you didn't have to feel either, but that's just not how humans work, sorry.
It's a fitting end to Dexter's arc (though he still had his son kill him instead of killing himself, so he still had work to do). Jack Alcott was excellent and I am looking forward to seeing what he does next.
The Guilty (2021)
This is not a movie about police brutality
This is a movie about the polarity/duality of people. About how we can both hate/resent/fear deeply at the same time as we love/care for/nurture. It's about people, all people, being neither good nor bad, but both at once. It's about the inaccessibility of healthcare (mental health is healthcare) for those with low socioeconomic status and for those in certain professions. It's about the realities of PTSD. It also references police brutality, yes, but that is not what the movie is about.
It is also probably one of the more clever covid movies I've seen, in terms of how they handled really only having one on screen character.
Big Mouth: A Very Special 9/11 Episode (2020)
On point
Wish I had seen this in middle school. Not that I would've learned anything
Tenet (2020)
Just because it's Nolan, doesn't mean it's good.
If watching Dark was too hard to follow and you found yourself wishing the characters would say a lot of meaningless words at hyperspeed and were wondering "what if the army was more involved here??" then Tenet is the movie for you!
Like the Irishman, Tenet's backbone is it's director, the rest, it seems, they felt would fall into place naturally. So what the audience gets is unbelievably cheesy writing, poor sound mixing, and no character development or history to make one care about anything. The effort just isn't here.
3 stars because some of the visual effects were pleasing to look at and build up in some scenes was good, despite lack of payoff. Would not sit another 2.5 hours for this sloppy film.
Middleditch & Schwartz: Dream Job (2020)
Unbelievably funny
I haven't laughed this hard in I don't know how long. This episode was spot on