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Sister Obsession (2023)
Missed opportunity for amazing story
OMG this lifetime movie could have been so good. I love lifetime movies, but this one was truly disappointing.
(1) It took me three days to get through the first hour of this film, which is unusual for me. The first hour was so boring, post the child kidnapping that was never resolved. I kept waiting for something to happen, but there was nothing that was able to get my attention. A stalker, overbearing sister, who has sex with random men in a bar.
(2) The sex scenes in the bar were pointless, added nothing to the plot, and were somewhat disturbing. Is she a sex addict that she needs to meet randoms for sex? I believe every scene in a movie should have a purpose in advancing the plot and as such this scene should have been cut out and replaced with important scenes the movie never shows (e.g., the three girls murders and conclusion to child kidnapping). .. Honestly, no one has sex in bars, where people can walk in on them having sex. A bar is not going to have a hallway for people to go have sex in privacy with the doors locked. At least make it a strip club with a private room or bathroom where they can lock the door to make it realistic.
(3) The beginning 5-minutes was gripping. I was so curious about the outcome of the child's kidnapping and so disappointed when there was no conclusion to that story. We know they visit her grave and someone took her, but that is it. I was hoping the serial killer killed the little girl, but no.
(4) We learn nothing about the other girls' murders. I suspect the movie was low budget, so they did not want to bring additional actors to play the three girls that were murdered, but that would have been more interesting than watching Maddie have sex with random men, stalk and annoy her little sister.
In the end, the movie is about a sex addict named Maddie who uses a random man she met online for sex. She nearly gets her sex man killed and actually gets her male colleague killed for information about her sister's boyfriend who she stalks like a psychopath with no life.
(5) Too many wasted scenes of boring dialogue. It took me three days to watch the movie. We never get closure to what happened to their little sister.
Sanctuary: A Witch's Tale (2024)
Show started strong, but then episode 6
Update: the final episode is good and the outcome was unexpected, surprising. I liked the show overall, apart from episode 6.
Old post:
The show had a strong beginning and kept me focused.
While the show began strong, by episode 7, it sadly became unwatchable. There are too many unlikeable characters that are taking center stage (e.g., the intolerable hypermasculine police officer who breaches the black woman police officer's professional boundaries and Sara's sociopathic female friend). The scenes started becoming redundant. For someone dealing with depression, watching the same scene over and over again -- tokenizing, othering and slandering someone in a town hall meeting -- does not work. It just makes you angry, exhausted.
Watching a psychopathic professor murder and torture a teenage boy in a hospital to get his parents to exact revenge on a witch that he believes killed his child - the same witch who resurrected his child 10 years earlier - when he has no proof a witch was ever involved in his child's death and a death that someone with a PhD should have presumed was accidental is frustrating.
The Salem witch trials occurred by people who were uneducated, irrational, and religious. Religion has always led to murder, persecution, and oppression, especially of women. In England, widowed women were burned at the stake, accused of witch craft, as women could not own property.
I watched the trailer for episode 7 and it was too depressing to finish watching episode 6. They are going to hang a rape victim and her mother... There are too many unlikeable characters that should be in prison but are not. The male police officer with his ego and mansplaining should have been fired for disrespecting and bullying someone in a higher position than him.
True Detective: The Long Bright Dark (2014)
Boring premier, slow and monotone voices of characters
For such a highly proclaimed mini-series, the opening episode of "True Detective" is extremely poorly paced and profoundly muddled in the development of the action. The voices of the actors are monotone, boring, like you would be listening to preacher. These men don't even sound like detectives. When the one officer says "i am begging you to shut the f%%% up," in the car, I am begging the same thing. I cannot keep watching. It is slow torture. It is like someone drunk or high on marijuana just keeps talking to hear himself talk. It is painstaking to listen to him talk.
I agree with another who said the telescoping of the action through flashbacks slows the film and detracts from the drama.
Much of the film content is unpleasant, as the two detectives seek to understand the satanic killing of Dora Kelly Lange, age 28.
A disappointing premiere episode!
Crowdsource Murder (2024)
Basketball player who breaks a leg running by herself with a ball
I am 10-minutes into the movie and already thinking of turning it off. The male actor (father figure) looks like a model, but has zero acting skills. He ends up dead very quickly, so we do not see much of him.
The conversations between the two women (lead actress and her friend) always appear contrived.
The girl is this amazing basketball player, but fractured her ankle by herself on a basketball court. I mean, she has to be the worst basketball player I had ever seen. She has no athletic skills. She cannot even dribble a ball by herself on a court without fracturing her ankle. It is like she cannot run without breaking her leg, like she never learned how to walk.
She cannot practice without fracturing her ankle, how can she play real basketball? The mother gets a hospital bill for $25,000, but has no way to pay.
40-minutes in and still boring. The lead actress appears ignorant and selfish. If a man is paying so much money for your child ($30,000), because a sprained ankle is not healing and now requires surgery, he obviously wants something in return. Ever hear of the concept of reciprocity?? She tries to turn down the man's request for dinner after he paid over $50,000 for her daughter. She is the most selfish, ungrateful woman in the world.
Expats (2023)
Watch episode 2 first, skip episode 5 or first 30-minutes of episode 5
Update 2 (post last episode): Boring, a show about misery, nothing happens and there is no conclusion. The acting, Nicole Kidman, and cinematography are the only positives. It is a waste of 6-hours.
Update 1: Episode 5 is the worst. More than 30-minutes of dialogue was not even in the English language and served no purpose in advancing the story. Worst episode to date.
Original Post: I could not understand the negative reviews, but I watched episode 2, not episode 1. I am watching episode 1 now and it is long, a lot of emotions that you would not understand without watching episode 2. The reviews for episode 1 make sense without seeing the trailer or episode 2. You need to watch episode 2 to understand what is happening in episode 1. I would have stopped watching this show, if I started with episode 1.
Episode 1 is pretty weird. The son drawing a picture of Jesus, dad being in an English speaking church in HongKong, odd sex scenes, mom taking a bath in a plastic tub in a rundown apartment she is renting secretly, and mom saying they are not religious contradicting the church scene.
She does not know dad attends church or did dad start attending church, because of the tragedy?
There is a lot of artsy fluff like in White Lotus.
I like that Kidman is older than the male actor and he's Asian. It challenges norms and shows that women's careers do not end, because they are in their fifties. That said there is no chemistry between them, but there is no chemistry between any of the heterosexual couplings in the show.
I do not understand all the Kidman hate. She looks gorgeous for her age. She does not move like she did in her 20s, because she is post menopause. Women have less calcium in their bones after 50, so their bones are more fragile, less flexible. She dances like any "older woman," especially taller woman. Her bone structure has nothing to do with botox or plastic surgery, but her age and height; her first full-term pregnancy when she was going into menopause (a miracle pregnancy as her doctor said it was impossible for her to get pregnant) also damaged her bone structure. It is easier for younger women to recover from child birth than older women. She also probably does not eat enough, because in Hollywood she would never be casted, if she had any fat. The only reason there are so many viewers of this poorly paced show is because of Kidman.
Her lips look like they did when she was 20. I am certain she gets botox injections around her eyes as women with her phenotype begin getting wrinkles around the eyes in their thirties, due to having less melanin in the skin. Woman require botox to prevent "crows eyes" (the term used by plastic surgeons) and it is cheaper than eye creams and longer lasting.
I suspect her make-up artist was Asian, did her make-up as if she were Asian, and make-up that works for Chinese or Asian women does not work for white, especially white women with light hair and blue eyes. Her make-up artist indeed made her look like she just recovered from the flu, because she looked so pale. Asian women look good when they paint their skin white (see e.g., memoirs of a geisha). White women look sickly when their skin is that white. Few Asian women use blush, but red heads (Nicole's natural hair colour) need colour via bronzer or blush.
The White Lotus: Arrivederci (2022)
Bad ending to good season
I think this season was better than the first. There were many boring episodes in the first season and I could not stand those two spoiled brats that lacked morals, integrity and a conscience by bullying an autistic youth who was the brother of one of the girls, while the other girl who took advantage of her friend's rich parents. (The one would have been happy if her brother were killed, the other was using her "rich" friend.)
In this season, the two annoying girls are even bigger tramps, as they are prostitutes. Well.. the brunette is the prostitute. Just like in the first season, the blue-eyed blond is more like a closet lesbian. The dark-haired is always the tramp.
The second season episodes connected nicely up until this last episode. It was boring. I kept looking at the time. It dragged instead of filling in the dots.
The season ends with more questions than answers. I hate that they killed off Tanya, my favourite character, and I wish they had told us about what happened with her husband. Did he get her money? He leaves and never returns. They spent so much time repeating the same scenes (Tanya getting high and dancing; fears of infidelity).
We never actually see the kiss to know if what she said was the truth, but are left to assume so. Was a nephew actually having sex with his uncle or was he a hooker? There were too many unknowns and killing Tanya was so pointless. Why? Instead of repeating the same scenes, I would have liked to see her confront her husband or hurt him.
When the female desk worker was being so weird towards the woman manager, complementing her, I too thought she was hitting on her. I could not stand the woman employee after that scene with her stupid Rocco. She was just sucking up to her boss. There was too many scenes with these stupid characters (the lady at the front desk and her boy friend) that added little to the story.
Everyone Else Burns (2023)
It was good up until episode 5
The show is a parody about a family of Jehovah Witnesses. While they never actually say it, it is reasonable to infer that the family are Jehovah's Witnesses, because Jehovah's Witnesses believe we are living in the last days before Armageddon and are known for their door-to-door evangelising.
I do not know why so many people have said the acting/performances were bad. I believe the actors did a fine job playing their parts relative to actors in many lifetime and Tubi movies.
The show was good up until the end of episode 5 where it becomes unrealistic.
(1) When you submit any application, you cannot go back to the website and delete an application. Once it is submitted, there is no changing your mind. The mother logging on to the university's application system to delete her application after the deadline has already passed is implausible and not funny.
(2) Men do not get expelled from any order for engaging in sexual relations with women. They require to describe it in detail in front of elders and repent. In a religion in which women are not allowed to pick their husbands nor be elders, a man would not be kicked out, while a woman be permitted to remain in the religion. Premarital sex is prohibited in many religious sects. I do not like it when movies paint this picture that men will be shunned for engaging in premarital sex when sexual abuse is a problem in these religions that subjugate women. JH women's allegations of sexual abuse are judged by elders (all men). JW men who rape JW women never get expelled from the religion, although they should.
Google Macleans "Against their will" for an article about the sexual abuse of a JW woman by her father and later husband in Canada whom she was forced to marry. Her mother dressed her sexually for her potential suiters.
Some Facts about JH from a website:
Young women require to recount their claims of sexual abuse before both the committee of male elders and the accused.
The Jehovah's Witnesses have been included in the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013-17) and the UK's Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (2017-21).
In 2019, the Ministry of Justice and Safety in the Netherlands also commissioned a report on Jehovah's Witnesses and sexual abuse.
Joe Haladin: The Case of the Missing Sister (2023)
Worst acting I have ever seen
This movie has the worst acting I have ever seen. It is extremely low budget, boring, slow burner. The movie should get an award for worst acting performance. It has some serious miscasting. The minister looks like a male model, not on old man over 20 years older than the 18 year old girl. The actor who plays the minister actually reminds me of the main male character in "Fifty Shades of Grey," but more attractive, built and taller. Violent scenes are played in slow motion with music, because the actors would never have been able to act those parts. The acting was so amateur. I cannot believe people actually described the performances in "to catch a killer" as poor, some reviewers wrote that all the actors were terrible. They need to see this movie to know what a weak actor/actress/poor performance looks like. The actress who plays the rich aunt, her acting was so bad, the actors/actresses corresponding with her were unable to respond to make their performance believable. Do not expect anything good, when you watch this. It is very boring.
Class of '09 (2023)
The bad reviews are right
The show is about FBI agents in an academy, the present (2023) and future 2034. It is so boring and disjointed; it is all over the place. I am six episodes in and still waiting for the show to pick up the pace and for something to happen. It is so incredibly disjointed. There is no story, just drama and conflicts between people. I am watching this because there literally nothing else to watch. This show was filmed because of the writer and actor strike. The networks were desperate for something.
Clearly, due to the actor and writer strike, the writers of this show were novice writers and inexperienced. Experienced writers know how to cut scenes that do not contribute to a show's plot. I think that was a big issue. The writing was convoluted. There was too much focus on character development, too many mini dramas between the characters that took away from the premise of the show.
The actors performed well in my opinion; any weaknesses that others have pointed out resulted from working with a bad script that made little sense to them. Many scenes serve no purpose in advancing the plot and are a waste of time. I am unsure if they were just trying to fill eight episodes, but they could have done that by spending more energy on clarifying the premise of the show. I suspect there was more than one writer and they were not good at working together on a script, which is why the overall plot is lost. The mini plots are individual writer's scripts, making the show one giant disjointed and convoluted mess.
The filming is superb, high budget quality. You can actually see everything when they are filming in a dark room, which, as of late, appears to be an issue in many shows and movies.
What Maisie Knew (2012)
Why did not they send her to boarding school?
The acting in this movie was amazing, filming and casting was excellent. I was interested to see what would happen. It started really well, it showed so much promise, but then it failed to deliver. Nothing really happened. There was no plot.
The movie became unrealistic and fairytale like. I was thinking the girl would be sold to traffickers, because that was more realistic than this ending.
The entire time I was thinking these parents have the means to pay for babysitters and boarding school, if locating babysitters to watch her is such a problem? Why is she in the bar sleeping on the chair by herself, when there are so many options for boarding schools?
Wolf Like Me (2022)
This review is by someone who is difficult to entertain
I have difficulties with concentration, due to a disability, PTSD and depression, so it is hard for me to focus on shows that are boring or that drag. This show is about a werwolf, so I was especially skeptical. However, having watched everything else, I gave in to my recommendations and gave it a shot and was pleasantly surprised. This was one of few new shows that was able to keep my attention and focus off my trauma, which is surprising because I absolutely loath love stories and happy endings. Depression makes it hard to be happy or see happy people.
Two issues:
The spoiled brat daughter kills the mood. You see her in each show nowadays. She is not likeable, funny, or cute. The actress also, in appearance, did not resemble her aunt, deceased mother or living father. Her aunt and both parents have olive-skin, dark hair and eyes, yet the daughter has white skin, blond hair and blue eyes? Was she adopted?
The homicide detectives are investigating the deaths of two men (criminals) that were clearly killed by a wolf. How are the police able to incessantly harass a family for those men's deaths? Is it because the father looks non-white? I cannot think of an alternative explanation for the police getting a warrant to seize their vehicle, when the men were killed by a wolf.
I understand their vehicle was there, but that does not give cops a cause to harass a family.
No judge would could sign a warrant to tow someone's vehicle without probable cause. What was the crime? ...That they were parked in a location where two men were killed by a wild animal.
The men becoming prey to a wild animal is not reasonable cause for cops to harass a family with an expectant mother? The family could sue to police for incessant harassment, stress and inconvenience, even loss of pay. Because the warrant was unlawful, (cops had to lie and make-up a crime to get a judge to sign the warrant) any evidence collected from the car is inadmissible in court.
School Spirits (2023)
Long, boring, no end
I am only writing this review because all the positive reviews made me think it was going to be a good movie. It was completely illogical. I like science fiction, but this show felt very poorly developed. It should have been a two hour movie. The show only got interesting during the last five minutes. The first 30-minutes of the last hour nearly put me to sleep.
Don't watch this show. You will have more questions than answers after the last episode. Nothing was explained. Why could she see the ghost teacher and hear Janet, while no one else?
The main character is not dead. Janet jumps into her body. What was the teacher doing to her? Was he molesting her? Did he blow up the lab on purpose?
Gold Diggers (2023)
Challenges norms
If you are traditional, conservative, upper-class, a male, you will hate this show. If you benefit from current societal arrangements, you will hate this show.
I found it entertaining. It is fantasy, entirely unrealistic in every way possible -- that is what makes it entertaining. Instead of reinforcing stereotypes, like every other show, it challenges them.
The women challenge social norms about femininity, patriarchal values and stereotypes, heteronormativity, drinking, sex before marriage etc.. The women are not "proper women."
The show includes interracial lesbian relations, heterosexual relations.
The show challenges hypermasculinity. Rich men can be gay. It is acceptable for heterosexual men to be sensitive, cry. The police officer is gentle, non-violent, non-hypermasculine. Women can be intelligent and exert power over men. The show challenges norms.
The acting is excellent, casting was well done.
Some parts of this show are inspiring and uplifting, if you were not born into wealth/prosperity or as a male, while some parts will make you pleasantly uncomfortable. Some parts are realistic for that time -- e.g., The officer had to be a man and a gay man had to be married to a woman -- others are not.
Big Little Lies (2017)
Season 1 was decent, but long
The final episode of season 1 was too long. It was killing me to listen to each men karaoke. More than once, I had to listen to Reece's husband karaoke across the season. It was too much.
The acting was amazing, but the music was a bit awkward and loud at times.
It was unrealistic. Even middle class Americans send their kids to blue ribbon private catholic schools. Rich folks like demonstrated in this show would never send their kids to a public school. I have yet to see a CEO's child enrolled in a public school that has not been kicked out of a private school first, especially if the moms are all driving their kids. The trivia night for a public school was unrealistic. The school setting should have been a private school.
Tell Me Your Secrets (2021)
Unrealistic, skip episode 5, no end
It is infuriating because it is so unrealistic.
(1) Serial is apparently rehabilitated and able to work with a psychopathic mother, instead of being locked up.
(2) Psychopaths allowed into a hospital room without any IDs, permitted to bully and harm elderly woman.
(3) Elderly woman has her own hospital room.
(4) Psychopathic former psychiatrist working for the FBI in witness protection.
(5) Police officer was able to do a criminal background check, but FBI does not.
(6) Wig should have been used in the new version of a woman in witness protection, not in visions from her past life.
(7) Child allowed to wander in the middle of the night, but complains how her she is locked up in her room all night by her mother (it is a total contradiction).
It's all over the place. I skipped episode 5, it made no difference. You only need to watch 5-minutes of episode 5, when she sees her daughter. The movie should be renamed to "psychopaths in everyday life" as it is a fantasy movie about psychopaths in the everyday life. No end.
Women Talking (2022)
boring, like watching women auditioning for a movie
OMG -- the story of what happened to the women sounded good and could have made for an amazing movie -- but instead the movie ends up being so boring. It is a bunch of women screaming at each other, repeating the same thing over and over again. I stopped watching after an hour or so, as I just could not waste another minute longer of my life listening to a repeat of the same conversation I had spent an hour hearing. I also could not handle listening to the two dark-haired raging women bullying all the other female victims. I absolutely hated everything about this movie. It is horrible.
It also played on stereotypes of nordicism. The blondes were nice and angelic, while the dark-haired women were loud and violent, literally. I also cannot imagine any orthodox mennonite woman acting the way these dark-haired women did. Rape is epidemic in those communities and the rape victims are treated as if they tempted the men and are evil -- the victims are blamed. See e.g., "In Plain Sight" and "Sins of the Amish." In reality, these women require to be submissive when it comes to men, as per the bible that gives the impression that God is a man, so this movie is unrealistic. The female Amish children are awake when they are raped by their father's and/or friends' father/brother. The men repent after confessing their crimes to a church. The girl is forced to accept their apology in front of a church.
Little Fires Everywhere (2020)
I liked it albeit the issues others point out
The last episode (episode 8) was a bust (boring) and episode 6 "the uncanny." They could have shown Pearl meeting with her father, Bebe running off to China with her baby (not Niagara Falls) and the police being unable to locate them, what happened when Izzi gets picked up by Pearl and Mia (is she in the car, when stopped out front the birth father's house?), and the husband/children/police reactions to the fire. I felt bored and the parts I wanted to see never happen in the show.
I am certain COVID19 had something to do with it; they probably expected more episodes and so the show does not really finish. It seems like filming stopped and they needed to just put music, art and reading a poem to fill the last episode.
Take Care of Maya (2023)
Dr. told the mother that her daughter would die a slow and painful death
I have read through all of the reviews and disagree with the ones that blame the victim. Blaming the victim is why this broken system remains broken. Mothers should not fear taking their children to the ER for an illness.
Watch "The Quiet Epidemic" to see how differently a father was treated by ER doctors with a daughter exhibiting nearly the same symptoms as Maya. Not a single doctor accused him of child abuse, despite his daughter being on hundreds of drugs and intravenous antibiotics (3 massive garbage bags full of empty pill bottles). Not a single doctor tried to take custody of his child.
His daughter is diagnosed with mental health issues and the hospital will only accept her as a psychiatric inpatient. He is fighting with his insurance company that she needs the meds. Maya's mother's experience is evidence of medical sexism. If she were a man, she would have been treated very differently by medical professionals.
The father is fighting a battle with the medical community and his insurance company, but NOT with the courts over allegations of child abuse. He took his daughter to a foreign country for treatment, just like Maya's parents. Not a single doctor accused the father of child abuse or endangerment for seeking treatment for his daughter for an illness that ER doctors and insurance companies diagnosed as "psychiatric" and "made up." The father contends that his daughter has chronic lyme disease. None of the ER doctors agree with that diagnoses. It is incredible how differently the ER doctors treated him versus Maya's mother. His daughter takes like 30 different pills a day and has intravenous antibiotics, but he is a man, so he is rational, not abusing his child. The system punishes mothers who are involved in their child's medical care. If Maya's father had been advocating for her daughter, instead of the mother, they would have never lost custody of the child.
There are mothers who deliberately make their child sick, but this was not the case here. The child was being given drugs to stop her pain and for her to be able to walk. If you see your child in pain, you want to do everything in your power to stop it. You can feel their pain and it hurts you as a mother. She was not deliberately poisoning her child and making her sick. Her mother was not even home when she was taken to the ER.
None of the reviews brought attention to the doctor who told the mother that her daughter would die a slow and painful death, but this is what led to the mother's suicide. She felt responsible, because she was not there when her daughter's symptoms resurfaced. Her husband took her daughter to the ER, as per her instruction. It was obviously not the mother who made her daughter sick. She was at work when her daughter's symptoms resurfaced.
If you were informed that your daughter would die a slow and painful death -- and it was your fault for instructing your husband to take her to the hospital -- you would want to die too. It was the doctor's words that was the catalyst for the mother's suicide. She felt responsible for her daughter's slow and painful death. I believe the social worker was also discriminating against the mother, because she was an immigrant.
She was not a doctor. She listened to two specialists' advice in Florida, and a third in Mexico. She was told this was the only drug that could help stop her daughter's pain and to walk again. She would have done anything to alleviate her daughter's pain like any good mother. The differential treatment between Maya's mother and the father in "the silent epidemic" is incredible. He is researching his daughter's symptoms and decides she has lyme disease. Though all the ER doctors disagree with him and she tests negative for lyme, because he is a man, the MDs do not question his parenting or accuse him of medical abuse.
Any normal/good mother would have done the same, if instructed by two specialists. You cannot trust ER doctors.
ER doctors are trained in general medicine or are student doctors. These doctors' area of specialization is general medicine. They were never dedicated enough to want to specialize in any field or to open their own practice, and are known to have God complexes (I am always right). They love the thrill of saving lives from automobile accidents, for example. People expect so much from ER doctors, but ER doctors are only skilled in handling common medical ailments. ER doctors stereotype patients. If a women's illness cannot be explained by a checklist of symptoms, she is labelled as having a psychiatric condition. Maya should never go to an ER, because ER doctors kill women patients, because of misdiagnoses and stereotypes.
ER doctors can also kill your child. Remember Libby Zion... She was a college student. Her parents took her to the ER with flu-like symptoms, under the instruction of her family physician who had already prescribed her antibiotics for pneumonia. Her parents left the hospital at around 2:30am. As soon as she had no parents to advocate for her, the ER doctors killed her by 7:30am, giving her a powerful anti-psychotic by force. She died like an animal in a jacket, when she entered the hospital with pneumonia. The ER doctors ignored her cries for help and symptoms, labelling them as psychiatric. She had no voice, no one advocating for her, and consequently died. Maya would have probably died in the hospital too, like an animal -- they were already pumping her with powerful depressants (Benzodiazepines), such as Ativan. Maya had no one advocating for her, because of the judge's order. Her mother's death is probably the only reason she is alive today.
ER doctors already believed the symptoms were in Maya's head and were already giving her psychiatric medications that can cause cardiac arrest and death. She was already misdiagnosed by the ER doctor, though they billed the insurance company for a condition they were not treating and believed to be in her head.
ER's are dangerous for women and girls, because unexplained illnesses among females are always diagnosed as psychiatric conditions. Women/girls are stereotyped to be overly emotional and irrational, these stereotypes influence how women and girls are treated when they are sick or bring a sick child to the hospital. I am sure if the mother was not an immigrant and women, the ER doctor and social worker would have treated her better. It seems every parent that was accused of violence against their child was also a minority, of a younger age, or disadvantaged class position. The systems of oppression guiding the doctor's and social worker's actions included sexism, racism, ethnocentrism, ageism, and classism.
The specialist told the mother her daughter would die a slow and painful death without ketamine. She was not a doctor. She could only listen to the words of two specialists in Florida and a third in Mexico. A specialist will know more than an ER doctor who only deals with those most common medical reasons for bringing a child to the ER.
Yellowjackets: Storytelling (2023)
Description of bees is grossly inaccurate, the queen does not consume her female hatchling
The writer of this episode should have done their homework on bees until writing something as disturbing and inaccurate as mother bees consume their hatched female bees. Bee hives have female working bees, virgin queen bees and one mother queen. The queen depends on her female working bees to do all the labour, while she spends four + years just laying eggs. She only copulates once in her lifetime with as many male drones as possible over 2 days (who are ripped in half and die after successfully mating with her) and spends the remainder of her life laying eggs. When the mother queen starts aging, after 4 years, on average, the working bees (her babies) begin planning her murder/replacement. The working bees feed a special diet to a few female eggs to form "virgin queen bees." These bees can sting without dying and lay female eggs, something the female working bees are incapable of doing.
The virgin queens kill each other, by stinging each other to death, not their female working bee siblings -- a colony can only have one queen. If the queen dies and their are no virgin queens to replace her, it signals the end of the bee colony as female working bees can only lay male eggs. Males cannot sting, so their only purpose is for mating, which kills them.
The mother queen does not consume her hatched female babies. When the virgin queen (after killing her virgin queen siblings) is ready to replace her, if she does not leave the hive willingly, the working bees swarm her until she overheats and dies. Did a high school student write this episode? Every beekeeper knows this. Some clip the mother queen's legs after four years on purpose to signal to the working bees to start nursing virgin queens. The working bees select which female eggs to give the special diet to. I gather this is too complex for the person who wrote this episode.
Tully (2018)
Boring
Most boring movie out there. Nothing really happens. No point to watching it.
Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
Beulah Koale and Meaghan Rath look like brother and sister
I hate the new characters. I already could not stand Danny's character and wished that he would leave the show for the longest time. His incessant whining was unbearable at times. The only thing that kept me watching the show was Park and Kim. Instead of Danno leaving the show, the two best characters are now gone, replaced by characters that don't remotely resemble cops. The girl is a police academy dropout and the male is a soldier, hoping to become part Five-O, but is more of a baby than Danno.
Hawaii Five-0: Oni Kalalea Ke Ku A Ka La'au Loa (2017)
Incredibly boring
Snooze! This was by far the most boring episode I ever watched. In fact I stopped watching it half way through because it was so boring. Danny's character is so dull and dry, the story he tells his son throughout the whole episode is a story you would tell a child to make them fall asleep. I miss Park and Kim in the show. Danny is the worst character is the show. He does not even remotely resemble a police officer.
Sleeping Beauty (2011)
No ending
What happened in the end? Nothing. There is no plot. I did not trust the negative reviews because they said stuff like obscure. There is just no end to the movie. There is not really a beginning either. The movie has no plot. It would have been better if there were an ending and climax. It is missing the most important parts of a story.
I'm Sorry. (2017)
Nothing funny in this show.
Six episodes later, since there is nothing else to watch, and did not laugh once. This show is boring, not funny. I thought it was maybe because the actors didn't feel comfortable in the first few episodes, but it is not that. Their scripts are just boring, badly written. I am trying to see what is supposed to be funny about it, and just not seeing it. If that is not bad enough, the kid in the show sounds like she has an accent, which is not a bad thing (don't get me wrong), but the parents on the show speak fluent English. Also, the kid does not look younger than 5-years old nor resemble the parents.
The Handmaid's Tale (2017)
Book was written in the 1980s, prior to the advent of IVF, yet only way for women to get pregnant is least likely way (coitus)
In the 1980s, the only way for women to be able to get pregnant was probably via intercourse. The movie assumes this as well, yet takes place after the advent of mobile phones and uber?
Clearly, the person who wrote this script is a male and is CLUELESS about fertility!! Most men today are still stupid/misinformed and think the best or only way for a women to get pregnant is by coitus.
The odds of women getting pregnant (success rate) via sexual intercourse decrease after the first 50 menstrual cycles and the odds are like winning a lottery in comparison to IVF. It can take couples up to a year to get pregnant! Not to go into detail, but the spermatozoa has a long way to travel to fertilize the female ova for a women to pregnant via coitus. The endometrium is shed through every menstrual cycle. Many men have damaged sperm, low sperm count, because they consume to much food with estrogen or don't wait long enough for sperm to form or due to age. Following ovulation, the female's egg is capable of fertilization for only 12 to 24 hours! YES, THAT IS RIGHT, 24-48 hours!
In today's day and age, doctors can insert the sperm directly through the cervix. Doctors can even insert a fertilized egg. "IVF is the process of fertilization by extracting eggs, retrieving a sperm sample, and then manually combining an egg and sperm in a laboratory dish."
Most women who want to get pregnant go through IVF today, an option unavailable to women when this book was written. I don't know a single women who didn't get pregnant on a first try with IVF; each had spent years trying to get pregnant the "natural way." In a totalitarian, post uber and mobile phones, world, women would not be getting pregnant via sex like slaves.
This show would have made a lot more sense if it took place in the 1980s. Technology has advanced far too much for this show to be remotely close to what a dystopian world would look like today. Everyone today knows that coitus has the lowest success rate for conceiving with age.
Also, people crossing over to Canada to get away from the regime? Are you serious? What about running to the Indian reserves in every U.S. state or the Amish communities. I read somewhere that the person who wrote the script for this movie visited Iran and got information about Islam from the UN and based the script off of that. If you want to make a show about Muslim women than make the show about Muslim women. This show is absurd, not a U.S. dystopian reality in this day and age.
I give this movie 5/10 because the acting is good.