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11.22.63 (2016)
Wasn't what it started out to be
Started out with an excellent premise and was set up to be a truly exceptional piece of Television....sets looked great ...acting pretty good...script was alright...but that storyline of what would happen if Kennedy had lived?...now that was a powerful story to be told. For the first few episodes it seemed that was the way it was going...then It changed into a love story and the Kennedy narrative became a side issue....don't get me wrong it still hurtled along at a right old pace and was still very watchable but the main premise was lost...no more so that after Jakes mission was completed and he returned to the present to find a wasteland of some kind of post apocalyptic wilderness...of which we spent 5 minutes learning or not as the case may be of what went so wrong...surely that was worth an episode in it's own right?....the immediate after affect of the shooting too was hurried and not well thought through with the phone call from JFK being a bit too easy and contrived considering there were so many questions left unanswered etc Overall ...a very watchable piece of TV...the ending was lovely...but not what I had expected from how it all started...and that's my only beef with it...I wanted to see a world where Kennedy had lived...and didn't
The Shannara Chronicles (2016)
dreadful dreadful dreadful dreadful
Saw the trailer and thought...whoa...that looks like money was spent on it. Obviously the budget didn't run to a script adviser or acting coach. Truly dreadful all round and the only saving grace is that 12 year old boys may be prized away from their Xbox to watch it. I can't tell if the acting is so poor...not with what they have to work with as a script...I was waiting for the mighty sword of Dobber to to be weilded at one point . I am only following it now from a comedy point of view to see how bad it gets. I realise that it isn't for my generation and will appeal to the people who thought the twilight movies were great drama but a great opportunity was missed here to do something rather good.