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Stranger Things: Chapter Four: Dear Billy (2022)
A masterpiece
So much symbolism. This episode is a masterpiece. When Max was honest about her grief, and her guilt, she began to heal. And she wasn't afraid anymore. The end of the episode was so gut-wrenchingly beautiful. For me as a person who has struggled with clinical depression most of my life, seeing Max fight so hard against the darkness and death, and run towards the light, towards the people who love her was amazing. I'm also a musician so seeing that the music was so powerful that it showed her the way was incredible. This episode made me feel empowered, revitalized and gave me hope to keep fighting. And any type of art, film, music that can make a person feel that deeply - that is what I call a masterpiece.
Our Flag Means Death (2022)
Loved it until last episode
Great show! Funny, witty, so many sweet moments! I loved the bro-relationship between Stede and Blackbeard. They loved each other as friends, brothers, like Merry and Pippin. And it was beautiful. Why did the writers have to take their beautiful friendship and make it a romantic, sexual one? I don't know, I love LGBTQ community, but the whole season they were just two guys who loved hanging together and learning from each other. And they completely did a 180 at the end. Felt so forced.
Love Is Blind: The Pods Are Open! (2022)
Average People , Not Supermodels this season!
I like that this season they did not pick ridiculously attractive people this season. They punched normal, average looking people and that is very refreshing.
Little Women (2019)
Not bad
I appreciate their aim to have originality and put a new spin on the story by starting with the end first. The biggest thing I didn't like was that of the story was 7 years prior, there should have been two different actresses portraying Amy. One age 13 and the other one who is 20. It just didn't work. The actress who played Amy was obviously too old. She even seems older than the actress playing Jo. That was my biggest irritation and I couldn't get past it throughout the whole movie.
The other thing is the dialogue felt hurried more of the time. The lines felt said and not lived. It fell flat.
The truth is I don't know how anything could do justice to the story as close as the Winona Ryder one. It was perfection.
Interior Design Masters (2019)
Humility?
Okay so I love interior design shows. It's a joy to see a talented designer take an old space and create something beautiful out of it. I wanted to like this show but the concept alone is not enough. You have to have likeable contestants. Frank is, perhaps, THE cockiest person I have ever seen on TV. Show some humility! Dude, even if you win, your success will hit a ceiling very soon if you don't reign in your ego and learn to work well with OTHERS. Your parents failed, man. You are not all that, sorry!
Netflix, take note: People like Frank ruin shows.
The Great British Bake Off: The Roaring Twenties (2019)
Are the judges mental!?
The two people who went home are not the ones that should have gone home.
Catch-22: Episode #1.3 (2019)
Why!?
Yossarian is really getting in my nerves!!!! He's causing pain and turmoil because he can't man up and serve in the military like he vowed to serve. I hate this character. The end of this episode was extremely unexpected and UNNECESSARY and left me feeling very shaken! It was devastating. Be warned, this is NOT for the empathic viewer.
Homeland: 13 Hours in Islamabad (2014)
This was copied from the TV series 24.
I would have said fantastic except I said that several years ago in an intense episode of 24 . This was copied from the exact same plot in the TV series 24.
The Handmaid's Tale (2017)
Not for sensitive people
Perhaps I am too sensitive. When I watch something I feel like I am experiencing what the characters experience. I guess most people are able to turn off their feelings when they watch TV. How else could you endure a show that's entirely about women being raped for the purpose of bearing children to childless men. It's horrific. Nothing good or redemptive about this story. Why do people watch crap like this?