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Beyond Paradise (2023)
I want to like this, It can be fixed, but as it is now, it's NOT GOOD
Beyond Paradise.... hard to believe that this spinoff has been so completely botched. I really want to like this, but as it is now it is just terrible. Too much estrogen.... if I wanted to watch an 4050 minutes of female angst and drama, I would. Well, boys and girls, I do n not, and my patience is wearing thin. Martha and her mom.... take a hike. Kris Marshall's Humphrey Good man is a fun character, the other police are oddball interesting, no problem's their, Margo's a bit daft and Kelby is a s dumb as a box of rocks but they do have some charm.
Hopefully the writers get the message.
I suppose I'll struggle through the next 4 episodes and see what will happen in Season 3, assuming that there is one, I won't give it more than a hot minute if B. P. remains as it is.
It can be fixed, but as it is now, it's NOT GOOD.
Elsbeth (2024)
No mystery at all, and it is more comedy than cop,
Elsbeth is not bad... on the other hand, it's not really good, either. It has the potential to be pretty good. It can easily go the other way and be downright awful.
The good... Elsbeth is unique... as totally different a character as Tony Shaloub's Monk was back in the 2000s. Some will find her enchanting, some will find her annoying. C'est la Vie.
The bad... I never liked Columbo... I don't care for shows where the villian is revealed right away.
The really bad... It looks like this will be one more show where the evil doer will be a straight white male, and every other sympathetic or heroic charecter will be female or a minority. This is getting really tiresome. I'll give it 3 or 4 more episodes.
Cold Squad (1998)
Good show RUINED by totally unlikeable lead actress
This was very good show, interesting cases, well produced..... I really wanted to like this. Watched all of season 1, I have to tell you, it was a struggle. Season two, more of the same. The utterly sexless AND sexist character, Sgt. McCormick, self-righteous to the point of being, as I indicated, totally unlikeable.... enough. It git to the point where I could not get through an episode in one sitting early in season two.
The other characters were alright, they were all canned after season two. The Universe would have been better served if they had let the lead actress, Julie Stewart, go and kept the supporting players.
This show could have been great. It is not.
Cross Wars (2017)
Would have been a 5... I like cheesy flics, bur....
The black clown doing the.awful Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop impression utterly destroyed , bad movie... I can forgive the bad acting, bad dialog and bad special effects, but when so much time is given to such an an utterly unlikeable character.... No. No forgive that.
Coroner (2019)
If I wanted to be preached to, I would have gone to church
Coroner.... hmmm, sounds good. Canadian police show, that's a good sign,,, hey let's watch it.
Oh hell, this is simply awful.
I'm being generous with the 2
As a rule, I watch TV or movies maybe 3-3-1/2 hours an evening.... for ENTERTAINMENT, not to for indoctrination. It's a shame, this could have been good, should have been good, and it is utter rubbish. I've watched 6 out of the 8, will probably watch the last two just for completeness and confirmation, but that's it... no more. I stopped watching the Law and Order franchise back around 2001-2002 for the same reason.
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Saving Private Ryan
1> It's a movie. It does not have to be historically accurate down to the buttons on someone's pants.
2> It was as good a war movie as ever made.