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The Drowning (2021)
Agonising Cringe
The is one of the most painful things I've seen in a long time.
Firstly, the premise is stupidly far fetched. You have this woman following a child to school, then keeps hanging around there, somehow gets a job as a music teacher to get close to them with some elaborate scheme to get the right documentation! Righto...
Then she keeps bumping in to this kid and every time she does, that secretary type woman always seems to be there too, looking suspiciously at her.
She befriends the child, despite the fact that would be totally inappropriate and would raise all kinds of red flags in a school environment, then starts asking all these questions about his childhood and, would you believe, he can't remember anything from more than 10 years ago.
Embarrassing bad, and an insult to my modest intelligence.
At Home with the Furys (2023)
Boring
I've watched a few episodes of this as I'd heard good things about it.
I have to say I just found it very boring. Nothing happens! It's just him and his family going round doing mundane things.
I think it's great that they seem down to earth and far more likeable than the vacuous Kardashian's, for example.
The series seems to be themed mainly around Tysons mental health, and I sympathise greatly with his struggles but it almost seems like this series indulges in his behaviour, rather than confronting it with him.
There's a lot of clips of the local area, the bay and their house for instance, which seems to be there to pad out the half hour.
Emmerdale Farm (1972)
Just, Cringe
This programme is so bad it's hard to watch, I actually feel sorry for the actors who have to suffer abysmal storylines, which is bad enough but these storyline get recycled every 6 months.
Every other episode ends up with a hospital visit and some of the antics that go on in a sleepy rural village suspend belief to the point of comedy.
The writing and dialogue is just, cringe and I actually pity people who class this as entertainment.
Just because something has been around for 50 years, doesn't mean it's entitled to continue to do so. Struggle to find anything worse on tv.
Emmerdale, total crap.
9/11: One Day in America (2021)
Fascinating Series
Probably the best documentary series I've seen. It manages to be interesting and informative without being insensitive towards the victims.
All six episodes are unique, many sad and many uplifting stories of a day that changed the world forever.
As someone who remembers this day, and the strange and confusing days that followed, this takes you back to just what a complete shock this was at the time.
There is no sensationalism, or lazy conspiracies, it's purely about it the people who were there. Also, they don't give a single second of time for the people who caused this atrocity, gladly.
Would recommend to anyone, just superb.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Timeless
Look, we all know this is a magnificent film, and compliments the original by being imaginative and different enough to stand on its own.
The points I really want to make are that we don't need patronising by woke culture, in Sarah Connor, here is a strong female character with depth to her storyline and it's not contrived or forced, just good writing and acting.
Secondly, it's rare these days to see an action film not drowned in CGI, what T2 teaches us is that it can be used sparingly, a surprising about of the visuals in this film are animatronics.
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
Another Missed Opportunity
Again, as with T3, TS and TG, they have failed to build on the success and superb, thought provoking back story of the first two films.
Basically the first two scenes are the peak of this film, after that it's, ok. The first 30 minutes have plenty of action, Linda Hamilton's arrival definitely gives things a boost, and digging in to her story after the second film is endearing. Much the same happens when the man himself appears, again, the film gets a shot in the arm and I really liked his character development, it's just a shame they didn't introduce him earlier, going about his daily life as a fully integrated infiltrator. As for the two female leads, with all due respect, the Dani character is in no way convincing as a contrived version of a female John Connor, Grace has her moments but there is no sadness at all when she departs proceedings. The Rev-9, this fearful, unstoppable, killing machine that is meant to strike the fear of god in to them, just doesn't, there is never any sense of peril, this is a far cry from the relentless horror of the original T-800, or even the sophisticated subtlety of the T-1000, I mean, in the end he politely asked for Dani! They should've just handed her over, let Sarah and Arnie survive to lead the resistance.
The Syndicate (2012)
A Colossal Mess
Series 4 is the first one of these I've seen, and it's bad. The kids in this syndicate are all irritating characters and hard to like, with predictable and boring back stories too. So I just ended up rooting for Frank, which I'm pretty sure isn't the intention. Some of the scenarios are just plain stupid, and painfully unfunny. This should be a CBBC show.