Reviews

I watched some of this. However, the acting came across as so awkward and not real that suspension of disbelief did not ever start, much less ever stay sustained.

The writing also seemed extremely unrealistic. I could not even understand how this came to be made.

I could not understand what genre this had been intended as. It was so far from the real world and so not well acted, it was like a fantasy. However, it did not have any of the genre characteristics of a fantasy. I understand intellectually that this is supposed to be a drama.

I did not ever become absorbed in the story.

Due to the acting being so unconvincing, no dramatic tension or suspense ever arise.

This interview did not make sense. It contradicted known facts. I had already seen him pitch her voiceover services to a studio as they had still had their official U. K. roles. Many others had already seen this. No explanation was ever given for why the interviewer did not ask about the contradiction between this and the couple's answers during the interview. As a result, the objective of this interview appeared unclear at best, and actually overwhelmingly dubious. The interviewer has not ever addressed that.

This did not seem well researched. As a result, it did not come across as journalism. The interviewer did not ever answer questions about any of that either.

This show seems staged, vapid, insincere and manipulative. It states the objective is openness though actually seems to consist of contrived, controversial salaciousness to increase their fame, money, power and platform. The true ultimate goal seems to then use these to exert superiority to get away with violence and bullying. The bullying include of the everyday, ordinary audience that they falsely posture that they are trying to help through relating to us in sharing their affairs.

Since they branded themselves, starting long ago, during many years, as being in family content, I saw some of it. I had not realized how self-aggrandizing and transparently fake it is. I wish I could unsee and wash my head of their unveiling. However, I cannot because, since I saw this, unsuspectingly, expecting family-oriented content, in light of how they say that is what they do, I intentionally did not ever see this show again. However, they continue to spew illogical, forced, unhealthy and insane-sounding statements in interviews on the radio and even engage in violence on TV. They do this in front of audiences, like I, that unsuspectingly clicked on suggested, early evening family-oriented TV excerpts. This happened the Sunday of the Oscars. This happens at time slots slated for news and family programming. They come into our homes as I think I am going to see relaxing, family friendly content then make spectacles of themselves.

Then, they try to elicit the audience's sympathy by forcing tears and acting as if they are victims of their own twistedness. Just before and after Smith violently hit a slight, old comedian, who did not expect this as he did his job on TV, this same couple was on TV smiling, laughing and gloating with pride at how they had showed this elderly comedian and the global population that no one is allowed to compare her to a pretty movie star portraying an elite warrior. It turned out Smith's wife did not like this. Smith made a long-winded, illogical speech about how he is the victim, in the manner of abusers' saying love makes them abuse, since he indicated he had to loudly hit the elderly comedian on TV for us to see in our homes, after a statement comparing his spouse to an attractive movie actress convincingly portraying an admirably athletic SEAL trainee. Just before, they had made a video of themselves making animal faces. Actually, they themselves inflict dragging their own names through the dirt and into others' mouths, since I and many others had to, after this unexpected violent outburst, speak up to hinder this. I and many had to speak up since no one else did.

After hitting this well over half-a century old, comedian at his job, Smith justified himself for punching, yelling and cussing at the slender senior citizen comedian for saying a statement that they surprisingly turn out to dislike. Others and I had to see his long-winded, sobbing speech about himself as victim receive a standing ovation. Then the media elite went on record in interviews that this couple are role models for protecting "women" through engaging in workplace violence upon a smaller, elderly, fellow industry member and colleague at his job. This is in spite of how Smith himself is a comedian that makes fun of others.

They foist this on each other, themselves, others and us. Then they try to turn it around and insist they are the true victims, in the manner of abusive gaslighters. Many others and I had to stand up, alone, as the show, industry association, media elite and standing ovation audience glorified and celebrated Smith, this couple, and this violence against an older individual at his job. They and I had to lose time and risk/encounter internet harassment including personal, irrelevant insults for stating this should stop, after they and I saw this elderly man physically, unexpectedly attacked, yelled and cussed at, as these media elite supported this. All the while, those others and I that said this should stop knew that this could happen to any of us for the slightest statement that did not initially seem especially offensive, as well as for saying this assault, seeming elder abuse, harassment at the comedian's job, cussing and glorification of all this should stop. It was clear that they and others in privileged positions like them are celebrated by the media elite and those in power for suddenly violently assaulting another on the job, if someone says a couple words they even, surprisingly, dislike much less state that the violence is criminal.

Then they justify themselves as "protectors"" of women. Indeed, they are not "protecting women" by amplifying chaotic, workplace violence and harassment of a small-boned, older colleague. It is the opposite. They are, in the extreme, encouraging harming women by goading the media elite into celebrating this and into awarding them as role models of supposedly "protecting" women through an eruption into chaotic workplace violence, cussing and raging at a smaller, less powerful individual, then getting away with it to applause and standing ovation by those in power. They did this after they enriched themselves through the unhealthy content in this show then complained others spoke about this by asking that they please stop sharing these secrets that I and the audience did not expect to hear.

They chose to do this just after a woman had been shot and killed by a powerful actor, similarly, at her employment allegedly after repeated violations there of industry, legal and/or safety standards. Similarly, Smith and everyone contributing to the standing ovation, applauding them, should have known that this outburst violated industry TV standards and criminal law. They chose to do this after years of extreme violence and employee harassment against women by Weinstein, Epstein and many others. Many of those standing during the standing ovation knew about that also for decades though looked the other way while praising these perpetrators too. The justification this couple gives narcissistically is that everyone somehow should have known-- amidst a pandemic, many resulting deaths, war and economic collapse--why Smith's spouse shaves her head, as she has for a number of years. The justification too is that everyone should mind read that she is not open to comparison to the athletic SEAL candidate character and attractive movie star that had portrayed her.

This has even inspired someone to start a petition, thankfully, to stop interviewing this couple. This petition states truthfully that none of us asked for their unhealthy secrets to be revealed to us, as we had unsuspectingly happened to casually click on their so-called family-oriented content. I used to go out of my way to speak of respect for Smith. I have and had no ill will toward him. However, they have chosen to continue on like this for years. The love he spoke of in his speech comes with honesty and structure, and this should stop, including the use of the platform given to them as they have and still use it over years.

The cinematography, production design, including the art direction, and the visuals instantly took me to this time and place.

However, Stewart's performance constantly jar me to here and now and often seem inconsistent with the rest of the tone. In only about two moments does she remind me of Diana, in terms of visuals and sound. One of them consists of her reading aloud and the other of one brief smile.

She simply appears like Stewart wearing a short, blond wig, yet even her hair does not resemble Diana's, oddly. She sounds like herself trying to speak in a British dialect. It is Stewart's voice and speech patterns, except also simultaneously she sounds as if she is speaking every sentence very intensely and rapidly for some reason.

She lacks Diana's natural, affable charm and humor. Instead of Diana's disarming shyness and charisma, she appears to force her head at angles to the side. She rolls and lolls it from side to side while gazing askance, sidelong. It appears awkwardly and disturbingly jerked and uncomfortable.

Her most engaging scene involves a game she plays with the children portraying soldiers. However, her speaking still jars me out of it.

The script sometimes is rather all over the place.