This show had (perhaps has) alot of potential to be a binge-worthy, easy watching little number but characters and their development, which drive the storyline via the decisions they make, are kind of all over the place. Perhaps it's the acting, I don't feel the internal conflict the main protagonist feels. I cannot relate to her struggles at all. I cannot understand her decisions, at all. I don't quite understand what the matter was with her relationship with Nick. Perhaps when I was much younger and had this idea of what dating should be like, I may have been scared off (though doubtful). This doesn't really apply to women with demanding careers dating in their 30s. 1) we don't have alot of time to date period with this kind of career, there isn't that much of a suffocating feel, 2) women do not drop men like Nick, who want to marry them, for relationships with a 'je ne sais quo' attraction, 3) the pandemic has largely changed the dating game, where couples were forced together prematurely and when they work, they really work. The game playing aspect is changing. I just can't relate to the character. Even though I am literally her. Probably won't continue unless the storyline improves massively.
Reviews
3 Reviews
Partner Track
(2022)
Target audience here - times have changed and no longer relate to this so much
5 September 2022
Wicker Park
(2004)
Failed to understand the original.
31 March 2012
Warning: Spoilers
I watched the original French movie on a long haul flight in 1997 when I was 11 (captain's pick). I was so confused yet so intrigued when you know what became popular in the early 2000's I looked and found it again on my campus sharing network. The original made me a fan of French movies, of Monica Bellucci. I was also old enough to understand Max's choice in the end. And i was extremely intrigued with a movie that DARED to tear lovers apart. (I guess It's still a forbidden concept in America). Reading the comments here, I think the vast majority do not realize Wicker Park was a remake. It's not 'unique', it's not a 'never before seen concept', its just a remake of all those things. But I dare say it failed. For one the ending was completely changed. Which makes the movie predictable just like the rest. It took away the element of reality, that men actually have the ability to make judgement and not be led by love and obsession. I guess I prefer movies that tell the truth, like woody allen's Match Point, where people do get away with murder. In this sense, this movie took a great classic, made it Hollywood to appease the audience's appetite, but at the meantime destroyed the delicate relationships that intrigued in the original. More and more great modern Europeans movies are being remade in the US, please people, do your homework and at least give the original concept a try before the remake, you will be surprised.
I Don't Know How She Does It
(2011)
Fictitious scenarios
13 March 2012
A mother running a family and keeping a job, how groundbreaking. What's interesting is that Hollywood writers seem to think that working mothers really give a **** about competing with a bunch of Chanel wearing housewives at a stupid school bake sale. I always tell my husband if our child is so easily traumatized she's just not going to make it. Other than the fact that at work you get to meet good looking men who offer you a kind of escape from your daily headaches at home, this movie really isn't all that accurate. It's what I always thought a working mother's life would be...when I was 20 and in business school. Clearly Hollywood never graduated.
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