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The Chelsea Detective (2022)
Utter Dross
Shiny, slick and trite.
Yet another show where everyone is rich, there's no garbage on the streets and the 30 year junior detective is mandated to be rude with the older guy she works with just because?
He's old?
He's a man?
This boring, hopeless dreck had nothing real to offer and tells no new story.
Who wrote this? AI? The Human Capital department of some studio that exploits their workers?
I found nothing remotely interesting in the characters, the ridiculously sanitized scenery nor could find any narrative that wasn't wooden, silly or just plainly offensive.
Absolutely terrible.
Is this all there is in 2022 for stories?
Shoot me now.
Bosch: Legacy (2022)
No Noir Here
When compared the the cinematography of the original Bosch series, Bosch Legacy has high school level production values.
Just not good.
Storylines lack nuance & the Maddie as newbie cop is just dumb - she went to expensive private schools & becomes a uniform? She is also a dreadful actress.
The Lincoln Lawyer (2022)
Plucky Lorna takes the Noir edge off - belongs on Network TV
I am so tired of plucky positive thinking worn out tropes - which absolutely clashes with any redeeming edgy quality that the Lincoln Lawyer books had.
Ugh Ugh Ugh.
The Gilded Age (2022)
Must we endure a vapid story of the FIRST Gilded Age as we suffer through the SECOND Gilded Age?
Do we need or want yet another drama centered on extremely wealthy individuals?
It's disgusting to watch a fictional story of the FIRST Gilded Age when we're living in the SECOND Gilded Age.
What happened to HBO? The Sopranos, The Wire, all the great dramas of twenty years ago have been replaced with this vapid dross. Has HBO been bought by Disney?
Read the room.
Nobody wants or needs this tale of obscene inequality as the nightmare is repeating itself today.
Dalgliesh (2021)
Relentlessly Grim
The storyline is interesting, each the relentless misery of the almost entire cast of characters, set in squalid, run down 1970's former grand estates turned institutions, leaves the viewer feeling close to suicide.
Just so grim.
The Blacklist: The Skinner (No. 45): Conclusion (2021)
Reddington is back!
Old.
"I'll let you in on a little secret Harold. The world doesn't belong to the young. The world belongs to anyone with the strength to reach out and take it."
The Blacklist: The Russian Knot (2021)
Quit torturing us.
Keen's strange love for her evil mother is cringeworthy and worse, dead boring.
Nobody cares about this story arc because it is just bad and nonsensical.
Get back to Red. James Spader makes the show.
The Blacklist is now a show that people hate watch.
The Unicorn (2019)
Socioeconomic Fantasy Land
The core idea driving this show is alright but whoever writes the show apparently hasn't a clue as to how Americans live in 2020!
These construction "contractors" have health insurance, stay at home wives and beautiful homes, cars in an affluent suburb? AND they have the free time to hang out?
This portrayal of an affluent America that hasn't existed for decades just promulgates the LIES about how we live in this country with the greatest division of wealth since the Great Depression.
UGH