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Dang, I really wanted to watch this show ...
Claire's beauty
It's on Netflix now. Give it a watch.
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Skyler - MenopausalBitch
That's one word in my vocabulary.
I know what you mean. I binge watched Breaking Bad a couple of years ago, and then started rewatching it again recently.
Unfortunately, I had to stop after a few episodes because I just couldn't get past how much I disliked the Skylar part. Her menopausal bitchiness was just too real. Credit to her acting, I suppose. But, anybody who's had to deal with that in real life over an extended period of time doesn't want to be "entertained" by it in a TV show. It literally upset my stomach to watch her season after season with no letup.
Hopefully she won't be making an appearance in El Camino.
My reply is two years after the OP, but since Kidnap is now on Hulu somebody might see this.
My impression from the Marco Polo game is that the mother was using it as a way to keep track of where her son was as he was running around the playground. Anybody who has been a parent knows how difficult it can be to keep up with a kid having fun like that. And the Marco Polo thing is actually a pretty clever way to do it without actually putting a leash on the kid. So kudos to the mom.
I thought the movie provided suitable entertainment, and had some adrenaline moments. It wasn't deep, but thank goodness we were spared an interminably boring back story that is prevalent in so many movies these days.
Yeah. Definitely different than Season 1. Like two completely different sets of writers and directors.
For me, Season 2 ended with Episode 3.
I struggled to maintain interest almost from the opening of Episode 1, and gave it a try for two more after that, but the story line did not have the quality that it had throughout the first season. As Season 2 descended into one cliche after another I decided to give it up.
It was like the script writers shot their wad with the first season, and then decided to keep some kind of story line going for the sake of ... what ... money? They certainly weren't interested in continuing with the same magical, fresh quality that we came to expect from the first season.
No, The OA is one of those series that would have been better being left as a one-shot wonder, giving us fond memories of the creative talents of the actors, writers and directors. Season 2 only leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I definitely have no desire to explore it further.
I see I'm not the only one who couldn't stand MJB. I based my decision to continue on to Season 3 on whether she would be in it. Happily, she was in only the Season 2 eight episodes.
She so totally repulsed me ... I hate her voice, her looks, her attitude, her personality. I actually quit watching Blindspot because I just couldn't stomach seeing her in that anymore.
It could be that she is the sweetest thing in real life and nothing like her on-screen characters, but her on-screen persona is all I have to base it on, and she thoroughly ruins for me anything she is in.
I wouldn't go so far as to say it ruined the show, but I definitely could have done without the LaGuerta/Batista romance arc.
Sorry, but it just did not work. For one, there was no real chemistry between them ... their affection toward each other seemed forced. For another, I personally did not find LaGuerta to be attractive at all ... just not my type, I guess. And finally, LaGuerta's unrestrained ambition and her willingness to take down anybody in her way was an extreme put-off for me.
Also, as long as I've got the floor, I'll mention that I never could muster up any desire to view Dexter as a sympathetic character. There was no point along the way where I would have shed a tear -- figuratively -- if Dexter had been killed by one of the other antagonists. Personally, I just believe that Dexter's "need to kill" persona was all wrong. He should have been either cured (unlikely) or institutionalized as soon as his perversion was discovered by his Dad.
Interesting discussion. Most likely the posters here have long forgotten about this thread, but I'd like to add one observation for anybody new reading this.
My impression about the advantages/disadvantages of various calibers, especially concerning the .22 vs .45 argument, is that hydrostatic pressure pays a part in the "knock down" power of a given caliber bullet shot into flesh.
I'm told that a big, fat bullet like the .45 creates a hydrostatic shock wave that does damage to the body some distance from the entry area and bullet track through the flesh. IOW, a person might sustain a shock to the heart, lungs or nervous system even though those areas didn't directly receive bullet damage.
Might or might not be true. It's just what I've heard.
Yeah, Yoann had mentioned that she was a cop, and it turned out she was one of the cops who died when Yoann made that error in judgment during a previous case in Brussels.
With me it's just the horrible mis-casting.
Imagine, for example, Danny Devito cast as the Terminator. It's that bad.
Tom Cruise just plain cannot carry off the Jack Reacher of the novels. Period. My brain just can't get past seeing a diminutive punk playing the great Jack Reacher.
In the fight scene in the restaurant kitchen I had to explain to my wife that the real Jack Reacher wouldn't have lost that fight to a single combatant like that.
Then later, in true Jack Reacher style, he quickly dispatched three or four combatant with his trademark single punch to the chest or elbow to the throat.
The only way that Tom Cruise can be a Jack Reacher is when movies are made in bizzaro world. And Lee Child's ho-hum attitude about such a horrible mis-cast is offensive to his dedicated readers. It's a shame.
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