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How to Get Away with Murder: Kill Me, Kill Me, Kill Me (2014)
Ridiculous
This episode is supposed to piece together all the scenes we've seen about Mr Keating's murder in previous episodes. However many elements do not make any sense. For example, after Mr Keating fell from the top of the stairs the students checked if he was alive and said that he was dead and that it was pointless to call an ambulance. Michaela was a premed graduate, so she would know. Yet, just one minute later, not only is he still alive but full of energy trying to kill Rebecca! At best if he was still alive he would be confused and hurting everywhere. Then, if Wes hit Mr Keating at the back of the head with the statuette how comes that Rebecca gets the blood everywhere on her face when it should have splashed on Wes?
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: 9 Days (2016)
Very unlikely situation
How could Captain Holt and Peralta both get the mumps when the vaccination is compulsory in New York state? I checked the statistics and 99% of the people in New York are actually vaccinated against mumps. They could have chosen a disease for which there was no compulsory vaccination. What's more, even if it wasn't compulsory, as it is particularly need dangerous for adults men, what kind of man would risk becoming sterile by getting the mumps when vaccination is so easy? Not someone as careful as captain Holt surely. I get that this is a comedy and there are many situations that are unrealistic, but it doesn't have to be. This is just badly scripted.
Thermae Romae Novae (2022)
Mixed feelings
It's nice to have an anime series about ancient Rome. I've read a lot about the ancient Romans and I was pleased to see that the depiction of the streets of Rome were realistic enough (except the Roman legionaries, who for some reason wear black armours and helmets instead of shiny metallic ones). It's not a historical series though, as the main character travels in time and space to Japan (either in the 21st century or the Edo period). I couldn't help but feel that the mangaka (Ms. Yamazaki)'s purpose with this anime was to boast about the superiority of Japanese culture. Whenever Lucius is in Japan anything he sees or tries appears to be so much better than in Rome, be it the baths, the food, the drinks (sake, beer, milk), or even the furniture (oshiire). The ancient Romans despised beer, which was the drink of the uncivilised Celts and Germanic tribes. In the series, Lucius seems to discover beer as a novelty and something that he finds amazing, which is very dubious. He also discovers natural hot springs in Japan when in fact the Romans also had some, notably around Neapolis.
Kim's Convenience (2016)
Comedy of life
A sitcom centred on the Kim family. The parents are immigrants from South Korea and speak English with a strong Korean accent, but the kids, in their early twenties were born and raised in Canada and speak without an accent. The parents are the funny characters in the family due to their flaws. Mr Kim is stubborn, vain, easily offended, has bad faith, but can't keep his mouth shut and says everything he thinks. Mrs Kim is greedy, mean, deceitful, hypocritical but can't hide her true feelings well. Both are immature, nosy, gossipy and like to snoop around.
Another great character is Shannon, Jung's boss. She is a cheerful extravert who is funny in a charming and endearing way and brings a perfect balance to the show (in contrast to the Kim parents).
I felt that the series got better and better each season, unlike some other series whose quality declines after a while.
On a side note, I was surprised by how common it is for customers to pay in cash at Kim's convenience store. It reminded me of the 1980s. I wonder if that's because cash payments are just much more common in Canada than in Europe?
Vikings: Valhalla (2022)
Very good, but many historical mistakes
I watched the original Viking series and was not disappointed with this sequel. The quality is about the same. But like it's predecessor it's suffers from a lack of historical accuracy. The story begins with the St Brice's Day massacre, in which king Aethelred II of England had most Vikings living in England killed. This took place in 1002. In the series Canute was already king of Denmark at the time and led the punitive expedition against England. However in reality it was his father, Sweyn Forkbeard, who was king of Denmark and who raided England in retaliation. Sweyn died in 1014, and his eldest son, Harald, became king of Denmark in 1014. This King Harald is not even mentioned in Vikings Valhalla. Canute invaded England in 1015 and became king of England in 1016, then on the king of Denmark when his brother died in 1018. Yet, oddly in the series we see Canute's father still alive and coming to England after Canute became king of England.
Two other main characters of the series are Olaf Haraldsson and his half-brother Harald Sigurdsson. They are both adults in 1015~1016, and Olaf already has a 10-year-old son. However Olaf, the future Olaf II of Norway was born in 995, while Harald, the future Harald Hardrada, was born in 1015. Leif Eriksson looks the same age as Harald, yet he was born in 970 - 45 years earlier.
So the timeline of the series is completely mixed up.
At the end of season 1 we see trebuchet in Norway, Which would be about 100 years too early for their presence in England, and they were not attested at all in Scandinavia.
I was also surprised to see ring-tailed lemurs among the exotic animals brought to Kattegat, as they come from Madagascar, which was unknown of Europeans at the time.
These are just a few of the historical mistakes from season 1.
Young Sheldon (2017)
Funny but not well thought out
I was already a major fan of The Big Bang Theory before starting Young Sheldon, and I really loved watching the show.
However there are some inconsistencies that do bug me (just like in The Big Bang Theory) as the writers don't seem to care much about what happened in previous episodes. For example, in one episode Sheldon's meemaw was at a complete loss in front of the family computer and thought that the mouse was using it like a phone, but a few episodes later she intuitively knows how to play video games like a pro.
The cast is also a bit odd. Sheldon's older brother is about 16 years old in season 2 but is still much shorter than his parents and looks about 13 years old. Since height is genetically determined, and in the late 20th century most kids grew to be taller than their parents, it doesn't make any sense. As you can see I tend to overthink things like Sheldon. But then I am surely not the only one among the fans of the series.
As for Sheldon himself, no matter how intelligent he may be, growing up without the Internet and without someone very educated to teach him, I don't see how it's possible for him to know as much as he does at the age of nine (in season one). Even if he had access to many books there would not be enough time for him to learn all the things he knew at that age. It's just not possible. He spends every weekday at school, apparently not learning much as he already knows everything. But apart from reading a bit in the library at lunch time (when he isn't talking to Tam), he has little opportunity to learn everything you know while at school. We learn in season 2 that his bedtime on school days is 7:30 p.m. So he also doesn't have that much free time at home to learn (once again when he's not playing with his trains or reading his comic books). I did not have this problem with Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory, as he had had plenty of time as an adult to learn everything he knows.
It's like the writers of the show didn't give any thought at all about when and how Sheldon acquired his knowledge and skills. They just assign him new ones whenever it's convenient. He can understand Spanish, but has never been seen learning or practising a foreign language. It's like playing Zelda or Assassin's Creed and have your hero start with all the equipment and weapons at the beginning of the game without having to acquire them in the course of the story.
That being said, Iain Armitage is an extremely talented actor. Really amazing.
La Venganza de las Juanas (2021)
Binge-worthy series
This Mexican series really keeps you addicted from beginning to end. The actors and screenplay are really good, even if the story itself is not that believable, but well that's a TV show, not reality!
It all starts when five girls on holiday in Cancun find by chance that they have the same birthmark (very unlikely, but whatever) and are all named Juana. They do a DNA test to find out if there are related and later find out that they share a father that to have never met and who is now a high ranking politician.
The main drawback is that the cast is not very credible based on genetics. The father of the girls could pass as North Spanish, Irish or British. He has blue-green eyes. One of the girls, Juan Caridad, has dark brown eyes, even though her mother has blue eyes. If both parents have blue eyes the child can only have blue or light eyes. Juan Valentina looks Spanish or Italian, but her mother looks mestiza, which is also impossible genetically. Juana Bautista (played by Sofia Engberg) looks Egyptian, Arabic or Jewish, and couldn't be related to the others based on looks. But the worst of all is that her mother in the series is presumably a Mexican Native American (with a tiny nose), which, apart from the skin color, does not match at all her phenotype. Why would the casting people do things like this?
Alta mar (2019)
Enjoyable drama
A suspense story with mysterious crimes happening on a Spanish cruise ship in the 1940s in the Atlantic Ocean.
Unfortunately there are some things that just don't make sense. For example they carry a bag filled with gold ingots as if it was filled with clothes. A real ingot that size is 12kg and we already see 10 of them on the top layer, so that's at least 120kg. There is no way a woman can carry that, much less without apparent effort.
At the beginning of season 2 they rescue castaways around the Equator but they seem to be freezing cold despite being wrapped up in blankets. Don't they know that the temperature around the Equator is around 25 to 30°C all year round?
It's too bad that none of the film crew, story writers and producers thought of checking things aw basic as this.
Season 3 was very good. Lots of suspense. Unfortunately the last episode was a real let down compared to the previous episodes.
Dynasty (2017)
Thrilling but not well thought out
The great series if you're looking for a plot line filled with unexpected twists and turns. However the story is much more suitable for 20th century society. It's unbelievable that the Carrington manor does not have any surveillance cameras with data saved in the cloud. Bad people just waltz in without being detected. They do have modern DNA tests, but why would they communicate with the company by phone or send the result by paper mail, when in real life it's always done by email? Additionally, why is it that nobody seems to protect their computer or smartphone by password or fingerprint/face recognition to avoid snooping? With the simple security measures that most people use today, half of the problems and betrayals in this series would have been impossible. It's just not credible that wealthy business people be so careless with their private information.