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She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: Whose Show Is This? (2022)
An abominable ending..
..for an abomination of a show.
You could feel it troughout the show, that the writers had no clue what they were doing and where they were going.
The dialogue feels so weird and forced the whole time, you'd actually believe this was written by (bad) AI.
The w writers are clearly projecting all their own insecurities and frustrations about the world and men in particular, on this show. And it shows..
All men are stupid, chauvinistis and literal caricatures. To a point where I'm questioning if the writers have actually spoken to men before?
The whole 'Intelligencia is a incel convention' is about as subtle a hint as to what the writers think about their critics, as the whole 4th wall breaking ending is cringe-y.
The only overarching plot line effectively goes absolutely nowhere.
Jen hasn't learned anything from her ordeal, she never even had any real problems troughout the show.
None of the chracaters evolved. Some even became more one-dimensional as the show moved on (mr. Lawyer friend can't even form sentences anymore without help..)
So this show was effectively just noise with terrible CGI and childish social commentary.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Partings (2022)
Shallow beauty
The visuals are spectacularly grand and the imagery delivers a fantasy world true to what one can imagine, Tolkien would've produced.
But this is where shows shallowness already begins. The square-jawed, corporate haircut elves break the illusion as soon as they are in frame. All of the Harfoot scenes seem to come from a different series all together (a straight to dvd one). And as soon as some characters open their mouth (here's looking at you galadriel) youre distracted by their clumsy acting.
Real shallow becomes the whole, once you look at the writing. Characters make decisions and possess knowledge just to move the plot, even if it makes no logical sence. They act so out of character sometimes that it irks you out of the illusion.
How do the elves know the dwarves found mithril? How do they think it to be the answer to their problem whilst ignoring Galadriels warnings about Sauron?
Why does 'wise' Galadriel pledge Halbrands kingship to her cause behind his back even though he never shows any sign that he would be ok with that?
Why do the Harfoots sing about not leaving anyone behind but want to take someones wheels in the very next episode?
Why does Galadriel fabricate the story that her fellowship abandoned her cause because she was starting to look like the evil she was chasing, and not that they were tired of chasing a treath they thought wasn't real?
It (and again, her acting) makes her seem like a lying, pouty child. Trying to get her way.
All in their way do all these plotholes, irks and inconsistencies show that the beauty is only skin deep. And that The Rings of Power only looks good at first glance but falls apart rapidly once you look beyond.
Motherland: Fort Salem: But I Don't Even Have a Dress... (2022)
Incoherent mess
No better episode to encompas all that is wrong with this show.
A jumbled mess of a plot, jumping all over the place. Time and distance nothing and have no consequence anymore. Anybody can appear anywhere in, or out, of wichever situation. Just to move a disjointed plot along.
The big enemy of the past 2 seasons defeated in an instant and mainly of camera.
Acting is sometimes acceptable but more often than not abismal. But I guess trying to sell that inane cluncky dialoge is impossible even for the best actor.
The Sandman: Playing House (2022)
Perfect example
Episode 6 & 7 encapsulate perfectly what is so bothersome about the show.
The main character Dream, the Sandman, has taken a backseat in his own show to endlessly drawn out subplots. Wherein genders and races are changend to hamfistedly fill a corporate inclusivity quota. And even new characters are created to, I feel like, hammer home the message that the white straight male is bad no matter what.
The nightmare Gault did not exist in the comics.
The nightmares in the comics where in fact using Jed to build and rule, their own version of the dreaming.
But in the show they are transformed into a black woman and now we cant have her be evil anymore.
Instead she wants to help and become a dream but is harshly punished by Dream. Shown in the beginning as benevolent and forgiving, now being the evil white male.
It's not only that the writers have to change existing material to forcefully include their agenda. On thop of that it's done in such a jarring way that it only subtracts from the whole.
The pacing feels also very slow. Instead of the search for magical artifacts through dreams and hell are we now stuck in Florida. For the last 2 episodes nothing but long talks and litteral talk of administration..
Snowpiercer: Born to Bleed (2022)
3 1/2: disappointingly shallow filler
My first issue is that the main plot seems to come to a grinding halt every time they serve us one of these fillers.
We just want to see the main story advance and see them get to "new eden", or fail in some way. But these story threads accomplish nothing.
But my main gripe is that episodes like this one only hollow out the characters. Their motivations and beliefs change to facilitate every "exiting" plot twist the writers think of.
Wilson's quasi clearvoyance/ pike's radicalisation, level-headed characters acting al emotional, to name a few, only so the plot can move on.
So this is another episode where in a early favorite character gets killed of unceremoniously whereas Wilford is still alive. Only because the writers lost the track and seem to have no idea where they are headed.
As evidenced by the main storyline not advancing one bit.
Some good acting (go ruthy!) saves this episode and grants it its 3 1/2 but that's about it.
(also, how are there still tailies living in poverty with Layton in charge?!)