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Insecure (2016)
Beautifully written, designed and performed
Full disclosure. I'm a 68 year old white girl with almost nothing to relate to in the day to day lives of these characters. I loved, loved, loved this show. The writing and performances are fantastic. For me, it's a view of the true situations that occur between people much younger than me. The fact that they're black is just a huge plus, because black culture is so beautiful, particularly when the show portrays the smartest, most articulate, most successful women in Los Angeles. I've binged this show from end to end without a break, because it hooked me in from the very beginning. I definitely recommend it, and I can't wait to see more from Issa Rae.
The Last Movie Stars (2022)
Almost unwatchable, despite a lot of terrific documentary footage
I am 53 minutes into Episode 1, and I'm not sure I will be able to endure the entire series. At least not without making active use of the fast forwardDespite a lot of terrific documentary footage 15 seconds button.
First of all, I really never enjoy documentaries that feature a lot of talking heads gushing about the subject. I prefer straight up docs that cover the subject With contemporaneous actualities.
The Last Movie Stars is filled with younger generation actors and actresses gushing about the Newman/Woodward's. It's so BO-ring! And Ethan Hawke and his cronies all sound so self important. If that's not bad enough, They've left in all of the worst aspects of Zoom meetings, self-conscious zoom thing, including
incidental commentaries about poor Internet connections This is irrelevant to the point of being completely insulting to the objects of their affection, Paul and Joanne.
It's a great idea to use actors to read material that is only available in text form. And the actors he's chosen to do so are quite good at it. But one is ever so aware that it is - oooh George Clooney - reading the words of - oooh, Paul Newman! Who is supposed to be basking in whose reflected glory? It's just too, too, too.
If this documentary is breaking new ground in documentary production, I will be watching a lot less of this and any similarly conceived documentaries.