The wasp costume design was excellent, but the acting, plot changes and action sequences are pretty cringy.
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3 Reviews
The Wasp Woman
(1995 TV Movie)
Good costume design but everything else is pure 90s cheese
7 April 2020
Vikings
(2013–2020)
Seasons 1-3 are 10 star Season 4 wasnt bad- the rest is mediocre at best
25 February 2020
Warning: Spoilers
I loved this show for the first few seasons, the Viking characters were authentic, Athelstan was a great conflicted character whom much of the show was from the perspective of. They shown much of the culture and values through his eyes and how it was explained to him. Some say the show died with Ragnar, I say it died with Athelstan. Ragnar just kept it on life support for a while but soon the show lost its identity.
The show had authentic Viking behaviour, great battles and although it took many historical liberties in terms of the time of events and lifespans and characters relationships, it was accurate to some degree. Eventually authenticity was thrown out of the window for soap opera drama. The show appeared to be pushing a modern feminist agenda but I think it was just more that the writers forgot, theyre not modern women, its the the dark ages/medieval period.
I think the show really died to me when Bjorn raiding Italy was teased, instead he spent barely any time there and the writers had him rush back to fight a war. He raided nothing and for some reason his men just follow him for no personal gain.
Why didnt the creators just stick to what was working? They've wasted great stories, great actors and actresses, a great opportunity.
The show had authentic Viking behaviour, great battles and although it took many historical liberties in terms of the time of events and lifespans and characters relationships, it was accurate to some degree. Eventually authenticity was thrown out of the window for soap opera drama. The show appeared to be pushing a modern feminist agenda but I think it was just more that the writers forgot, theyre not modern women, its the the dark ages/medieval period.
I think the show really died to me when Bjorn raiding Italy was teased, instead he spent barely any time there and the writers had him rush back to fight a war. He raided nothing and for some reason his men just follow him for no personal gain.
Why didnt the creators just stick to what was working? They've wasted great stories, great actors and actresses, a great opportunity.
The Purge
(2018–2019)
It started off well - by episode 7 the writers must have fell asleep
20 October 2018
Warning: Spoilers
I started off really liking this series, it wasn't my favourite show to watch but it had my interest, a few nitpicky things occasionally caught my attention but nothing to really ruin it, but once little things mount up it just shows a problem with the writing of the show, which has let it down.
At first I liked Miguel's storyline, we're thrown straight into it and he has clear motivations that anybody with a young sibling they care about would understand. The actor has a solid performance the first few episodes and his scenes kept me interested. Once I got to see who the villains would be I got more interested, Stanton makes a good villain, and David played by William Baldwin was really saving the show for me mid season with the acting and how much I hated his character, I was invested in seeing him punished.
However, they killed all the villains by episode 7, and have left me uninterested in watching, without any clear indication who the main villain is, and how all the characters are going to connect to each other, I can see a rushed ending coming. Killing William Baldwin's character so quickly, was a bad move.Killing Stanton (off screen death, could be alive) so quickly, again just kills it for me.
The runners of the show also clearly do not know what 'lockdown' means, it means nobody gets in, nobody gets out. They make a point of characters having "state of the art security" but then anyone with a Phillips head screwdriver or some c4 can get in. At one point, the shutters go down in one of the main characters houses, he says nobody can get in. Literally a few scenes later, the neighbour is breaking into his house via the window! Very secure. It's little inconsistencies like this that mount up and become hard to ignore to anyone with a common sense.
Having not been a big fan of the movies, I didn't go into this series with high expectations. I was first exposed to the franchise when Rick & Morty parodied it, and frankly I think they did a better job in that one episode than the franchise has with 3 movies and a series.
At first I liked Miguel's storyline, we're thrown straight into it and he has clear motivations that anybody with a young sibling they care about would understand. The actor has a solid performance the first few episodes and his scenes kept me interested. Once I got to see who the villains would be I got more interested, Stanton makes a good villain, and David played by William Baldwin was really saving the show for me mid season with the acting and how much I hated his character, I was invested in seeing him punished.
However, they killed all the villains by episode 7, and have left me uninterested in watching, without any clear indication who the main villain is, and how all the characters are going to connect to each other, I can see a rushed ending coming. Killing William Baldwin's character so quickly, was a bad move.Killing Stanton (off screen death, could be alive) so quickly, again just kills it for me.
The runners of the show also clearly do not know what 'lockdown' means, it means nobody gets in, nobody gets out. They make a point of characters having "state of the art security" but then anyone with a Phillips head screwdriver or some c4 can get in. At one point, the shutters go down in one of the main characters houses, he says nobody can get in. Literally a few scenes later, the neighbour is breaking into his house via the window! Very secure. It's little inconsistencies like this that mount up and become hard to ignore to anyone with a common sense.
Having not been a big fan of the movies, I didn't go into this series with high expectations. I was first exposed to the franchise when Rick & Morty parodied it, and frankly I think they did a better job in that one episode than the franchise has with 3 movies and a series.
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