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True Detective: Night Country: Part 6 (2024)
Can we please get entertainment back?
We really didn't need another Stunning and Brave treatise on trauma. Even Jodie Foster couldn't salvage the abominable writing in this episode. Considering all the other lazy shoehorned references to Season 1, I half expected Matthew McConaughey to show up yelling, "All right, all right, all right."
I hope this exposure opens up more roles for Kali Reis. She deserved better. And Jodie should've known better.
One of the characters actually said, "It's always the same story with the same ending. Nothing ever happens." It's like the showrunner is just messing with us. I Googled "Siqinnaatchiaq". Turns out it really means, "Ha ha, I got them to sit through six hours of this gibberish".
Billions: The Limitless Sh*t (2020)
Falling off a cliff this season
The show always necessarily lived in its own political alternate reality. Yes, there were real-life CEOs and athletes and other business people popping up here and there, but you can't have the Attorney General of the United States and the Secretary of the Treasury commingling with real members of the administration. But as always, lefty writers have no self-control. The "Muslim ban" and "perfect phone call" are obviously references (negative, of course, because there can be no other kind in Hollywood) to President Trump, who shouldn't even exist in this universe. I suppose it was just a matter of time before the TDS seeped in.
Anf Wendy has metamorphosed into something unrecognizable from the earlier seasons. Taylor's overly witty nerd crew is just annoying, as is Corey Stoll. And what the heck is going on with Frank Grillo? Dude's a B-list action star. Why is he playing a moody painter with his head firmly ensconced up his own arse? Good Lord...
Apparently this was the last episode after COVID shut everything down. Hopefully they got their act together after having a year to think about how awful they've become.
Road Wars (2022)
Just go to YouTube and search for road rage videos
These people will take a 15 second clip and turn it into a 10 minute segment, playing and rewinding 3 seconds at a time over and over (always with a commercial break before anything of significance happens) then coming back and playing EVERYTHING you just saw before the commercial break, then finally showing the "big" payoff. And of course they add a generic hyper-percussive music bed and and overly dramatic narration breathlessly explaining how everybody involved was a split second from death. Sometimes they even ask the person who recorded the video to add their utterly useless commentary: "So I was on the way to the Piggly Wiggly to get some eggs for my grandma's 75th birthday cake because my roommate had the last two for breakfast when I saw a truck..." OMG SHUT UP.
Even as background noise, this is pretty bad.
Interrogation Raw (2022)
These folks couldn't afford an announcer?
Let's be fair here - there's 743 true crime shows out there. Every story isn't complex enough to warrant a full hour episode, so it's pretty natural to not be glued to the screen 100% of the time. And how many drone shots do you really need to see of a formerly idyllic town now shocked by the murder of an upstanding citizen? But this show is ridiculous with paragraphs of text on screen. Glance away to see what the dog knocked over and you've just missed how police found a bloody crowbar in the trunk of a Cadillac in an airport parking lot with a partial fingerprint that matched the deceased's landlord. Come on, A&E, hire a voice-over artist. If I wanted to read about murders, I'd subscribe to Detective Weekly.