Reviews

The movie is fun, well directed and acting is great.

To me though there is a giant loophole in the plot: Miles killed the real Andi and knows who ended up on his island is her twin.

Why being so reckless to do two more murders he won't have any chance to pin on anyone else!? With the detective right there too?! Who has already proven to him that he's very good?

Moreover Miles already bought his gang to cover him up in the past, there is no proof Andi was killed, but rather is still treated by the news and the police as a suicide. It wouldn't be really hard for him to keep it that way.

He could have just fall initially for Duke's blackmailing and then deal with him at a later time; maybe handing the job to a professional killer making it look like an accident.

To me this was a bit of a deal breaker.

As many other reviewers I didn't like the ending too: the Mona Lisa burning to ruin Mile's life and make his dumb quote go against himself? Come on, that's a little too silly. Moreover the carried message is what? Do not go through the rule of the law, but rather burn everything to get some justice?

Anyway I gave it a solid 6 cause it's worth the watch and entertaining. I hope if they make a third movie this time they'll make a better script than this one.

This episode marks the end of Season 1, and it has been done excellently.

I was left with the crave for next season.

Perhaps there are just a couple of redundant scenes which could have been left out in the episode's section of Salvor's depart from Terminus, which could have left more space to the brother Day struggle section.

Anyway... I am looking forward to next season.

I've originally rated this 4/10 after having watched first season.

I've also watched second season, and this one seems better. Although I think the storyline could have adhered a bit more to reality: Mitch in Italy while the first western country gets to deal with COVID19 large outbreaks, in reality he'd took the advantage of that situation for a come back in the news industry (perhaps by not being an anchor but an executive). Same goes for Alex when she gets there.

But I also get the idea of depicting all these people as self centered and narcissists not able to see what is in front of them, except in reality they'll lose opportunities to do their job which will be taken by others.

Loved Valeria Golino's performance, I couldn't think of a better Italian actress nowadays to play that character.

Still too many cliches when it comes to Italy: eating ice cream on Como's lake sidewalk during February? Too cold to do that (it's not Minnesota, but also nor Casablanca!).

Paola driving a FIAT 128 from the '70s?!? You won't see that car on the streets aside for in a parade of historical cars: better if she drove a FIAT Panda model from the late '90s if the intention was to portray her character as a poor documentarist.

Anyway there are plenty of hilarious scenes worth watching in this second season, thus I give it a solid 7... averaging with a 4 I gave to first season, the overall vote so far is a 5.

The show is not bad, and shot beautifully.

Anyway there are many oversimplifications for a very broad topic as addiction is.

For example the character played by Rosario Dawson: I can't see an high ranked DEA officine on the field let go a kid who assault a woman for her medical prescription, and then even mourn about that kid when she learns from the newspaper he's dead by overdosing in a parking lot.

Especially in that epoch the show is based on: at that time another "pandemic" was going on in rural America, that'll be incarceration of teens even when found with a single joint. At that time private sector in the teen penitentiary and re-education sector was making money in the very same shady way the evil big pharma depicted in the show was.

Moreover many underlaying reasons behind addiction and self destructive behaviors are not taken into consideration at all: plenty of people have a family abusing story, and here instead it looks like the only way out from that path is religion (another addiction...) and falling back in the abusive environment which had in first place caused that negative path to be taken.

Worst, rehab programs and associations are even depicted as yet another way to not solve the addiction problem when not even a place where someone keeps exploiting the patients by selling them drugs covertly.

What I've found sort of realistic is the way sales force environment is depicted in the late 90s early 2000s.

Despite the above I'll stick to watching the cause it can be entertaining and it hooked me... which is ironic having given fact this whole is adopting exactly the same addictive brain chemistry any addictive substance will deploy.

...the story to unfold a little more.

So far it has developed too slowly: some episodes could have been condensed into 1 from 3 of them.

I do agree with some other reviewers here about its staleness, but I also still see potential in this series though I'm sticking to watch it some more.

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Certainly I'll stop watching it if some more redundant scenes are in store, as it was for episode 5: the whole sequence of Aneesha getting prepared to do some surgery was repetitive and too long. It was already clear the emotional turmoil her character was going through, no need to add more drama to it with such a long sequence, it felt as overfilling the same cup of tea way after it had already overflowed 5 minutes earlier. Especially since I'd given more emphasis instead to the reaction hence transformation she goes through in scene right after that, when she successfully perform such surgery, therefore gaining again some power over her personal life too.

The little fellas storyline too is stale since 2-3 episodes at this point, as well as the other sides (Japanese space agency and soldier in Afghanistan).

This made me wonder if it wouldn't be better to have episodes strictly bonded and dedicated to every side of the story, rather than this extremely slow paced mix.

The whole story finally boils down to the inevitable -mediocre- truth: the unfaithful husband is also a sociopath (and a narcissist... not really two interchangeable traits in reality).

Finally he snaps, but Hugh Grant is not Jack Nicholson and he really fails on conveying the change in his performance.