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Betty Gilpin has been one of my personal favourites in recent years. From GLOW to The Hunt. From Nurse Jackie to Masters Of Sex. She's been funny and vulnerable in almost everything.. plus she can play a bad ass, which is very refreshing because most actors really cannot. They think they can BUT THEY CANNOT. Not the way she can.

This miniseries is probably a perfect vehicle for her.

A Holy Grail story mixed with some all controlling AI algorithm seeking world domination or something like that .. it's as much as could gather from the first episode.

It doesn't really matter because most stories have already been done countless times. The way it is presented to the viewer is important.. and this series doesn't disappoint so far. Peacock has been doing good work lately in the series department and I hope they continue to do so..

Most series bore me most of the time, but this actually manages to hold my attention throughout so far.

Let's see what happens.. maybe I'm wrong. I hope I'm not. 7.4/10.

I mean .. how badly can someone even interpret an original? It's as if he really didn't read it beforehand or maybe he just read a high school report on the book.

Imo Demi Moore isn't a very good actress.. her movies are mostly terrible because of that. There is a reason she won 2 Razzies (could've easily won more). The tone of her voice is kinda annoying. I don't know why but I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks this way.

What I don't understand is how she managed to land high profile roles during her career. Must've had a very good agent.. can't explain it any other way.

Anyways.. back to the movie. The script is not good at all. The actors don't have anything to work with.

They could have used the narration a little more in certain moments to give depth to the characters.

Instead, 15mins of the movie have passed and the pastor already professes his love to the mistress after seeing her for the 4th time within days. The plot moves rather quickly in this one without real character development.

The music is off. The same theme plays over and over, which seems rather annoying.

It all seems rather dramatic, but somehow I find it difficult so sympathise with the main characters.

The settings are very natural and even beautiful at times is one good thing I can say about it.

Everything the movie is trying to (and probably wants to) convey somehow gets lost in translation on its way to the audience. For a romance of biblical proportions (which is what it wants to be) it simply falls flat in so many ways.

Could've been way better .. instead its rather average.

The length is okay for this kind of topic, but the director and the writers could've worked better together to make these 2h seem more exciting and engaging.

5.0/10 is my rating. In the same way unfulfilling as the movie.

This series is actually quite surprising at first since its characters (predominantly its lead) are more human/vulnerable (not those candy cane characters we usually see on CW) than other fictional personas created by the popcorn machine that is CW.

BUT, as the season progresses its main character shows signs of stupidity and irrational behaviour way too often which leads to bad decisions. She is previously portrayed as being intelligent and a no-bull**** blind woman with no illusions and no aspiration for any prospect whatsoever. I get that bad decisions can be a consequence to such a character, but this kind of bad decisions are not coherent with an emotionally intelligent person (maybe i'm wrong here, maybe she's exactly the opposite).

The more its storyline progresses the more it complicates itself just to remain interesting, inadvertently mimicking every other plot outline already known to the viewer from any other show, which in effect should ultimately bore the hell out of anyone.

Had the potential of being the best show on CW ever. 5.9/10 for the idea and some of the casting.

I wanted to watch this for a while now and after doing so I guess I'm a little surprised because I expected it to be much more pro-Edison than it actually was. Don't get me wrong, I don't like Edison as a figure at all. Imo, he didn't invent anything except for maybe the lightbulb, only after acquiring all the necessary patents to do so. He was a patent collector and self-proclaimed inventor. Not even close to Tesla's genius. Let me put it this way: If Edison were to be the Moon, Tesla would be the Sun.

Back to this particular film: Performances are good (because the cast is good), the movie's all-around quality is decent and doesn't really leave the viewer unsatisfied as much as it maybe wakes one's interest for the history of the development of electric current, which is fine.

A couple of flaws: It concentrates too much on the 'feud' between Westinghouse and Edison, while leaving out the much more interesting 'third wheel' - Nikola Tesla. Also, in the end Edison is practically calling himself the inventor of cinematography/cinema or the camera (*moving pictures*)!? Really?! Everyone knows (or at least I think they do) that two brothers from France are responsible for that. I'll let you figure out their last name..

A little history lesson here and a couple of questions to make an end to a review I never wanted to write: Tesla built it, Westinghouse sold it, but interestingly Edison's name is somehow still attached to it. Why?

I'll tell you why: Because back then one of the (if not the) most powerful men (man) in America, J.P. Morgan, decided for the merger of two companies into one (Edison Electric & another I cannot recall the name of) to form GE (still existing today and being THE electric company in the US). So nowadays GE is among the most powerful conglomerates in the world while Westinghouse (or what became of it) is mainly in nuclear power. Ask yourself: How does that happen?

Some inventions or discoveries like AC being far better than DC obviously couldn't be stopped even if people like Edison tried to just because they were dismissive of other ideas than their own (Tesla's).

Nikola Tesla wanted free electricity for all. I'm pretty sure Edison and Morgan didn't.

7.5/10 because I was pleasantly surprised by some historical accuracy and the film's quality in general. A film about Tesla's TRUTHFUL life story would be much more worth watching.. to me and many others out there.. pretty sure. I honestly doubt that it's going to happen any time soon.

This film is an obvious attempt at delivering another *Love Actually* around Christmas.. the only problem is: It's not Love Actually.. it doesn't have the parade of famous actors.. the humour and dialogue is not as good (why do they use the word 'dissimilar' so much? - at least 2 or 3 times on different occasions).

Since i'm originally from the Balkans, i very much liked the refugee angle.. I like how they chose Yugoslavia as the country of origin for the main character, but i'm a little disappointed she didn't put in as much effort as Mrs. Thompson language-wise. Apart from the lullaby, Thompson pretty much nailed everything .. from the pronunciation to the portrayal of the mother (reminded me of my mom, in lots of ways). I have always (since the early 90s) been impressed by her talent and acting ability. I'd go as far as saying that she's pretty much in the same league as Streep and other actresses who enjoy seniority (Dench etc.).

Michelle Yeoh as Santa was a surprise.. i very much like her in the role.. very versatile actress as well.

Other than that i cannot really say too many good (or great) things about the film. It's another rom-com with an undeniable Christmas theme.. it's very enjoyable.. no doubt about that.. i would give it a clean 6 out of 10 if it weren't for Thompson and Yeoh.. their performances/appearances kick it to a 6.8 for me.. that's how good i thought they were..

This movie would be perfect .. WITHOUT TOM CRUISE. As much as I can enjoy some of his movies, I just cannot condone his real life persona and the people he's associated with.

Furthermore, this movie is far from perfect. Some people here don't understand that an action flick like this cannot be perfect. It can be great or close to exceptional, but NEVER PERFECT.

Also, some people here were talking about Tom Cruise doing the stunts all by himself. Pretty sure that's not the case. He might be fit and running a lot, also doing some less dangerous scenes, but he's probably doing none of them. The level on hypocrisy with this guy is immense. He sends body doubles to press appointments. Did you know that? Some mentioned him flying the helicopter or taking lessons. That might be true, but the scenes are all shot in front of a green screen (idiots).

I liked Superman as the bad guy.. although I could spot that one from a mile away. People who couldn't are obviously chumps. After watching the 5 previous instalments, one should realise that it's always the same plot.

Nonetheless, this movie was very well made (as were all of them). The one that kinda sticks out for me tho' is John Woo's version, because visually, it just does. I don't know if I'm the only one thinking like this.. I don't really care if I am.

All in all, a good addition to the series. Doesn't make me NOT LIKE TOM CRUISE less. 7.0/10

After watching the 1st episode:

What I did like about it:

• a lot of crazy good-looking people in it, especially Mrs. Chris Hemsworth (Elsa Pataky). oh yeah, there's also a lot of nudity.
• the filming locations (Queensland) .. just shows how beautiful Australia can be.

What I didn't like:

• the whole thing kinda feels like a soap opera with a supernatural mermaid/siren twist (the first time i saw the guy with the eye-patch i had to laugh).
• as hot as the *actors* are (see what i did there), their acting skills leave a lot to be desired.
• the storyline isn't original at all. it all seems relatively predictable.
• what this show is absolutely missing = character.

Just because it's Netflix, doesn't mean it's good. Most of the show's on Netflix are crap anyway. 4.6/10 and that's being generous. The points are mostly for Queensland and Pataky.

I don't think I'll watch this 'til the end, unless there's a graphic sex-scene between a *tidelander* and a human along the way.

This is nowhere near The Expanse.. but the two cannot be compared only because they're shown on the same network and are part of the same genre. The Expanse could go on forever story-wise. This show doesn't posses that quality.

I actually vaguely remember watching the 80s movie. I would've described it as space-trash, even then. Just because something was written by Martin decades ago that doesn't mean it's necessarily good. I'm not a big fan by GOT either by the way. I'm probably not nerdy enough for his work.

I'm kinda missing the horror here. There should be way more of it. I wonder if anyone agrees with me. Maybe I'm desensitised by all the horror films I've seen so far. They should've changed a couple of things about the storyline. One example - complications start almost immediately when the ship is about to leave Earth, which is idiotic. I also read of people complaining about the logic and feasibility of the whole thing. This is science fiction people with the emphasis on FICTION. It could be totally absurd for all I care, but what it cannot be is dumb.

The cast is okay.. nothing extraordinary there.. Jodi Turner-Smith is really hot. Too bad she's a bad actress (at least in this).

I would've preferred it to be even more gory and bloody. Every episode should keep the viewer nailed to the screen in either disgust or pure and simple horror or thrill. There were a couple of interesting scenes, but not enough.

All in all 5.4/10.. pretty average in my opinion. Could've been way better..