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Frasier (2023)
Hammy and over-the-top acting.
I hope the writers are paying attention to viewer feedback because the acting styles on this show are NOT meshing. I am watching people say their lines and hit their marks. Where is the chemistry? Are they being directed to say their lines only to the camera? Subtlety in acting is becoming the person your character is and not being an over enunciating caricature of a character. I'm not just talking about the main cast, the guest cast is about as bad as a middle school play - June Diane Raphael I expected better from you.
Let's scale the Freddy character waaay back and focus on the namesake of the show. The David character could be used a bit more but only if he finds a way to pick up the David Hyde Pierce swagger; Niles was a great comic character as well as foil and David has the echos of potential. I don't know if anyone has a plan for him at all. Kevin Daniels (Tiny) needs to give everyone lessons because he is a breath of fresh air on this floating air biscuit.
I swear if they shoehorn a romance out of Freddy and his 'widowed' friend I will flip a table. Did they mention recently that her boyfriend has died?
Only Murders in the Building: Grab Your Hankies (2023)
Lowest rated episode in the series so far
"I'm the documentarian, you won't be hearing from me again." That was determined to be a lie.
This episode really feels like they're trying so hard to do nothing - beyond what they did in "The Twist" of season 1, this was just grating. There are a string of scenes that were so excruciating to watch between Tobert and Mabel that I prayed I would watch one of the characters get sucked in to space just to make it end. The acting between these two does not match and the character of Mabel has been drained of the je ne sais pas that she had in the first season.
I don't know if we can blame it on the editing but everything feels so forced. I'm not watching characters existing in their own lives, I'm watching actors remembering their lines and blocking and it stinks.
Glass (2019)
Shyamalan can't meet expectations
I imagine M. Night Shyamalan has a lot of great ideas that can't be brought to life exactly how he imagines them. This movie fell flat of what I was expecting (although I didn't watch the trailer so maybe that would have helped) and was shot 99% in close up with the actors staring at the audience - which didn't help me connect to it at all.
The actor that played the son was inconsequential, even after the scene they clearly added after the fact where he calls Bruce Willis 'dad' 5 times in a sentence. No chemistry between than at all.
Apparently James McAvoy's character was cut from the original 'Unbreakable' film, if his character had been able to stay maybe this whole trilogy would make sense.
Also apparently this movie takes place 3 weeks after 'Split'. When was that piece of information given to the audience?
When did Sarah Paulson get so typecast as a baddie who is so stiff that she gives a completely unremarkable performance?
This movie did not deliver on
1. A cohesive plot
2. Chemistry between actors
3. A satisfying ending.
4. Has 0 rewatchability.
In short, it's just another Shyamalan movie.
Quantico: Alex (2016)
This is the episode that I give up
This is the episode that I give up. This show is a 5/10. It is a show. It was made. It is lacklustre. This episode is a 3/10.
The acting on this show does not match. One person will be over-the-top soap acting and another will be subtle if not-so-sincere. The tropes are heavy handed. Alex is the female version of so many male officers of any role before her but it just doesn't quite fit. Everyone does everything she says and completely believes her because she's just *so* captivating. Everyone falls in love with her, male and female alike because she is just *so* magnetic. It makes for weak writing that is predictable and convenient.
The ensemble cast gives you someone to look at in each scene, but again the soap acting does not seem to work for this procedural drama. The storyline is predictable with a twist at the end that keeps you coming back for more. Until it doesn't. Every answer turns into more questions and Alex is the only person to save the world because only she can see the truth! It's boring.
Interesting characters get shoved into smaller and smaller screen time so that they can make time for all the boyfriend-girlfriend drama. Quantico quickly abandons the idea of being about learning to solve interesting cases and turns into boring mush.