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Manhunt
Manhunt (2024– )
5/10
Good story, but pure fiction
20 April 2024
Towards the end, I expected the zombie Lincoln to come and personally kill the conspirators. The story was engaging at times, but the historical inaccuracies would take longer to write than the actual show was.

I don't mind tweaking some facts to make a story more interesting, but this series, especially the last episode, was simply filled with far too many outrageous falsehoods to be tolerable.

I'm not sure why there were so many 21st Century expressions used (e.g. "You were his war wife.")

Real historians won't like it and people learning about this for the first time will be horribly misled. Could have been much better.
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Fatal Attraction
Fatal Attraction (2023)
10/10
Excellent--Don't understand the reviews
29 May 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Indeed not Michael Douglas and Glenn Close, but an interesting new fresh take on it and very interesting. If you are expecting the original you will be disappointed. This is a brand new story that just cannot be compared. Give it a chance and especially wait it through until the ending. Love the three lead actors, and agree about the sexual chemistry, but it isn't needed here.

SPOILERS AHEAD

Nobody could see that ending coming. Tell me that everyone wasn't expecting Alex to be alive with her and Dan's 14 year old kid somewhere.

As a criminal defense attorney, this was a scathing and all too true indictment on the criminal justice system.
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Tulsa King
Tulsa King (2022– )
8/10
Great entertainment
30 December 2022
Most of the low ratings result from people thinking that this is a mob documentary or a serious look about how crime works in New York or Tulsa. It's not.

It is an over the top comedy with Stallone playing the lovable tough guy, much like Rocky. As many have mentioned, it is unrealistic as Stallone would have been arrested about 12 times on his first day in town. Other things are implausible. For example, what nice hotel would rent to an out of towner with no ID and paying with a wad of cash?

It gets 8/10 because some of the NY scenes give the impression that justifies some of the reviewers' beliefs that it is a serious drama. As long as you just accept the over the top 80's slapstick violence, and just roll with the premise, then you will very much enjoy this series.
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1923
1923 (2022–2023)
5/10
Not up to Yellowstone or 1883
29 December 2022
Harrison Ford doesn't convince me. He is a great actor, but he is too old for this part. He doesn't scare me and his gruff cowboy schtick seems forced. The cutaways when he does anything physical are obvious and jarring. Plus, he is only in about 5 minutes per episode.

As others have said, the African safari sides are too long and unrelated to the Dutton Ranch. The Indian schools, while a good nod to the bad stuff we did to them, are far too long, too unrealistically brutal (and no spoiler, but the nun while bathing? Please..).

Plus this side story drags on far too long and takes away from what little story we have at the ranch. And when we have that story, it is.

Yellowstone 10/10. 1883 10/10. This one needs help.
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Swing Vote
Swing Vote (1999 TV Movie)
6/10
Bad Legal Analysis
22 July 2022
Warning: Spoilers
So many legal issues that the movie just gets dead wrong. First, the woman who is convicted of first degree murder would be in prison awaiting her appeal, not watching the proceedings in person. Second, there would be no "emergency" appeal. As much as we would like to think that courts rush to free a potentially wrongfully convicted person, the process takes years.

Despite then being told that it was a 6-3 vote to overrule Roe (with one of the three now retired) we soon learn that it was a 3-3-3 decision. Three voted to overturn Roe entirely, 3 would have upheld Roe, and 3 would have overturned Roe so long as only "minor" penalties were given. This last position would never happen in the Supreme Court. It would not have been a question before the Court and in any event, once the Constitutional question was decided, it would be pretty clearly up to the states to set a proper penalty (likely excluding the death penalty).

But it gets worse. The Chief, who was one of the harsh 3 votes, is now sitting with a 3-5 (and the new Andy Garcia undecided) DEFICIT for his upholding the first degree murder conviction, but arrogantly asks for a unanimous opinion upholding the conviction. He is simply in no place to do that as there remains 5 votes, even without Garcia to vacate such a harsh conviction.

Further the final "compromise" decision authored by Garcia looks pretty much like Roe itself. Despite all of the commentary that it was a "balanced view" of the question, the take away was that once you overrule Roe, you see these harsh penalties and must reinstate Roe.

I'm a sucker for legal movies, but far too many unlikely scenarios to fully enjoy this.
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