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Tour de France: Unchained (2023)
Enjoyable - but wau too scripted
This series gives you great insights within some of the teams and definetely makes you excited for this years Tour De France. However - as with Drive to Survive - the scripted rivalries are a bit over the top. And the fake 'commentary' of the race, which is clearly added for this series later and solely added for dramatic purposes, ruins it a bit for me.
Its great to see the coöperation of some big names and teams and some of the race footage is really thrilling. It gives you even more respect for how deep they have to go during the Tour. Make it a bit less dramatic and youll get a great series and hopefully some new fans.
Game of Thrones: The Long Night (2019)
Stunning episode with a disappointing end
SPOILERS
I've never written a review before, but I just needed to write about this episode.
First of all, the episode was overwhelming and stunning. The darkness, the dragons fighting and the fear in the eyes of all the main characters. Simply amazing.
Yes, there were some unrealistic story lines (Jon being saved while surrounded), but it didn't matter. I was at a point that due to the intensity of the fights, the hopeless situation (Everyone was in a situation they could not escape from) and the dead being on the winning hand step by step, that it would not matter if all the main characters would fall. It would perfectly suit the episode in the most cruel way.
BUT. Suddenly, from the sky falls Arya, kills the nightking and the episode is finished?!
Where did she come from? and all the main characters were about to die at the exact same time (saved by the Bell). Every single battle was lost and winterfell was overrun, and suddenly it ends.
This amazing battle does not fit this end at all. It was so intens I fully accepted the fact the NK would win. Why let the dead-army kill everything and everyone, and then end it like this? Let me be clear, the end just doesnt fit the the rest of the episode. Ayras move was badass, but not fitting the situation. Until the last five minutes this could have been the most epic tv show ever, ruïned in the last 5 minutes.