Reviews

I can't top aceshop's review but I will say this film is a masterpiece and regardless of the fact that it was released early in the year, it will win awards. I haven't written a review of a film in a while on IMDb and before I start I have to give an important public service announcement to the kind folks at IMDb: please delete that first quote from the Civil War quotes page because it is the most important line at the end of the film and it spoils everything (no spoilers, you can delete that part of my review after you remove the quote, thank you).

So regardless of which side the viewer stands on politically, you will find something to love here. Alex Garland and a few others I know involved with this production read IMDb reviews so I'm saying hats off to to you folks. My father was a journalist so I know the war stories are real. These are brave (and slightly warped) individuals going into the line of fire and I believed every second.

Kudos to Jesse Plemons for that bizarre (and realistic) show stealing scene. Kirsten was on fire and I believed every word. Offerman, Moura, Henderson, Spaeny, all I can say is wow. Stephen McKinley Henderson was the world weary journalist who has seen it all and thank god for the brief moments of comic relief from him and Moura. It was almost too much to take and the surround sound provided a few fun near heart attack moments but I'm still alive to tell the tale.

And as a final brief addendum, no it will not get that bad in our lifetimes, but still, please vote.

Oh god I can't think of anything to say really. Cranston is great as always but the ending as filled with so many holes you could drive a Mack truck through each one. Season one was fine but Season two was incredibly dopey. The actor who played Jimmy Baxter had his mouth turned down the entire time as if he was working on his best Tarantino impression and Hope Davis (a great actress) didn't even try to make anything realistic or emotional out of any of her scenes. And I have to end with the dopiest plot twist in tv history from the courtroom: the Jones family couldn't pay their gas bill???????? And no one knew this beforehand??????? It was not a gas leak because there was no gas?????? God, the only thing I can say to tv writers is: Do Better.

These last few episodes have been really bonkers and haphazard in a bizarre and beautiful way. Everything will connect and make sense in the end. Everyone has a moment where they lose empathy and sympathy for a tragic Shakespearean figure. For me it was Saul taking advantage of a cancer patient. And that's the beauty of the show. The guy we've lived with and loved for so long has to go down hard. If this show were in lesser hands than Vince and Co, it would end with Kim saving Saul from prison time and they walk happily ever after into the sunset. And that would kill the beauty of everything that came before. Ain't gonna happen. When Saul walks into the cancer patient's home, he accidentally kills him (stay tuned) and the cops take him down. I'm joking but I know the series will end in an unpredictable way and Slippin Jimmy will meet an unfortunate end and thus protect the integrity and beauty of one of the greatest shows ever created.

I'm fine with being the only one here to say the last episode wasn't that bad. I thought her death was shot beautifully and it made sense as an ending. It's an effing tv show, why all the anger? The actress is still alive and she'll do other things. But the final season was definitely nowhere near the level of writing excellence as the other 3. It is what it is.