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Mr Selfridge (2013)
Interesting story in real life
I'm going to admit up front, I'm not a fan of Jeremy Piven, never have been and sure I never will be. The reason I watched this series was because I became accustomed to watching Masterpiece Theatre on Sunday nights for Downton Abbey, and wanted something to fill that void in the meantime. Before the series started, I read about Mr. Selfridge in Wikipedia and other venues. His story was very interesting and very compelling, so despite Jeremy Piven being in the starring role, I was very interested. I liked the first season OK, but it went downhill each and every season. I was really glad when it was over (not like Downton Abbey, when I cried because it was over). When I visited London in 2013, I made it a point to visit Selfridge's, and I wasn't disappointed. I've never in my life seen a department store quite like it, and sure I never will again, its an amazing place. What I didn't like most about this series wasn't Jeremy Piven (although his acting is pretty awful, I just don't like his delivery, very stiff and very acted, doesn't feel real at all), but my dislike had more to do with the various other story lines of mostly invented people in Selfridge's life, and the distorted truth of many of the real ones. For example, his son does marry a store clerk, but they move away and Selfridge never saw his grandchildren from Gordon. It got pretty sappy and syrupy and convoluted which doesn't feel like a Masterpiece Theatre kind of series. I think the biggest example is of this is when George Trawler goes from being a timid, scared, mentally unstable person totally dependent on his sister to a strong, smart, sure of himself manly man. I thought that was a very strange transition. I wouldn't recommend this show, and I wouldn't watch it again.
They Came Together (2014)
HORRIBLE, don't waste your time or money
I didn't even want to give it 1 star, it was so awful. Parodies can be funny, but this one was anything but. It was stupid, senseless, idiotic...you get the picture. I have two really big beefs about this movie: 1) the fact that Paul Rudd (who I LOVE as an actor, and was the driving force for renting the movie in the first place) propositioned his grandmother. If that isn't enough to make you sick and stop watching, I don't know what is. It was just plain gross. What was the point of that? I don't see it as funny or as a parody of any kind. 2) the part where Paul Rudd is in the barroom and he and the bartender keep going back and forth with the same line, over and over and........over and over again. I left the room to go to the bathroom. I finished watching the movie, kept thinking it was going to get funny, but my husband fell asleep about 15 minutes from the end of it. He asked what he missed, and I told him absolutely nothing. I told him how much I hated this movie, and he said that was why he fell asleep. Don't waste your money!!!!!!!
Grey's Anatomy (2005)
Really enjoyable for the most part
I absolutely loved this show when I first started watching it. I got totally into the characters and their lives and all the twists and turns and I bowed to Shonda Rhimes ability to write a good story, weave a good mystery, and pick really exceptional actors and write for them. I'm in the midst of season 7 now (watching the series on Netflix), and I'm becoming increasingly tired of the "incestuousness" of the show. No one dates or is married to someone who doesn't work there, for the most part. Its like their lives are so tiny and enclosed in this one little area of the world, that the only people on earth to date, fall in love with, have sex with, get married to, etc., are all right there in that one hospital in Seattle. Its getting very unrealistic and very tiresome. And then there are the flip flop lovers, Alex, Lexie, Mark, Callie, etc., and that is getting tiresome too. And when is Meredith going to start talking like a woman instead of a little girl!?!?!