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  1. What? The Walcotts just get away with it? What about Steve "I like 'em young, mate" Walcott? And Chloe, Isabella's best friend who turned her back on her the night she was murdered? Then 25 years later destroys evidence that may have helped solve her murder? She just gets to walk away???? I have to infer that's what happened because this show, which was pretty good at tying up all the other loose ends, seems to have dropped the Walcotts entirely from the script in the last half hour. Hector, too. Shouldn't he have been given some kind of closure by Cormack?
  2. Just started watching this show on AMC+. It's an overlooked gem. Love Travis Fimmel's performance here. I'm just wrapping up Season 1.
  3. I objected when Dylan McDermott came on board but Remy started to grow on me, especially his awkward and anachronistic "tough guy" moments. The show was about as serious as CSI: Miami but I liked watching it once a week. Too bad it was canceled. There's plenty of worse shit on TV these days. I'll miss the stylish Nina Chase. Hopefully they'll integrate her back into FBI.
  4. Oh c'mon, you guys. Kim Coates crushed the role of Breughel! I thought he was hilarious. Just this side of over the top. I loved his needling of the Croat by mimicking his accent. Does no one recognize him as Tig from Sons of Anarchy? I like Negan better in this show than I ever did in TWD. He just talked and talked and talked in TWD. Here, he watches and listens, then utters something droll like, "I don't know much about art. I'm more of a movie poster kind of guy." Then a little later he lets the mask down and shows his desperation in a tense conversation with Maggie, trying to explain that his hands are tied as long as he's with Damarama and Croat. They're definitely dragging out the "what did Dama do to Herschel?" big reveal. Lisa Emery was funny in this episode too, probably unintentionally. That nerve twitch in her cheek as historian guy revealed who she used to be ... lol. YMMV, but I find this show far more watchable than entire seasons of TWD, including any season with The Governor.
  5. I call that "Eva Destruction"
  6. Gina Torres was a lot hotter. I could almost understand why everyone did her bidding, lol.
  7. I'm sick of shows that are too dark to watch, and I don't mean thematically. Viewers shouldn't have to squint or adjust their TVs from scene to scene. What a disappointment to see badass Ellie turn into a puddle of goo once she finally comes face to face with Abby. "I didn't mean to kill your friends!" and "Nooo, don't shoot him!" So Ellie gets to fake-out death twice in one episode? The Seraphites become distracted and let her fall to the ground when she's on the very brink of petechiae, then she's not killed by Abby's bullet (obviously). This is the second show I've watched in two nights that closes out the season with a "dead? not dead?" cliffhanger. And since I'm in a complaining mood, I'm tired of the ever-contracting number of episodes in series television now. I still remember when a season was 22 episodes and shows had a new season every year. The streaming came along and it dropped to twelve episodes. Then ten episodes. Then eight episodes. Now it's six or seven episodes. Plus, we're forced to wait 1.5 to 2 years for whatever spoonful of new episodes they dole out. (Looking at you too, House of the Dragon).
  8. Table for three. Eva should have argued her real skill: emotional manipulation. Early graduation from college, doctorate at Brown University, fellow of the National Science Brain Trust or whatever it is ... oh, but I'm autistic and sometimes I can't control my emotions! I'm close to someone who is autistic (Asperger's) and every day of his life ranges between a challenge and a living hell. He has never gone to bed at night and thought "this was a good day," while experience has taught him that hoping for a better tomorrow is a joke. The only thing he really wants out of life is acceptance and friends. He's managed to get his college degree (by working twice as hard as everybody else), get a job, and live a decent life but none of that makes any difference because most people don't want to interact with, let alone befriend, someone who seems a little "off." It makes them uncomfortable, so they keep their distance. He's been rebuffed so many times he's wary of even trying anymore. The only times you really see autistic people featured on TV is when the networks have an opportunity to put a sweet, relatable face on autism (Eva), or a really bad one (criminals and/or people who are obsessive and lack empathy). And in both instances, it's not really about autism. It's about exploitation and profit. Meanwhile, amid all the corporate virtue signaling, the autistic people who exist in the wide swath between those two extreme ends of "the spectrum" remain invisible. IMO Eva emotionally manipulated Joe and others, not only by playing the autism card, but the damsel card as well. Does anyone really believe that Eva was unaware her sobs could be heard by Joe and Kyle back at camp? Does anyone believe Eva the rocket scientist was ignorant of how a woman's sobs can work upon a man who sees himself as a protector/provider type? IMO, when she revealed her true profession and accomplishments to Joe and Kyle, her laughter had a sinister edge, like she was laughing at them. In that moment my suspicions that Eva went into this game determined to exploit her autism for gain felt validated. As a strategy, it almost worked. I'll give her that. Eva may have rhapsodized about her openness re: her autism, confronting her challenges, etc. But in the final moment, when she learned Kyle had won, she didn't look like someone pleased to have gotten so far in spite of her disability. She looked like someone whose bullet-proof plan had just blown up in her face.
  9. Ja. Isobel has to survive. I can't live without those eyes and cheekbones.
  10. It was, by far, the most feeble and lackluster disposal of a character I have ever seen in series TV. Days of Our Lives gave Joey Tribbiani a better sendoff. And when JJ came out of the door and said, "He's gone. Will's dead," I half expected the BAU team to look at each other and say, "Okay, well ... anyone want to get some coffee?"
  11. Ugh. When did this become the Herschel show? The character is even duller than Glen, with a side of petulance. Dama's looking more and more like the Cryptkeeper. Hope Maggie's the one who gets to kill her because every time I see the old lady cozying up to Herschel I think "Save the Dama for your mama!"
  12. When Eric Delko said, "Can you believe this shit?" It encapsulated everything I feel about this show. Three seasons of Zach Gilford. Is he sleeping with the head of Paramount?
  13. Only great episode of the season. The Firefly doctors were going on a fishing expedition into Ellie's brain. Their willingness to sacrifice the only known immune person suggests desperation. Nothing they said convinced me they were confident that the "cure" would work. It all seemed theoretical. I'm glad Joel didn't lie a second time. But it's an abuse of dramatic happenstance that he finally confesses his past sins to Ellie, then just 12 hours later Abby finds him and beats him to death after 5 years of searching
  14. I've never played a single computer game, so I guess the "everything" of the show is just going over my head.
  15. I was a teenager once and I don't remember being obsessed/attracted to the septuagenarian down the street. But this is the second show now where a teen has an icky relationship with Lisa Emery, so what do I know? Which leads me to this question: were no other actresses available? Couldn't they have done something other than give us Darlene Snell 2.0?
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