I think the acting talent and acting work in these productions is what saves them. The hackey / tropey writing is what is usually so bad. The direction seems to be hit or miss. BLL 2 basic plot made no sense from the get go. There was no actual “crime” to cover up. Handmaid’s Tale has been a narrative train wreck once…

Take a Xanax... They’re actors. They act for a living. If you are offered something that is a David Kelly production with A-list casting, you take the work. That’s what’s available and they generally do well with it. It’s what they DO with their lives. They can’t sit around and wait for the next big-screen “Citizen…

Thank you.

Thank you.

Can I “quote” you on that. You seem to enjoy it.

That’ pretty much the case with most of these series (or star vehicles). The writing isn’t up to the casting. But, hey, they gotta work and get paid, and that’s where the work is these days.

The reveal that the Rustralian cult leader is simply getting people to hallucinate to suggestions is pretty underwhelming. But that’s not as ridiculous as if she was actually conjuring up the dead themselves.

On a private note I have to give a lot of credit to this show regarding suicide and drug reaction. I had NO…

I’m not really feeling the tone or getting the plot of this production. Between the casting and the direction it can’t decide if it’s a not-particularly-funny black comedy, or not-particularly-dramatic drama. It probably should have been three episodes, tops, and it would have been better.

Not that she’s not…

Re. Kidman’s Russian accent; I hired a young woman from Russia, emigrated to the states at 18, who learned English in secondary school from a British-trained Russian English instructor. Her personal resultant accent was practically unidentifiable to anyone who met her in our office. It was by no means the typical…

And she claimed that AFTER she admitted drugging them - if it’s even a legal thing.

It’s like people who you KNOW were hair metal or Thompson Twin fans retroactively became big fans and influenced by “Delta Blues” 30 years later. They wouldn’t recognize a blues scale if it fell off a fish. If I liked someone’s music I have no problem “owning up to it” - talking ‘bout you John Denver. That doesn’t…

Took my Acura TL in for some minor front fender work and the owner’s kid joy rode it over the weekend. Gave it back to me with a shitty paint job, footprints on my seats and dash, scratches on my trunk, probably from his girlfriend’s ass sitting on it, and my radio re-tuned to f***ing country music. It became a free…

I get that White was making statements about White Privilege (but the resolve was there WAS no resolve for those kind of people), but I think at least one of those characters should have been a POC. I’d have chosen Tanya. Pretty much the same character, but without the implied “White” privilege. I think the same…

Anyone thinking the character of Armond is some low-paid put upon schmuck looking for revenge against rich people is mistaken. He would be a very well-paid, well in to six-figure professional, running a resort of $10,000 a night mega-suites and amenity businesses, which cater to the ultra-rich. You don’t hand that…

It’s funny how they cast Sydney Sweeney to be so agog at the body of Alexandra Daddario when she is absolutely smoking in that department herself. Also weird, since she acts below her real age, how like two years ago she was cast as a young virginal 15-ish year-old bride in Handmaid’s Tale.

Yep, three episodes in and this looks like yet another overrated HBO ego project. Usually it’s the name actor who gets to produce , direct, write, or adapt a piece, and trashes virtually every accepted practice of writing a cohesive story, so this one’s a little different, but similar result. Great casting and talent…

It seems like “fingered” would be a pretty acceptable descriptor. Fingers are innocuous. It’s not like saying “dicked” or something. We’ll have to consult with the Department of Pleasant Euphemisms to see what happened. They could also explain how Catholic Clergy use of anal rape / sodomy, and forced oral rape became…

Well she wouldn’t be underage anymore. Sounds like a Star Trek Voyager moral conundrum episode.

Let’s clarify that she is going to get someone SHOT and killed. Her and the rest of the anti-American /anti-vax cult have already killed plenty.

I’ve always wondered what went down when someone or something would mess up one of those long takes. Like the slot machine was slow to explode after he “shot” it.