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The Big Bang Theory (2007)
Even guest stars can't save this sinking ship.
When a long running series starts having guest stars of varying degrees of fame and notoriety, you know they know their days are numbered. The last time I actually laughed at this show was Amy doing her Riverdance and Sheldon's response. In fact they are the only two characters that still have possibilities of humour but recently even their dialogue has been predictable.
Obviously the show is running out of story lines or any kind of character development. Stuart is wasted and the other characters keep running around the same hoop. Penny's character went down hill when we were asked to believe she could possibly pronounce any drug as a pharmaceutical sales rep. None of the males have matured. Koothrapali hasn't had anything to do in years.
I guess we'll have to wait until the wedding...but even that is loaded with "guests" which kinda indicates the producers don't even have faith in their own scripts. All they really need is Bob Newhart to make an appearance. Then we'd at least have a good chuckle.
The Crossing (2018)
Good plot cheap production
Interesting plot so far...full of possibilities. Too bad the casting is so bad. The women for the most part are familiar looking tall brunettes with long hair; the men, especially in the sherrif's department, are lacklustre and definitely D list casting. I'll watch another episode but this has the potential of going downhill fast. Dare I say this reeks of a low budget American production filmed in Canada?
The Child in Time (2017)
Out of Date. Out of Touch
Spoilers: Your husband dresses like a young boy, builds forts in the woods and you blithely look out your window and ring a bell when supper is ready???
Your child disappears and you don't contact your wife immediately but wait until you're driven home by the police??
You apparently don't work but can afford an huge upscale flat or are we supposed to believe a children's book writer in this day and age can live off royalties???
Or an apparently friendless woman teaching a few hours a week and giving piano lessons can afford a killer stand alone cottage on a large Kent property?.
Oh dear. I am someone who cries over diaper commercials but nothing in this contrived out of touch melodrama touched me in any way. Each character was an upper class white Brit - devoid of passion. Everyone said their lines appropriately but what was happening underneath?? Nothing.
I kept on hoping it would get better. It didn't. When it ended in a barren hospital room with no monitoring equipment and a woman valiantly giving birth without aid of drugs, I wondered if this script had been written in the '50
Counterpart (2017)
Excellent potential
Wow. I was blown away by the first episode of this (surprisingly) American spy thriller. I say surprisingly because this has the feel of British or European film noir reminiscent of Carol Reed's The Third Man- empty echoing streets, tall nameless post-war Berlinesque buildings, taut sparse plot and seemingly artless cinematography. It avoids the all too familiar pitfalls of typical Hollywood big studio gloss with its tell-all format and predictable casting.
The viewer takes the same journey as the main character played by JKSimmons who never disappoints with his thoughtful intelligent acting style. We find out at the same time he does what is going on- or at least the beginning of what might be going on. So glad British actors have also been used to give the show sophistication and edge. Cannot wait til the next episode.
The Big Bang Theory: The Junior Professor Solution (2014)
Amy enjoys just being a girl. Sheldon has to become a teacher.
OH dear. I had such high hopes for this season- but it looks like more of the same antics. Same personalities with little growth, learning or change. Exceptions in this episode are Amy and Howard. Howard is finally standing up for himself and facing down Sheldon's constant disparagement of his intellect. He was actually quite sincere and real. Amy is finally living out her missed teenage years in her confidence sharing with the other two girls. But she is aware of what she is doing. Also in the last episode, she appeared to be assessing herself in relation to Sheldon and deciding what she will or will not put up with. Sheldon continues to act like a child. Why the others put up with him is a constant nagging question now. My patience is growing thin also.
The Big Bang Theory: The Locomotion Interruption (2014)
Leonard and Amy go to rescue Sheldon. Howard doesn't like Stewart living at his mothers.
What a disappointment. I loved this show- have belly laughed repeatedly throughout the seasons. But I didn't crack a smile once tonight. There was very little originality in the various plots. The characters seem to have become caricatures of themselves. Has anyone of them changed their behavior or opinions? least of all Sheldon. Surely he has learned some basic societal rules in 7 years??? Once again, he shows little compassion for others- or even willingness to understand them. In addition, when he says in the car to Leonard that he is going to have "coitus" with Amy, merely to test if she is listening to him from the back seat, I felt completely cheated by the writers. That relationship has completely stagnated. Run out of material guys??