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First Love (2022)
Honestly Beautiful Family That Really Love Each Other
If you're looking for a hot young adult romance, this is not your movie. If you look at this as a family drama surrounding unemployment, illness, and the heartbreak of first real love, it's really solid.
Jeffrey Donovan's portrayal of the despair of unemployment, underemployment and the damage it does to self worth and marriage, is spot on.
Watching Ann succumb to pressure from her mother to play the field is heartbreaking but I can completely understand her mother. She wants her daughter to have everything in life.
This is a tender vision of the value of really loving family and a testament to their importance.it's also a beautiful depiction of faith. Hero's portrayal of Jim is fantastic.
Miranda (2009)
Embarrassed to have just recently discovered Miranda
Miranda is one of the few sitcoms I've ever watched that really makes me laugh out loud. The real issues that Miranda portrayed especially in regard to her height, her narcissistic mother and her anxiety are just written so brilliantly that instead of being cloying they are heartfelt and relatable. The physical comedy is just amazingly funny. No one breaks the 4th wall as well as she does. The entire cast is phenomenally talented. And they spark with each other. Sarah Hadland and Tom Ellis are just incredible. This is a deeply silly farce at its very best.
Miranda wrote a gem and I can totally understand the obsession even 14 years later in the UK.
Call Me Kat (2021)
Really wanted to love this
I'm a huge Miranda Hart/Miranda fan and when I heard this would be produced by Mayim, Jim Parsons, and Miranda Hart I hoped that it would be much funnier and similar to the source material. The truth is, I think it would be much funnier if Miranda Hart was writing it as well. Her writing was vastly superior. The character development has been pretty good. Mayim is wonderful and is doing the best she can with the writing but the genuine spark that made Miranda's cast such a huge hit in the UK, just doesn't seem to be there. I'm still going to watch it through (I'm midway through season 3). Still hoping for the laugh out loud moments.
Poldark (2015)
An absolute favorite.
This is fantastic. The writing is superb. It's a completely faithful adaptation of the source material. Beautifully acted. And let's be honest Cornwall is an amazing setting.
Outlander (2014)
Terrible, terrible adaptation.
If you are a book reader, stay away. The source material is amazing. This is crap. Scotland is beautiful. The writing is a gross attempt to make a legitimate hero into an idiot with an alpha/feminist wife. Sam Heughan is the highlight here. He becomes Jamie Fraser. Otherwise, a waste of time.