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NCIS: Hawai'i: Divided We Conquer (2024)
Why the cliffhanger?
Surely the fact that there would not be a fourth season was known in time for the final scene to be removed from the episode cut that aired? It was absolutely and unnecessarily cruel to the viewers to include that cliffhanger rather than end the episode, and the series, on the warm note of the prior scene. I know the operative word in "show business" is "business," but the studios and networks aren't selling toothpaste. They really need to have a little more sensitivity for the nature of their "product" and the feelings of the fans who watch these stories and love these characters, and ending a series on a cliffhanger that you know won't get resolved isn't it.
Lakefront Bargain Hunt: Moving Within Missouri City, Texas (2017)
Finally!
It took six seasons, but finally a black family looking for a lake house!!!! The lack of diversity in this show so far is extremely disappointing - way too many straight white couples. I get really bored with the sameness, it's nice to see some different faces. We need more variety in the races of both the bargain hunters and the real estate agents shown, as well as in the types of bargain hunters. More gay couples, more single people, even more friends or siblings buying homes together.
The show is extremely formulaic and staged, but it is fun seeing the different houses and the gorgeous lake views, just hope for increasing diversity in the remaining seasons.
Chicago Med: Graveyard Shift (2017)
Really?
I know with so many medical shows on the air they have to search far and wide for new and dramatic situations, but really. We don't get even one sentence of explanation as to why, in a city the size of Chicago, this panda was brought to a human hospital and operated on by a human doctor rather than a qualified veterinary surgeon? Surely even if there wasn't one in all of Chicago, one could have been flown in? They didn't even show or mention Connor consulting with the zoo's veterinarian or show her assisting with the procedure even though he clearly doesn't know panda anatomy and physiology. Kind of ridiculous.
Transplant: Collapse (2020)
Ridiculous
It's ridiculous that Bash didn't get fired. First, he left the freaking hospital to do the first responders' job, meaning he a) wasn't there in the ER, where he was desperately needed to do the job he was actually being paid for, both while he was gone and while he was being treated for his chemical burns, and b) exposed the hospital to all kinds of liability. What if the chemical he was exposed to was something he could have spread to other patients he treated in the ER? I hate seeing drama created out of characters doing really stupid things, especially when no one ever even gently suggests to them afterwards that what they did was really stupid. What if the building had collapsed on him and he'd died, leaving the hospital a doctor short in the middle of a mass casualty event and Amira alone in a foreign country? But as if that weren't enough reason to fire him, he had a PTSD flashback in the middle of a life-and-death emergency procedure on a patient, with no apparent consequences at all. No hospital would allow him near a patient again until he was cleared by a mental health professional that it would not happen again.
The Pretender: Exposed (1997)
Warning: flashing lights
There is a long sequence with repeated rapid flashing lights that may trigger seizures in those with epilepsy. It happens near the end of the episode, when Jarod has cornered the stalker and disorients them with repeated camera flashes. I understand the director wanted to create the illusion of experiencing the environment Jarod was creating for the stalker, but including a lengthy sequence of rapid, bright flashes like this without a warning at the beginning of the episode is dangerous and irresponsible. There's no reason not to warn as it would spoil nothing; I hope even one person reads this review and avoids a seizure.
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: The People vs. Emil Blonsky (2022)
Read a comic
The reviews complaining about the fourth-wall-breaking make me roll my eyes - I mean, tell me you've never read a She-Hulk comic without telling me you've never read a She-Hulk comic. Jen is well known for breaking the fourth wall in her books - before Deadpool even existed, by the way, let alone started breaking the fourth wall himself. It's entirely accurate to the character to have her doing that on the show.
And to those who think the show is "man-hating," how do you think women felt watching decades of TV shows and movies rife with misogyny and sexism, both overt and systemic? Take a seat and chill about one show starring a female character that dares to express that reality and frustration.
I love the character and am happy to see her introduced into the MCU, especially seeing her integrated so well with Bruce and his story. So far I am enjoying the show reasonably well and looking forward to seeing more.
For All Mankind: Coming Home (2022)
Really?
It is ridiculous beyond belief that NASA or anyone else overseeing a mission like this would allow a potentially fertile uterus-having astronaut to go on a two-year mission to be the first crew on another planet without a contraceptive implant or IUD. It just would not happen - the risks of pregnancy and childbirth are too great, let alone the complications of then having a newborn infant to feed and care for in that environment with resources that were carefully planned for a specific number of people. And if there was a contraceptive failure, they probably would be given no choice but to have an abortion, as that would be much safer than childbirth. Just couldn't suspend my disbelief this far.
MacGyver: Revenge + Catacombs + Le Fantome (2018)
Pretty good
Pretty good as Macgyver episodes go - nice character stuff for Mac and closure on the Ghost storyline. But I was distracted by the fact that they named a character after a famous actress and then just...didn't have anybody react or acknowledge it? It was weird.
MacGyver: Fire and Ice (1987)
Distracting casting
I found it completely distracting that there was no reaction whatsoever to the fact that Nikki was Lisa, Macgyver's lost love who died just a handful of episodes earlier. This wasn't just using the same actress again for a minor guest role, this was someone who was supposedly very important in Mac's life, and we're supposed to believe just a few episodes later he doesn't notice at all that this entirely new character looks *exactly* like her? Really?
Beauty and the Beast: Everything Is Everything (1988)
Didn't age well
With the rampant stereotypes and frequent use of the ethnic slur "g*%#y," this episode aged even more poorly than most episodes of 80's TV shows.
Highlander: The Raven: Reborn (1998)
Plot point
Having really liked Amanda on Highlander: The Series, I enjoyed her here too. I have one major plot hole to point out, though. Why are Nick and Claudia busting in and arresting Amanda for Harry's death based on nothing but her being seen entering and leaving his house *hours* after he died? The way it was edited, at least, implied that he was killed late at night - *while she was being questioned by Nick and Claudia about the other theft*, in fact - and she didn't go visit him until sometime the next morning. I know our expectations of what forensics can do are somewhat inflated by TV shows, but surely a competent ME can actually pinpoint time of death more closely than that? Yes, once they busted in to her apartment, they found the gun, but they didn't know that before they decided to bust in based on nothing but the eyewitness identification. If the time-of-death call by the ME was accurate to within a few hours, they never should have suspected her in the first place, and if they didn't have a time-of-death determination yet, why weren't they waiting for that before arresting anyone? I suppose they could reasonably have hauled her in for questioning based on her being seen going in and out after he was already dead without notifying anyone, but they weren't just doing that, they got a search warrant - again, with no more cause than her having been seen there hours later - and busted in to arrest her. And never through the rest of the episode was it acknowledged that she couldn't have been the one to kill him, despite the gun having been found there. Do they normally trust circumstantial evidence like finding a gun, which could easily have been planted (as it in fact had been) over their ME's scientific conclusions about time of death? That seems like extremely poor police work. Then there's also the fact that there couldn't be any of Amanda's fingerprints on the gun or any evidence of her owning it, since she didn't own it and hadn't handled/fired it. Shouldn't they have been able to trace it to the actual owner? This bugged me enough to really drag down the episode overall.