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Clarice (2021)
🎶Goodbye Franchise... I'm Cryin over Yooooou 🎶
Some TV shows save Franchises (like the mandalorian) and some kill their franchises. Sadly, this show belongs to the later.
There is so much juicy and unique material in the books, yet this cop-drama is completely formulaic.
I had such high hopes, but alas, this was a let-down.
This could be any "good cop/bad cop" network drama.... Good cop has to work hard to win over bad cops respect etc etc.
I'm bored with this formula.
Acting was ok, but the writing is wooden and predictable.
Bottom line, don't get your hopes up.
Cursed Films (2020)
Not What It Claims To Be
Was REALLY looking forward to this series and was the main reason I subscribed to Shudder.
I love documentaries, I love horror and I love the combination of the two.
Unfortunately, in almost every episode, about 10 mins of the beginning is actually about the curse of said movie, and the majority and remainder goes way left field, far away from the cursed film.
It was every episode too. It felt like they could only afford 10mins of trademark material. Then they fill the remainder of time with arbitrary interviews of random people that have a very distant connection to the film.
I wouldn't mind this series if they had marketed it honestly and not as a docuseries of cursed films.
The Unicorn (2019)
So close, so Cliché. ENOUGH WITH THE HAND-HELD CAM
I understand that hand-held camera videography can convey a mood in a scene or give a home camera feeling... but why for this?
I am sooooo OVER the hand-held camera effect and it is the only filming technique used in this show...
So, what is this trying to convey? Confusion and disjointedness in EVERY SCENE? (Including the heart-warming daddy/daughter moments). Or is this show being filmed with a home camera by someone stalking them?
Let this filming trend die already. EVERYONE uses it now and there is nothing creative or innovative about it, nor has there been for 20+ yrs.
Yes, it worked for the office, but the office was supposed to be a documentary and the hand-held made complete sense.
Enough of my hand-held rant.
This show had a lot of potential, story was overall okay, but the clunky writing, poor editing and awful use of the Cliché hand-held cam ensured I wouldn't watch episode two.