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johnwarfn
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Curb Your Enthusiasm: Foisted! (2017)
Disappointing and Not Funny
Something changed. New director or producer? Feels like a different show, more like a conventional scripted sitcom. The observational camera style has been replaced with slick dolly and aerial shots. Lots of quick cuts in the dialogue editing, it's lost that improvisational feeling. Also, not very funny somehow. Felt like a rough draft or a fan produced homage. This used to be a brilliant show but this episode was pretty sad somehow. I was cringing because the jokes and shtick weren't funny. Usually I'm cringing and laughing because Larry is being awkward and making a fool of himself. It just feels like the show us run it's course and they should have let it fade away. Maybe the rest of the season gets better. Let's hope!
Doctor Who: Daleks in Manhattan (2007)
Not a Great Episode but I liked the End
Okay, from the very start, the episode was riddled with problems. The flame on the statue of liberty didn't look like that in the 1930's, it was a patchwork of copper with a light inside... so immediately I was thrown off about the time period. Oh, and there's no way you can see the Empire State Building from Liberty Island out in the middle of New York Harbor. These two errors stick out like a sore thumb to an American viewer. Does anyone in the visual effects department do any research?! Also a black man functioning as the leader of Hooverville?! That's politically correct I suppose but not very likely in the 1930s. And the villainous foreman and his workers were perhaps the worst actors I have every seen. Their accents were bad, the performances were flat, and I felt like I was watching some campy Hammer movie from the 1960s.
I have to say the episode picked up at the end with the reveal of the human/Dalek hybrid and some of the Dalek dialogue was great... so I am hooked on next weeks episode and must resist reading the episode guide since it hasn't aired in the States yet!