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johnhchappel
Reviews
Mighty Express (2020)
Should be renamed Thomas Wannabe
Yet once again the North Americans copy a successful program from the UK and make a mess of it.
Stick to Thomas The Tank Engine far better & more entertaining stories to male you kid think and just sit watching the screen and getting dumber by the second.
Angie Tribeca (2016)
The Worst Show Ever Produced
Did not like a single thing about this show.
Acting was terrible
Writing is atrocious
Comedy is non-existent
This tries to bring back the old style slapstick and fails in the worst possible way. I am a fan of slapstick and this is not it. I liked Leslie Nielsen's over the top type of humour and most of what he made(thought his remake of the Pink Panther was terrible). Leslie brought class to this genre, this show brings nothing but ridicule.
I must admit that I was put off from the opening scenes and my option only got worse as the show continued, until finally I could take no more and stopped watching.
I have no idea why Rashida Jones agreed to do this,she can do a lot better than this piece of garbage. There has been a lot of trash produced lately and this program is at the top of the heap.
Supergirl (2015)
Improving with each episode
This review is written just before the airing of season 1, episode 8. Unlike quite a few other reviewers who trashed this show on the basis of the pilot only, I decided to see how the show and characters progressed. This is basically a reboot of the Supergirl story. The pilot was not the best that I have seen but I must say that it is improving as it goes on. The characters are maturing and the story lines are passable but not great.
While reading through previous reviews, I was stunned by some of the very negative comments. Some people criticized the show because it does not follow the historic comic book story lines but they then compare it unfavourably to The Flash and Arrow, neither of which follow the comic books either. So why condemn this show but praise the other 2 ? Considering the original Supergirl was set in the 1950's & 60's it is not surprising that the producers decided to update the whole thing to the current era, after all Jimmy Olson would now be at least 75 years old (a bit old to be a photographer for a modern magazine) and changing him to an African-American is not such a hard thing to come to terms with considering how racist the comic book was (the vast majority of non-Caucasians were villains and nearly all humanoid heroes were Caucasian).
I am enjoying this version of Supergirl and was very pleased with the choice of actors for her adoptive parents, great nod to past shows. I even watched Helen Slaters Supergirl movie again.
Significant Mother (2015)
distasteful and VERY implausible
I find the whole premise of this show distasteful and VERY implausible. I do not have a problem with older woman/younger man relationships, I prefer them myself. What I do find distasteful is that it is between a guys mother and his best friend and in the apartment that the friends share, it shows that they gave no consideration to the son/friend. All relationships affect other people and their feelings/relationships should at least be considered even if they are going to be discarded or ignored.
I do not know about other people but I would not want to try to sleep each night knowing that my "best friend" is banging my mother in the next room. I would not be comfortable getting up in the morning and seeing my mother in her underwear at the breakfast table.
My first reaction would be to move out of the apartment, if they want to have a relationship fine but it does not have to be thrust into the sons face every moment of the day. This type of situation would adversely affect the relationships of the son with both the "best friend" and mother. In fact I would no longer consider him my best friend.
What is even more implausible is that any middle aged woman (especially a very beautiful & sexy one, ex Bay Watch babe) would even consider having a serious long term relationship with a man that behaves like a child and who's IQ probably does not even reach double digits. The only thing they could have in common is sex which is not enough to build a long lasting relationship on, trust me, I know from experience.
This is indicative of some of the morals being espoused on US TV shows these days. Another example is Pretty Little Liars, 15yr old girl having a sexual relationship with her 20-something teacher, wrong and illegal on so many levels, not to mention that they meet in a bar and have sex within minutes in a dirty disgusting toilet (at least 2 laws broken right there, 15yr old in a bar & statutory rape/sex with a minor).