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The Night Of (2016)
Sorry couldn't go past the first episode
So we are introduced with this bright young man, he is obviously an intelligent individual, he studies math and also serves as a math tutor for his university's Basketball team. Later that evening the guy takes his dad's taxi to go to a party, fine seems reasonable enough, young people do this things, but this is where the show goes full retardation. A girl walks into his cab, and he's like " I'm off duty", but the girl is like "take me places" so he's like "OK I will". Then the girl is like " take these drugs" and the dude is like, "no I don't do drugs" but the girl is like "common I'm hot, do these drugs with me" and he is like "OK". Then the girl takes out a knife and says "stab yourself with this knife" and guy is like "no way!" and the girl is like "do it!" and the guy does it. Then the girl goes "now stab me" and he's like "no" and she says "please" and he says "OK just once" and he stabs here. This is where I stopped watching, couldn't keep watching, it's like the main character doesn't have a will of his own, he just goes along with things, so why did the show try so hard to establish him as an intelligent person at the beginning?
The X Files (1993)
Lame and getting lamer
What was that? No seriously what the actual? Is this X-Files or effing Star Trek? Five minutes into the first episode and we already get to see CG spaceships crashing and aliens getting shot at.
This is X-Files dumbed down to today's notion of hyper-active nonstop action entertainment, where a minute cannot pass without something blowing up or someone getting shot at, otherwise the average American viewer might fall asleep. X-Files used to be all about the mystery, involvement of extraterrestrials was always implied, but it was done intelligently and had to be deduced. But the creators of this thing apparently were afraid that their audience aren't smart enough to understand subtleties, so they had to make scenes explaining every single thing with CG and explosions, leaving no room for mystery or imagination.
They removed a huge layer of the mystery which is wondering whether there's a conspiracy or Mulder is just going crazy. Nope, they cleared that part right away by showing us the Aliens and their spaceships so we wouldn't have to worry about that. Now all we have to worry about is whether Mulder can prove that aliens exist.
And what happened to Scully? She used to be all skeptical and scientific, now she just has PTSD and is totally aboard with Mulder's conspiracies, she doesn't even bother providing an alternative explanation to events, so instead of Mulder and Scully, we just get another Mulder only this one is female.
Childhood's End (2015)
Missed opportunity to be a masterpiece.
I've read Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's end so many years ago that I've managed to forget about it till this show came out. I was excited to see how this novel will be converted to television, but i've managed to contain my excitement, because the producing network was Syfy, a network known to me for it's mediocre half baked endeavours.
Alas, I was not wrong. It's like the producers were afraid of taking risks, so they used a well tested formula to generate a bunch of generic characters with generic backstories. Resulting in a parade of melodrama infused into Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's end universe, it almost feels like a soap opera with spaceships.
Perhaps I'm being too harsh, it's a decent enough show, if it weren't an interpretation of a beloved novel, I might have even thought it was pretty good. Unfortunately the producer's lack of creativity made it hard for me to enjoy.