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You Are Wanted (2017)
Good and entertaining first season, but...
The show is entertaining, the actors are good enough, and the story (though not very original) is compelling. The issue I have is that the first three episodes have a direction, and the second three a different one which, and here's the problem, has nothing to do with the initial one.
SPOILERS AHEAD
That's because later on you find out that the 'bad guy' just wanted/needed the code to unlock a particular series of information. But if that was the case, all he needed to do was forcing the main character to reveal it (by kidnapping his son, for example). The whole plot of having him passing for a potential terrorist, or framing him for a million other thing (which was actually the best part, in the first three episodes) was totally pointless, or at least it could have lasted one episode. After you frame the guy, all you need to do is tell him "if you want your life back give/find me the code". There's no need to involve so many other characters (the former lover, Lena, the guy who smashes his head into the mirror, etc etc). Other than that, the show is cool, even if the plot gets less interesting in the second half of the season.
Andròn: The Black Labyrinth (2015)
This is a first, for me..
This movie is SO bad, that it needs to get some kind of recognition with at least a short review. In my life I've seen many, many bad movies, but believe me, even in the worst cases I would always find a reason to finish it...maybe a bit of curiosity, or just to see HOW low it could go, or by just telling myself that if I had already wasted one hour of my life, why not making it one and a half and see if there was a remote chance it got (dare I say it?) 'better'? But this one was just too much, I stopped it 40 minutes in and never turned back. For some reason, I had not checked IMDb's ratings before, but I certainly did after, and it's funny to realize that I have now spent more time on the film's page on IMDb than watching the movie itself. Yes, it's THAT bad.
Vinyl (2016)
Clichés? Yes, a few, but still very good and fascinating
I can't believe how many bad reviews I'm reading here. Not that the show was perfect (I just finished a 24h binge watching of the whole first season), because it's not, but 4 stars? Even 3 and 2? For me it's a solid 8 star, despite some arguably avoidable clichés, but not the ones most people are talking about. Sex and drugs and payola in the 70s music industry are clichés, yes, so should they avoid something so obviously real THERE and THEN, just because we already know about? And what's the alternative, if they can't portray "infidelity" in the music business, a fake happy couple living in THAT environment without problems, like in a 50s ad? Sex and drugs on TV are not taboos any longer, so what? Is showing taboos a mandatory criteria in order to have a good show? What's a taboo anyway, nowadays, should they add some incest , pedophile priests or scat, just to be original? Too late anyway, Pasolini already did most of it -guess what- in the 70s. The minor problems for me concern a 'too-much-Scorsesed' plot, with the customary dead body in the trunk (one reviewer is right about that, at least) and mafia connections. Even though I'm sure there was plenty of it, it seems a bit too much or too preponderant in the plot. I would have focused more on the Polygram deal or on the industry's malfeasance, probably. That said, it's still a fascinating and well done portrait of life in the music business in those years, and somehow I think that Scorsese and Mick Jagger know a bit more about it than most of the reviewers here (including me), clichés or not.