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Hesperia (2019)
Nothing Happens for Half of Movie
For the first 47 minutes of this hour and twenty minute movie, nothing happens. Ganbangers have pointless conversations with one another, a husband and wife have pointless conversations with one another, two juveniles have pointless conversations with one another and play checkers and pool. You can't make a good home invasion movie if the first half (plus) of the movie is a total, aimless bore.
Bancroft (2017)
Wanted to Like It But Too Sloppily Written (Contains Spoilers)
There are gaping plot problems throughout the series (too many to list them all here), but following are just a couple of examples. Other reviewers have mentioned the absence of knowledge of police procedures. The lead character, for example, admits in her interrogation that she hid an affair with the husband of the murder victim and covered that up for 27 years. Moreover, she says enough to make it clear it was completely inappropriate for her to have had any role in the investigation of that murder, yet instead of, at the very least, dinging her for dereliction of duty, her boss intervenes and shuts down the interview as being based solely on "innuendo." We see from the flashbacks that the husband of the murder victim was genuinely distraught at the murder of his wife and unborn child (and had nothing to do with it), but he tells the lead character that he has not been to the grave site since the burial services, 27 years ago, and does not even remember where it is!! Yet he suddenly wants to visit it. The slipshod writing is not excusable, imo.
The Five (2016)
Huh?
The first couple of episodes introduce a bewildering (not to be confused with intriguing) array of possibly (but, if so, then improbably) connected plots involving the standard "what happened as kids comes back to haunt the adults" mystery motif. Adding to the confusion is a disconcerting jump-cut style, in which, as soon as a character decides to go somewhere, the scene immediately cuts to him/her entering that new place, as if having been teleported there. I will try to stick with it, but I fear I will not have the stamina or inclination to fight through all the complications until the end.