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Professor T (2021)
Happiness considered an evil
The writers of this series suffer from the same disease afflicting Disney, couples are not allowed to be happy. They have Jasper making a breakthrough, a proposal and then (I can hear the snickering now as they wrote) have to crush everything in a horrible ending to the season. I have deleted my copies and will not be watching may more of this sad disappointment.
What would have been better would have been to write some hope into the narrative, of course this would probably cause the BBC to fire the writers, but one can dream, cannot one? Perhaps an arc where Professor Tempest has to deal with being invited to the wedding, maybe something happens such as a cunning murder to add spice to the story without harming the main characters (upsetting the BBC again). But it would e better than the same tired trash we were give last night.
Expend4bles (2023)
Worthless unlistenable dialogue
The earlier films had plot, humor and dialogue that fit. This waste of time the writers or producers felt they had to appeale to the trash-talking rap crowd by littering every place in the script with profanity. ALomost none in the first few films and they made a profit. With this change, catering to a democgraphic that does not purchase tickets, they are taking a bath, and a well-deserved one. Clean it up, Sly and you'll make a profit. Tey say I have to have at least 600 words in order to post, so... I really do not have anything more to say. Hollywood has decoided to go after the lowest common denominator. This is an example.
Slow Horses (2022)
With better language could be number 1
The writers seem stuck in the 6th grades boys room as gutter language and an almost religious reliance on the F-word seems to be their only way f expressing an opinion. This could have been the BBC rescue of the US series Chaos, but find a writer who can lay down a plotline without profanity, graphic gore and graphic sex is like finding another Hope Diamond. A show that managed this is the now gone New Tricks, a similar plotline where castoffs manage to do what their supposed betters could not. Humor does not have to be juvenile to be funny, scatalogical can be relegated to the wastenbasket without harming anything, and in fact it would increase the audience. Try it, just once and see.
Revelation: The End of Days (2014)
Not the Biblical version
This is a USA version with no angels, no demons, no two witnesses at Jerusalem, no biblical rapture and helicopters as demons. The writers didn't read the book. I would have excused it if it had tried to be semi accurate but after the Second Coming is a judgement of the Antichrist. That never happens. In this one life just goes on. You would think the History Channel could have done more. They did not. The acting is much better than the script the performers were handed. You have to wonder what they were thinking. New Babylon, according to the Bible is in the Middle East, not New Orleans. The false prophet is missing entirely and so is the image of the Beast.
A Quiet Place Part II (2020)
The producers must have a dvd of Primeval the BBC series
The monsters are copied from the BBC series Primeval, right down to the details on the CGI and how they hunt. In the BBC series, one of the creatures (mutated bats) comes through a time vortex and when it is shown, you see what was used for this film. Unless the ones who made this movie are the one who produced Primeval, they may wind up with a copyright infringement lawsuit. Seriously guys, is it that difficult to come up with originality? Off the top of my head, without copying Jurassic Park, Primeval, Start Trek or any other production, I can put together a half dozen creepies for you. Example: giant frogs with a bone shattering croak and tongues that flick hmans in for dinner, a plant/animal hybrid with projectile torns, flesh eating wasps with a hive mind...
The Outpost (2018)
So much better than most current productions
The one things that stands out above the high quality acting and storytelling is the lack of what most of TV thinks it must have, graphic gory violence, strong profanity, and sex. This production spent its money on good writing and solid scripting. No cheese, no preaching, no F-bombs to satisfy those with a lack of manners, just a good, entertaining tale. Yes it could have more of what you think should be there in a fantasy, but then, this is not GOT and today's Hollywood does not write big checks to family-friendly productions. Mores the pity, because this show could have used it far better than most of the rest.
Fortunate Son (2020)
Obviously was never there
Kari Matchett is far too good of an actress to be involved in this propaganda play. It is obvious to anyone who experienced the late 60's that what is being offered up by the writers is pure biased speculation with no research being done at all, and it is a shame.
I was in the Navy as a corpsman, my brother a Marine in the swamps of Vietnam. We both knew people who objected and people who ran. I am sure at least a few are still alive and could have been used as advisors for continuity, correctness, reality... three factors lacking from the script.
I suggest the tag line, based on a true story be removed for honesty's sake.
NCIS: Los Angeles: Assets (2017)
For the lack of a decent character
I'm sorry, but the addition and horrible casting of Nia Long's Assistant Director, one of my favorite shows has become unwatchable. I don't know if it's the direction, or if it's her, but she is simply a non-starter in this role, and it is a role that should not be there. I don't know what should be, but I do know it is not what the showrunner thought would work, which does not, in any way.