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La Brea: The Fort (2021)
Nothing new
I have no idea why this episode is the highest rated of the series so far. There were no new.developments, nothing.
Characters are still (mostly) bad. Like, who cares about the letter at the end when we barely seen Gavin and Eve together? Is that supposed to work? It does not for me.
Logic, as almost always with this show, is replaced with a fact-paced.narrative. Josh and the girl (Riley?) hide from the fort people, then they argue, then they reenter the fort... just to escape again. I mean you would think they do something important, but they have no contribution whatsoever, their arc is meaningless, it doesn't even develop characters, they were just there to.eat up the time of the episode.
I'm gonna keep watching since it's just a 10 episode season, but come on, La Brea, give us something good.
The Girl Who Got Away (2021)
dumb
It's not horrible, but definitely not good. Maybe OK to kill time.
No recognizable faces for me, yet the acting is very much on point.
I really don't understand one thing though. Half an hour before the end we found out that the main character is actually not who viewer thinks she is, but instead she's the daughter of the serial killer and somewhat psycho herself. It's suggested even earlier, but she literally says her name's not Christina. In other words, even if you don't pay attention very closely, you should know at some point in the movie she's not who she says she is.
Why is she still presented as the movie's protagonist until the very end then? As if nothing happened and I should still think she's Christina. And then at the very last second she says her name's actually Katie, is that supposed to be a twist? Is there any single person who have not figured that out by that point of the movie?
I didn't hate the movie, but the way that plotline unfolded really seemed stupid to me.