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Peacemaker season two opening ep review (spoiler warnings)

I love the opening credits, the dance number, the flat back comedy with all those ironic hints. That is one of the cleverest parts of the show and it feels like it’s telling you, don’t take this show too seriously.

The calm before the storm? We are wondering what’s going to happen in season two and to be honest I’ve watched a lot of TV and this feels like total shock value.

John Cena does well playing the emotionally wrecked peacemaker, this episode has a certain sense of calm in the beginning, but it quick scales into the obscene. Nathan Fillon who plays Guy Gardner, wow his hair is… I don’t know what to say to that. Every little line of dialog seems to go out of its way to be as crass as possible.

If I could describe this episode, I’d first have to mention the film Falling Down with Kurt Douglas. There is very much that feeling, of losing one’s job falling into the despair that follows and that rabbit hole you simple can’t get back from.

This is very much the hole that Peacemaker falls into, but his hole, is so much more wild.

The friendship he had with Emilia Harcourt, there, but, breaking, sends them both in very wrong directions. Emilia is clearly in a lot of financial trouble, she is clearly on the edge about to lose her very sparce home. Emilia decides to go crazy in a bar, did she get off on being beaten up? 

Back at Peacemaker’s residence, his dads old house which he seems to have moved into after living in a caravan in the previous season. That’s a lot of drugs he was putting into his system! Then at first, I thought all those naked people in his house were all part of his imagination due to that substance abuse. But now, the guy in the van! He sees them as well. And wow! Some look like they are actually having on screen sex! And when I grew up under a fairly conservative household, I am somewhat shocked they allow this on TV.

One of the main aspects about Peacemaker’s dads house is the pocket dimension room. This adds an interesting dynamic where he travels through the pocket from his own dimension to another where his brother and father are still alive and then finding his copy.

Meeting a version of yourself is one thing, know what to do is another. But accidently killing a version of yourself. That’s whole new mind fuck territory right now and that’s where the episode left us.

I am certainly excited for the rest of the show, but err on the side of caution if you decide to watch.

House of Dragons: Fed-up after episode five

I am not sure if I enjoyed the show, the story feels disjointed and episode five felt like the nail in the coffin for me. The original Game of Thrones was amazing, the writing was excellent with an excellent cast.

The writing for House of Dragons, well there are a few good moments, but the whole script feels disjointed. You are thrown around from one location to another at times. Some of the acting seems good, then other actors, actresses, some seem flat and unemotional. Action thrown in and what you have left is miss-mash TV.

I wasn’t really enjoying the show, and I felt lost with episode five. I understand getting married, but other elements… Ugh! I don’t know how others feel. But I’ve had enough of it.

The Flight Attendant

I finally got round to watching and finishing season one of the show and even know I felt grossed out. I really was hooked from the get go, the end of every episode left you hanging on a thread and wanting to know what was going to happen next.

This honestly, even know modern, had more good old-fashioned TV vibes of who done it. The excellently crafted plot was a joy to watch and Kaley Cuoco was nothing short of exceptional in the role.

Her character Cassie Bowden, started off as a wild party girl, which turns out she was probably suffering from years of PTSD resulting in her having a serious drinking problem. Waking up next to a dead man is no good for anyone and that mentally screwed over Cassie so much, that she was having crazy visions inside her head. From running, to wonderment and onto who done it. This all leads Cassie down a very dangerous rabbit hole and the design of her retribution comes in the form of solving the murder. Hitting rock bottom and crawling back out.

I would also go as far to say this should be on every psychology student’s watch list. Is there a lesson in here with how to deal with alcoholics?

This rest of the cast supported the plot and there were sub-plots, and maybe some hidden sub-plots?

The show seemed to delve into issues with a mafia family to North Korean spies, anyone into suspenseful dramas should really add this to their watch list.

The Young Pope review.

What is the message? Is there a reason for watching? What is there to teach us?

To begin with there is a grandeur about the whole show, the architecture, the buildings, so beautiful in design and the elegance of marble stone. The art form of the show does standout and the music gives a feel of something else. Jude Law (Lenny Belardo) who portrays The Young Pope has an impressive on-screen presence and his ability to play into the character certainly grabs you and draws you in. But there is a wonder, is he actually psychotic?

We start off in a dream sequence, it bounces around so at times you don’t know what is suppose to be reality or what is in his head. When Diane Keaton turns up as Sister Mary they start to try and provide a back story to how Lenny Belardo came to be. But instead this feels like taking a book of history and just dropping it off the side of the boat. So in essence you only saw what the front cover said. This is carried into the politics of the Vatican followed by some interested sequences one of which are some nun’s playing football which I rather liked. There was also an interesting scene with a kangaroo, however how flash the show, I felt like I zoned out at times.

The edginess towards the Pope making his first address was a constant flow throughout the show and when it came to it, I felt disappointed. There didn’t seem any clarity and it’s as if the show petered out at the end leaving you with unanswered questions.

I am not a fan of smoking in films and for a modern generation I didn’t think this was such a good idea to promote it in a way which it looks like a fashion accessory. And the fact he has a Coca-Cola for breakfast felt more like product placement rather than what one might expect to get in an orphanage growing up.

I guess I wont go for the answer as I don’t think I want to watch the next episode.