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Tokyo Vice (2022)
A Show With a Soul
First, and perhaps foremost, pervasive racism. Casual and unapologetic racism. In your face and simply in passing racism.
Racism aside, as accurate and unfortunate as it may be, this show surprises with the throwaway scene, the passing between one important, narrative progressing scene. They spend a perfect amount of time in this in between; these flavorful transitions between places. It gives the show a fullness that gives the sense of the show having a soul in its very first season.
The colors and themes are great and the acting is as it should be, but it is those fluffy lore-esque atmospheric scenes that make the show better than acceptable and watchable.
The Watcher (2022)
Fun Show But Strange Use of Rightwing Tropes
Strange amount of borrowing from Rightwing conspiracy theory content popularized by dangerous mentally ill individuals.
The show mentions "blood sacrifice" "Blood drinking for adrenochrome" early in the show. These are themes that those Qanon cultists touch on heavily.
Whatsmore, the "Fourth Turning" is a favorite of Far-Rightwing provocateur and Trump-pardoned felon, Steven K. Bannon.
It is very, very unusual for a tv show to borrow so heavily from fringe, even dangerous, sources. It is quite likely that somebody on the writing team is either Rightwing themselves or are lazy and recontextualized conspiracy theory nonsense for this fiction.
Fire Country (2022)
Lowest of low budget
Have you ever just REALLY WANTED a Chicago Fire with criminals and one tenth the budget... This is the show for you.
The effects are 2000's level. As if they used a render farm of 486 Pentium chips worth $2 each. The fire... does not look like fire. It looks like a projection of light of a large fake fire on top of several small fake fires. EVERY TIME!
That is not even the most intrusive element. Its the mad dash to humanize way too many characters way too fast. It reads like you are about to kill them all off they humanized them so hard. The fact that they did not die within the next two scenes is baffling. As it would be the only way to justify ramming the exposition down our throats like you paid us. It is a pilot, NOT an entire season.
Broadcast channels serving up trash. :(
HARD PASS.
MK Ultra (2022)
Utter Lack of Post Production
I like the lead actor that plays the doctor; this was a gimmick and I feel for it.
This is not just low budget. You can do a lot with a short changed budget. Even in the opening; there should not have just been a 1:1 old video playing. There were no effects used; not even a ken burns effect or something. The CIA guy has huge nose hairs coming up from pretending to snort cocaine. This is super obvious against a light colored background. NOBODY looked at this film after it was put in the can. The lighting is terrible in every indoor scene and the shadows are not managed at all.
FIFTEEN MINUTES IN... I had to hit the ejector button. I am not going to waste my time watching a movie that was not worth a second look to the people that made the dang thing.
Ludik (2022)
I wanted to like this.
I like the genre. I like foreign locations. I've even liked the lead since the mummy...
It is not good.
The porn shoot level sets are almost forgivable, if they'd spent the money on multiple takes and reshoots. But, its got no redeeming qualities. I must refuse more.
Cosmic Sin (2021)
Wanted this to be good.
Plain clothes in space.
Turned movie off.
Game over.