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The IT Crowd (2006)
2/10
I just finished binge-watching the entire series on Netflix and I'm gonna give it a 2/10 - one star for every time something in this show was actually funny.
The Big Bang Theory: The VCR Illumination (2018)
Young Sheldon? Nope. I'm out.
The rest of the episode is subpar like the rest of this season, but the appearance of Young Sheldon made me stop watching. I can't stand that kid.
The Big Bang Theory: The Citation Negation (2018)
Fortnite? Really?
Okay, so this is a new low, even for the insanely low standard of season 12. Bernadette tries to torture and humiliate Howard for the 1.000th time for no reason whatsoever, Sheldon and Amy prove that they can't do proper research before writing an important theory, Raj and Howard are playing Fortnite in a desperate attempt to reel in any younger viewers.
Now the real question is: Who the hell cares about any of that? Nobody. There's no point to any storyline in this episode. It's just a filler episode to stretch out the season and to (failingly) hide the fact that the writer (I'm assuming it's just one, everyone else must have fled the set) is just plain out of ideas.
And the worst part is, we can feel that the actor's don't give a damn about their characters anymore, they just read the script and don't put a single thought into how their original character would behave. There's nothing convincing about Sheldon's sudden outburst, Amy is as comforting as a dead fish, Bernadette is as mean as ever, and the comic book store girl delivers a horrible performance trying to teach Fortnite to Bernadette like a drill sergeant.
I have to be honest, this is the worst episode yet and it deserves a crushing -5 out of 10.
The Big Bang Theory: The Consummation Deviation (2018)
Just 16 more episodes to go...
... and then it will finally be over. Thank goodness!
The only good thing about this episode was Teller. He brings it up to an even 1 out of 10, while Raj's I'm-about-to-have-planned-sex-with-the-horrible-last-resort-of-a-woman-I'm-marrying story is about a -4 out of 10. Yes, it's that terrible. The other storylines aren't even storylines, they're just 20% unfunny words and 80% forced laughter by an audience that has an IQ of about 40.
The Big Bang Theory: The Grant Allocation Derivation (2018)
And we're back to a 0/10 (almost)
After last week's episode, I was pretty much expecting to be underwhelmed once again this week, but I couldn't anticipate just how boring this episode would be.
If I could, I'd give it a 0/10. Not a single laugh, not a single scene that's even remotely amusing, not one clever storyline. Leonard gets to decide who receives a grant and has trouble with that while the other guys pester him to pick them, oh dear lord, the originality. And he ends up funding his own experiments, glorious idea. Meanwhile, Bernadette needs a break from her kids and hides out in a play house, my god what a genius concept. The other girls join in? Whoa, who would have guessed that?
And the jokes are even worse. Every single line is so overused and predictable, you can see it from a mile away. I was literally saying the lines out loud before the actors could deliver them. That's just weak writing. You can really feel the writers' intent to stretch the season by any means necessary, just to fill it with nonsense and drag it out to 24 episodes, so that the network will pay them.
Man, I can't wait for this trainwreck to finally be over!
The Big Bang Theory: The Imitation Perturbation (2018)
Finally more than 1/10
I'm so glad there's finally an episode which I can rate more than 1 out of 10! It's kind of sad, however, that it's all due to Simon Helberg's acting performance as Sheldon. Were it not for that, this episode would be a flat 1 out of 10 yet again.
Penny and Leonard fight yet again because they don't match as a couple, and even though they have a sweet moment at the end, it can't save their messed up marriage.
Raj and his horrible fiancé don't merit any mentions, he doesn't have any depth of character left whatsoever and she is just an irritating noise. Honestly, her only purpose is to be someone Raj can end up with so he doesn't die alone, no matter how horrible she is as a person.
Sheldon and Amy took it a step too far as usual, Amy could have just let it go but no, she has to take sides and insult Bernadette in the lowest possible way. I used to just not care about her, but now, I've started to hate her. Sheldon's apology to Bernadette was as usual not an apology at all since he doesn't even know that he's in the wrong, and quite frankly, this concept already got old after six seasons. How people can still laugh about it after eleven seasons is beyond me.
So there you go, the only good thing in this episode was the performance of Simon Helberg. The rest was a regular 1 out of 10 at best.
The Big Bang Theory: The Procreation Calculation (2018)
Just jotting down my emotions...
2 minutes in, no laughs.
5 minutes in, slight chuckle at the image of Penny throwing a rock at a kid.
6 minutes in, hard cringing at Raj's arranged date with that awful woman.
9 minutes in, still no laughs.
13 minutes in, insane boredom sets in. The storylines are just stupid. Still no laughs.
14 minutes in, hatred for Amy rises. Who does she think she is to meddle in Penny's life decisions?
16 minutes in, 2 seconds of happiness. Penny's dad has a line! I love that guy!
18 minutes in, confusion. Why the hell does this awful woman propose to Raj? And why would he say yes?
20 minutes in, I feel unsatisfied. No conflict is resolved, no argument is ever truly over. Still not a single laugh in this episode.
So all in all, it was a pretty terrible episode, but perfectly in line with almost every single episode since about season 6. What was once clever jokes and lovable nerds became a dull and shallow show to convince everyone that even ugly weirdos can and will find love. Well, whatever the writers portray as love, even if no real person would endure this kind of verbal abuse for more than a week.
The Big Bang Theory: The Conjugal Configuration (2018)
Feels like a parody of a parody of sitcoms
Stale jokes, only bickering between everyone, unfunny situations. Why am I even watching this?
Do you guys remember the Scrubs episode in which they parodied sitcoms? Forced laughter with terrible overdrawn acting? Stupid storylines with little to no depth, urelatable characters?
This is what The Big Bang Theory has become since about season 6. It's kind of sad, but hey, at least this will be the last season.
Rookie Blue (2010)
Really? I mean, really?
I can only talk about the first five episodes, but I'll try to be as fair as possible.
Missy Peregrym is not only the best thing on the show, but the only reason I stuck around until now. From the first episode, I was expecting something in the middle between Scrubs and The Shield, something like the best parts of both. Unfortunately, Rookie Blue takes only the worst parts of both and somehow melts them together in a ridiculous way.
I'm no expert in police work, but anyone who makes that many mistakes in their first week (or maybe two weeks) just has to be let go. I think this applies to any job, whether it's a mailman or a butcher, but the police force, where people's lives are actually in danger every day - it should apply twice as much. In this show, it doesn't at all. Somehow, the rookies tend to get stupider every episode, which kind of makes me wonder how the first season will end.
*** POSSIBLE SPOILERS *** Cuffing an undercover cop? Okay, these things can happen. Leaving a surveillance van to chase a bad guy? Alright, I can see that. Forgetting to load your gun? You'd have to be really, really stupid. But leaving the scene of a crime and your partner to pick up your son in a police car with the siren on - that's really it for me. *** END SPOILERS ***
I was holding my sides from laughing, and every chance I was going to give the show is gone. From now on, it's just something to watch when you've got absolutely nothing else to do. A perfect show to have as a background noise, like when you have people over and talk all night.
Just some more generic ratings: the acting is pretty shallow, the script and the storyline is like the most stupid thing I've ever seen in a cop show, it's highly predictable and therefore not thrilling at all, and the music isn't well put together and doesn't create a mood, which could be helpful for a supposed action drama.
Five out of ten, because Missy Peregrym shows some decent skin and I'm really excited about how the first season will come to an end, since until now, every episode was a little stupider than the last.
Pretty Little Liars (2010)
Just not believable
I watched the first episode of this, not at all knowing what I was in for. Something about a bunch of girls who pretend to be cool, then something happens, one of them goes missing, but a whole lot of other girls appear instead, they talk about the missing girl and about a lot of secrets. Well, so far so good.
I really couldn't get into the storyline because of the massive overkill of halfway introduced people. I guess if the girls hadn't lost touch and there were still only four of them, it would be much easier to follow, but instead there's a new girl moving in, there's a young teacher fooling around with students, there's the blind girl who makes the other ones go like, "Whoa, what's she doing here?" and of course there's A. It's way too much to pack into the first episode, really.
I also thought the acting itself was kind of dull and poor, it's just not believable. I was pretty much expecting every single action they did and every single line they said. Everything that happens in the pilot is like textbook to a bad teeny movie, especially Hanna's mom with her boy-toy and - with the most horrible catchphrase ever - the police officer who claims to find all the answers to each little secret. I was literally laughing out loud at him.
Another thing that disturbed me, the pilot changes the mood way too fast. It's two minutes of happy family, then the phone rings, and then it's two minutes of oh-my-god-what-is-this-who-is-texting-me-mysterious-messages, then it cuts right back to two minutes of sweet romance and love, which is immediately followed by two minutes of jealousy, frustration and envy. This really stopped me from getting into the story and feeling any chemistry or sparks whatsoever. The music is in the same fashion, by the way. Every two minutes, it changes from mysterious spheric sounds you hear on nine out of ten movie soundtracks to classic teeny pop you hear each day on bad radio stations. So, at least there you could say the music fits the rest of the show. But other than that, the only positive thing for me was Ashley Benson (when she was not talking and just looking hot).
That's it for me, I laughed a whole lot at the pilot and won't waste my time with anymore episodes.
Encounters at the End of the World (2007)
Wasted opportunity
The beautiful scenery can't make up for the horrible editing and the even worse narrating. This movie could have been so much more, but apparently Werner Herzog has no clue whatsoever on how to achieve anything that goes beyond a nice sunset. It really is more kind of a crappy home video. The best part was when Werner Herzog explained what the linguist in the greenhouse was talking about by simply giving a horrible voice-over. Why wouldn't he just let him give a short explanation on location? He did have the time... If you're into beautiful pictures, you might want to see this movie with the volume turned all the way down. It gets watchable.