Sometimes the show is so good or so bad or so mediocre, you just don't have anything to add, and so there's no review. Sometimes the show is so good or so bad you want to cry out, and there is a review.
Here's a show that's neither particularly good nor especially bad, but makes me want to put down a couple of words.
It's so slow that it takes quite a few time to start liking the characters. There's no usual `mad scientist and his earthly friend` collision, which makes it dull from the very beginning. There is also almost no attempt to show that the victims suffer or that the criminals are also humans. The only ones who impressed me were probably the sleepy train engineer who had to support his family and regretted his mistake, and the father who wanted to see his daughter.
I guess it ultimately depends on the actor.
And if there's a couple of things I enjoyed, they would be the supporting actors. The most brilliant in these show were: Lou Diamond Phillips, just because his level of coolness was superseding everyone else so much, John Cariani, because he was the only one who succeeded in creating a cute scientist, and Josh Gad, because he managed to be so natural and so funny. I didn't even recognise him, even though I knew some other roles of his, but every time he appeared, he made my day.
Now episodic cameos of these would not be enough to say the show is successful, but I kept watching till the end. What made me do that, I couldn't tell, as the mathematical aspect of the show is so clearly wasted. Instead of introducing the beauty of mathematics, they create a simple analogy every now and then, which is just what it is: an analogy. No real mechanisms were explained, and no attempt was done to do that, except that they actually named the mathematical or physical law or theory.
Oh, now I remembered why in the first place I wanted to watch this. I thought maybe it could inspire me to go back to math. Nah...
Just a couple of other things I did not like at all.
First, the take on psychic abilities. First time the man claiming to have them shows, the episode ends in no particular conclusion. Okay, there's hope he could come back and things would be cleared out. Second time he shows, they decide to leave the answer even more vague by simply erasing the character - without any chance of coming back this time. I hated these two episodes. For a show that claims to popularise mathematics, nothing would ruin it more than allowing credibility to psychics.
And the second one, the episode about false accusations that were left uncontradicted. I mean, I've never seen a modern-day death penalty in such detail. One thing popped up to my mind. Isn't it still used because some people believe, maybe somewhere deep inside their souls, without even realising it, that the executed suffer? Like, watches his body from above and sheds crocodile tears they're no longer alive? Finally realise they have been wrong only after they lose their precious life?
Well then, they don't. Even if they suffer when the drugs don't work properly, just like Robin wished, it's so meaningless. They won't be able to remember that pain. They won't think 'oh this is so unpleasant, I won't commit such crimes again because it inflicts such painful punishment'.
I guess my watching this show reflects my life during this month and a half - nothing special. With occasional puns.
And to think that I missed the release of `Good omens` because of that!
Here's a show that's neither particularly good nor especially bad, but makes me want to put down a couple of words.
It's so slow that it takes quite a few time to start liking the characters. There's no usual `mad scientist and his earthly friend` collision, which makes it dull from the very beginning. There is also almost no attempt to show that the victims suffer or that the criminals are also humans. The only ones who impressed me were probably the sleepy train engineer who had to support his family and regretted his mistake, and the father who wanted to see his daughter.
I guess it ultimately depends on the actor.
And if there's a couple of things I enjoyed, they would be the supporting actors. The most brilliant in these show were: Lou Diamond Phillips, just because his level of coolness was superseding everyone else so much, John Cariani, because he was the only one who succeeded in creating a cute scientist, and Josh Gad, because he managed to be so natural and so funny. I didn't even recognise him, even though I knew some other roles of his, but every time he appeared, he made my day.
Now episodic cameos of these would not be enough to say the show is successful, but I kept watching till the end. What made me do that, I couldn't tell, as the mathematical aspect of the show is so clearly wasted. Instead of introducing the beauty of mathematics, they create a simple analogy every now and then, which is just what it is: an analogy. No real mechanisms were explained, and no attempt was done to do that, except that they actually named the mathematical or physical law or theory.
Oh, now I remembered why in the first place I wanted to watch this. I thought maybe it could inspire me to go back to math. Nah...
Just a couple of other things I did not like at all.
First, the take on psychic abilities. First time the man claiming to have them shows, the episode ends in no particular conclusion. Okay, there's hope he could come back and things would be cleared out. Second time he shows, they decide to leave the answer even more vague by simply erasing the character - without any chance of coming back this time. I hated these two episodes. For a show that claims to popularise mathematics, nothing would ruin it more than allowing credibility to psychics.
And the second one, the episode about false accusations that were left uncontradicted. I mean, I've never seen a modern-day death penalty in such detail. One thing popped up to my mind. Isn't it still used because some people believe, maybe somewhere deep inside their souls, without even realising it, that the executed suffer? Like, watches his body from above and sheds crocodile tears they're no longer alive? Finally realise they have been wrong only after they lose their precious life?
Well then, they don't. Even if they suffer when the drugs don't work properly, just like Robin wished, it's so meaningless. They won't be able to remember that pain. They won't think 'oh this is so unpleasant, I won't commit such crimes again because it inflicts such painful punishment'.
I guess my watching this show reflects my life during this month and a half - nothing special. With occasional puns.
And to think that I missed the release of `Good omens` because of that!
