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After Life - Season 2
After Life - Season 2
2020 | Comedy, Drama
Exploring the aspects of mental health (3 more)
Storyline
Characters
Honesty
Truthful, honest and brutal
Afterlife Season 2 continued to follow the story of Tony, a brutal but honest character who is trying to become a better friends to those around him, whilst still struggling with the immense grief of losing his wife. Although maintaining his brutal honesty and hard shell, you see this character develop more and more into a more kindhearted, supportive and better person whilst still battling with the loss of his wife. We also see how he mentors a new aspiring journalist, and tries to brighten up what essentially isn't the greatest job/career choice for her. We see how each one of his friends are battling their own problems and how he manages to finally face his own, in order to help others. With the loss of his wife, the potential loss of his job and dealing with the loss of his father twice (due to dementia and then passing away) - we see the reality of loss and stigma around mental health, rather than falsely painting the issues in the programme to be positive, we view the harsh reality of everyday life. It is refreshing to see the reality and harshness of issues such loss, grief, addiction, loss etc.
  
Killing Eve - Season 1
Killing Eve - Season 1
2018 | Drama
Thrilling (4 more)
Acting
Characters
Storyline
Filming locations
Gripping!
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An absolutely gripping series, with Jodie Comer's superb acting and her ability to change into different accents, characters and the fluidity of her character is excellent. We get to know the devastation that Villanelle can create and her gruesome ways of killing. Jodie Comer is able to portray the evil of the assassin, but also delve deep into the character to unveil the psychology behind her, as well as the soft side of the character.

I do love Sandra Oh as I had previously seen her work in Grey's Anatomy, so I was very excited to watch her in this. Again, to see her character become obsessed with her career (as in Grey's) gave her some continuation as an actress. However she surprised me when she was able to show a loving side towards Villanelle, emotions and affections that she did not perhaps show towards her husband.

As weird as it was I found myself wishing that the Good would fall in love with the evil vice versa and that the evil would be transformed into good because of the influence.

We were able to view amazing scenery in which different scenes and episodes were filmed.

What is also fascinating and exciting that some of the kills in the series are based of real life assassinations and murders, which I read up on today! They were able to capture these brilliantly.
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May 7, 2020  
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Everyday Life by Coldplay
Everyday Life by Coldplay
2019 | Pop
9
9.0 (1 Ratings)
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Violin (5 more)
Adventurist metaphors
Spiritual
Equality
Reality
Vocals
Lacking depth (0 more)
Adventurous album taking on the uplifting but also brutality of reality and it's every day themes.
A new (different) album from Coldplay, which is definitely revealing their experimentation. The band take on heavy themes of love, war, racism, faith, gun control, friendship, climate change, police brutality and other every day themes in life. It is a double album consisting of 'Sunrise' and 'Sunset', which reveals the difference between the every day highs and lows of the above mentioned themes.

The opening of 'Sunrise' is set beautifully with string arrangements, with the lead violinist doing an excellent job of playing uplifting but also emotional tones to set the mood for the themes. Good versus bad, happy versus sad.

Coldplay never venture far from meeting with Eastern and Western sounds to encourage the acceptance of different religions and ethnicities.

'Sunset' is accompanied with loungey rhythm and blues tones which compliment the themes and meaningful lyrics.

However I can't help but note that I feel some depth is missing to convey their messages.
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Feb 8, 2020  
Thanks so much to @Smashbomb for my Giveaway prize that arrived in the post today! Super excited to go on a road trip and listed to my Coldplay CD!! Amazing prize giveaways just for leaving reviews on hobbies such as books, movies, technology etc. Awesome!
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Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote
Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote
Home Audio & Theater > Home Theatre, TV & Video > Streaming Media Players
Voice control (1 more)
Applications
Sometimes it freezes and is slow (0 more)
Convenient. Entertaining. Resourceful.
I used my amazon voucher and waited for black Friday deal to appear so that the stick would come down to £20!! Amazing deal. Very convenient to use.. use of apps such as netflix and spotify, as well as other videos that are convenient such as exercise videos etc. The voice control is very easy to navigate and saves a lot of effort and time having to look for the right programme/application/song etc!