Master of None - Season 1
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Dev tries to jump-start his acting career and elevate his dating game with help from his eclectic...
Parenting Your New Puppy: How to Use Positive Parenting to Bring Up a Confident and Well-Behaved Puppy
Caroline Spencer and Lesley Harris
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In this practical, readable and entertaining book, Caroline Spencer and Lesley Harris bring a new...
China Beach - Season 3
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Sand dunes and scalpels, surfboards and shrapnel, blue sea and red blood, R&R and CPR... Welcome to...
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Hobo With a Shotgun (2011)
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A train pulls into the station – it’s the end of the line. A Hobo jumps from a freight car,...
Daniel Boyd (1066 KP) rated Evil Genius in TV
Jun 26, 2018 (Updated Jun 27, 2018)
The documentary opens very strongly, launching you right into the action and the entire first episode is full of WTF moments. Unfortunately after this, the doc slows right down, from the start of episode 2 right up until the last 15 minutes or so of ep4, which thankfully picks up for a decent revelation that round off the show. Due to the doc only being 4 episodes, it meant that it didn't drag on too much like Making A Murderer did, but it also meant that each episode felt a bit uneven, crammed in places and slow in others.
One major disappointment for me was the fact they never spoke to anyone that was actually working in the bank the day that Brian Wells walked in wearing a collar bomb and robbed it. I felt like this was a huge insight that could have answered lots of questions and was totally missed by the filmmakers.
I sort of felt that they instead spent too much time on Marjory Dhiel-Armstrong and her co-conspirators who were most likely the ones that put the collar on Brian and got him to rob the bank. Sure, their weird back stories are kinda interesting, but the most important part of this story is what happened in and outside of the PNC bank in Erie that day.
China Beach - Season 1
TV Show
Sand dunes and scalpels, surfboards and shrapnel, blue sea and red blood, R&R and CPR. Welcome to...
Vietnam war medical drama hospital nurse doctor history
China Beach - Season 2
TV Show
Sand dunes and scalpels, surfboards and shrapnel, blue sea and red blood, R&R and CPR... Welcome to...
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China Beach - Season 4
TV Season
Sand dunes and scalpels, surfboards and shrapnel, blue sea and red blood, R&R and CPR... Welcome to...
Vietnam war medical drama hospital nurse doctor history
Sarah (126 KP) rated Evil Genius in TV
Aug 14, 2018
Sadly, the documentary seems to go downhill from there.
The narrator/interviewer isn't particularly engaging in his commentary.
The story is somewhat disjointed, going from story to story, from suspect to suspect, without any real sense of flowing or logic. As such, at times it can feel a bit like you lose track of where you are and what has gone on, particularly when a thread is dropped only to be picked up later on, with additional information introduced but no logic to the way it has been brought in.
As something that seems to be a truly one-off type of crime, this should be such compelling viewing. Instead, after the initial shock-factor, it really does seem to fizzle out very quickly, and the only thing that compels you to keep watching is to find out what happened - and even that is something of a let down, as not all information seems to be followed up or confirmed.
Overall, it is an extremely interesting story which, unfortunately, has been let down by the way in which it has been put together.
This Other London: Adventures in the Overlooked City
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Join John Rogers as he ventures out into an uncharted London like a redbrick Indiana Jones in search...