FreeTV - Unlimited
News and Entertainment
App
Watch TV right on your iPhone for FREE! With over 85+ shows and 40+ channels to choose from you can...
Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote
Tech Watch
The next generation of our best-selling Fire TV Stick–now with the Alexa Voice Remote. Enjoy tens...
On Anger: Race, Cognition, Narrative
Book
Anger is an emotion that affects everyone regardless of culture, class, race, or gender-but at the...
You Were Never Really Here
Book
A hammer was Joe's favourite weapon. He was his father's son, after all Soon to become a film...
Flood of Images: Media, Memory, and Hurricane Katrina
Book
Anyone who was not in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding of the city...
LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Sharp Objects in TV
Nov 26, 2020
Decay in all its forms, *very* HBO - right down to the opening credits sequences - in the best ways. If I have one complaint it's that I wish this were an episode longer to really settle into its final moments before the jaw-dropping rug-pull ending (and maybe I wish it was a little more physically gross when it calls for it) - but I digress, this is phenomenal television all the same. Flynn is as complex a writer as ever and Jean-Marc Vallée is at some of his most fully engrossing. As someone living in a tawdry small town just like this it does a bangup job at showing how those types of areas prey upon their little boys and girls, and bears witness to the differing ways their subsequent rage manifests between each gender. You know yourself much less than everyone else *thinks* they know you, if you aren't peering directly into their eyes you aren't safe from disparaging remarks even from your supposed closest allies - the moment in episode 5 where the camera keeps switching POVs while somebody glares at someone else, who then glares at someone else, who then glares at someone else, etc., etc. does a good job at exemplifying this. Adams, Messina, and particularly Clarkson, Scanlen, Perkins, and Czerny are sublime as these haunted enigmas of people. Gives away some of its themes a touch too on-the-nose later in the game but nonetheless a grim, fragmented, trancelike nightmare of hatred. Magnetic as hell.
Claro video
Entertainment
App
¡Vive la experiencia Claro video! Entretenimiento para todos. Claro video es el servicio que...
With the Old Breed
Book
The inspiration behind the HBO series THE PACIFIC This was a brutish, primitive hatred, as...
Andy K (10821 KP) rated Big Little Lies in TV
Dec 16, 2018
The story centers around three women, all raising children trying to lead "normal" lives, but have hidden scars and emotional baggage in their relationships they are trying to work through. Tensions continue to escalate through a series of confrontations and slow burn emotional scenes, but the payoff is ultimately worth it. I am much more a fan of vague endings than most people, so I would say I thought they could have left out the final scene and left us to wonder what happened, but I'm sure I'm in the minority on that.
The acting is certainly stellar all around; however, the real royalty here is the screenplay. too often great writing gets overlooked since it's not the flashiest of production values, but this one should not be ignored. It shows that everyone you encounter in life is a human being with strengths and weaknesses. You have to take the good with the bad sometimes, or make the tough choices to save your situation and make a better life for yourself.
After finishing I read they are doing a second season. Not sure how I feel about that. It would be all right maybe if it was a completely separate story, but this is going to be a continuation. They are adding Meryl Streep so I guess that's a good start.
I will have to wait and see!
Girls - Season 2
TV Season
Following the urban adventures of a group of 20-something women, the series focuses on Hannah...