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Jacob Wilding (39 KP) rated V-Wars - Season 1 in TV

May 13, 2020 (Updated May 13, 2020)  
V-Wars - Season 1
V-Wars - Season 1
2019 | Horror, Sci-Fi
I honestly don't know. (0 more)
A lot. The main characters acting for one. (0 more)
I started this show thinking that I'd finally found a new show I could get into. I watched about 2 maybe 3 episodes (it's been a while) and it was painful to watch. Now of course many shows have that couple episode area where you need to push through and then it starts getting better. This show didn't have it.

The relationship between the main protagonist and his wife feels fake. He seems to care little to none about his son and overall the actor's performance gives the feel that he was given a script that just doesn't work.

Some of the settings also feel like they were slapped together last minute.
  
Don’t Make Me Laugh
Don’t Make Me Laugh
Julia Raeside | 2025 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
Don’t Make Me laugh is a slow burn with a most satisfying ending, narrated really well by Elizabeth Bower. I could imagine her as Ali.

We’ve heard a lot of talk recently of unnamed predators on the comedy circuit, and this is the story of one such man.

Ali thinks she has found the right man to co-present a radio show: comedian Ed. He’s funny, he’s nice - and actually he’s none of these things. He’s not at all what he seems to be, in fact.

Ali’s experience seemed all to plausible, and I very much enjoyed the way that she and the organisation called Scolds Bridle outed Ed’s behaviour. It was well worth the wait.

I did wonder who Ed could be modelled on…
  
Midway (2019)
Midway (2019)
2019 | Action, Drama, History
When I was at school, the Battle of Midway was barely touched upon.

The Somme? Yep.

The Battle of Britain? Absolutely.

Pearl Harbour? Briefly.

That, I'm guessing, would be completely different if I lived in America (instead of, as I do, Great Britain).

So Midway, itself, was a battle that I really only learnt about in later life and then really only in the most general of terms.

This movie seeks to retell the events that led up to, and occurred within, that battle after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbo(u)r that led to the US joining the Second World War, Unfortunately, it's largely forgettable (and largely bloodless), with none of the cast really making all that much of an impact.