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¡Vive la experiencia Claro video! Entretenimiento para todos. Claro video es el servicio que...

The Asylum (The Vampire Diaries: Stefan's Diaries #5)

L.J. Smith

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The fifth book in the New York Times bestselling series by L.J. Smith. The Asylum is the fifth book...

The Compelled (The Vampire Diaries: Stefan's Diaries #6)

L.J. Smith

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The sixth book in the New York Times bestselling series by L.J. Smith. The Compelled is the sixth...

Verner Latskin (74 KP) rated Mr. Robot - Season 1 in TV

Jul 21, 2017

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Best Dream Sequence that David Lynch didn't create

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Best plot twist since Fight Club (the one that isnt inspired by Fight Club)

The name, while ultimately great, nearly kept me from giving what is now my favorite tv series a chance (0 more)

Brilliant, breathtaking, addictive.

I love this show. I only watched it on a lark, expecting to make fun of it - a hacker drama on USA called "Mr. Robot"? This is gonna be hilarious, I thought. I was so incredibly wrong. By the end of the pilot, I was hooked harder than any show since Twin Peaks had hooked me.

It's maybe the most cinematic TV series ever made, more so than a lot of movies. The mysteries it creates are gripping and compelling, inviting intense theorizing and speculation. It pulls off the best twist I've ever seen on television, and does it by blinding you with one that is telegraphed and inspired by another famous plot twist. Rami Malik goes from that guy you've seen in a bunch of stuff to legend status in one scene. In fact, the entire cast is nothing short of amazing. It makes the audience into a part of the show like no show ever has. It's already one of my favorite series ever made. It's brilliant.

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Awix (3310 KP) rated When the Tripods Came (The Tripods #4) in Books

Sep 18, 2019

When the Tripods Came (The Tripods #4)

John Christopher | 1988 | Dystopia, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult (YA)

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Fourth books in trilogies are inherently inelegant and awkward beasts; Christopher's final Tripods novel is unsurprisingly no exception. 1980s Earth is visited by alien invaders, who (initially at least) are easily repelled. But it turns out that your mum was right when she said that too much TV was bad for your health...

A bit dated, but that's the least of the book's issues. A prequel to the main series was really not required, and the main catalyst for writing it seems to have been the Tripods TV show which was broadcast three or four years earlier. (The TV show the Masters use to take over the world bears a suspicious resemblance to the TV adaptation of the first two books.) It's not really meta, more sort of peeved: peeved at critics of the show's shortcomings, but also peeved at the makers of the show for not doing a better job. As well as being dated, the relationship subplots of the book feel a bit proforma, but the depiction of the world slowly sliding out of human control and the end of modern civilisation is vividly presented in the usual compelling fashion. Whether it should all feel a bit more downbeat and bleak is probably a question of personal taste; Christopher's prose retains its good manners as well as its readability.

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Games and activities for children 2-6 years, based on the successful childrens TV series “City of...

Ross (3284 KP) rated The Walking Dead - Season 9 in TV

Apr 3, 2019

A slight improvement over season 8

The revelation of the Whisperers to me was an outstanding moment. The split second when a tense but fairly standard fight against a herd of zombies suddenly flipped on its head was fantastic. I have re-watched that scene a number of times. The remainder of the series was a slight step up from the previous one, but with still some issues around pacing (do we really care about crop rotation?!). I think the writers had learned their lesson over the build up of the next enemy - we were quickly introduced to the whisperers, when the introduction to the saviours dragged on and on.
The TV series is rapidly catching up on the comics though, which is a slight worry.