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Sarah (7800 KP) rated Brooklyn Nine-Nine - Season 1 in TV

Feb 18, 2019

Hilarious

I usually avoid comedy shows, mostly because I have a very discerning/picky sense of humour and I've never really been able to get into most mainstream comedy shows (Friends, Big Bang etc). Whilst Brooklyn Nine-Nine probably isn't quite mainstream, it's by far the funniest show I've seen in a long time.

Andy Samberg is a writing genius, and a great actor too. I can't imagine anyone else playing Peralta as well as he does. Andre Braugher too is brilliantly deadpan as the Captain, and even Terry Crews is pretty funny. This is such a smart, witty and funny show, and I love that the humour is deadpan and just adult enough without bordering on crude or too childish. I'm also so happy that this show doesn't rely on the usual cheesy canned laughter that comes with sitcoms, and it's all the better off for it. This isn't a typical formulaic cop show, but you wouldn't expect it. Most of the plots are entirely irrelevant but there is at least a lot of character development over the course of the series.

I'm only one series in but I can't get enough of this show. I haven't laughed out loud like this in forever!

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CarlaM (53 KP) rated Devil's Dream: Shade of Devil Book 1 in Books

Oct 30, 2019

Devil's Dream: Shade of Devil Book 1

Shayne Silvers | 2019 | Science Fiction/Fantasy

10.0

(1 Ratings)

Book Rating

If you like Urban Fantasy and a bit of Vamp Action this book is for you. (0 more)

Couldn't tell you🤷🏼‍♀️ ... I loved it (0 more)

Eat your Heart out Drac! Sorin is back!

Before Dracula ever tasted his first drop of Blood, Sorin Owned the night. After centuries of Drenching Europe in blood, he Grew weary of the Carnage and left to discover the new world, only to be tracked down by an old enemy. Sorin survives the Attack but only by being put into a healing slumber....and wakes up 500 years later in Present day New York and that is where our adventures begins.

I found this book endlessly pleasing. Sorin is out to make New friends and he meets some very interesting characters along the way. Although he has some classic Vampire broodiness, he does not conform to the new age definition of sparkly "vegetarian" Vampires. He is unapologetically brutal to his enemies and trying to come to terms with a world he doesn't understand. It makes for a funny action packed book filled with witty one liners and funny scenarios.
It was a true page turner and I loved Every minute of it.
I really can't wait for the next book!

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Jordan Binkerd (567 KP) rated MASH (1970) in Movies

Jul 31, 2019

MASH (1970)

1970 | Comedy, Drama, War

7.9

(17 Ratings)

Movie Rating Watch

Broke new comedy ground (3 more)

Biting social commentary

Excellent cast

Moderately funny

Less a plot than a loosely-connected set of escapades (2 more)

Not the show you remember

Some of the stuff the protagonists get up to is legitimately awful, and this shouldn't have been okay even in the 70s

Groundbreaking at the time, but unremarkable today

If you're looking into this on account of the TV show, don't bother. It's very different. An anti-Vietnam movie about Korea, MASH is a dark comedy that's moderately funny and broke new ground at the time, but there's not much to recommend it today. Worth seeing? Sure. But it's not necessarily deserving of its cult status.

Plus, the protagonists are legitimately despicable people. You're supposed to cheer for them against the by-the-book fuddy-duddies like Burns and "Hot Lips" Houlihan, but honestly? The scene where they pull up the sides of the shower tent and expose HLH mid-shower is a bit uncomfortable, made more so by her breakdown/rant next scene as she berates the unit Commander for letting them get away with crap like that - and she's not wrong. The protagonists deserve to be court martialed for this, but no consequences are ever leveled. Even for the 70s, that's messed up....

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Sarah (7800 KP) rated Thoroughbreds (2017) in Movies

Apr 28, 2020

Thoroughbreds (2017)

2017 | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

6.4

(10 Ratings)

Movie Rating

A little pretentious

This film had a limited run when it was released at the cinema, and I’ve been interested to see it ever since. I’d heard good things about it, however I’m afraid to say it didn’t live up to expectations.

This is what I’d class as a pretentious arty type film, and I’m really not a big fan of films like this. There’s lots of overly dramatic music that sometimes works, but sometimes just seems ridiculously out of place. There’s also a lot of lingering shots of the characters doing barely anything that would be fine for a minute, but instead drag out for far too long. Despite this, this film does have some good points. The acting is fantastic, and the script is very smart and clever and surprisingly funny at times - the scene with the girls and Tim in the car was especially funny. The plot is a basic one, although I do feel like the story wasn’t entirely unpredictable although it was enjoyable. And fortunately it has a very short run time, which I was grateful for with all the irritating pretentious music and shots,

Overall this film was watchable, but I think it could’ve tried to be a little less pretentious.