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    Below by Beartooth

    Below by Beartooth

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    Beartooth’s latest release Below is a pure distillation of rage — weaponizing its deceptively...

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David McK (3425 KP) rated Elementary - Season 6 in TV

Jun 2, 2024  
Elementary - Season 6
Elementary - Season 6
2017 |
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
TV Season Rating
Each season of CBS's 'Elementary' has had a through-line that runs throughout that season, usually sprinkled in between the 'case of the week' format.

This time around, that through-line is the serial killer Michael, who befriends Sherlock during a drug user meeting, and bases his recovery on what Sherlock once said: "my work gives me purpose".

For reasons I'm not going to go into, the season ends with, I thought, the perfect ending, with Holmes and Warson back where they belong in 221B Baker Street, London
  
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Ande Thomas (69 KP) rated The Silver Linings Playbook in Books

May 30, 2019  
The Silver Linings Playbook
The Silver Linings Playbook
Matthew Quick | 2008 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
4
7.3 (6 Ratings)
Book Rating
There's a great story in here somewhere (just look at the movie) but unfortunately, for me, it's undercut by the voice of the protagonist. Pat has just been released from an involuntary stay at a mental institution, sure, but mental illness does not equate to mental simplicity. Throughout the entire narration, Pat is portrayed as childlike. His comprehension of the goings-on surrounding his release and recovery is naive, it's cursory, and woefully incomplete. Pat is recovering from a pretty severe psychotic break, and likely suffers from bipolar disorder, neither of which I'd think would cause the stunted mental capacity that he appears to exhibit.

There are flashes of good in there, such as <spoiler>when Pat, (knowing he's been away for years) still refers to his stay in the facility as "just a few months." With firm evidence in hand, his brain simply ignores it.</spoiler>

In many other places though, Pat seems to be written in a way that screams "Look how mentally deranged I am," rather than giving us a more real, grounded recovery from a psychotic episode. I never get the sense of the tortured and confused existence that Pat purports to feel, I just see the caricature he is presented as, and the entire narrative suffers as a result.