Good grief! I'm on the last episode, I hope, and it is all I can do to get through it. I have no idea what the original book is like because I didn't read it before watching this soap opera, and now won't read it because of it, but I wish I had because surely, it is better than this. I haven't watched an Oprah production since she destroyed the brilliant Beloved by Toni Morrison and turned it into a weak version of the brilliance that is Morrison. Somehow, I suspect, she's done a disservice with this book too.
Did the woman only grow up watching soap operas? Did she only have melodrama in her life? Is there truly not ONE deeper thought in her head than this shallow, absurd nonsense that seems to permeate every fiber of her being, and thus each project that she used her power to take over and destroy. Is there no end to the Oprah effect?
The acting was good. The direction was good as can be for a predictable, repetitive, boring soap opera. How many times must she tell these same stories over and over and over again, as if there is nothing else in life. She has made billions out of selling the same weak, limited stories about black people over and over and over again, like Tyler Perry, BET and more.
Black people come in so many different versions, I was truly encouraged when I saw that the main character went to Scotland, but no, yet again, we have to see the same thing over again. Really, more than enough. It is boring.
Stop making intelligent black people stupid enough to go mad and assault somebody. Stop making black artists dingy and idiotic. Stop reducing black women to emotional balls of bad decisions. Benny, the daughter is just a simpleton. Really, an insult.
It is all exhausting, limiting and absurd. The story should have been a movie and not a series, and perhaps it would not have been as annoying, if there was less of it. That's it for another 20 or so years for Oprah for me. I just don't need the triteness that she encourages.
And of course, the music was too much all the time.
Did the woman only grow up watching soap operas? Did she only have melodrama in her life? Is there truly not ONE deeper thought in her head than this shallow, absurd nonsense that seems to permeate every fiber of her being, and thus each project that she used her power to take over and destroy. Is there no end to the Oprah effect?
The acting was good. The direction was good as can be for a predictable, repetitive, boring soap opera. How many times must she tell these same stories over and over and over again, as if there is nothing else in life. She has made billions out of selling the same weak, limited stories about black people over and over and over again, like Tyler Perry, BET and more.
Black people come in so many different versions, I was truly encouraged when I saw that the main character went to Scotland, but no, yet again, we have to see the same thing over again. Really, more than enough. It is boring.
Stop making intelligent black people stupid enough to go mad and assault somebody. Stop making black artists dingy and idiotic. Stop reducing black women to emotional balls of bad decisions. Benny, the daughter is just a simpleton. Really, an insult.
It is all exhausting, limiting and absurd. The story should have been a movie and not a series, and perhaps it would not have been as annoying, if there was less of it. That's it for another 20 or so years for Oprah for me. I just don't need the triteness that she encourages.
And of course, the music was too much all the time.