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House Rules (2013)
favoritism, judging all over the place
One judge thinks it is heavenly, the other says it stinks, judges giving perfect scores after they themselves point out several flaws, on the other hand they give 3/10 after disliking just one thing while praising everything else that's been done. Judges hating everything that's been done, but then scoring it 7/10 across the board, thus artificially keeping the contestants close to each other. These are just examples, and once you start noticing it, you can't stop noticing it happens in every episode. Contestants' words or actions get twisted so they seem unsympathetic, others say or do the exact same thing but they get a free pass, every build is the hardest of them all (till the next one comes along), every couple is racing till the final second and then drops dead having finished it just that second, but before that they have time to play around and talk to the camera for hours not doing any work, it's made to look that everything's filmed in continuity, but then they interview the couples like they are reacting on things that happened seconds ago. It is so flawed. It has now even gotten to the point that only judges choose the winner (no public voting any more), so it's no longer a game show, but a carefully planned out script where the winner can be predetermined before the first hammer has been swung. I used to love it, but once you start noticing these flaws all the time, the fun is over. It just gets worse every year (especially the judging), to the point I decided I won't watch the next season
Black Panther (2018)
let's make a billion making a "minority movie"
I like equality as much as the next man, but Hollywood is driving this too far. It seems they can't stop making excuses for not having enough movies with women, all races that aren't white and people with handicaps. Just watch one of the last Oscar shows, and you get what I mean. To me, this movie puts the black people even more in a corner, out of which they are trying to escape from for years. Let's give them an exaggerated accent (I didn't know Jamaica was an African country), big lips (with a saucer implanted in them), an ancient tribal culture and let the tribes fight among each other. Then make sure that, even though Wakanda is extremely rich and technologically advanced, the people in the kingdom are poor peasants. Now the acting. That was, in my opinion, some of the worst acting since all 300000 episodes of "The Bold and the Beautiful". I guess every colored person went to the movies because there finally was a black superhero, thus explaining the record breaking box office. They should all ask for a refund, for making ridicule of their race. The only thing missing to make things worse was the Black Panther smoking weed on his throne. What's next Marvel: which minority group are you pushing through our throats next.
Zoo: First Blood (2015)
First season good, rest is rubbish
Although I rate this episode 8/10 (I actually really liked all episodes of season 1), I would recommend people not to start watching this series. Season 1 is good, but after that it all falls to pieces, and when the last episode of season 3 ends, you'll be sorry you ever started watching. Again a network chose not to make an ending to the story, even though they surely must have seen it was going nowhere fast. They should at least have give the viewers a closure to the series
Zoo: The Barrier (2017)
hoped for an ending, didn't get it (spoiler alert)
As some other reviewers wrote, this show started out promising but it got worse every episode from season 2 on. Suspense is necessary, but in this series I think just about every lead character made terrible decisions that could destroy the world, where, had they just waited one second more, the world was save. That's nice the first time, maybe also the second or third time, but it becomes ridiculous when it happens five times every episode, so to speak. And where it starts off as a series with regular people trying to stop regular animals, it evolves into the same humans now having unnatural powers, in a futuristic setting (people controlling animals with their minds, safari guide becoming super doctor, veterinarian becoming expert in just about everything to do with science (and by coincidence his daughter is pregnant the only child in the world), journalist becoming "Bruce Lee". That said, the more "powers" they possessed, the more stupid mistakes they made. And I still kept watching because, knowing it ended after season 3, I was hoping to get an ending to the story. But that's not how television networks do it. How many times have series ended without actually ending, leaving the viewers clueless? You don't read a book, and then stop reading 5 pages from the end, do you? So disgusted by this, I should have spent my time doing something else