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Snowfall: Celebration (2022)
Jumping the shark!
This series is still worth watching but this and the last couple of episodes have been strange to say the least. From being grounded in some kind of historically accurate depiction of how the drug situation was escalated by US government involvement to this?
They went from mad taxidermists with pet tigers to a wedding hijacked with strawberries and a chocolate fountain laced with LSD. I sincerely hope the remaining episodes and final season return to the tried and tested formula of drug dealing, betrayal and death as this current departure from the norm is a little distracting. Thankfully the acting is still on point but seriously, what were they smoking?
Haunted Mansion (2023)
Not as terrible as people are making out...
While this won't be vying for any awards and some of the attempts at drawing out any empathy for some of the characters are forced, this is still an entertaining watch. There are some good jokes that might not age very well and pleasing enough performances from the majority of the cast. Those expecting a horror will be disappointed as this, like the original is squarely aimed at Disney's core family demographic - surprised they didn't bring Eddie Murphy back although he was probably still healing from the savaging the original took back in the day.
There are worse ways to spend time but they could have trimmed some of the running time off.