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We Are Family: Family Reunion (2024)
Just absurd
This is the most ridiculous thing I've seen. The concept sounds fun, but the execution is awful. Much of the fun of a game show is to playing along. But over the course of an hour there are just THREE challenges.
I got the first celebrity right off the bat when the singer said the crowd was jumping. I got the second from one of the clues and confirmed when I recognized his voice and thought OK, this is pretty good. The celebrities are mainstream and you can guess who they are.
I had no clue on the third celebrity. Even after the reveal, I didn't know who she was. Looked her up on Wikipedia and still I've never seen or even heard of anything she's been part of.
SPOILER: She's a podcaster and comedienne. Impressed that the contest figured it out. Have to wonder if they're giving the 100 players on the show some kind of context or a list of 100 people to narrow it down from literally thousands of possibilities. Maybe it's geared to a much younger, hipper crowd but as noted I knew the first two.
Alert: Missing Persons Unit (2023)
Entertaining but terribly executed
I watched the entire season. I admit I was entertained and curious how the key plot points were going to be resolved.
But I can also see that the show was objectively terrible. There's no chemistry between the female lead and either her ex-husband or her fiancé, so the whole jealousy between the men story line doesn't work. Not sure if it's bad acting or bad writing.
I get that it's fiction and they won't operate the way a real police department would. But every critical plot point is ridiculously contrived.
SPOILERS: It's hard to fathom that with "Keith" having been missing six years, they wouldn't immediately compare DNA and dental records to verify it's him. Of course, if they did that, the whole show falls apart. And they have Sidney tell the truth about what happened to Keith in front "Keith", rather than having him independently verify her story (like a rookie cop would do), and then in 5 seconds he deals with this shocking new info and invests a somewhat plausible story of what happened. Likewise, without that the second half of the season falls apart. But minor plot points are contrived as well. In the finale Nikki somehow doesn't expect the villain behind the dumpster while everyone watching sees it coming. And then once free, she doesn't escape with Max but has to rescue Noah in that moment. Of course, any competency from the character and the episode doesn't work.
After a lot of complex mysteries, they resolved everything in the last 15 minutes. At least we aren't left hanging.
Bull: Goodbye (2022)
Terrible Disingenuous ending for a good show
The entire premise of the finale is flawed. In a previous episode a character is convicted after confessing to Bull, and Bull remarks "oh, I'm not an attorney." (I'm fuzzy on exact details.) But this episode revolves around the client confessing to Bull and somehow his confession now being privileged even though Bull still isn't an attorney and the confession unrelated to the current case wouldn't fit the definition of privileged anyway. Total garbage and a sad way to end a show that has often relied on Bull being the SMART GUY who isn't an attorney.
Bull: Prior Bad Acts (2019)
Worst Bull **** ever
I never review episodes but this was so bad I feel compelled to comment. I like Bull and have watched every episode. This deviated from the usual pattern and was much worse for it.
First, voir dire is what Bull is famous for and it was skipped in this episode. They also come up with a complex plan to sway the jury. But it gets worse
**SPOILERS**
While at a high level the facts are right, the financial details don't work. You could make a lot of money shorting a stock if you knew it was going to drop. But they say the girlfriend shorted 20,000 shares and if the stock dropped from $100 to $70, she'd make $600,000. She'd gotten $2 when her first husband died and millions more ($20M ?) when her second husband died. Why would she commit murder and fraud for $600,000? As well if you shorted 20000 shares right before a stock tanked, the SEC would investigate and might well void the transaction.
Net net, the whole financial angle is garbage and destroys the episode.