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All the World Is Sleeping (2021)
Artfully portraying truth and hope
Not your typical addiction drama based on a true story, this is deeper and artfully done. Depicting what it is REALLY like inside a women's mind who is in crippling addiction with almost no resources. This captured a different authentic view to the struggle, hopelessness and up hill daily battle it takes to get out of a situation that you had little to no fault being in, in the first place. This is not the usual outcome for most but there is hope for a blessed few that can find the strength within and beat the odds. Truth and hope are two of the hardest things to grasp when getting clean. The feeling of unworthiness, nothingness and loneliness were visceral thorough-out this movie. Anyone that has addiction touching their life in any way shape or form (at this point in the epidemic that should be everyone) sit down watch this movie and keep it at the core of the way you filter your thinking about addicts and most specifically female addicts.
The Deuce (2017)
Amazing!!
I am the biggest Maggie Gyllenhaal fan EVER so this goes at the top of my list no matter what. Her work in this show was off the charts!! Her acting is always on point no matter what but this was especially fantastic. She made you fall in love with her character. You couldn't help but to be rooting for her character's success while simultaneously wishing she were your best friend!!! Maggie G. combined with the fact that I love a gritty drama with sex, drugs and corruption made this an all time favorite! It is set in the late 60's through the 70s, my very favorite entertainment time period setting. The world was just cooler then. And we all know about the music from this era....the greatest of all time, which this show deserves an A+++ for its soundtrack.
The only problem with The Deuce is that it stopped after 3 seasons. I felt like there was plenty of character building to the point you are sad to let them go at the end as well as thousands of storylines that could keep the show going well beyond 3 seasons. But what do I know, I am just a very impressed viewer. I have watched each season twice and it is just as amazing the second time around.
YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED! Your welcome!!
Southland (2009)
Once you start clear your schedule
This show is amazing. I literally stumbled upon it during the 2020 holidays while I was off work with nothing much to do due to laying low and staying safe from the COVID. This series was a holiday treat! I literally am embarrassed to say how fast I watched it but it was THAT GOOD. And I am a tough person to get sucked into a tv binge. This show grabs you from the first couple of minutes.
The characters have a lot of depth and the acting is great for a TV series!! This show was a launch pad for a bunch of great actors that are now hugely well known.
The storyline is thought provoking and very relatable to our continued and current cultural issues where people are still refusing to practice tolerance and acceptance. This show depicts the desperate need to demand equality. When I realized this show was almost a decade old and still, today, we suffer from the same national struggle that sickens me, these same issues of racial profiling and global discrimination will definitely be upsetting when watching southland but this show has a soul that makes HOPE seem like it just might be an actual possibility. Enjoy!