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Inside Man (2022)
The suspension of disbelief can only take you so far.
With a cast just filling to the brim in talent this show should've been amazing. But lazy writing decisions to advance this already hard to believe plot just makes this whole show horrific to watch. If the Tutor had just remained calm and didn't go completely nutty. While yes, it would be a startling discovery, any investigation would've proved innocence of the Vicar. The introduction of the plot is just all around horrendous. And it only gets worse. Stanley Tucci's character is a a bigger Mary Sue than Sherlock and Batman. At least they use logic and have the materials needed to make those leaps in conclusions. Sending people to places at exact times, running a secret inside prison fbi level? Come on. The Reporter not calling 911 when the Wife cut her? It's just idiocy. She mocked the lady with the knife, at her missing friends apartment that's the reason the whole story exists a. So she could run into traffic and kill herself?. DUMB. I'm a firm believer in the suspension of disbelief, but it can only take you so far. And with every plot point just becoming more and more unbelievable it seems like this whole story is a crumbling tower of Jenga blocks trying to play a game of jenga in another jenga tower, equally falling apart. The only good scene is when the Vicar helped Edgar. Of course he's a dirtbag, and deserves what he got, however. If the story had maintained that projectory, it would've easily been Emmy Worthy. Forget the whole Prison thing, make Stanley Tucci an American PI Who goes to the church. Or hell, Stanley Tucci could ace any role given to him, make him whoever. The investigative journalist could interview the new PI character, and the point of the Vicar crossing that line of becoming a murderer (which he doesn't do) because of him going through a bad day would actually pay off. Also Dillon is the best character. David Tenant did well for what he was given to work with. The wife was entertaining at times. The tutor was good except for being the reason the awful story escalated the way it did. All the actors did well. But the story and direction was big doo doo. 5/10.
Big Mouth: The Hookup House (2022)
A Diamond in the Rough
Never has a show better understood real life than Big Mouth. The whole point of this show is that we are constantly changing and evolving, at times regressing. It doesn't matter what the embarrassing thing is, or the bad things that happens to them (obviously it does because it's the characters stories). It's about the characters decisions, based off of their feelings of fear, loniness, desire, etc. Like ignoring your own basic needs/comfort because you're worried about what your parents will think. How emotions can let you become blind to the reality of situations. How insecurities lead you to messy situations and it's all tied together seamlessly with silly, funny comedy to add the perfect amount of levity so we all don't have a massive panic attack thinking about all the things we did and felt as teenagers.