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General Hospital: Episode #1.15365 (2023)
One of Chad Duell's best performances
I'm definitely behind in my episodes. I've been catching up this weekend and this is one of Chad's better performances. He brought all of the layers of complicated emotions necessary to the scene with Sonny. I rarely call out individual performances on IMDb, but this one was worth the call out. ! Bravo! It has been a joy to watch him grow as an actor and morph into a man involved in complicated relationships and life. The writers have given him meaty lines and he has taken it and run with it successfully. If you can still watch this one through OnDemand, I highly recommend that you do so. Once again, bravo, Chad!
Good Sam (2022)
Love Sophia Bush and many of the other actors but...
There's just too many egregious issues for me to suspend disbelief. Nepotism. Fireable HR issues. Street clothing in the ER. Malpractice liability issues. Please, please, take a break, rework the show and bring it back with plots that work.
The Waltons' Homecoming (2021)
Too many anachronisms
As so many other people have said, I really wanted to like this remake. However, while trying to correct some things, the updating became distracting and required far too much suspension of disbelief.
One of the first things to catch my attention was the language. It was very out of sync with what would have been used in the '30s, especially by a Baptist family in Virginia.
I haven't seen the original movie in many decades, so I don't have solid memories for comparisons. I have seen most of the series over this past year . It's been good background company as I have been sorting through my parents estate boxes and papers.
The series definitely had the friendship between the Bible Church couple and the waltons, however, this premise in the movie doesn't seem to work. The interactions between the Baldwin sisters and Olivia/ ike are definitely out of context as well. The Baldwin sister's were always oblivious in their discussion of the recipe. I'm really sad that this wasn't better.
Cruella (2021)
If this was R or NC-17-rated, it would be a 10 (or 15)
The acting and dialogue are a 9 plus. They're only that low to allow for the costumes, makeup, set design and cinematography to be a 10. So, why a 1? It is all about bullying, deceit, and pathopsychology. Given that this is a movie aimed at tweens and teens, especially with the Disney marketing machine behind it, this is a disappointing movie.
The pure Brilliance of all of the Professionals in front of, and behind, the camera is lost once I considered both the target audience and the likely audience. For a generation or more, young women seeking to be strong and exert not only their strength but their brilliance, this is a bad blueprint for them to follow. It is a perfect road map for how to build a borderline personality disordered person and or how to behave as if you were a true sociopath. Each actor is completely brilliant, which is completely heartbreaking in this particular instance.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Dare (2018)
Heartbreaking tolerance of a felony assault
A truly terrifying episode because it further stigmatizes and calls into question the integrity of doctors who must declare brain death prior to organ donation. I am a registered and willing organ donor and a strong advocate for organ donation, and was sorry to see the sympathy for felony criminal actions of a surgeon. Lives are saved and changed when organ donation is chosen, either by the adult pre-injury or by a designated relative after a catastrophic injury. It should never be done under fraudulent circumstances. Assaulting a body through organ harvest, even a body that is brain-dead, is rightfully a felony offense in this country.
Ever After (1998)
The Cinderella who rescued herself
A retelling of the story we know, in a way that is delightfully surprising. Barrymore is enchanting in as a beautiful and strong heroine. A far better Cinderella for girls to admire and emulate.