Thursday Movie Picks #467: A Different Perspective

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is A Different Perspective (a well known story told from the perspective of a different character. An example is the recent Rosaline movie which is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet from the perspective of Rosaline, you know the girl Shakespeare mentions Romeo had been infatuated with and conveniently forgot about when he met Juliet)

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Since I already used Rosaline as the example, I have to pick a different title, pity because Rosaline would have been a perfect pick, one that I enjoyed watching.

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (2002)

A TV Movie adapted from Gregory Maquire's (author of Wicked) book that tells the Cinderella story from the perspective of the ugly stepsister played by Azura Skye. I really enjoyed this, it was fun and I had always hoped to get a chance to see it again. Also stars Stockard Channing as the stepmother and Matthew Goode as the love interest.

 

Warm Bodies (2013)

In a post apocalyptic world overrun by zombies, Warm Bodies is a horror comedy romance from the perspective of a zombie. This was fun. Instead of the usual survivor's perspective, we get the whole zombie apocalypse experience from "R's" perspective, a zombie, and see what is a zombie's day like day-to-day.

Maleficent (2014)

The Sleeping Beauty story from the perspective of Maleficent the wicked fairy that cursed her. Did not enjoy this. Didn't like the story and I thought Angelina Jolie's celebrity persona eclipses the role...all I see is her the actress and not the character.

 

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Thursday Movie Picks #466: Halloween/Television Edition Cults/Secret Societies

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Halloween/Television Edition: Cults/Secret Societies

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Hey it's October again and it's time for the Halloween Edition. Take a look at what's in store for the rest of the month.

October 5 - Halloween Edition: Tourist Experience
October 12 - Halloween Edition: New Person (eg. new girlfriend, new stepfather, new colleague…etc)

October 19 - Halloween Edition: Workplace
October 26 - Halloween/Television Edition: Cults/Secret Societies

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Here are 3 that immediately came to mind.

The Clearing (2023)

Follows a woman who as a child was in a cult and now realises the leader of that cult may just be starting it up all over again. Set in Australia, this is based on a book that was inspired by a real cult in Australia. The story is sad and the atmosphere very creepy...the kids in the cult had had their hair dyed platinum blonde, wore preppy uniforms and they were soo brainwashed.

The Midnight Club (2022)

A group of terminally ill kids at a hospice, which apparently used to be the home of a cult, meet at midnight to tell scary stories...and spooky things do start to happen. Based on Christopher Pike's book. This was disappointing, so I'm not surprised it was not renewed for a second season. It's just not as emotional, scary or haunting as Midnight Mass and The Haunting of Hill House. This was more like The Haunting of Bly Manor... very meh....

Archive 81 (2022) 

An archivist is hired to restore a collection of tapes and finds among them a journalist's tapes from the 90's on her investigation of a cult hidden in an apartment building in the city. Adapted from a podcast. Of my picks today this is the one I really enjoyed the most. It was very suspenseful and super creepy and I was very disappointed when it didn't get renewed since the last episode looked like it was setting itself up for a second season, plus the series had review well and got a lot of views...so my guess it was because of budget cuts after the pandemic. I suppose I would have to listen to the podcast to know if there is a proper conclusion. 

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Thursday Movie Picks #465: Halloween Edition - Workplace

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Halloween Edition - Workplace

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Hey it's October again and it's time for the Halloween Edition. Take a look at what's in store for the rest of the month.

October 5 - Halloween Edition: Tourist Experience
October 12 - Halloween Edition: New Person (eg. new girlfriend, new stepfather, new colleague…etc)

October 19 - Halloween Edition: Workplace
October 26 - Halloween/Television Edition: Cults/Secret Societies

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These workplaces are scary in itself because they're so isolated even without the alien creatures trying to get the characters.

Alien (1979)

Space - I only saw bits of the movie as a kid and it was scary. Hope to watch it in full one day.

The Thing (1982)

Antarctica - The shapeshifting element just heightened the paranoia and horror.

Underwater (2020)

Deep Underwater - The whole facility collapsing after an earthquake is just terrifying, then there are the creatures swimming around it trying to get to the surviving humans.

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Thursday Movie Picks #464: Halloween Edition - New Person

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Halloween Edition - New Person (eg. new girlfriend, new stepfather, new colleague…etc)

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Hey it's October again and it's time for the Halloween Edition. Take a look at what's in store for the rest of the month.

October 5 - Halloween Edition: Tourist Experience
October 12 - Halloween Edition: New Person (eg. new girlfriend, new stepfather, new colleague…etc)

October 19 - Halloween Edition: Workplace
October 26 - Halloween/Television Edition: Cults/Secret Societies

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So last week I didn't post (I've since published the post) simply because I forgot. I thought it was a fortnightly TMP and forgot that October is the Halloween Edition and is a weekly series. Anyway here are the 3 movies that immediately came to mind for this theme.

Ready or Not (2019)

New husband, new in-laws and their horrifying family tradition.

Crimson Peak (2015)

New husband, new sister-in-law and their crumbling mansion.

Orphan (2009)

New adopted daughter and her creepy secret.

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Thursday Movie Picks #463: Halloween Edition - Tourist Experience

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Halloween Edition - Tourist Experience

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Hey it's October again and it's time for the Halloween Edition. Take a look at what's in store for the rest of the month.

October 5 - Halloween Edition: Tourist Experience
October 12 - Halloween Edition: New Person (eg. new girlfriend, new stepfather, new colleague…etc)

October 19 - Halloween Edition: Workplace
October 26 - Halloween/Television Edition: Cults/Secret Societies

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This will be a quick visual post of the three movies that came to mind for this theme. This post is also coming a week late as I forgot that October is a weekly TMP rather than a fortnightly one.

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Thursday Movie Picks #462: TMP Television Edition - Book Adaptation

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is TMP Television Edition - Book Adaptation

 

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These are the last four series I saw and like that were book adaptations.

Mr. Mercedes (2017 - 2019)

Adapted from the Mr Mercedes trilogy by Stephen King about a killer who drives a Mercedes into a crowd and the detective trying to catch him as well as how that incident affects the community. I really like this. Watched the three seasons back to back. The second season is a little weird with more paranormal things going on. King just released a spinoff novel on a character from the trilogy, Holly, so I kinda hope they make a TV series out of it too and bring back the same actress.

 

The Terror (2018 - 2019)

A horror anthology series. The first season is an adaptation off a historical fiction novel based on a real lost Arctic expedition in 1845-1848. I only saw the first season, which I had wanted to watch for some time because I love period dramas set on a ship (Treasure Island, Black Sails, 1899) but had been kinda scared that it was going to be too scary. Glad I finally saw. It's a mix of survival horror and supernatural horror with great atmosphere, it was excellent.

 

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (2023)

Limited series about a young woman whose parents died in a tragic fire related incident when she was a girl. Due to the trauma and her youth, she never fully remembered nor understood what actually happened and her grandmother hides aspects of it and their family history from her until it slowly unravels in the present day. I really enjoyed this slow burning family drama full of secrets. The girl's family owns a flower farm, so the flower designs were very beautiful as well as Australia's natural landscapes.

 

Will Trent (2023 - )

Based off Karen Slaughter's Will Trent series of books about a detective who had a tough childhood solving crimes for Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Of the TV series I've listed today, this is the only one that I have read the book, only the first book of the series, which is a spinoff of another book series, Grant County. Karin Slaughter is one of my favourite crime novelists. I've read her Grant County series and a few of her stand alone novels. The thing about her books, including the Will Trent book, is that they are very dark and the crimes are often violent and disturbing. The books spend a lot of time with the police, the victims and the family or community and how physically, emotionally and psychologically devastating a crime affects them for years and years. A more faithful adaptation of the Will Trent books would be a TV series that is likely aired on HBO or Netflix. However, this TV series, is an ABC series, which means...it is quite a PG series, something like FBI, Law and Order...one crime an episode type of series, very surface level exploration of crime, all solved by the end of an episode. That said, it's an okay series, something you can watch when a random episode of it airs on TV.

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Thursday Movie Picks #461: Non-English Language Movies

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Non-English Language Movies

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I’m picking my most recent watches.

The Mad Women’s Ball (2021)

A young woman sees dead people and has kept it a secret from everyone but her brother. However, her secret is eventually found out she is sent to a mental hospital by her father and the movie follows her experience there. I like it; it’s a good drama though of course as expected rather bleak. On the surface, the patients at this hospital are well cared for; they are fed and clean. While some do have some mental conditions the hospital also seems to be a dumping ground for inconvenient women. Women who have done something to displease their family or society, refuse to stay quiet, etc. One can say a stay at a mental hospital is possibly worse than a prison sentence as there is no fixed term. The patients’ length of stay is dependent of the doctors, the longer the stay the more money for the hospital, or how long their families want them out of the way. Then there’s the arrogance of the doctors, their diagnosis are unchallenged and they prescribed various treatments from drugs to other dubious ones like hydrotherapy, electroshock therapy, etc. to the patients where it is seems if a patient was initially committed with a minor condition, she would in the end be worse off in terms of both her physical and mental faculties after being subjected to the numerous ridiculous treatments. Anyway if you like One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest or Stonehearst Asylum I recommend this movie.

 

God’s Crooked Lines (2022)

A woman checks into a psychiatric hospital as a patient to secretly investigate a patient’s death that is suspected to be murder. I had not been interested in this movie initially due to the title as I had the assumption that it was some faith spiritual type of story. Anyway it’s not. It’s a murder mystery set in a mental hospital and it’s quite a fun one to puzzle out too. If you like Shutter Island and Stonehearst Asylum, I think you’ll like this. This is also written and directed by Oriol Paulo, so if you’ve seen and like his other works like Mirage and The Invisible Guest this is definitely something you’d want to check out.

The Chalk Line (2022)

A couple fosters a non verbal girl they found wandering the roads at night who is afraid of stepping out of the chalk line boundary she draws around herself, while the authorities work to find out who she is in order to return her to her family. This is kinda like one of those creepy children movie where you question if the girl is disturbed or traumatised. Overall a decent mystery with an eerie atmosphere. 

 

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Thursda Movie Picks #460: TMP Television Edition - Female Investigators (Private or Police)

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is TMP Television Edition - Female Investigators (Private or Police)

 

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These are series I like.

Mare of Easttown (2021) and Broadchurch (2013 - 2017)

I'm putting these two series together as they are quite similar and are really good. Mare of Easttown is a HBO miniseries starring Kate Winslet as the detective while Broadchurch is a three season British series starring Olivia Coleman as one of the detectives. Both series takes place in small towns and the female detectives are moms juggling family life and work life when a murder of a young person, whom they know since it's a small town, occurs and they have the difficult task of solving a case where their friends and neighbours could be the killer.

 

The Fall (2013 - 2016)

Gillian Anderson stars as a London detective who is temporarily transferred to the Northern Ireland Belfast police at the request of an ex boss to assist with a serial case. It is a great series with a wonderful performance by Anderson, quite possibly the best I have ever seen her in. The series also makes astute social/gender observations. For example how professional women are very careful with how they dress because their outfits often get scrutinized. Or how female victims who are professionals or with a higher social status are often described by the police and/or media as "an innocent victim" thereby assigning some sort of guilt on other female victims who are perhaps promiscuous or prostitutes making it seem as if what happened to them is a kind of punishment, something deserved.

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Thursday Movie Picks #459: Workplace: The Female Experience

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Workplace: The Female Experience

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Sorry this is coming quite late. Anyway here are 3 that immediately came to mind

9 to 5 (1980)

This is sure to be a popular pick this week. And my guess part of its popularity when it was released was that women related to the sexism that occured in this fictional workplace.

 

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

I did not like this one…and I’m going to paste here what I wrote about it back in 2021 ——

I only saw it in 2016 and I didn't like it. I think we're suppose to laugh at these ridiculous sexist male characters in the seventies as if it was a thing of the past and society have progressed to be a better inclusive and respectful version. Then of course in 2017 and 2018 #MeToo and #TimesUp movement happened...and duhh...say all women...not quite a thing of the past issit? So yeah Anchorman has not aged well...and is so obviously written by men.

Boston Strangler (2023)

A movie about the two female reporters who reported on the Boston Strangler and the rampant sexism they faced at a time when most female journalists were relegated to writing for the home and lifestyle sections. 

 

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Thursda Movie Picks #458: TMP Television Edition - Con Artists

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is TMP Television Edition - Con Artists

 

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This is a fun theme. My picks are all newer series.

The Company You Keep (2023)

The series follows a family of con artists who targets other criminals for their cons. This was an ok series which I have seen a few episodes. Unfortunately it has been cancelled so I don’t think I’ll be finishing the rest of the season.

Chloe (2022)

Limited series Chloe follows a social media obsessed woman, Becky, who usually does small cons for example pretending to know someone to gain entrance to a club or event. Then, when a rich woman, Chloe, whom she has been following on social media, apparently commits suicide, Becky assumes a fake identity to infiltrate Chloe’s circle of friends to find out just how Chloe’s seemingly perfect life went wrong. I really enjoyed this, it is such a gem. Initially the series had looked to be about social media obsession and the superficiality of perfect curated lives but then there’s also the nice little mystery and thriller element of what exactly happened to Chloe and will Becky be found out as the imposter that she is.

Inventing Anna (2022)

Limited series about Anna Delvey the fake German heiress. I actually enjoyed it, very entertaining. It’s unbelievable how so many people were duped by her. Like no one googled who her supposedly rich dad was? Not even the banks really digged into her identity. And if she was a German heiress, why had she seemingly not hang out with other rich Germans or even other Europeans? When overseas, people tend to try and connect with their fellow countrymen…Anna doesn’t seem to do this at all, that there makes her looks sooo suspicious. Then there was the regular non-rich, non-socialite people…the trainer, magazine writer and concierge who eagerly believed they were her friends despite the huge income divide…they were so silly…rich people are not friends with people they employ/pay. 

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Thursday Movie Picks #457: Book Adaptation

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Book Adaptation

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Another quick one. I haven’t seen much this year so I’m just going to go for the last 3 book adaptations I saw and can’t say I like any of them very much.

The Pale Blue Eye (2022)

Picked this a few weeks ago for the Period Drama TMP. As was said then, found the mystery in the movie a little thin. However, the movie had great visuals. The wintry landscape was perfect for a gothic horror.

 

Bullet Train (2022)

It was interesting, but a little too loud (visually), theatrical and manic for me.

Where the Crawdads (2022)

This book is like super popular. It’s a mystery but seem to be going for more of the literary fiction side which is just not my thing. I prefer fun mysteries or dark gritty mysteries, this looks like neither, so I never read the book. Anyway the movie is so so…the story is quite bland…kinda feels like you know one of those “inspirational” TV movies.

 

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Thursday Movie Picks #456: TMP Television Edition - Revenge

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is TMP Television Edition - Revenge

 

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Well this turned out to be more challenging than I thought. Revenge movies are so much easier to pick as there are many in the genre, but TV series there are fewer of them. I guess it is so much harder to sustain a revenge plot over multiple episodes or worse…seasons I suppose. Anyway here are some that I’ve seen and like.

McMafia (2018)

An English-raised son of Russian mafia exiles, now living the ordinary life, is drawn into the criminal underworld when his uncle's act of revenge against a rival mafia, to secure their family's return to Russia, backfires. I enjoyed this series which is actually based on a non-fiction book about global organised crime, where the tv series weaves a fictional story around a fictional crime family, showing how such organised crime works on a global scale. 

The Punisher (2017-2019)

It’s in the title…a man out to punish those that murdered his family becomes a vigilante. Not my most favourite of the Marvel-Netflix series but still quite a good watch. 

Bad Sisters (2022-)

This is a fun darkly humorous mystery thriller about four sisters attempting to kill their brother-in-law for all the terrible things he has done to them.

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Thursday Movie Picks #455: Seasons in Title

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Seasons in Title

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I’m picking summer movies since it’s the one I have more to choose from.

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

I rewatch this a couple of years back and though I was never really a fan of it, it was still a fun nostalgic watch…classic 90s teen horror.

 

Summer Hours (2008)

A French drama which I enjoyed about adult siblings visiting their mother’s home, after her death, for possibly the last time to decide what they should do with it.

500 Days Summer (2009)

I love this movie. It’s sweet and funny and I really enjoyed the soundtrack.

 

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Thursday Movie Picks #454: TMP Television Edition - TV Score and/or Theme Song

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is TMP Television Edition - TV Score and/or Theme Song

 

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We did the same TMP two years ago and I thought enough time has passed for you to have seen newer shows with great score or theme song. Here are four of my favourites.

 

Succession (2018-2023)

I haven't seen the latest season but have always liked the opening theme song...lots of tension and spiralling keys.

 

WeCrashed (2022)

The opening theme song is catchy and the lyrics fit quite well with the show and I love the opening sequence too with the unicorn walking around the office

 

Moon Knight (2022)

I love the Moon Knight theme, which gets played at the end credits of the first episode and variations of it is also usually played when the character transforms. While I only enjoyed the first half of the series, the second half is a mess reminding me so much of Legion another series about a Marvel character, the score for this series is great. It sounds truly cinematic...and also the visuals...do watch the end credits sequence because it is stunning and has different tracks playing for each episode. 

 

 

Slow Horses (2022 - )

I love this series. It's a fun spy drama that has sharp dark humor and when I first heard the theme song sung by Mick Jagger I thought it was soo perfect for the series. It was only later that I found out that it's perfect because it was written specifically by Jagger for the series. Unlike the other series I've picked, I'm not posting the credit scene where the theme song is played, instead I'm attaching the official lyric video Jagger released. Look at the lyrics...it reflects so much of the story and humour of the show.

 

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Thursday Movie Picks #453: Period Drama

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Period Drama

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I’m simply selecting the last three movies I saw the first half of the year.

The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

I read Macbeth as a teen, not for school but on my own so I wasn’t able to fully understand; Shakespeare’s language is a challenge for me. A few years ago I saw the movie with Fassbender in the title role, I got the gist of it but not all of it and still didn’t quite get why it is such a popular play. I was apprehensive watching this new one but decided to just give it a go and it finally clicked…I finally understand it. I do like the movie as a whole, the story the way it was presented here made someone like me who doesn’t understand Shakespeare’s language understand it easily. The visuals: it was shot in black and white with great use of light and shadows and the set was stunning…I love the minimalism and the whole gothic expressionist architecture…it was, looking at IMDB, all filmed in the studio. Performance was generally so-so for everyone…Denzel was great in some parts and moderate in others. I think both leads are older than the age the characters are suppose to be so that made some of the lines not quite work when uttered by older actors.

 

The Pale Blue Eye (2022)
The mystery is a bit thin though still a decent enough gothic horror movie. I do highly recommend to watch the movie for the visuals. The wintry landscape was just beautiful and filmed in such an atmospheric, melancholic and eerie manner.

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
This brought back McDonagh as writer/director and costars Gleason and Ferrell together again who all worked on In Bruges. I love In Bruges, so I wanted this to be great, unfortunately this was quite disappointing for me, it was just so-so, others though seem to love it as this is a well reviewed movie. 

 

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Thursday Movie Picks #452: TMP Television Edition - Lukewarm Second Season

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is TMP Television Edition - Lukewarm Second Season (Series that had a hot First Season and a not so hot Second Season)

 

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Heroes (2006)

The first season was outstanding; it was a series which I really looked forward to the next episode. So I was excited about the second season, unfortunately it was such a letdown. I can’t really remember now why, since it’s almost 20 years ago now, but I think the story was just not as interesting and the characters started doing silly things. The same goes for its other subsequent seasons which were all never able to have that same magic from season one.

 

Felicity (1998)

Felicity didn’t have the kind of stellar season one that Heroes had, but it was a decent show and its first season was I think well liked by its target demographic. Then Felicity, the title character, cut her curly locks and it lost some of its audience. Here’s the thing…I don’t think the quality of the show dipped, not like Heroes, Felicity I thought was a consistent series. The problem was I think not just the haircut, it was Felicity herself. I have not seen the show in two decades, but I vaguely remember Felicity having two quirks. One where she pauses a lot, unable to spit out what she actually wants to say. The second where she sort of rambles a lot when she’s nervous or something…these two things occur frequently and they can make her annoying. However, her big curly hair makes her cute/attractive, so her annoying quirks are somewhat tolerable. But when she cut her hair in season two, it really is one of the worst hairstyles ever, she is no longer as attractive and all that annoying quirks that used to be tolerable is now not. This is a fictional character after all, one that can easily be dropped, …so I can understand why people choose not to watch a show with a very annoying main character anymore.

The Morning Show (2019)

The first two were easy picks but I had a hard time picking a third series. This I think fits well. The first season of The Morning Show had a lot of buzz for multiple reasons. It is one of Apple TV+ first few TV shows released when it was launched. It starred a few big movie stars. It had a Me Too plot involving a news anchor which was something very current at the time with the scandals that some real anchors were embroiled in. Anyway I thought The Morning Show’s season one lived up to the hype, it was an entertaining season. The second season was subsequently released in 2021 which I don’t remember hearing much buzz about that I even forgot there was a second season. Not a fan of the second season, to me it basically just dragged on too much of the same drama from the first season and not really in an interesting way along with some other messy secondary plot dramas. I would say compared with the first season, it had a lot less focus.

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Thursday Movie Picks #451: Erotic Thrillers

Hello there and welcome to Thursday Movie Picks a weekly series where you share your movie picks each Thursday. The rules are simple: based on the theme of the week pick three to five movies and tell us why you picked them. For further details and the schedule visit the series main page here.

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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Erotic Thrillers

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Another quick one. This sub-genre isn’t the greatest but the twists while often silly make it a fun entertaining watch. I am picking movies I recently watched.

Wild Things (1998)

Saw this years ago. Don’t remember anything so rewatched it this year. Everyone in this is so corrupt with everyone conning each other…the movie should be renamed Dirty Things. Anyway I enjoyed the 90’s-ness of this movie; the twists were silly but fun.

The Voyeurs (2021)
A young couple having moved into their new apartment finds that their neighbours in the building opposite them have large curtain-less windows and are shamelessly living out their lives and romantic lives in full view of their neighbours to see. I thought this was interesting. The twist though came as a surprise and which I thought was over the top and a little nutty.

Deep Water (2022)
In order to avoid a divorce, a couple have an agreement that the wife would be able to have affairs with other men. Then the wife’s lovers start to either disappear or turn up dead and the husband becomes the prime suspect. A little on the moody self-serious side but still thought this was pretty entertaining.

 

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