sproost
Celluloid Junkie
Member Since: 30 Apr 2011
Age: 102
Bio: i'm a seagull projecting movies out of my beak to the surface of the ocean
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Feud (2024) - Rated 16 Jun 2025
"S2: amazing role by Tom Hollander! This show is more a vibe and acting artillery than a full fledged story with a beginning an end. There’s some Mad Men level episodes and some slightly more aimless ones. All in all a great watch with fantastic music by Julia Newman"
American Crime Story (2016) - Rated 06 Jun 2025
"S1 (85) is a gripping legal drama, with phenomenal acting and expert character studies, bingeworthy in the bingiest of ways. S2 (75) is not as succesful, its structure messier and topic a bit unclear, but works as an unsetlling look at a supremely fucked up spree killer. S3 (80) is a great and unsallacious look at the Lewinsky affair. The strength here is that, despite this innately greasy story, it remains empathetic to all involved, even wrt Tripp (an awesome laugh out loud-villain by Paulson)"
Silo (2023) - Rated 03 Jun 2025
"S1 had a decent start and end but the writing in between is of a very low calibre. To fumble an interesting premise and create no intrigue or interest in the world is a major failure. Many things don’t make sense. They’re under ground for 400 years but don’t have any culture or lore to speak of? They speak like they do in 2025? S2 is even worse, a pest of bad characters and weaponized boredom. Steve Zahn criminally underused. Virgin River in a silo, but without the cult appeal."
The Last of Us (2023) - Rated 01 Jun 2025
"Bella Ramsey works well in S1 when she’s a kid but her juvenile ways make her out of her depth in S2. Pitted against a superior (ofc) Kaitlyn Dever, she is nothing more than a whiny teenager that needs saving over and over; definitely not the formidable enemy that should drive her character, as successfully portrayed in the game. Entire episodes are wasted on Hallmark sentimentality. We are to feel for characters that barely have screen time. The girl playing Dina convinces, though."
Rectify (2013) - Rated 27 May 2025
"Sometimes a little to precious for its own good, when it tries to shoot darts in your heart every other scene nudged by the music and visual atmospherics, but overall Rectify is a fantastically written show populated by many fleshed out and realistically motivated characters. Sean Bridgers has entered my hall of fame of favorite secondary actors."
The Studio (2025) - Rated 20 May 2025
"Another SNL-like comedy hell. This sort of content is unwatchable to me, it makes me very aggressive"
House of Cards (2013) - Rated 20 May 2025
"S1-S5. Gets a little weaker every season until S6 when it suddenly drops below every conceivable metric so i wont count that one. The biggest problem with HOC imo is that there’s not much development in its main characters. Frank Underwood barely has an arch. I wish he would take his takeover of the entire republic farther, instead of fighting small fights in a small political circle. An Underwood goes full Saddam Hussein arch would have been a spectacle and truly a great development."
The Bridge (2011) - Rated 30 Apr 2025
"It flirts with your suspension of disbelief but never becomes complacent. Great characters and a very entertaining affair to binge. Recommended!"
Black Mirror (2011) - Rated 19 Apr 2025
"The previous season, like other seasons, inspired bile- but something happened that i never expected: S7 is a decent, if not good, season of Black Mirror. I seriously can’t believe i’m typing this as a big hater. Is this bc my expectations are so low? I tested this and no, i still hate the previous seasons. S7 is fun and pretty inspired, the Throng episode with Eutow by Autechre on the climax is an amazing moment. The other episodes are fun too (except the Callister one)"
8 Mile (2002) - Rated 13 Apr 2025
"Eminem a very good actor, who knew!"
