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Dinner with the Parents: Pizza and Wings (2024)
WHO is rating this episode so highly?
This is yet another failed attempt by us Americans to remake a British comedy. And this is like the third or fourth attempt at remaking Friday Night Dinner for American audiences. I didn't laugh once during the first episode. Cringed and rolled my eyes the whole time. People should just watch Friday Night Dinner instead. Damn shame Paul Ritter died and there won't be any more episodes.
This show just not funny. It was a chore to get through the first episode. The characters are more like caricatures, there is no real humor, and there is nothing promising better times to come in future episode. Harder than hard pass.
So WHO exactly has voted this up to an 8.5 out of 10? The cast? Relatives of the cast? Bot accounts? If Americans really find this first episode great, I weep for the future of this country. Idiocracy, here we come.
Dinner with the Parents (2024)
Yet another failed attempt at adapting a British show
Looks like yet another failed attempt by us Americans to remake a British comedy. And this is like the third or fourth attempt at remaking Friday Night Dinner for American audiences. I didn't laugh once during the first episode. Cringed and rolled my eyes the whole time. People should just watch Friday Night Dinner instead. Damn shame Paul Ritter died and there won't be any more episodes.
This show just not funny. It was a chore to get through the first episode. The characters are more like caricatures, there is no real humor, and there is nothing promising better times to come in future episode. Harder than hard pass.
Watership Down (2018)
Exasperating Changes
Watership Down is my all-time favorite novel. While the 1978 movie makes some changes, the finished work is pretty close to the book - close enough that a true fan of the book has only a few causes for complaint. This miniseries, however, feels like it is Watership Down in name only. There are so many changes to characters and plot that only served to increase my frustration to the breaking point, and it took everything I had to force myself to watch the entire program. Four episodes should have been enough to cover all the main plot points. But no, we are treated to nonsense like a ridiculous love triangle between three rabbits, one of whom was gender swapped for no justifiable reason! The whole Efrafa storyline was butchered as well. This is not a program I would recommend, nor will I ever bother to watch it again. I will probably be dead and gone before anyone else takes a crack at making another version. Stick with the book and stick with the 1978 movie.
Halo (2022)
Where is the futuristic technology?
Five centuries into the future, and people are still using 20th/21st century guns, and did they get their ground vehicles from the nearest Toyota dealership used car section? Earth has interstellar travel, but can't seem to create energy weapons and hovercraft? They weren't hovercraft, but even the tracked Landram from the original Battlestar Galactica looked futuristic. I got about 15 minutes into this and started to not give a damn. Never played the video games, but this series is already off to a bad start with me. Spend a buck and ramp up the visible technology.
Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter (2013)
As many flaws with some reviewers as the series itself
At best, this series is OK. Good points, bad points, some historical inaccuracies, some dramatic licenses taken.
What is bothering me not only here but many other places is the plethora of Poles loudly proclaiming that anti-Semitism was virtually nonexistent during the German occupation. It is as much a load of nonsense as there being no Nazis to be found anywhere among the civilian population in 1945 Germany when the Allies defeated the country, or how almost Frenchman was a member of the Resistance in France during the entirety of the German occupation.
Every country has had its share of horrible people, the United States included. To proclaim there were no anti-Semitic Poles in World War II as many seem to be doing when criticizing this program doesn't make you as much a proud Polish patriot as it makes you an idiot. History is history. It is not to be embellished or whitewashed. It is to be learned from, so yesterdays mistakes and bad behaviors do not get repeated tomorrow.
Ghosts: Sam's Mom (2022)
Predictable ending and a wasted storytelling opportunity
As time marches on, television programs lose more and more time to commercial breaks. As a result, good storytelling and character development is hamstrung. This episode highlights the problem. There are two major storylines going on, and neither are given justice. Sam and her ghost mom have a deeply wounded relationship that was not given decent exploration because of the time wasted on the Pete plot. So instead, a couple of unconvincing sentences serve to patch up years of hurt on Sam's part so we can get the cliché sitcom end-of-episode resolution that was equally unconvincing. The story with Sam and her mom should have been the ONLY plot in this episode, and Pete's story could have been its own standalone episode. Cram both plots into a 20-minute episode, and both storylines are robbed.
I really wanted to like Ghosts, but so far I am running out of desire to continue watching. At least this show introduced me to the far superior UK version...
Ghosts (2021)
Pales in comparison to UK original
I have watched various TV programs from the UK over the course of my life, and found many enjoyable. About 10 years ago, I got a Hulu subscription, and discovered a treasure trove of programming from the UK. I discovered more and more programs over the years through AcornTV and BritBox. Today, I rarely watch American TV programs.
I discovered the US version of Ghosts as a new show premiering in 2021, and found that it was based off a UK program of the same name. I watched the UK version, and found the US copy to be vastly inferior. To me, the UK version is the one to watch. Most of the cast playing the ghosts have worked together for years (Horrible Histories, Yonderland, Bill) and have great talent for comedic acting. The actors portraying the living husband and wife work well together and with the actors portraying the ghosts.
The US version is just bland and dull. It is "OK" at best, and if CBS cancels Ghosts after this season, I would not feel cheated.
I have heard that there are plans to make US versions of Plebs and another attempt at copying Friday Night Dinner. Please don't bother. For every All in the Family or Sanford and Son or The Office are a dozen abject failures. Ghosts, in my opinion, is yet another failure.