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Sex Education: Episode 8 (2021)
Short, Sweet and to the Spoiler
I consistently love this show, the writing is so strong and never trashes a characters arc for the sake of plot furthering, it all develops so harmoniously. One specific moment in the season 3 finale solidified a 10/10 rating for me: Otis connecting with Hope in the hospital, seeing and relating to her as a fellow human even after everything she's put the students through all season. It was a beautiful way to realize Otis' true purpose, after he had temporarily lost his way. Beautiful writing, I truly hope we see more. But man, Jean....
Run (2020)
What?! Then...huh.
First episode had me hooked! Second episode left a queasy feeling in my stomach. Each episode following felt too much like it was structured to have an edge-of-your-sweat cliffhanger ending, at the expense of the overall story continuity. The final season ALMOST redeemed the whole series for me, then it didn't. When her husband says "how's my baby girl?", for a long second I thought, 'she's PREGNANT'. Everything, EVERYTHING made perfect sense, even the parts I didn't care for when watching. Of course her husband would be more likely to put up with all of this, she's pregnant, on top of already established mental instability! It all fell into place for me. Then...her response came, which had the entire sense-making construct in my head come crashing down. Really? So no real solid catalyst for her suddenly abandoning her family, just a constant bubbling desire to escape, that her husband already knew about? Ugh. The potential was there, it would have been so easy to tie up with a beautiful bow. Instead I was left disappointed but also...nauseous.
About Time (2013)
A Favorite I Return To Again & Again
This beautiful movie is one that leaves me with such a feeling of calm and universal purpose. It has a permanent place on my watchlist. With that said... has anyone else noticed this / figured this out?:
When he returns from traveling back with his sister, and finds that he has a son now and not a daughter, he puts everything back to as it was to restore his daughter, okay. They go on to have 2 more daughters so three daughters total. But then, at the end when he's feeding all of his now 3 children breakfast, one of the children looks EXACTLY like the boy that he had for a brief moment before he restored what he changed. What is up with this???
Ad Astra (2019)
First half intriguing, second half reaching
The intrigue built beautifully, but the the second half was full of unbelievable feats and unrealistic space physics. Sandra Bullock's Gravity did a much better job at the realism. Also, I don't know what I expected to happen once he reached his father, but it was underwhelming.