Addendum

Entertainment

Here’s something from Insty:

I haven’t seen any of them, of course, and am unlikely to do so — unless they’re on Netflix already, and even then…

…which brings me to a new movie — okay, series — that I have seen, watched over the past weekend, in fact.

My one-word review:  Don’t.

My longer review:  total and utter bullshit, with a paper-thin plot, an unbelievable “heroine”, and more holes in the plot (and action sequences) than in the average piece of Swiss cheese — and I apologize in advance for any slight against Swiss cheese.

Suffice it to say that the good guys all shoot like Jerry Miculek, while the bad guys (predictably) all shoot like guys who flunked out of Imperial Stormtrooper Beginners Marksmanship Qualification.  And watching the 82-pound Keira Knightley fighting a Special Forces sniper hand-to-hand — and winning — is enough to make you reach for the barf bag.

There’s even a sub-plot where the good-guy assassin is (surprise, surprise) a homo with (of course) a Black lover.  That this relationship is actually one of the more interesting and entertaining parts of the show should say it all.

I would go into greater detail, but that would require making an effort which this stupid series really does not deserve.

And to prove how totally crap this show is, Netflix has committed to Season 2 already.

Don’t say you haven’t been warned.

10 comments

  1. Keira is still cute as a button, though. Even if it’s 40-something cute. I didn’t realize she could look 15 years younger just by wearing bangs … just kidding, she can’t, but the show thinks she can … ridiculous. Beating up the sniper was the last draw for me, although the butt-sex nearly had me reaching for the remote.

  2. Another “powerful woman with a gun”, how novel.

    All day yesterday, off n on, I glanced at GRIT TV’s Clint Eastwood marathon. All the old cowboy originals.

    The old stuff STILL blows away all the silly assed new stuff.

  3. Wife got started on Lioness on Bezos TV, and for all the above reasons I hate it. Watching a skinny actress allegedly beat up a trained Special Forces MALE agent had me saying “Bullshit” out loud. Of course there’s the requisite bull dyke without green hair and lip jewelry, to complete the hollywood checkbox.

    1. Wife got me started on Lioness, too. Women as equals in combat seems to be the thing just now. We’re also watching The Agency (with Fassbender and Gere), but the other night the wife says, “wait a minute, didn’t they kill the Chinese agents already?” I had to point out that, no, that was the Chinese agents in Lioness, not the ones in The Agency. She was thoroughly and rightfully confused. All the plots (including Black Doves) are unbelievably convoluted and completely senseless.
      Lioness has Nicole Kidman, by the way, although here face is sadly wrecked by vanity and plastic surgery. The supporting actors are decent, including Morgan Freeman, although he seems to be well into his dotage. It’s fun to watch and the aforementioned combat dyke is on of the best characters.

    1. Wifey and I watched first season. It’s kind of like Sons of Anarchy in the Texas oilfields. Its about 30% interesting, and 50% chick drama bullshit, and 20% something else.

      Best I can say, is….its adequate.

  5. I don’t to the cinema any more. My wife’s health makes it pretty much impossible for her to go and after all the years together I don’t like going alone anymore. If I have to watch a movie alone I might as well just rent it online and play it on my own TV. Add to that the price of tickets and that people won’t stop pecking at their cell phones during the movie and — well — the cinema just isn’t fun any more.

    In one respect that works out pretty well: By the time a movies gets to Amazon or Netflix or Disney I already have an idea about whether it is worth watching so I waste less of my limited entertainment time. The downside is that I usually end up watching a movie or a series I’ve already seen and, frankly, there are not that many worth watching more than once or twice.

    Fortunately there are still authors out there writing books worth reading so it is not all bad.

  6. I have to admit that I enjoyed “Red One” (the “Santa gets kidnapped” movie with The Rock and J.K. Simmons). Fun, with a whole bunch of neat worldbuilding and special effects.

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