I watched the 3 episode mini series Criminal (UK) yesterday. Still mulling bits of it over, but mostly it's like a series of really disappointing Law & Order episodes without the meat of the police or court procedural dressings.
I think we're meant to not guess glaringly obvious 'twists' and be very convinced that the writers are incredibly clever. Unfortunately, the crimes and indeed, characters - are rote at best and the pace and construction of each episode leaves nothing to get invested in.
There are some nice performances - and perhaps we're meant to fawn over those rather than the content, but the format is a really weak concept. Felt like the entire thing was largely pointless by the time I'd finished.
@RogerRoger Ha, I love the way I'm fine with Shaun the Sheep driving cars around and stuff like that, but when we mention him going to the pole I'm like "Hmm that's a bit of a stretch"
Good job, Parappa. You can go on to the next stage now.
@RogerRoger I think you've cracked it here. A crossover between every claymation series ever. Wallace and Gromit want to take Shaun to space, but the ship crashes in the Antarctic and they have to team up with Morph to get home.
Good job, Parappa. You can go on to the next stage now.
so apparently Game of Thrones, LOST and How i met your mother are trending on Twitter for "Worst endings to a TV show"
and to be honest they were all disappointing but i don't think they were as bad as many make them out to be but then again this is twitter and people on there can't tell the difference between something that's disappointing and something that's actually bad
but it does bring up a interesting question are, what shows ACTUALLY had a terrible ending, NOT a disappointing one but one that was just BAD
for me Angel had a bad ending all that build up and it just cuts to black, no resolution or anything (and no a comic doesn't count, it wasn't shown in the show)
what about you?
and NO i have no idea why Satan is trending either
"I pity you. You just don't get it at all...there's not a thing I don't cherish!"
"Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!
LOST had the best ending out of those three but it was still rather naff. Never liked how it went in the last season especially. The whole spiritualistic angle just lost me entirely.
Game Of Thrones was absurdly rushed. Seasons 1-4 are honestly some of the best television I've ever seen. Season 7 & 8 are a joke of poor writing and characterisation and only shows how much seasons 1-4 depended on George R.R Martin's writing.
How I Met Your Mother's problem was that it just went on way longer then it should've. I just didn't care (so much so I never watched past like season 5 or so). Also only including the mother in the last season was a bad descision Only for Ted to wanna go after Robin for the billionth time once all was said and done. Yeah I don't blame people disliking it as I'd say it goes against the character development that took place.
One awful ending in particular that springs to my mind though would probably be the show Grimm.
The show never really rises above good. Average mostly, some stand out episodes for sure and some real bad ones too. The writing being... decent enough for a 20 or so episodes a season show.
The procedural cop show of it is helped quite a bit by the Grimm fairy tale side and the "Wessen" (Beast People) plotlines to make it stand out.
The good and likeable preformences of David Giuntoli, Silas Weir Mitchell, Sasha Roiz (Barring a bizzare plot in season 4 where he was possessed by Jack The Ripper... Really), Reggie Lee & Bree Turner definitely helped it out over it's six season run.
The show's myth arcs though aren't really resolved in a satisfying fashion at all because they never seemed to really know what they were doing with it and the final episode was absolute hogwash.
Bumping everyone off for petty and cheap shock elements only to Deus Ex Machina them back to life and then a terrible timeskip final few moments It was an extremely poor end for a series that was constantly saved from the axe by a dedicated fanbase.
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@LN78 yep it was just a glorified extra for a Next Gen episode
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy i never got round to Grimm actually but it always intrigued me, shame it sounds like it went out with a whimper
"I pity you. You just don't get it at all...there's not a thing I don't cherish!"
"Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!
Grimm's a decent show @FullbringIchigo. I'm probably still a little sour over the ending 😅
As I said the preformances of most of the cast really help lift it up. It could've done trying to break out from the procedural cop show format earlier then the final season (which was pretty bad unfortunately)
The end is bad sadly.
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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"
You've watched misfits @KratosMD ? Pretty decent series
Sheehan was also in that movie last year about the moving cities or whatever
Interesting tidbit is that The Umbrella Academy is based on a graphic novel wrote by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance and I think he did some of the artwork originally too.
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