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Deadly Cuts (2021)
What??
This movie was recommended to me by an Irish friend, but like most Irish films you can't make out a word. OK, not true, you can make out 2 of 20 words. If you know Ireland you know they define themselves by classes, their idea not mine, and this is what's called a 'working class' accent. With no other audience that can understand a word they say you can see this is made by, starring, and exclusively for said class. The rest of us, well, we end up annoyed and turn them off within 5 minutes.
The Society (2019)
Worst Writing Netflix Has Dredged Up Yet!
Wow, is it bad. I am shocked and amazed by the amount of positive reviews this gets, and scared at what this means. The story had potential for one episode, not far from King's "Under The Dumb" in its premise, and the other like-themed plot lines mentioned in some reviews, but it follows with an agonizing 9 hours waiting for something to happen....anything. Reviewers say this deals with "big social questions", hmm, not really. At best it touches on them with no real world resolve or substance. I can give hundreds, literally hundreds of where the script burns to the ground. Some notable ones are things like how it only takes a few words from the villain to turn the whole town against Allie. I mean from a town meeting where many are suspect of the villain and his transparent intent, to the next scene where all are screaming for her death and stoning her, wow! The real social message here is "look how easily we can all be sheep to a few idiots. The abuser does not get arrested for violence, instead a fake arrest is planned to hide the victim, so....why not have a trial for him? Show the marks of abuse? How can we possible get to "let's fake an arrest for me (victim) as it's just my word against his" in the writing? Who wrote this? It took about 6 or 7 episodes to even get back to "where are we" in the plot. When we did it was touched on for 1 minute. "A Parallel universe, a few degrees off where the stars should be", which the viewer pretty much guessed already. Allie's reaction to the girl confessing to accidentally poising the town is so far fetched it's comical. All in town know the villain is a nut job, yet he roams free to create chaos with people actually listening to him. Wait though, surely at the end of 10 hours of drivel you will give a great cliffhanger to get us back next season! No, nothing, again about what we expect as it was one of 2 choices. The Parents are dead, or they are, ok maybe it's Hell, maybe a billion dollar rebuilt city in Upstate NY to punish the parents, maybe no one cares by the time we get to some pretty obvious possibilities.
In whole it's paper thin, predictable, and painfully slow. What fit into 10 episodes could have been in 3, with room for a well thought out story over the next 7. There's some OK acting in here, on a positive note, but they are working with the worst script Iv'e seen since the aforementioned "Dome", so I feel for them. Maybe though, like many reviewers, the actors have also bought into the "yea this is a really interesting show with a great story!" nonsense. Season 2 would be too much to steel myself through, and Netflix clearly needs to slow down with the original content until they have something high end to offer.