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Reviews
Road House (1989)
What a wasted talent!
Not bad story, great fight scenes! Wish I lived in the alternative reality where Patrick Swayze became a martial arts action star.
Millennium (1996)
Don't expect too much
Season 1 good and the first few episodes of season 2 good but then descends into being a pile of clichéd excrement.
Millennium: Beware of the Dog (1997)
Keep an open mind
I'd count this episode as the threshold where Millennium shifts focus from police drama to the supernatural. If you're expecting to get behind the good guy (Frank in this case) as he steams in to save the day then you will be disappointed.
Cracker (1993)
Excellent
Cracker is brilliantly written; so much so that it not only allows you to empathize with awful people but it also shatters the perceptions of the viewer toward the good guys (so-called). Frequently exposing them as not particularly nice or likeable fallible human beings. When I watch it these days it does feel a little dated, not for the clothes or hairstyles but for the fact that it's an intelligently written, excellently acted piece of drama that allows the viewer to make their own conclusions, something you don't see these days. In fact it's as if someone read the script and decided to sabotage it from the makeup and costume departments as a last resort. Where every woman is adorned in frumpy clothes and accessories and all the men were given jack up trousers with bright white socks and pudding basin hairstyles. That aside, all poor aesthetic choices just serve to compliment the acting, writing, directing or further accentuate the bleakness of the subject matter.
12 Monkeys (2015)
Contrives to suck you in
Starts off as watchable, which in this age of mediocrity we're all just so grateful and optimistic about.
However, I came to feel this series was treading too heavily on what borders inspiration and plagiarism in the fact that the lead actor resembled Michael Biehn a little too closely and was travelling back through time, and was falling in love with the woman he was sent to make contact with and even goes naked at one point.
Come to think of it that's not even all the plagiarism from this series, simply what springs to mind most readily.
By the third season, just as it was getting way too repetitive the series totally jack knifes on you and transforms into the equivalent of an episode of Scooby-Doo(with accompanying "boing" noises).
I take it there was a meeting in the producers office where everyone was told that whatever slim artistic achievement had been reached had to be tastelessly sacrificed to Satan.