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The Irrational: Lucky Charms (2023)
This episode was enjoyable, but had such stupidity that I'm rating it low.
1) They stole the lucky charm from a competitor in a tournament, with the claim that "If he really was doing well because he believed in the lucky charm, he would now perform worse." So they illegally stole from him and messed with his livelihood. They didn't know if he was cheating or not, just suspected.
2) They claimed he was cheating because he had unusual statistics. But their reasons were based on unconvincing statistics -- sure, he could be cheating, but he could also not be! And how could we take them seriously anyway, when the professor looks at her for 3 seconds and then says "she's bluffing now, I know her tells after working with her for 3 years". Oh? So *he* can spot her tells quickly, but poker players in a tournament would not be able to, when she has been playing for a couple of years and is not the newbie? Ridiculous!
3) They act like these absolute morons are somehow "really smart". No, really smart people from a middle class background would not get 2 million dollars in debt in vegas. That is absolute stupidity. "You took a risk, you learned about yourself! I myself got suckered into losing 800 dollars here!" These people are just morons.
4) Because someone is drinking faster, they are guilty!?? Totally ridiculous! She could have just been nervous! She could have been hoping the female would win the tournament for publicity reasons. She could want to finish her drink before going to the bathroom. There are so many reasons! It would be fine if they said "we're going to follow these 3 people who were drinking quickly, since maybe one of them is involved", but not to just decide someone was "drinking quickly because they were guilty and surprised by how the tournament's round was going"!
5) The detective is working on an old case -- more than 10 years old or something like that? And cancels lunch dates with the person they are dating three times? Saying "this is important" ? It is stupid jerk behavior also. The case is not going anywhere. The detective should not be canceling their lunch date over a 10 year old case that can wait.
Still an enjoyable episode, but given the horrible aspects above, I have rated it low.
The Equalizer: No Way Out (2023)
Unacceptable Episode
I am surprised that others have rated this episode well. It was a horrible episode.
I have no objection that they made a villain, I have no objection that there were people afraid of the villain. However, they made the villain ridiculous -- totally ridiculous, as if the person somehow imagined they could get away with activities that a person would not be able to get away with.
And then after that, the people who were supposed to protect the victim were constantly not doing so, resulting in an episode that was infuriating to watch. Additionally, the detective was behaving like a moron. It was disappointing.
The Equalizer: Second Chance (2023)
Ruined by one part of he episode.
I normally like the equalizer, and this.was a good episode. There was plot, reasons for empathy, some twists, some adventure, some cleverness. There was reason for tension on the team. There was collaboration between the police force and the vigilantes. However, there was one part that ruined it. Mel went 'undercover', and she said "I'm the muscle" and acted offended when the police officer was a bit skeptical. She initially proved herself, but then in the middle of the job she got beaten up by the "hacker" of the bad guys. It was totally ridiculous. It was like she got beaten up again, and again, and again. You can't say "I'm the muscle" and take out a special forces type guy by hand and then get beaten up repeatedly by the "hacker". Well, I suppose it could be that the hacker was some kind of really good fighter, but it was not portrayed that way.
Wiseguy: Postcard from Morocco (1989)
Well written but despicable writing
A woman should not be killed off this way so stupidly. She was not the most streetwise character, but I think she was not stupid enough to behave as simply as the episode showed.
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)
Disappointing losers
The style of awkward honesty was good.
(1) Every single character was either irresponsible or morally repugnant due to lack of loyalty.
(2) Propagation of the gender stereotypes & gender roles of "women are for looking pretty" and "men are for being interesting". The movie did not have things 100% that way, but still too far in that direction.
The Blacklist: Konets (2021)
This was one of the worst episodes.
The dialogue was mostly absolute garbage, mostly a waste of time. The best writer in a 6th grade English class could certainly do better. Even worse, this episode has a Deus Ex Machina, and for the wrong character. There are so many Deus Ex Machina's across the series that it's constantly irritating and in this particular case, among others, disgusting. I am not sure if the Blacklist will even be renewed for another season, but it probably shouldn't be. It seems like the writers have quit.
MacGyver: Abduction + Memory + Time + Fireworks + Dispersal (2021)
This was possibly the worst episode in the series.
The plot was predictable, but more importantly, the first half of the episode the dialogue's writing was horrible. It was so bad that I feel like the actors should have refused to say the lines. For many of the lines, it didn't even sound like their characters' personalities, in terms of the content being said. The second half and ending was not as bad. So to their credit, perhaps the producers focused on making the end decent.
The Blacklist: The Protean (No. 36) (2021)
Yet another unbelievable scene.
As others have pointed out, there were several ridiculous scenes. The one that made me mad is that Keen was interrogating the hitman.
The stupidest thing was she brought her gun close enough to him for him to grab it from her.
This happens after she apparently, she gives him the luxury of getting into the driver's seat of a car after getting him at gunpoint. (Huh!? How can one do that while pointing a gun at someone without being afraid they will flee?)
More importantly, she is taking her sweet time interrogating him. She could have taken him into the house and shot him in the leg or something. Or tied him up and thrown him in the back seat of the car and then drove.
Out of all of the possible options, none should have been to create a situation where he could just grab the gun from her.
The Blacklist: Ivan Stepanov (No. 5) (2021)
Serious plot failures.
This is a horrible episode. Why others are rating it highly are beyond me. Yes, the episode was one of the best this season in some ways, but the two below issues are unforgivable to me.
1) Reddington supposedly is willing to let the FBI help, since this is SO important. Great. Then it turns out they have the wrong location. Once he gets the right location, and is 15 minutes away from being able to get to where Stepanov is, he doesn't call for their help. Why is he so stupid?
2) He asks Priya, the thief to infiltrate a compound of heavily guarded people to prevent the person being interrogated from talking. This is absolutely absurd. Why would she agree? She could easily die. Even if she didn't die in the attempt, Townsend would surely kill her for betraying him. That would be true even for a regular criminal head, but with one as ruthless as Townsend, it is more likely she'd even be tortured for information before being killed. And she is stupid enough to try to go into it because Keen is in the building and 'might' be killed? When Keen was obviously going into the mess on Keen's own? Yeah right. This is not what Thief would get involved with. It was horrible writing.
Walker, Texas Ranger: The Lynching (1995)
Badly written episode
This episode had a good overall plot, but it constantly made me mad at how stupid the decisions were being made.
The locals were assaulting police officers but not being arrested for it, then they became 'worse and worse'.
It seemed obvious to me that if the officers just hit a few instigators a few times and didn't lock them up that the crowd may come back.
Busô renkin (2006)
Skip it. It started good, then become badly written.
Some of the early episodes were so good that I started recommending the series to people. However, 5 episodes in, the show starts having really bad writing. The characters often behave very stupidly, don't keep their word, story things happen that (in my view) make no sense. I watched it through to the end, and there were some good episodes here and there, but unfortunately I don't recommend the series.
Timeless: The Miracle of Christmas Part I/II (2018)
Good but imperfect.
It really really bothered me when in the second half Wyatt went out of character. His job from the very beginning of the show was to keep people ON the mission, not doing nonsense when they tell him "let's go do some nonsense!" I did like the last part.
Fixing Pete (2011)
Not perfect, but wonderful and feel-good
Not perfect, but wonderful and feel-good. It is the kind of movie you can enjoy alone (even if you're single!) - you don't have to have a date to enjoy it. It is a good movie for a single hopeless romantic. The beginning half had some moments of incredibly brilliant scripting (I laughed or chuckled several times during the movie). The latter half took some stretching of our ability to believe and somewhat less brilliant scripting, BUT, it was always feel-good and good-natured throughout. Generally compassionate and considerate characters throughout as well. So 1.75 thumbs up from me. I was impressed with all of the actors' abilities as the movie progressed. And I am left smiling after the movie and in a good mood! So overall, it was good.
Accidentally in Love (2011)
The leads' characters started as really annoying, so was hard to keep watching.
The leads were NOT being good role models in the beginning. But the movie got better, so I give it a decent rating overall. My complaints are not the actors' fault. I feel that they did a good job overall,- especially the male lead. There was also one scene later where the male leads character was ill behaved which was disappointing (again, not the actor's fault). I don't understand why anyone would write a scene like that into the movie. I don't think anyone enjoyed that scene. I guess it was just to add drama into the plot, but that's like a vulgar joke, it's not a good way to do it. I did like the movie though, it gave me warm feelings overall.