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Garbage. Poorly paced, poorly cast, empty, and boring. But the English country house is lovely as are some of the props. Otherwise, it's NO GOOD.

Better than Season 3, not as good as Seasons 1 & 2. Season 4 is dragged out, overblown, confused, and filled with way too much sobbing and heart-to-hearts. Kids don't talk so openly or eloquently about their emotions then or now. But there were some good moments, especially with 11, and a nice surprise or two. So it wasn't all bad.

More garbage exploiting a beloved character in order to foist a new woke-approved character onto a gullible or ignorant audience. Cynical propaganda at its worst. I was done with Star Wars a long time ago, still these new barbs sting.

I am an enthusiastic admirer of Hannibal Lecter. I enjoyed all Thomas Harris's Lecter books, despite the fact that I normally hate prequels. I also thought Anthony Hopkins's portrayal of Lecter in Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal was excellent and even added to Lecter's character. So I am mystified as to how the TV series Hannibal could garner such universal praise. It bears only the most superficial relation to Harris's iconic character. But first, let's start with the casting. Mikkelsen may be a good actor; he was an adequate Le Chiffre. But the man's physical appearance and speech are distracting, especially his mouth. It's weird. He has an overbite and duck lips. His accent is thick and his delivery lacks feeling. There's nothing compelling about the man's presence, though his face is interesting and rather handsome. But this is in no way Hannibal Lecter. This was a case of bad casting but I suppose it might be overlooked, though not by anyone who appreciates acting. Now lets discuss a more important flaw with this series: the writing. The situations are mostly preposterous. Hannibal's motives are so obsure, even he seems to have no idea what he's doing or why. But the worst thing is Will Graham. He walks into a crime scene and plays it backward in vivid and presumably hyper-accurate detail. Yes, we get to see this, but we have no idea how. With Sherlock Holmes, we get an explanation of his deductive process, of the clues and their meanings. But Will Graham's process is opaque. He sees what he sees as from some supernatural gift. He makes sudden pronouncements that are almost always right, but seem to emanate from some inner sibylline voice rather than from his reconstructive or even intuitive powers. They're passed off as intuitive, but real intuition is fueled by experience and observation. This insistence on giving Graham super powers leads to endless absurdities. He can imagine perfectly how a scene played out based on the placement of furniture and the spray of blood, yet he misses a hundred signs that Hannibal Lecter is a killer. So many, many signs missed. And everything has to be cloaked in layers of ponderous music and entire episodes that add up to nothing. Then there's the relationship between Jack Crawford and Graham. It's so inconsistent and turbulent that one is left with the feeling that Crawford is just messing with Graham's head because he enjoys it. I could go on about this show's flaws, but it would only depress you and me. The most depressing thing being that it was so well-received. I can only attribute this to the nostalgia we all feel for the character. He's a once-beloved uncle whose flaws we could now see if the imago were not so vital to our sense of the world. How easy it is to exploit our old affections and loyalties; how sad it is that so-called creators would desecrate our enthusiasm. They promise us the thing we love, and give us a deformed and diminished substitute. And so many are happy with it. It makes me wonder if those people ever really liked Hannibal Lecter for the right reasons.

I liked the first two seasons, but this one was a disaster. Too much forced humor was the biggest problem. They show runners seem to have lost their way and forgotten what made the first season so good. The changes in El's character were unwelcome.

This is one of the best shows of the millennium. Some episodes are weak, but the writing is generally excellent, as is the characterization. And the performances are astonishing. I especially liked the first season. I'm not sure how it rates as history, but as entertainment and drama, it's as good as it gets.

This show has gone off the rails. The plotlines are insipid, stereotypical, superficial, and boring. The musical numbers, while of a high quality, seem like filler--there are just too many of them. Most of the actors can't act. This show has about as much relation to French culture as French fries do.

I've tried to like this show. I wanted to like it. I love Dexter. From the beginning of this season, I've felt a lurking sense of impending disappointment. I've overlooked the strong female characters, the obnoxious teens, the brainless police, the unbelievable human reactions. But episode 5 is so lazy, so contrived, so filled with impossible coincidences, and silliness, that I don't know if I can watch anymore. This isn't Dexter. No matter how dark things got, the original Dexter was always fun. Things moved quickly. Any cheating with the plot was earned. If I have to pinpoint the problem with this season, it's the over-emphasis of Harrison. There's just too much time spent on him. I don't think it was a bad idea to have him appear in Dexter's life, but it would've been so much better if he had remained a bit of a mystery, if we didn't see too much of him. But we see way too much of him feeling sorry for himself, emoting, and just being boring. It drags down the pace and leaves us with little hope that he can surprise us in the end. Making him a mystery would've been so much better.

We get it. You're woke and you hate European culture, traditions, and people. Everything is sexist, racist, and evil. But at least make your defamation entertaining.

Boring woke garbage. The makers of this have defecated all over Robert Jordan and the world he created. I might be able to forgive that if it were any good. If you're into man-buns, you may like this.

Lavish visuals can't compensate for flagrant anachronisms, contrived conflict, weak plotting, unlikable characters, and glib dialogue.

The premise is intriguing but the execution leaves much to be desired. I wanted to like this show, but it tended to drag and the second half of the series seemed unfocused and rambling and the ending with unsatisfying.

Slow, sometimes boring, and moralistic, but not hopelessly bad. I think Moss was a bad choice for the lead, though I thought she was just right in Mad Men. The premise of this show is what gets me. In a time when the Western World careers toward the brink of insanity and self-destruction, this show panders to those fog-bound souls who fear revanchist religiosity and conservatism. What could be more unlikely? It seems to me that totalitarian control of our personal lives is indeed a danger, but it's coming from a very different quarter. But that aside, this show moves too slowly and milks moments of pathos. One feels manipulated, pressured to feel something. The situations are often indeed harrowing, but the heavy-handedness of their treatment detracts and distracts from one's genuine response to them.

For people who are capable of watching Sandra Oh without suffering a herniating cringe fit.

It could be a lot worse. My biggest beefs are the abundant anachronisms, the generally poor writing, and some of the performances. It also suffers from the current malaise of wallowing in the gruesome and the prurient. But the sets and costumes are nice and some of the performances are not nauseating.

Ozark has its weaknesses, but it's seldom boring. The characters are generally interesting, and while the level of stress the mains endure is extreme and relentless, and events sometimes strain the limits of believability, the overall quality of this show makes it worth suspending one's disbelief. It's interesting, fun, unpredictable, and busy in the best way.

I had high hopes for this show, but it was crap. The writing was bad, the characters lacked motivation, the episodes were just the usual garbage thrown together with one or two dramatic moments contrived to make it seem like something was happening. I think the low-point for me was probably Frankenstein's monster. He's miscast (though I like the actor, he just lacks the brute physicality the monster needs). Then he dribbles long, self-pitying, pseudo-philosophic soliloquys before tearing somebody's liver out with his bare hands. The effect is unintentionally humorous. Then there's all the hugger-mugger and cryptic looks, the misplaced glamor, etc., etc. This show is just the usual disaster with regards to character and plot. Nothing make sense. The action scenes are mindless and intended to dazzle by their sheer speed and complexity, but are always poorly motivated.

I've tried several times to watch this show and like it, but it's just crap, predictable, dumb, crap. An alcoholic, drooling mad-scientist who uses his brainless grandson, stupid parents, a constant rehashing of plots from old movies and tv-shows, lame gimmicks, and a constant resort to the basest humor makes this show boring and difficult to watch. If your the type of person who's tickled by farts and old people talking dirty, you'll love this.

Good acting, beautiful production values, and interesting settings marred by bad writing and an overemphasis on gore and sex. Sex scenes can be interesting in porn, but they just demolish the magic in mainstream entertainment and fiction. So does excessive gore, with some exceptions (The Thing, Saving Private Ryan). And then there are the episode-long torture scenes, and worse, the episode-long scenes where the villain just talks and talks and talk and tortures the viewer. Still, I'll probably check out the latest season, at least for an episode or two.

This show has its little problems, but the characters are good and generally behave in believable ways (well, they can handle a lot more stress than most real people), and there threats are always piling on. Sure they get out of some situations that seem impossible, but that's the thing about a good show: when it does cheat, you don't mind so much because most of the time its both believable and interesting. The casting is very good. This show stands out in the sea of illogical and uninteresting crap that fills the TV world today.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

This show is a heartbreaker. It looks good but the writing is so bad that it's impossible to like. The casting is generally bad too, especially that of Frankenstein's monster. I like the actor, but he's no monstrous. Nothing in this show really works at all. The characters all behave illogically, constantly do stupid things that don't fit with their character as established.