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Law & Order: Punk (1998)
Over Acting at Its Worse
Cara Buono overacted in this episode. I did not find her outrage constant face shaking and sputtering believable especially since she was clearly given leniency on the sentence that landed her in prison in the first place. I'm sure others in prison with her - especially her gang mates - would have informed her that she could have been given a harsher sentence.
Downton Abbey: Episode #6.7 (2015)
Disappointing Character Development (or lack thereof)
I feel disappointed with the way the characters develop. Mr. Carson is the most disappointing of all. Although he has always been an ass, he's now turned more ill-mannered, more cruel and even meaner than ever. And this after he's found love and marriage?
Mary also disappoints. She has always been steadfast and calculated in the decisions she makes but now she gets involved with a man that not only she herself would consider "marrying down" to but who is also intent on celebrating and participating in a sport that he is fully aware terrifies Mary. Yet she fawns over him like he is the second coming. And she is the worse mother on modern television. Poor George gets about 15 minutes of her time from the moment he's born until the close of the last season.
Ms. Braxton is about as flaky as a box of Cornflakes. She wobbles back and forth between wanting to forget about her past and embrace the changes she's made (to be a better person) to wanting to revisit the most horrific part of her past even at the dismay of Mr. Moseley who has supported her to the fullest. Like many battered women, she seems incapable of recognizing when a good man is there for them and seems to stay attracted to that bad boy.
Mr. Barrow - the most despicable and detestable character of all - turns out to be the most sympathetic. The one you end up rooting for and hoping all turns out well in his life. He has a big heart and wants to love and be loved but his heart also has a thick coating of rejection and disappointment (that he has dealt with throughout his life) and is difficult to penetrate.
All of the characters seems to have a degree of complexity but how they develop and evolve is consistently murky.
Downton Abbey: Episode #6.5 (2015)
Daisy The Detestable and Andy The Annoying
Daisy is my least favorite character - even more so than Edna and Miss Bunting. She goes from being ignorant and naïve to being a nasty shrew on a regular basis without any real social maturity or growth. She herself says she fights without sensibility.
Episode after episode we see the aloof treatment Andy has towards Barrow. Not sure why the writers decided to make us wait so long for an explanation. Clearly an unnecessary dislike of Andy's character did not play into the writing. Perhaps they will do us all a favor and write him out.
It is definitely the Dow G is who keeps me coming back week after week. No one does it better when it comes to teaching a lesson. I'm sure Robert knows that more than anyone. Well maybe Denker who found out the hard way that the Dow G doesn't play.
Has Edith ever turned away even one suitor? Why must they make her so desperate?
Downton Abbey: Episode #6.2 (2015)
Anna The Weeper
I don't know if I can take one more week of Anna crying, frowning, weeping, moaning and being pathetic and self-pitying. She started off as such a strong character but has been reduced to one that I can't wait to get off of the screen.
Downton Abbey: Episode #5.2 (2014)
The Bunting Character is Like the Scratch on a Chalkboard
How many weeks must we be subjected to his horrid, abrasive, ill-mannered rude, bossy shrew? Sybil had a quiet grace and dignity as she asserted her beliefs and shaped her character. Tom loved her for her gentle manner. Yet the writers want us to believe this same Tom is attracted to the likes of Edna and Ms. Bunting who are Sybil's polar opposites and are so unattractive and unlikeable as they go about pushing their ways upon others. It makes Tom look ridiculous confused and immature.
Downton Abbey: Episode #4.4 (2013)
From Pride to Snivel
It's disappointing to see Tom and Anna - who were both so self-assured, wise, confident and full of pride - reduced to sniveling pathetic characters. Tom simply ignored the advice of Ms. Hughes and fell under the spell of a trollop and Anna abandoned all love and affection for Mr. Bates. Also it's odd that Tom - not being shown in one scene with his baby - seems to have abandoned fatherhood and is just being shown as a lonely widower.
Not to mention it took four seasons and four episodes before one single person of color was introduced and even then - although the character headlines at a club dignified for all of them to attend (and is an accomplished singer and a bandleader) - they consider him with disgust as that "Black man."
Young Sheldon: Bible Camp and a Chariot of Love (2020)
Generous 4 Rating
Paige seems more like a subject on a true crime episode on the ID channel - not a comedic sitcom. When watching comedy I want to laugh and feel an attachment to the characters. A character like Paige - disturbed sad sullen and confused - does not allow one to get too comfortable with her. I skip the episodes she is in.
Law & Order: House Calls (2003)
Lena had Answers for Everything. Almost...
Lena (the sister of the model) answered at least 60-70 questions hurled at her by detectives and attorneys - on and off the stand. She had an answer for everything! Until they asked her on the stand what she told her sister about the timing of the dosage. Then all of a sudden tears and tears and more tears. And a sudden memory loss. She forgot what she said. Hmmmm...