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The Handmaid's Tale: Unfit (2019)
No longer thought-provoking or remotely plausible even within the created fictional reality.
It's been slowly simmering away during all of this very unsatisfying season 3 (seasons 1 and 2 were beyond excellent), but this episode tipped the balance - I found myself pleading, during the incident at the supermarket, that the main character would indeed be shot and we'd all be spared any more bizarrely illogical plot machinations ... and those expertly executed facial and emotional contortions by a lead character who is increasingly unlikable and acting with a completely different and unrelated set of motivations every episode. The cynicism of the writers to drag out what should have been 2 seasons into 3 (and 4?) is patently obvious in this episode.
My Old Lady (2014)
In artistic no-man's-land
We tried fairly hard to enjoy this movie, but it was ultimately a disappointing way to spend an evening, and turned into a bit of a trial just to get through. We had no preconceptions, having made a fairly spontaneous decision to watch it based on the interesting premise of the story outline alone. To its credit it was mostly unpredictable and failed to fall conveniently into a genre, but that was also part of its undoing. By about a third of the way through the lack of clear genre slowly became lack of clear direction, and motivations of characters (and plot) became implausible and unbelievable. Surprisingly, while the acting was generally fine, Kevin Kline's portrayal of his character became grating and over-acted. By about half way the movie had become completely obsessed in a Woody Allen way with personal introspection and psycho-therapeutic evaluation of parent/child relationships, which left us not caring any longer what happened to any of the increasingly unlikable characters, and looking at our watches. All of this might have been tolerable if the movie was in any way entertaining or thought provoking. It wasn't, and the only real emotional response we registered was cringing a few times. Overall, it just fell flat.