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Chuck (2007–2012)
10/10
The Perfect Nerd Fiction
24 November 2021
Chuck is probably the best work of fiction with a absurdly wonderful storyline. Don't try to use logic, don't try to analyze it. This is entertainment and they got it absolutely perfectly in tune with it.

Zachary Levi as chuck is probably the best portrayal of a nerd in any kind of TV or Movie. No confidence, underachieving and full of self contradiction of chuck is what made this a great series.

Chuck and Sarah's love story is something we all have seen before, nervous unattractive guy suddenly discovers himself with a young beautiful girl way out of his league. But the twist of the intersect and Adam Baldwin's Casey is what makes this series something worth watching without getting bored.

Forget the science, forget the logic, watch it for entertainment. And trust me, there are plenty.

Binge watched it 5 times and in the end of 2021, still holds up.
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7/10
Everything is good except the most important thing: Adaptation of the Story
24 November 2021
If you ever read the book, you will never forget the rush, the pace, the ever extending danger lurking about, the never ending thrill of whats gonna happen next.

Somehow it felt like they stretched it a little too long and somewhere in between there was a shift and they showed their hand a little too quick.

Of course, when you adapt a novel into a 10 episode series, its gonna need materials out of the bound. And of course this is a Dan Brown Novel, there will be plenty of hates and eyes on this series.

The things they got right is the tone of the series, the direction, environment in general.

What they got wrong is the fillers to stretch the story.
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Extraction (2020)
5/10
Action Packed but Completely missed the Environment of Dhaka
24 April 2020
Warning: Spoilers
The premise of the movie was supposed to set in Dhaka, a city of 10+ million people in Bangladesh. Unfortunately, they completely missed mark making the set in Dhaka.

To start with, the accent of the locals are wrong, they are speaking in an accent that's commonly used in West Bengal, India. Dhaka and People in Bangladesh, in General, have a completely different accent. Throughout the movie, Hindi songs are heard in the background, where everyone is watching tv during midday. People go to work here, Dhaka is the capital, nobody sits on their asses watching TV midday. Bangladesh has its own music industry, although the movie had some issues acquiring copyright for some of the songs to play in the background.

The environment is wrong. Sure Dhaka has slums and dirty places, but most of the city is developed enough with an actual nice road system. If they set the scene somewhere else in Bangladesh, it would've been more convincing. The roads are basically dirt roads in this movie where Dhaka has one of the best road systems in the Country. Dhaka doesn't have that kinda dense jungle anywhere near the city, certainly not near the Buriganga river.

The criminal class in Bangladesh is completely different. This isn't Africa, people don't employ child soldiers here. And certainly carry Ak-47 in hand and in the open.

The Police uniform and looks are completely misjudged. They are trying to portray the elite force of Bangladesh, Known as Rapid Action Battalion. They are not regular police. The deal with counter-terrorism and similar stuff. It should've been the police that deals with criminal or action in the street. Police vehicles are wrong.

Don't get me wrong, the entire movie is brilliantly shot and exceptionally action-packed. But this provides a complete misrepresentation of Bangladesh, as well as the city of Dhaka. People who don't have an idea about Bangladesh will get a false sense for a beautiful country by the misrepresented set of this movie.
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Blindspot (2015–2020)
5/10
Started Great, became lesser and lesser
20 May 2016
The pilot was exciting, tattoo girl and her FBI Handler.

Then it took a downward spiral. Every week, they are selecting a specific tattoo. Like Terrorists planned their event one by one, following a calendar.

The whole story was pointing towards a bigger story, relating our beloved FBI Agent Kurt Weller. But the way and size of the story is getting more clumsy.

And every time they are going someplace, where they already know that threat awaits, they only took one vehicle with 4 of them. So a nuclear bomb is going off somewhere and they sent 3 agents and one not so sure agent to fix it. There should be a whole Calvary ridding with them with all sorts of experts. This 4 man army vibe kinda wasted the series for me.

A TV Show including FBI should have the real traits of FBI.
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