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Striking Out: Episode #2.6 (2018)
Great characters and storyline, set in Ireland
Oh please bring this series back. It has so much more to offer than American TV. Series set here are consumed with characters' issues. By the time they have each persons' issue covered in each episode there is no room for a story. We like drama and I like getting it overseas as these writers still know how to create a drama, with characters Who have secrets and sins to uncover. We love a mystery that needs to be solved with intelligent people people being able to do that. Our writers are hamstringed when it comes to character development and solid storyline. Those talents were lost in the early 2000s. All of network Tv has gone to the dogs. Any new series you want to watch at first, soon gets bogged down into personal issues,racial,gay ,women's or relationship issues and the story goes out the window. I love the fresh characters,smart writing and location of this series. So sad when I wanted to go to series 3 and didn't happen. Thanks to Acorn for bringing this to us. So happy I signed up for it just to watch Vera and Shetland and then found several other very entertaining movies and series.
Hunt to Kill (2010)
Could have been better!
This was an OK movie especially with Steve Austin. His part was good and his acting was also good as ever. I like him so maybe it's me. The movie itself was going along quite well but then they would have one of the characters say something totally infantile,stupid,and unnecessary. Just a stupid move by the director,instead of keeping it serious as it should have been. The storyline was dramatic enough,then to break it up with childish pranks and silly comments just destroys the plot line. It was watchable which I cant say about many these days. We watched It till the end unlike many that don't last 10 min. The storyline again was good just a few dumb remarks kept it from being better
Ray Donovan: The Dead (2019)
Revenge....a dish best served cold!
Never written one of these, but so many on here don't get the points that seem so clear to me. First Bridgett's action come from true trauma that she's never been in before. Yes she was always against what her dad did, even when a lot of it had been to cover up her and Connors misdeeds. This time she was actually being used against him and not in a good way. She felt the pain up close and personal and at once was looking for that same dad to show up with his bag of tricks. When she was finally looking capture and death in the face, and knowing only her dad could save her, she bagan to appreciate his skills. In the garage scene, she was facing her kidnappers who overpowered her. She was not acting at someone's bidding but in her own revenge for them and what they had put her through. We like to think we wouldn't be able to exact this same revenge but never having been through trauma like this, who really knows?
Next we have Lena's revenge. Ray gave her the opportunity for the same thing when he left Vinny the hit man, who hanged her actress girlfriend alive in the abandoned warehouse for her to deal with. Hanging seemed just revenge for her. Also at the end we see her go into a downtown building which looked like Sams place. Being that Sam ordered the hit man to take out the actress, seems natural that she be next. Then the camera pans to show her also hung in the window. Others may disagree but this is what I saw.
Yellowstone (2018)
Kevin Costner is Jim Dutton
Kevin Costner was born for this part. Seems impossible that a little TV station like Paramount could come up with such a fantastic series as this. It is better than anything that's been in the theaters in years. The very best actors, writers and directors. Being a Texan these are the kind of people you see everyday. Hard working men with vision. Uber rich or poor. Making hard choices and standing behind them, come what may.
I love seeing the people who own and work for this ranch to keep it successful. Many times I would like to imitate Beths' actions but know better. But it is very satisfying to see her set things right.
Dutton is a fair but hard man doing what's necessary to keep and hand down the family ranch. Fighting the elements and those who would try to take all that his family has sacrificed to maintain.
The scenery and wildlife is breath taking and easy to see why they fight so hard to hold onto their land and why so many scheme to take it. The land itself is a character in this series.
Each of the characters here have depth and are well developed, so as to understand why they are the way they are. Time is taken for their pasts to be revealed, whether they are ranch hands or family, as they all fight for what is theirs.
There are few whiners and snowflakes here and those that are don't last long. These are the ones who fight to take this land just because they don't want them to have it, but want them to share it with those who have neither worked nor invested for it.
We just finished the second series and are already anxious for the third.