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I enjoy the pace of the show and the interesting cases the team handles, but there are more than a few things that make it hard to watch. First of all, some of the technology they use DOESN'T EXIST in the way they use it! Also, someone will have to explain to me how Roxy and Keisha could be cast as special agents in the FBI. Their fat asses seem to be involved in foot chases every episode and neither of them could catch a cold much less a fleeing felon. One is an overweight near-dwarf and the other is carrying a small planet on her backside! My uncle was FBI. There is no way either of them would ever pass the required physical.

I've sat through foreign art films that were not as tedious as this nonsense. Remember 2001? Taht moved faster than this. I downloaded it just so I could rewind things to time the sequences where absolutely nothing happened. There was less than 20 minutes of story told in the 4 tedious hours this lasted. Rebecca Hall is far too talented an actress to be stuck in a role like this. The actually interesting parts of the story were telegraphed so transparently as to render them uninteresting. We knew Kyle's story from his first appearance. The husband with no sympathy is a tired trope as is the overreacting the police. I made a list of all the possible things for which this might have been a metaphor, but none of them truly fit the bill. Unless you have 4 hours to waste, skip this one.

Having denigrated his storytelling in the first Dune movie, I felt I needed to give credit where credit is due. Villanueve did a much better job on Part Two. I don't know if the writing crew was the same or not, but this was superior to the first. It still had tons of action and still a bit too much noise, but the story was told extremely well. What the movies (both) left out from the novels was much less noticeable in Part Two. I wish they could have done more story involving the Guild Navigators and the Tleilaxu. I am hoping the studio can continue with the story the way Frank Herbert and his offspring told it in the novels. I'd really like to see how they handle Dune Messiah and God Emperor of Dune.