montgomerynj

Season one Bette vs. Joan was amazing, have watched it several times. I was so looking forward to the second season. It was beyond horrible, I would even say unwatchable. It was like watching a joke, how could this be created by anyone associated with the first season?! It was superficial, obnoxious and worst of all, boring as anything could possible be. I kept waiting for the series to pick up, maybe just the first few episodes were bad. But no, it actually got worse with every episode, and that's not an easy thing to do with something as terrible as this. I don't even know what else to say, the worst series I've ever watched in my life, after season one which was the best. What happened?!

This had great actors and great potential but when the main family starts acting like such victims, it removes any sympathy or interest in the show. Not just victims to the watchers but victims of everybody else in the cast, the neighbors, the police, the security guy, the real estate people, their own children! Couldn't watch past episode 3 and had to skip over much of it. Too bad, great potential though. Stop being such pathetic victims. The constant victimization just makes the whole thing unreal and unbelievable and you realize your watching a piece of fiction. Even the real people it was based on must have had more backbone.

I watched this show from start to end and found many of the people interviewed to be genuine and their end of life scenarios to be very emotional and thought provoking. The problem I had was the haphazard interviews of Mr. Jenkinson, who always said very bizarre and nonsensical things. It was as if he always felt like he needed to answer every question with some deeply wise answer but most of this ideas made no sense and were deeply disappointing given his credentials. A child born with an ailment is coming from a parent's wrongdoing? How well remaining family members do after someone's passing will depend only on how bravely that person faced death? Very random, ridiculous ideas that he seemed to be making up as he was speaking. I honestly stopped respecting his opinions about 10 minutes into the movie and he never redeemed himself throughout the rest of the film.