mreuvers

The movie isn't satire, it's the hard reality. We have at least two extinction level scenarios unfolding before our very eyes, climate change and AI, and we're handling them exactly like how the comet is treated in this movie: playing down risks, denial, ridiculisation and downright greed.

This movie perfectly demonstrates the current state of our society. Politicians are more worried about their next elections than they are about running their country, businesses worry about their bottom lines and forget that ultimately society is all about humans. And us people, we're wasting all our valuable time watching our smartphones. Meanwhile when there really is a threat, we deny it exists. Or call it politically motivated.

Ultimately it'll be this stupidity and shortsightedness that might be our downfall.

One line from the movie hits home: "we really had it all"

Typical glorification of criminals "documentary". Show them in their fancy cars, with their pretty ladies, living in big houses, with their fake smiles and expensive lawyers. It really pays off being a criminal. This is the message the documentary seems to portray. None of the dark sides are shown. It's a very skewed documentary in favor of the criminals. The law enforcers they interview are portrayed as silly and whiney. Whilst the criminals are enjoying the interviews and laughing and pretending this is all been great fun. Great fun indeed all those countless murders that have been committed for their businesses to run properly. Great fun indeed that so many lives have been destroyed by their actions.

Not sure if I like it. The dialogs and situations just feel forced. And so does the interaction between the characters. Schmidt is a narcissist and for some reason people like those in series. I don't. Just as in real life, in my opinion you should stay away from these obnoxious people as far as possible. Winston is not more than an appendix. Without him I wouldn't miss a thing. Nick started off pretty good, but lately has resorted to mainly yelling at Jess for no apparent reason. It just feels forced, as that wasn't part of the character he started with. Jess and Cece are in my opinion the only two adults here and a have more interesting character development.

The topics are pretty boring and predictable: sex, getting laid, more sex, drinking, talk about sex, more drinking. It feels like the viewer is part of a frat house, only these people are in their early thirties. Not early twenties. Again it feels like a disconnection between the characters and their reality. The jokes are cheap and the yelling and ranting get predictable.

Perhaps I'll give it a few more episodes. But it's definitely not what I hoped it would be.