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The final episode of this cliched series is a bizarre helter-skelter of twists, reveals, revelations, perfunctoy attempts to tie up loose ends, mind stretching resolutions for subplots and red herring characters; and some bug-eyed OTT acting all around.
It's as if the writers woke up one morning, realised there was only one episode left, and panicked. Suddenly there's a mad rush to reveal that she, he, they - anybody! - aren't what they seem, that events we thought happened didn't happen the way we thought they did, that THAT storyline actually had nothing to do with THIS storyline after all.
And wasn't it called THE BURNING GIRLS?? Mmmmm...
After meandering through 5 episodes of trope soup, Episode 6 is a manic joy.
It's as if the writers woke up one morning, realised there was only one episode left, and panicked. Suddenly there's a mad rush to reveal that she, he, they - anybody! - aren't what they seem, that events we thought happened didn't happen the way we thought they did, that THAT storyline actually had nothing to do with THIS storyline after all.
And wasn't it called THE BURNING GIRLS?? Mmmmm...
After meandering through 5 episodes of trope soup, Episode 6 is a manic joy.
Spielberg's glossy, cliched American family sit-com and High School coming-of-age trope-fest. A dubious oedipal obsession with his creepy mother. Rose tinted self mythologising of his phoney growth as a filmmaker (on the evidence here, the borrowed, the bland and the superficial were early tenets).
I also found the young filmmaker's manipulation of his schoolmates through film rather unpleasant. Homo-erotic pandering to the principal bully and downright meanness to the less attractive sidekick was a misuse of editing for personal and petty result. Riefenstahl-lite.
Maybe it's meant as a confession, or an excuse... The Fablemans has nothing to say and is absent of truth - other than a confirmation of Spielberg's limited horizons.
I also found the young filmmaker's manipulation of his schoolmates through film rather unpleasant. Homo-erotic pandering to the principal bully and downright meanness to the less attractive sidekick was a misuse of editing for personal and petty result. Riefenstahl-lite.
Maybe it's meant as a confession, or an excuse... The Fablemans has nothing to say and is absent of truth - other than a confirmation of Spielberg's limited horizons.
