Tricycl
Joined Nov 2016
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Reluctant at first, I gradually warmed to that Netflix "docu-fiction" format as a casual watch while doing something else. The episodes on the Ottoman Empire were fairly decent, the ones on Rome so-so, and the Samurai ones were great.
But this one is very disappointing. Commentary by specialists is reduced to a bare minimum, and the historical context is very poorly explained.
Events are presented so superficially that I struggled to connect them with what I learned in high school - you get the sense that unrest is happening here and there, but they don't even bother clearly mentioning the February and October Revolutions.
As for the drama... lazy, boring, gratuitous, lewd.
But this one is very disappointing. Commentary by specialists is reduced to a bare minimum, and the historical context is very poorly explained.
Events are presented so superficially that I struggled to connect them with what I learned in high school - you get the sense that unrest is happening here and there, but they don't even bother clearly mentioning the February and October Revolutions.
As for the drama... lazy, boring, gratuitous, lewd.
Another one of Taylor Sheridan's creations that starts with a great and enticing setting and loses steam impressively fast to make the trivial & secondary the essential.
It's starting to become a habit.
In that case it's a vague family drama sold as an oil thriller. After 4 or 5 episodes I'm not even sure what the main intrigue is, there was a hint of a thread coming to life at some point but that got resolved pretty quickly, so we're left with Billy driving his ex-wife and daughter around and dropping them occasionally to take care of the multi-billion oil-pumping operation under his charge.
The story is going nowhere and it's boring to death but you keep watching hoping the spark will come back to life but it doesn't look like it will.
It's starting to become a habit.
In that case it's a vague family drama sold as an oil thriller. After 4 or 5 episodes I'm not even sure what the main intrigue is, there was a hint of a thread coming to life at some point but that got resolved pretty quickly, so we're left with Billy driving his ex-wife and daughter around and dropping them occasionally to take care of the multi-billion oil-pumping operation under his charge.
The story is going nowhere and it's boring to death but you keep watching hoping the spark will come back to life but it doesn't look like it will.
The fact that people could say this is "not that bad" is a sad illustration of how low our expectations have plunged these last 15 years when it comes to blockbuster movies. Because it is.
Man is it painful to watch. Forget the "jump the shark" moments, including a literal one (!), the cheap anachronistic political innuendos, sluggish stunts, grotesque spectacularism, over-the-top CGI... there is simply no intention at all behind that story, nothing. It's just a poorly articulated succession of events.
In that muddy chaos some of the actors are trying their best to carry the movie but you can be as strong as you want you will never lift a ton of mud.
Man is it painful to watch. Forget the "jump the shark" moments, including a literal one (!), the cheap anachronistic political innuendos, sluggish stunts, grotesque spectacularism, over-the-top CGI... there is simply no intention at all behind that story, nothing. It's just a poorly articulated succession of events.
In that muddy chaos some of the actors are trying their best to carry the movie but you can be as strong as you want you will never lift a ton of mud.