mike_NY

Excellent concept musical. It's very easy to get into this/swept up. A lot of people to root for that you care about. I'll probably only have my warm feelings about it a year from now and forget all of the plot points...kind of like Muriel's wedding, or Shirley Valentine, but you get really into it while you're watching it...the performances are excellent... And the international settings are at a level of sophistication and global realism to this that is often missing from movies that offer the geographic world such as a james bond movie. This movie has so much heart and really is, a globally themed movie...I mean we get into everything in this and it is so powerful and exciting.

The concept that you can change your body and it will change society'sreaction to you and then change your mind and your actions is a brilliant thesis.

The music is more of insight into the characters mental state process and development as opposed to a straight up MGM type it's not even like Hamilton. Although it has some similarities, and it reminds me of a high concept 21 Grams. The violence is light: this is more like The Umbrellas of Cherbourg than Scarface.

Very similar story to that perpetual "permanent spot on every top 10 Twilight Zone episode list," Twlight Zone Season 2's "The Invaders." This time Kaitlyn Dever taking on the Agnes Moorehead role. Throw in a little "Invaders of the Body Snatchers," Kim Darby in "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark," and there you have it. It has very appealing humanoid-creature effects and Dever gets to use box cutter, boiling water, a broken mop, a kitchen cabinet door, gasoline, and much more to engage in some entertaining hand-to-hand alien combat. It's diverting ans suspenseful and little gory, Devers is a good actress, and ultimately, it's a nice way to spend a rainy day.

Love Island had a semblance of reality to it in Season 1 & 2. You cared about the contestants and got invested in their lives. Then it got very formulaic although Season 4 picked up a little. Now with Season 5 it is so fake and glossy and performative that the contestants all seem like actors. When all the contestants have whiter teeth than the host, something is amiss.

The elaborate intro with everyone doing their real job and then stripping down to their swim trunks / bikini is so cringey. I'm sure the Nashville nurse-the one who drops the dozens of self-conscious F-bombs within her first hour on television-who lets her critical care patient flatline when she gets the Love Islant text will go over well with her employer.

The conversation level has become even more ludicrous and monosyllabic: "I want a boy...but a man not a boy...do you know what I mean?" & "What's yours names?" the latter being an example of the rare plural form of "your."

Get ready for an assault of outdated text-speak such as "literally," "basically," "like," "omg," "whaaat?" "fire" and "as well."

For a show that always deliberately overused the puerile "boy" and "girl" in an attempt to balance out the central concept of strangers sharing a bed every night and keep it G-rated, the introduction of f-bombs and other expletives and trashy slang does not really work.