It started off ok but then….

I’ve been watching this as a semi “I have had a shitty day and don’t feel like watching anything that makes me think” show and it works. It’s light and cute and not as tragically bad as people make it out to be. Not every show has to alter your life. Cat Grant (Calista Flockheart) was the best thing about the show so when she leaves (The traitor producers jumped ship, left the US and shot in Toronto for the tax incentives to like their pockets with profits. She did not want to go to Canada so she was written out of the show.) I lost my interest in it a bit. For me she was the highlight and replacing her with the stereotypical gruff newshound just shows lack of imagination.

Yes, there are lots of cliches and political digs in the show (also not done well), the writing is weak, the characters bland, the romantic link between Jimmy Olsen and Supergirl stupid but there is a charm underneath it all and it’s better than some of the others (ermmm…. Iron Fist… cough cough).

written by the last green martian (no, really, I am)

Then…..

…. we get a loadful of topics by the writers and producers crammed into the storyline. From gender issues to racial issues, ageism, and political jabs (“promises of making National City great again” – an actual line from an earlier show). While I would have really enjoyed this show. The characters and acting are top notch. If not for the writers (and those that allow these opinions to stay in the script) it would have been great. As it is it is a constant reminder that everything needs to be made into a soapbox by hollywood. Shot in Canada btw. So much for patriotism. Why don’t they all just stay there.

In another episode, more preaching by the writers. This time on the horrors of gun ownership. Every episode a sermon. Almost as bad as the Academy Award speeches by the better-than-everyone-else hollywood elite. Give it a rest. People don’t watch supergirl to listen to your opinions.

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Rather boring and clumsy host. Uses 3D scanning to reveal things about structures that are already known so turns it into a travel/history show with a gimmick. However, some interesting historical information given about Constantinople/Istanbul. Of particular interest (to me) was the chain used to blockade the ships of the invading Ottoman army of 21-year-old Sultan Mehmed II. He used, according to the show, logs greased in olive oil to move his ships across land. The Sultan gave his army 3 days to ransack the city because it was the “custom: at the time and later he supposedly cried about it.

Most of the Greek women were raped and enslaved. According to the Venetian surgeon Nicolò Barbaro, “all through the day the Turks made a great slaughter of Christians through the city”. According to Philip Mansel, widespread persecution of the city’s civilian inhabitants took place, resulting in thousands of murders and rapes and 30,000 civilians being enslaved or forcibly deported.

The looting was extremely thorough in certain parts of the city. Four days later on 2 June, the Sultan would find the city largely deserted and half in ruins; churches had been desecrated and stripped, houses were no longer habitable and stores and shops were emptied. He is famously reported to have been moved to tears by this, speaking “What a city we have given over to plunder and destruction.”

Most of the show revolves around the magnificent Hagia Sophia which was a Greek Orthodox Christian cathedral before being modified and having minarets added. The show does a good job exploring this building so it is worth the watch for this alone but the 3D scanning lends little to it other than to acknowledge some wear and tear throughout the centuries.

Excellent documentary on Japan’s emperor’s and the oldest monarchy in the world. Clear and detailed look at the role the Emperor plays as the head of Shintoism. How much the emperor’s status has changed since Japans defeat in World War 2. Discusses the controversial enshrinement of war criminals at Yasukuni shrine, the memorial to Japanese war dead and the legal complication that only a male heir may succeed to the imperial throne.

Ummmm…. Cheese – eeee. Made it thru to episode three. Started a drinking game where we would take one everytime we saw an american flag. They are on the outside of the homes, on the walls of the porch, on desks, on the game room walls and on lapel pins. Then there’s the scene in the pilot where Luke Wilson (Pat) drives up in his fancy car to, apparently, give some of the superheros a ride home (Super Uber) and walks into the middle of the fight distracting them.. he says their name to each superhero as they are felled. Horrible writing. The effects are also horrific. The giant robot’s lighting, texturing and shading are pathetic. Then there’s the forced messages. The diversity posters, the references to twerking, tweeting and the forced nostalgia (when I was a kid we played on Atari…. oh, what’s that?).. And Stargirl. She makes light that blinds people” Wow!!!…

And the posters in the American Justice League hall (if that is what it was), Wild Cat looks like he could kill with his beer belly and why can’t Starman shave? Who feeds the owl? Couldn’t they come up with a better name than the Injustice Society? Is it opposite day in the DC Universe? What next? UnStarGirl?

So, apparently all those Injustice Society baddies have all moved to a small town in Nebraska. Of course!

I don’t know what show the other reviewers were watching but based on what I saw I think this deserves a quick, painful death. The show isn’t cute, or camp. It’s obvious, predictable, badly written, PC and boring.

I gave this a shot. Was slow to like it but after awhile I really enjoyed the stupidity of the characters. They’re short. About 7 minutes each so they aren’t really television episodes. They are probably internet shorts presented as tv. They aren’t bad. They’re sick.

Most of the episodes revolve around two guys, working as pool cleaners, trying to impress the girl who works at the office.

Give it a shot. It was on Quibi which is no more.

Also the ex-con, Leonard, at the pool store is awesome.

Go watch and pull some chunky gainers and some chill seshes.

I’m a simple man, I see Teresa Palmer, I watch.

I may watch this again.

One of the best series I have ever seen. Go watch it.

Damn, I love this show. Interesting characters, well written, lots of unexpected twists and turns. A great dark comedy episodic. Should not have been canceled.

Worth watching just for the actress that played Elena. Great actress very expressive and gorgeous.

Interesting plot, good effects, keeps moving. Worth a watch.

Note: I wrote the above a few months ago. I vaguely remember watching this but now can’t remember a thing about it.

Mushy, Bland and predictable plot. Full of the politically correct themes you would expect from Disney. Nothing special here. Things seem to fall conveniently in line when needed to push the plot forward. The actors are all young, attractive and apparently wealthy with lots of free time on their hands with YouTube paying their bills for the most part.

There’s nothing here worth sinking your teeth into which, since it is geared for teens, might be enough. In a world where reality bites harder this trivial drivel suits no other purpose than to eat up time.

I watched this as background noise. Was disappointed to see Harvey Keitel and Catherine Zeta Jones in this. Man, you can make better choices. Hope you got paid well.

The movies were full of history and the characters had an in-depth knowledge and love of country. This series makes you dislike being American. The main character is fearful of being deported and it’s a bad thing that she can’t land her dream job of working for the FBI because she isn’t a citizen.

The characters are diverse and DIsney checked all the boxes but they run around and are brilliant while everyone else is idiotic. Like the main characters boss who doesn’t know what Latin is.

Fire the writers. Get out of your safe spaces and get a dose of reality and try again.

I’m not feelin it. From the opening scene where the girl discovers her superpower via her period to the bulimic shrinking girl the show has all the creativity of a bologna sandwich. Forcing current teen issues into storylines to make it seem relevant and topical. The same as “The Boys” and “Supergirl” went. Television writers who force pablum on viewers like this should have been left on the Picket lines and Studios should have hired more intelligent and less sensitive, less emotional and less fragile writers. It’s a wonder they can get any writing done at all since I would imagine they rarely leave their apartments and spend most of the time crying over “mean” people. I think that not every form of entertainment needs to be a lesson to society and should not be a form of social justice. They are just perpetuating the stereotypes of the depressed, anxiety ridden teen and the cruel, cruel world they think they live in.