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Reviews
Disaster Autopsy (2024)
Look into my eyes
I like the disasters chosen. I think they are well explained and the step by step method works well. It doesn't present the human failures as obvious and that anyone would have seen them as problematic.
What I find almost comical is the interviewees interactions with the "magic table". The interviewees were obviously directed to pretend to be watching something occurring on the table while there was nothing there. They conjure up inquisitive interested looks that have no bearing on what is eventually CGI'd in. Having nothing to focus on, their eyes stare off into this confined space over the table. When something dramatic happens, like an explosion, they don't change their expressions they just seem mildly interested in some spot perhaps in the center of the protected image. During these times I study their looks and try to figure out how they could have done that part better. No answers yet.
I really like the show but it needs a sequel, "Reenactment Annoyances Autopsy".
We Interrupt This Broadcast (2023)
No expectations -pleasantly surprised
I saw the title and decided to give it a try. I'm three episodes in and I really like it. I'm am Yank but I recognize some of the performers and I think the acting is great as is the writing. I do not normally watch "unscripted" TV but I am culturally aware enough to know the premise of each of the shows.
They do a great job of identifying and mocking the ingredients of each of the show types, for example on a cooking show to claim a recipe was from your grandmother.
All the skits I've seen deserved a chance, and most succeed, but the skits are short enough that when the gag isn't working for me, the skit is over soon enough that I don't become irritated. "Lip Island" I'm looking at you.
Toast of Tinseltown (2022)
It's like a sine wave
This show is like a sine wave in that it's up then down. But being a big Matt Berry fan I'll ignore the downs. I have only watched through episode 2. Crazy amount of cameos as well as some of Berry's former collaborators. But I was most happy when I got to hear again, "Hello Steven, this is Clem Fandango. Can you hear me?"
Invasion (2021)
Well I liked it so far - so there
I agree that the series took awhile to familiarize is with the main characters - like the whole season. I was a little disappointed that we learned so little about the aliens but that puts us in the same situation as the main characters. I felt the good acting and production quality made up for the stinginess with the science fiction.
White Wall (2020)
An intertesting story with just enough distractions
I have read a few of the reviews here and while I agree that the pace is slow, that is a reason I liked the series. I am mainly used to US and British programming so I found the pacing refreshing. I think showing some of the more mundane aspects of life around the mine to add to the feel of isolation and foreboding. Fortunately or maybe unfortunately, they never showed the entire ride from the surface to the bottom of the mine. Story-wise it was treated like a trip to the fifth floor in a modern building, walk out the office door, cut to the bottom of the mine. I figured it was probably good for 15 minutes in the elevator car alone.
I think the casting was well done. No offense to the cast but unlike most television I see, the cast were ordinary looking. No one was drop dead handsome or beautiful. There were no heroics by ripped muscular men. Regardless of the work or tension portrayed they was no close-up of a sweaty brow. The protagonist, Lars, was smaller in stature than his underlings and balding, as could be expected in real life. Perhaps the creepiest looking character, the security manager, was not creepy, just a security manager. I'm not even convinced Lars even ever had a thing going with his coworker. I like the way it was mostly shown to us as the other characters saw it, except for them pressing foreheads once in private. The only characters from central casting were the suits higher up in the company.
Are all Swedes that fluent in English? Dang!
Cinematography, great. I am curious about the type of plant that was used for the above ground aerial shots.
I liked that it was filmed in winter. The few other Swedish shows I've seen portray Sweden as a land of sun, water, and evenly tanned residents. I have only been to Stockholm in summer for a few hours. The exteriors reminded me of living in crisp cold environs. Why is no one's breath visible in the cold? Reverse CGI? I didn't know VW made a pickup.
Of the three gunshots total, one found its target, one missed (it may have only been a warning shot anyway), and one grazed. And the wound from the grazing did not disappear overnight as is usually the case. Even the activist who bumps her head about halfway through retains a slowly healing mark until the end.
Except for the description of the show I would not have thought it was really a sci-fi show except for the boy's effects from it. That added to the reality of the story. The episode guide here implies there may be another season. I'm not sure if that would be a good idea since I have liked the realistic portray so far. On the other and that might be a good reason for another season.