Reviews

Madame Secretary, one of my very favorite shows, was at the top of the ratings list for five seasons but in season six, when they dragged Hillary Clinton on the show and started denigrating Donald Trump and conservatives, their last season was the sixth. It originally was such a good show, it could have continued for ten seasons, but the overt politics did it in. If This Is Us is not careful, they are going to go down the same way.

Pauley Perrette deserves a better show than this lame sitcom.

I SO wanted to like this show. Have been looking forward to it for a couple of months now. I watch TV to be entertained, not to be preached to by the writer's political leanings. And so quickly! I'm glad it is easy to cancel this series on my DVR.

This was an excellent study of man's inhumanity to man. At first, the movie moved sluggishly and I was hard-pressed to gain an interest in the characters, but as time went on, I began to see the true nature of each of the individuals in the story. I think writer/director Von Trier was trying to make a commentary on life in America, but I feel it was unfair of him to choose the setting during the Great Depression. Those were troubling times, and who knows what lies hidden in the depths of each of our souls during those kinds of times. I think if this story was set in any other country, it would work just as well, but only if the story took place during a specific time of tribulation in that particular country, such as our Great Depression. The story itself was riveting and Nicole Kidman was unsurpassed in her scope and depth of the character she plays. It was fun seeing old familiar faces pop up in one role or another, like Ben Gazzara and Lauren Bacall. Although the movie was quite long (three hours), I think it was necessary to complete the entire feeling for what came after. One thing I enjoy after seeing a movie is imagining alternate endings (which some DVDs add these days), and I let my imagination run loose with this one. I was not especially happy with this ending, because I did not feel it reflected the mind-set of its main character, Grace. However, I found the movie as a whole very thought-provoking and worth watching.