Maniac: Season 1/ Episode 1 “The Chosen One!” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
The only reason Maniac presents to continue past episode 1 is your loyalty and faith in the actors. Not their characters or the story.
The human experience, sometimes at its most raw, is what you’ll find in the drama tag.
The only reason Maniac presents to continue past episode 1 is your loyalty and faith in the actors. Not their characters or the story.
While the message is clear and strong in Nappily Ever After, the story, by comparison, is a tad weak.
Life Itself will leave you crying in the worse way. I’m talking gasping for air, with a burning throat, for the devastation is too much.
Thanks to Elizabeth Olsen, the full weight of emotion dealing with losing your spouse, while young, will weigh on you like a sandbag.
White Boy Rick seems to follow a worn out list of what “Based on a True Story” films must do and thus lacks anything to make this feel truly different from the rest.
Sadly, neither the Black experience during WWII Germany nor the odd love affair between a Nazi soldier and Black German girl flourish.
A Boy. A Girl. A Dream is a likable love story but, if not a fan of Trump, it recapping the night he got elected might dampen the romance.
The Wife seems like an oddly placed summer film, for it has all the workings to be Oscar bait – without coming off pretentious.
Consider A Discovery of Witches a matured version of the many mystic being franchises which focus on teenagers.
While MDMA does have an engaging story, it is also the type of film you wish could’ve dived more into certain characters and subjects.
The overall goal of Wherever I Look is to fill in that space between the average fan and critic and advise you on what’s worth experiencing.