Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Season 04
I can completely understand Rachel Bloom's decision to avoid ending the show on a note where the characters arc ends with her getting her dream guy etc but it means the ending comes off flat and unsatisfying too because ultimately it was always a rom-com movie stretched painfully too far. Rebecca is ultimately a damaged yet utterly awful person and yet the ending has to have everyone pretty much in adoration of her, she's ultimately rewarded for years of terrible behaviour washed over by pulling a 1 year later. It doesn't feel earned and ironically, the show missed it's perfect time to end way back in Season 2 when it as headed towards her coming to several personal realisations and revelations whilst getting her happy ending but wrapping the show around the exit of a co-star lurched it into forcing in a new love interest and it all unravelled from there. I'm kind of glad I saw it to its end but the weak far outweighs the good with this one.
Good Omens
I haven't read the book so I can't speak to how good an adaptation it is, it's certainly well made but I'd be lying if I didn't say this left me cold. It's light but never funny and be it an issue with the show or stemming from the book it feels bloated, the middle 4-5 eps felt like wheels spinning with everyone meeting up for the last ep to wrap things up in a fairly rushed and undramatic manner. Bit flat.
I can completely understand Rachel Bloom's decision to avoid ending the show on a note where the characters arc ends with her getting her dream guy etc but it means the ending comes off flat and unsatisfying too because ultimately it was always a rom-com movie stretched painfully too far. Rebecca is ultimately a damaged yet utterly awful person and yet the ending has to have everyone pretty much in adoration of her, she's ultimately rewarded for years of terrible behaviour washed over by pulling a 1 year later. It doesn't feel earned and ironically, the show missed it's perfect time to end way back in Season 2 when it as headed towards her coming to several personal realisations and revelations whilst getting her happy ending but wrapping the show around the exit of a co-star lurched it into forcing in a new love interest and it all unravelled from there. I'm kind of glad I saw it to its end but the weak far outweighs the good with this one.
Good Omens
I haven't read the book so I can't speak to how good an adaptation it is, it's certainly well made but I'd be lying if I didn't say this left me cold. It's light but never funny and be it an issue with the show or stemming from the book it feels bloated, the middle 4-5 eps felt like wheels spinning with everyone meeting up for the last ep to wrap things up in a fairly rushed and undramatic manner. Bit flat.
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