1. The First is a series with Sean Penn and Lisa Gay Hamilton in the lead roles. Five astronauts are preparing for their first flight to Mars. Tense physical training, emotionally difficult tests, pressure from relatives and friends (astronauts may not return home). But five brave people go to their cherished goal, no matter what, because they believe in their mission and their dreams.
I will not ceremony and pick up soft epithets. It turned out to be a dull, sluggish shit...sorry...movie. For the first time, I see a picture where every frame is pierced with longing. It's some new level of tragedy - fucking sadness of "one-hundredth of a level". Sad astronaut (with eyes like a battered dog) Tom Hagerty (Sean Penn) and minor lesbian astronaut (with the same look) Kayla Price (Lisa Gay Hamilton) are trying to sluggishly and joylessly prepare the crew for the first flight in human history to Mars. Periodically they were cheering them up - say, don't point (we've done so a hundred times), we'll take off, fly and come back. I didn't even know that preparing for an interplanetary flight could be so boring. But there is no limit to perfection). Not only that the drill is not different from flame and bustle, in addition to everything the creators of each hero plunged into the abyss of personal problems with loved ones. They are really terry optimists?) They lacked drama?) The first, really first, who multiplied the drama by drama). It's not just a "sadness of one-hundredth of a level" anymore, it's a longing beyond the mind...universal, cosmic longing...or Martian longing after all?
What happened to Bo Willimon (Card House, Martian Ides) who is in charge of plates? He's all sad because his favorite brainchild Card House was extended only for the final partial season (to put all the dots on the ye), and then only because Robin Wright (Forrest Gump, White Oleander) insisted? I understand and share your tragedy, dear Bo, and I'm sorry about that too, but what does the First Ones have to do with it? Nobody told Bo Willimon that with such a mood, "you can't sell an elephant", and the First ones will sink into oblivion without reaching their goal - Mars.
I know, I know, everything is clear to you. Aaaaah, I can't pass by the pathos, flaming, "deep" speeches that literally "stick out of all the cracks. There are no dialogues and monologues in the series, the heroes speak only slogans. From frame to frame, from episode to episode, from series to series - slogans, slogans, slogans, appeals, proclamations ... this is some kind of propaganda hell.
Do you think I'm strict about the show? Come on! Foreign critics mock the show more than I do. Admire it yourself.
Variety: "...the show is ruined in some places by the absurd editing, the scenes sometimes break off, not ending with anything.
Collider: "...instead of a series positioning itself as a planning flight to Mars, you will quickly find yourself watching excessively dramatic porn about grief.
USA Today: "...boring and ill-prescribed characters are given too much screen time, and adventure story - unconvincing belated thought.
If after such reviews of critics Hulu will give "good" for the second season - then the channel will really become the first, who in spite of everything dreams of flying to Mars ... at least on the screen.
Country: USA.
Year: 2018.
2. Light as a Feather is a teenage choir based on the first book of the trilogy by Zoe Aarsen (will there be two more seasons?). Olivia Richmond and four of her friends played the children's game "Light as a feather, hard as a board" for fun on Halloween. According to the rules: one of the girls pretending to be dead, and the others, for fun, come up with the most terrible and brutal causes of her death. After that, the spell is cast, and the remaining four girls try to lift the "dead" one above the floor on their fingers. Stupid, harmless, but funny and funny. We played and forgot. Meanwhile, the participants in the game begin to die one after the other under the circumstances invented by their friends on that fateful night, when they played carefreely in "Light as a feather...". That's what the crumbs were fantasized about! Who "sentenced" them to death? Some otherworldly force or did they call the trouble themselves? The survivors try to find answers to the questions until they are next on the list of victims.
The first season of the series should be shown to future writers and directors at film courses. The theme of the lesson: "How to collect in one season all the known clichés and screw up in full. And also make sure to show in the acting courses with the words" - you will play as Liana Libereto (McKenna) or Haley Ramm (Violet), and it can be the end of your career. Although there is an option - until the end of the days to advertise tampons (and boys scare advertising pills from erectile dysfunction ... and with this game, it will be in the role of pills). I will not even take up your precious time and paint that the show went wrong. It is easier to say that went "so". Er...Mmm...It's...It's not that easy. It's easier to close and forget. Aaaah, I remembered that in the series "so" - the series is short, about 25 minutes.
Barely tormented by this opus. Hulu, why did you fit into this fornication? Spoiled after all Light as a feather to the channel statistics of recent years.
Country: USA.
Year: 2018.