Awake not Woke!

Highly recommended

I loved this show, it constantly kept me going back and had my attention the whole time. The one woke element is the old "black woman cop is the one who solves everything" and of course easily takes out several guys in one scene. But she doesn't have the full usual cuntish attitude, just a little bit of that vibe and not enough to ruin it. She wasn't totally unbearable like women in some other recent shows that I turned off. That is the oly real woke thing I can point out, other than that highly recommended. One of the best shows i've seen in a while.

Despite what anyone thinks of Baldwin or the on set tragedy this movie should be rated on it's own merit so here goes. There's no denying the cinematography is beautiful and the acting is pretty good. The sets look good and it's a well made film. The beginning was a bit confusing and didn't make a lot of sense. The accidental shooting and the way if happened is a little odd (not a spoiler it's in the movie description). The writing is mostly pretty good but there are some moments of stupidity such as chasing off one of the horses to mislead any pursuers but doing so without taking the supplies an bedding off of it first was just stupid. By around the 45 minute mark the kid was starting to get annoying with his utter refusal to accept the reality of his situation. There's not a lot of action or gunfights and what little there is nobody seems to be able to hit targets right in front of them at pretty close range. At nearly 2 1/2 hours the movie seems way to long and slow. I found the whole thing kind of boring and was starting to lose interest by the 1 hour mark so I could of missed something in the second half. There is a scene where a man known as 'preacher' who's family has a history of being bounty hunters who hunt down runaway slaves goes to a whorehouse and beds a black prostitute. Completely random pointless scene that feels like a DEI woke moment for the sake of it. If you like your westerns more slow drama then you may like this better than I did.

Great vampire story

This is my favorite vampire movie. It's subtitled and there are some cultural differences. It's slow moving with longer scene times than typical American cinema. There's zero wokeness, even though it's Swedish. There's no jump-scare or gross-out scenes. It's just a good, well-told story.

I have not read the original book this is based on, I have seen the original Swedish movie though it has been so long I don't remember it that much. Given the originals are a Swedish Scandinavian story they sure went out of their way to DEI up the casting. Single mom and boy that live next door are now black and the vampire character is now of Spanish/Pilipino mixed race and her guardian from the originals is now her father played by a Mexican actor. The aforementioned black mom is a detective with an Asian partner. There is an insane amount of DEI and a ridiculous lack of white people in general with most of those being female, except the white male junkie of course. The scene of the kid in the school cafeteria shows almost no white kids. The gift shop owner appears to be a gay Asian. A flashback scene shows the mom played by a Brazilin actress so not sure where the half Pilipino kid comes from but whatever. The acting is ok generally except the child actor that plays Eli is pretty poor. There is a very bad CG shot in the first episode of her running and climbing a tree. Why make that CG at all? This feels like another one of these adaptations where they try to stretch out a single book into an ongoing series by adding a bunch of nonsense not in the original and just changing everything so much it barely resembles the original. One episode was enough for me.