Awake not Woke!

s1 woke-0 overall-4 I would say there is nothing woke in season 1. There are a few female officers but they are barely there and very few. The same with minority representation, very few and well within reality. Mostly good season with pretty good acting and only some minor writing issues. s2 woke-1 overall-3 This is a step down from the first season. The decision to use another copycat with the Ripper expert from season 1 returning and is an expert again on this one is a bit implausible. The writing overall is not as good and there's a good bit that's just not believable. The police are a bit frustrating at how cowardly and ineffectual they are but I guess that's what happens when you have an unarmed police force. It's still watchable but not as good as season 1. Woke creeps in a bit here as well. There seems to be an effort to cast females in a lot of the supporting roles. There is a storyline where one of the original killers was gay so the copycat is pretending to be gay too. He is messing around with another character who is a girl pretending to be an underage boy. It's a minor plotline that takes up very little time and is not the focus of the season. s3 woke-2 overall 2 This season goes to a new format, where the previous ones were 3 episodes with one case across the whole season now it's 6 episodes with 3 cases each taking place over 2 episodes. The writing takes another hit this time with characters doing dumb things and some pretty big stretches in believability. They also decide to stick with every case tying into a past case gimmick. This makes everything even more unrealistic and would of worked better to just go with a normal murder case instead. The ripper expert is now hired on as a research expert and becomes more annoying and out of place. The first case or episodes 1-2 permanently introduce a new overweight body positive female to the team and a mixed race Asian female forensic expert for the arc to add to the female morgue attendant already in the cast. Getting even heavier on the female casting now. There is also a nasty entitled feminist type character for this arc and the usual overrepresentation of females and blacks in the secondary and background characters. The killer is so obvious and easy to pick out in about 2 seconds in this arc. The 2nd case or Ep 3-4 introduce yet another female detective for the arc. The writing seems to be getting worse as it goes along. Ridiculous leaps in logic and highly unlikely coincidences keep happening. They are now investigating murders based on random world history murder cases with magically exact circumstances most of which are completely made up. 2nd case or Episodes 5-6. At this point the researcher character has become very annoying and I actually can't stand him anymore. The constant linking of cases to the past and using that to steer investigation has become ridiculous and makes every investigational procedure absurd. It's become tired and overused. This season seems to want to push further away from the original police procedural and into supernatural/horror territory. A victim that almost is killed is a completely unrealistic for the situation angry feminist type. More and more of these types are showing up this season. The writing in this arc is completely absurd, lazy and unrealistic. A scene with a dead victim that is visibly breathing comes to mind. This season was a struggle to get through and I'm not going to bother with season 4. I would suggest watching season 1 maybe season 2 if you like detective stories but stop after that. It's unfortunate as the 1st season had so much promise.

Feels like just another typical US-made "Russian bad" propaganda movie. Good enough movie. That manipulative Mrs. Iselin character was very realistically painful.

I really was hoping this would be at least watchable as I like pirate movies. But it's not. Hollywood loves to latch onto minorities with limited to no talent and just shoving them down everyone's throats. Chopra Jones is their newest DEI project they seem to be pushing as a female action star and like usual her acting sucks. The movie is filmed competently enough but the acting is pretty bad all around, even Karl Urban is pretty bad here. The action scenes are decent but unfortunately this is nothing more than a girl power feminist fantasy. Even though the movie is heavily black casting it takes place in the Caribbean in the 1800's where there was an actual large population of Black as well as Indian so the Indian/black couple and black casting is probably realistic. There are also bad and good portrayed black and white as well. The Chopra Jones character however is so over the top superhuman its laughable. She has no problem physically fighting and overpowering multiple large male pirates at once. She gets clubbed in the back while laying down at full swing from a standing pirate and just shrugs it off then hits him in the leg with a seashell and he collapses to the ground. Pirates can't manage to shoot her from 20 feet away with a clean line of fire while standing still. This is utter and complete feminist nonsense and I shut it down after about 45 minutes. Not recommended.

When I sat down to watch this movie, I was fully braced for it to come loaded with all the injected diversity crap, just like the last two Mortal Kombat games where Ed Boon (and his "diverse" dev team) turned the whole thing into what I call Mortal WOKEmbat. Even though I’d read and heard some good things about the movie, I was still super skeptical, so I watched it with really low expectations. What I got was that weird mix I’ve seen in reviews of other films: there are moments where you’re like “Damn, this is actually really good,” and then others where you start wondering if staring at a blank wall would be a better use of your time. Basically, I’ve learned to watch movies with this calm, apathetic vibe where I just go “Okay, this part’s solid… but that part? Nah.” I won’t get into details because I don’t want to drop spoilers. The movie has some really impressive special effects. The story is better than the last one, but it’s still not enough to make it a genuinely good movie overall. I was thinking about catching it in theaters and I’m really glad I didn’t, because it’s not completely free from "the message". It’s not shoved down your throat, but it’s still not totally out of the claws of that unnecessary change philosophy either. Minor spoiler → It feels like a 21st-century movie with 90s-style editing that just didn’t know how to properly wrap things up at the end. It’s decent if you just want to look at cool effects and colorful lights. Not much more than that.