Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Abbigail Bush what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Hollywoodwhore99 This is show is about as good as television gets. Glenn Close proves that she is more than Norma Desmond or Alex Forrest. In this show nothing is safe people can't be trusted and human casualties only matter if you can put a dollar amount the loss of their life. What is great about the show you don't know what to expect. The FATAL FLAW is that there is too many characters. You need to watch every episode more than once to see "who hates who" and "Who killed who & why".This review however is only for the first 2 seasons. We binged watch this episodes in 8 days so everything was fresh in our minds but we still got a little lost about some details. So if you watch this pay very close attention. The plot gets confusing and you might have to watch every episode (In Season 2) twice just so you can keep up.

gmpublisher Watched the first 52 minutes of Season 1, Episode 1. Right up to the point where the woman finds her dog, Saffron, slaughtered on her kitchen floor. I refuse to watch any movie or TV series where they kill the pet. Big turn-off. Now, having said that, I will say that I was very disappointed for that to occur. Up to that point, I was drawn in to the characters and the story. Unfortunately, using the killing of the dog indicated weakness in the story development. It's a device used to shock viewers and engender anger toward the antagonists. This is especially annoying when an otherwise quality production needlessly falls back on a manipulative plot element like this.

pimander Season One of this series has no sense of pacing, dialog, or character development. Let's start with character development: just about everyone is galactically shallow. I couldn't even finish the season, which isn't a win for the producers because I normally like whodunits.Peggy Hewes (Glenn Close): the character is so despicable, manipulative, and lacking in empathy that no amount of screen time dealing with her unhappy son redeems her. She's another Walter White character only without any of the brilliance. All you see is Machiavellian hatred and the need to win, such a disappointment given how talented this actor is.Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne): the character is so stupid, unwary, and utterly lacking in any kind of sex appeal (by which I mean stature, sensuality, mobility of facial expression, wit—a defect of the script) that I have a hard time believing she has any legal savvy at all. All she gets is praise from others without doing or saying anything praiseworthy—a defect of the script again. It's as though she's dropped right out of Cinderella. Doesn't she find it the slightest bit strange that Patty Hewes hired her because of her "family values"? That Patty Hewes dotes on her like a hovering mother? She's always getting a cookie from everyone except her fiancé, who is right to find her boring and insanely committed to this loathsome woman who is toying with her and her sister-in-law. Also, for god-sakes, she's planning her wedding. Anyone who has ever gone through that knows how stressful it is, but Ellen is apparently carrying it off without breaking a sweat despite the fact that she's working 48/7 for Patty Hewes. Apparently her bankrupt parents are doing all the work.Tom Shayes (Tate Donovan): a total pantywaist. So far.David Conner (Noah Bean): the only likable character in the show— kind, gentle, attentive, forgiving, loyal, a young doctor—and episode after episode we are treated to the future, where he's stabbed to death and bleeding in the bathtub. The first season is devoted to inching towards that sad finality with the pace of a snail. His scrubs are apparently like the red uniforms on Star Trek. An expendable.Arthur Frobischer (Ted Danson): who gives a damn? So he's offered to settle by awarding the community he's dicked over 10 million dollars. Take it and run. But no, the plot—a plot defect—is dependent on this egomaniacal lawyer who needs to win at whatever cost because she "feels" so much compassion for the lives he's ruined… never mind the lives she's ruining in order to ruin him back.Ray Fiske (Neljko Ivanek): I could almost like him; he seems to have some sense to him, and I pity his having to defend the self-focused, corrupt, and infantile Arthur Frobischer who thinks that writing a book about his dyslexia and how he made some kind of artifact in cub scouts will soften the public toward him. But Ivanek really over- sleazes his performance. And why, oh why, did they have to give him a southern accent? It's such a cliché to make bad politicians (or lawyers) southern.About the dialog: I've seen more brilliant dialog in Rex Morgan M.D. Where are any of the bon mots, the snappy answers, the witticisms, the moments of perspicuity that keep us returning because we admire the characters' thought-processes and not simply because we want to know what happens? Well, I didn't hear any. It's like watching a soap opera. Plot: so convoluted that I find myself nodding off. Peggy Hewes is totally tough, merciless, watch out for her! but she hires the guileless Ellen because Ellen went to her sister's wedding instead of working, but rather it has something to do with the sister of Ellen's fiancé who had a fling with a guy named George in Florida and who saw something having to do with Frobischer who offered her hush money so she could start her restaurant but George was actually set up by Patty or played into Patty's hands who wanted to destroy Katie's credibility as a witness because Katie is a consummate liar and flies off the handle and now George is in flight but Peggy lets Ellen assume that he was perhaps killed and Ellen's fiancé is approached by this sexually aggressive woman who it seems is being paid to stalk him because EVERYONE is in on the plot and Ellen is convinced he's sleeping with her when he isn't and every single episode starts with a flash forward in time to Ellen indicted for the death of her fiancé, whose body is sitting bolt upright in the bathtub all bloody and we keep getting the same lines over and over again—Ellen! What happened!" "My fiancé and I had a fight"—and then in every episode we are shown 'Three months earlier," or "two months earlier," or "six weeks earlier," and the entire thing takes two steps forward and one step back. Brenda Starr had more pick up and go than that, and this was a comic strip that took a year for Brenda to have a phone conversation. In a word, the show relies too heavily on our finding out what happened, and spends money on slick camera tricks and cliff-hangers at the expense of profundity. Its lack of true grit is more than evident when you compare it to great television series like "House of Cards" or "Breaking Bad" or "Mad Men"—each of these featuring flawed, even dangerous protagonists who are nevertheless compelling. Damages fails to compel even if its title is all about the damage we do to one another. If that's *all* it's about, then it's boring. It's well- named.

Frank Klein 4th Everything about this series was the best possible, BUT I hate the moral of the story. Essentially, no one at all may be trusted. I counted up the actors on this series, and looked at the ratio of them that made unethical decisions, and it was greater than 87%. If the world actually functioned as depicted, we would be in much graver trouble. This makes for very unexpected twists, and unique stories (which I thoroughly enjoy usually), but if production companies should be responsible for more than just the entertainment value of their productions, than I think they fell slightly short here. I would have given this story a full ten otherwise, as it is very stimulating and suspenseful to watch. The actors and acting were all top rate, and I really have nothing else negative to state. Well, one minor thing: I don't like unrealistic events in shows I watch, such as when someone dies after another turns their neck a quarter turn, or when a car explodes because someone ignites a small piece of paper on fire going into the tank port. But, I have come to expect this from even the greatest productions. If you think that the moral, "One must incorporate evil to fight evil," is acceptable or of little consequence, then you won't mind this factor.Please don't downgrade this merely due to it not being a full review, as I stated so in the heading. I believe many interested in watching this series would like to know this facet, as I found it very important. I watched every episode and even from season to season kept waiting for good to prevail over all of the evil, but to no avail.)