Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder 1x02
Schreuder had absolute and unforgiving hatred for her miser father and the rest of her family. Schreuder wanted her daughter to be a dancer. Mark is at the Kent School. He was smart but sloppy. There is a rubix cube and Ariadne sleepers in her mother's bed. Doesn't she have a room of her own? Schreuder berates Mark down a phone. He's on a public phone. She's a slob. Her room has an unmade bed and food plates, magazines and newspapers all over the place.
She wears naughty night attire and is sure the FBI and CIA spy on her. She was an utterly useless mother and there is no food in her fridge only booze. Dick advises Schreuder on schools for Ariadne and on murder plots. There is smoking, drinking and pill popping. Schreuder rants about back alimony with her 1st hubby. Her 2nd husband has no interest in his daughter. The 1st husband ignores his sons. She hires a stretch limo and dresses Ariadne up in a hat and white gloves to join a church, so she can get into a good school.
Schreuder rants about walking the streets of Harlem in rags to her sons. Where was CPS during all this? Schreuder ignores her Mormon faith. The picture is murky. Shoes are flung, phones are screamed down and Mark cries. Nobody helped her children. The grandfather berated the sons.
She buys $20,000 earrings but her apartment is grotty. Nobody does anything to stop her. She demands her mother pay the tuition for her childrens schools and the heating for her house in South Hampton. She demands cheques and gets them. Larry is thrown out at Christmas for not having perfect grades. When Larry bangs on the door, you can see it bend. There are lots of montages. Schreuder smooches Mark and sends him out to murder. What about their neighbours? Did they never hear any of this? The murder is committed in 1978. Why didn't they get rid of the gun? There is talk of the will.
The dead grandfather was such a miser. She makes a scene at the funeral. This was not as good as 1x01. She has a shrink, he must have been crap at his job. Schreuder gets involved with the New York City ballet and buys Ariadne a cat called Tiffany. She uses her dead father's money to pay for a $15,000 dinner. She has a new man. There is a wrongful accusation. Why does Ariadne still use a bottle at age 6? She is soon to be notorious. This was not fantastically brilliant.
Best Lines:
“Everybody remarked on it last time.”
“Total yo-yo.”
“The main thrust in conversation.”
“Isn't a subject for the telephone!”
“The discussing stage of the situation is rabidly drawing to a close.”
“Shudder to think of the implications of that!”
“Eat bread and salt and speak the truth.”
“Most unfortunate, most difficult.”
“Most horrible.”
“College of our choice.”
“Used to be good.”
“Bad elements getting in.”
“Solve my other problem.”
“Which one?”
“Starve me and my children to death!”
“Thinking time is over! Doing time!”
“Bread and salt is not a very nourishing repaste on a steady basis.”
“Intruder in the night.”
“Even crazier than I think she is.”
“Locked up forever man.”
“Really doing this.”
“Mentioning no names.”
“Horrible thing took place.”
“Event transpired.”
“Did not use tobacco or alchol.”
“Legal way.”
“Plently satisfied now.”
“Incredible criminal behaviour!”
“Shows what his intentions are.”
“Ripoff you pulled.”
“The kind of places you hang out.”
“Come be with me!”
“Presume fraud.”
“Nightmare of last summer.”
“Utmost peril...us against gramps.”
“Conditions that would be inevitbale.”
“Tennis bum.”
“Air flight lessons.”
“Using mother against daddy for years.”
“Out counting their money?”
“Dead meat always brings the vultures out.”
“Today they'll kill you for subway fare!”
“I hear they're unspeakable.”
“Undisclosed knowledge.”
“Tres boring.”
“Mom's my only friend.”
“Married 50 years, raised 4 kids, never had a wedding ring!”
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Armageddon Part 3
Barry tantrums. His gang lickarse him. Joe's death is discussed. Iris is really awful. The acting is terrible. 10 years in the future things will go bad. Why is everyone a moron? Barry ends up 2031 whereThwane is engaed to Iris and Ryan lurks. Where did Barry get normal clothes? Barry has manifold discontents and a sense of grievance. This is SO bad.
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Chapter One Hundred And Three: The Town
Nobody notices Jughead is still deaf. There is a critique of Riverdale in the newspaper. It is right. The town is full of bigots, crime, gangs, drugs, cults and serial killers. Archie bitches at Jughead and Archie lies and Archie is a terrible friend. Why is there straw on the floors of Cheryl's house? New guy annoys. There are hate related motives.
The homeless are to be tossed out of town. Veronica wants to prove the haters wrong but only proves them right. New guy is brazen and intolerable. This was frustrating. New guy is taunting. New guy wants the poor and smelly to go away. This was inadequate. New guy is creepy and subverts the town. What happened to the homeless? New guy joins the Riverdale police. There is a grim discovery and there is facilitation of new guy. The gang are running low on money and friends.
Jughead has running laments. New guy makes an ominious remark. There are darker assessments of new guy. This was dangerously inept. Archie has overwhelming negativity. The Lodge name is infamously dubious. There are hugely damaging implication. The town is made up of misfits, bores and egotists.
Best Lines:
“Culture of street gangs.”
“Utter lack of culture.”
“Vanished into the void.”
“Help fix the town my dad broke.”
“Good liberal people.”
“Don't want our help.”
“That weird guy who showed up out of nowhere.”
“Bad things.”
Chapter One Hundred And Four: The Serpent Queen's Gambit
This concluded in disorder. Archie loudly persisted with his complaints. New guy does a lot with the locals slow, backward ways. New guy wants to conduct a census. Beardy is Archie's uncle? This was grossly inadequate. A graveyard looks like a set. Kevin starts going on about gang culyure. Why is Veronica running a casino?
The new guy has ruthless ambition and unlimited ferocity. This was appalling. WTF is the point of Cheryl who views all others as social class enemies? There is recalcitrance and new guy causes the suffering of others. TPTB embrace the banal. Alice has gone to the bad. Archie and co rage. Cheryl poisons people and gets away with it again.
Toni's baby vanishes. This was inherently inept and rudimentiary. Toni and her huge hair is in trouble. There is an evil doll. Will TPTB just kill off Cheryl. There is bad VFX fire. The new evil guy is plotting. Cheryl did not deserve saving. Kevin is irremediable. There is a custody fight. Riverdale is a landscape of horror. Reggie's dad is dying. Betty wears sunglasses. New guy wiped out a gang. 'The Conjuring' is ripped off.
Best Lines:
“Turning them to his side.”
“We don't think he's a good guy.”
“Serious shadiness.”
“None of this makes sense.”
“In service to Riverdale.”
“As many times it takes, bitch.”
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Shining Vale 1x07
Impertinent Questions
The mother is awful. Cocaine is taken. Secrets are revealed. The husband has his mistress in the house. There are ghosts. This was really boring. The demon ghost has powers and is murderous.
Best Lines:
“You always have too much to drink.”
“I did something very bad.”
“Join the club.”
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Pam & Tommy (2022) 1x01
Drilling And Pounding
There is a bad Jay Leno impersonation. Seth Rogen steals the infamous sex tape. Lily James plays Pam. It is 1995. Tommy Lee is a terrible boss. This was boring. The sex tape was a Hi8. This was based on a magazine article.
Best Lines:
“I'm funning you!”
“One of the most expensive woods on the planet!”