TV Update:
When the “good guys” on your show are all criminals, you have to go deep with your “bad guys,” and good lord, the villains on Netflix’s Ozark are truly a bad lot.
With its nice-family-gone-wrong plot, Ozark would like to be the new Breaking Bad. It’s not that good, but it is eminently watchable, thanks in no small part to this rogues’ gallery of evil:
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Bad Worse Worst
Ozark has crooked politicians; but the lawyers are worse. There is a dangerous Mexican drug cartel; but the local farmers are worse. And the FBI? Don’t even ask.
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American Horror Story: I’ve only seen the first episode of “Apocalypse,” but I’m thinking this show has probably jumped the shark. Series creator Ryan Murphy is busy doing other things, other projects. The only sign that he’s still around is the show’s continued emphasis on male ass.
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The Purge: Two episodes in, it’s not as god-awful as I expected. Of course, that could change.
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Lost in Translation?
This is the synopsis for a 2015 Russian series on Netflix:
“As four Russian friends grow up in the early ‘60s, life, love and the curse of success threaten to derail their dreams.”
Sounds like a Cold War version of Dawson’s Creek, or some similar tug-at-your-heartstrings dramedy. But perhaps not.
Here is the poster:
OK … unless this is actually the Russky version of Porky’s, you might want to change that title.
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