Alice & jack (Channel 4) | Channel 4.com
fallen space shuttle to earth (BBC Two) | iPlayer
new look (Apple TV+)
bring up Drama (BBC Two) | iPlayer
With all the on-off romances flying around at the moment, what exactly is going on? It was just made into a movie on Netflix one day (The college couple has been together for 20 years).Well, there's Victor Levin's alice and jack, a six-part Channel 4 drama dedicated to the dysfunction of a decades-long relationship. Partial director: Juho Kuosmanen (Compartment number 6) and Hong Ka-oh, if you mean TV's Valentine (opening aired last Tuesday, February 14th), it's emotionally visceral, with brain guts hanging out.
Financial guru Alice is played by Andrea Riseborough, and I was instantly hooked (To Leslie). I love the serrated edge she brings to her role. Domhnall Gleeson (the patient) Jack is a deep-thinking biomedical researcher. The bond they share through the app is obsessive, unstable, and toxic. Over time (spoiler alert), they reunite again and again, needing each other instead of wanting each other. Especially in Alice's case, where her scar tissue is hardened, her past trauma may be too much for her to deal with.
Note that you may not like Alice, or even Jack. Sometimes I think about it. What insufferable, selfish drama queens! With a supporting cast including Aisling Bea, Amy Lou Wood and Sunil Patel, these great actors show how great love has the right to flatten everything and everyone in sight. is more or less accepted. They confuse perfectly good people, but over time the barriers to them coming together feel contrived and flimsy. If you hang around long enough (again, spoiler horn), you might feel cheated by the weird, messed up happy/sad ending.
at the same time, alice and jack It's bold, intelligent (like a strange long play chopped into six pieces), prickly and funny (“I'm going to say it as kindly as I can – go away''). Riseborough and Gleeson are convincing as a perpetually turbulent couple whose individual dysfunctions crash over them in roaring black waves. It's not full of sex scenes, but it does occasionally have an older, more jaded feel to it. ordinary person. That alone makes me wonder about us, Really We need another anti-romantic comedy for our cynical times.
Lizzy Kempton's three-part documentary series on BBC Two fallen space shuttle to earth This is a devastating investigation of the 2003 Colombian disaster. After completing its 28th mission, NASA's space shuttle exploded upon re-entry to Earth, killing all seven crew members (men and women). Opening with a home video of debris falling in East Texas, the episode covers different parts of the horrifying story. (Suppressed) concerns on the ground. And finally, the aftermath and reckoning with the investigation and damning report.
It also includes interviews with NASA engineers, officials, journalists, and bereaved families. Soon, a shocking story is revealed. Attempts to raise the alarm were thwarted. Emails are ignored or left unsent. The suffocating chain of command that made all of this possible. There was a pervasive sense that cost and schedule were prioritized over oversight, amounting to a disturbing “finger in mouth” attitude toward safety.
More difficult moments lie elsewhere. surviving spouse and children. In footage of the crew training, bonding, and working on science projects in space, everyone was excited to have the experience (for four of them, it was their first mission). Ta). The footage from inside the shuttle's cabin is both eerie and moving. The crew is shown calmly flying around in zero gravity, without a care in the world. An extremely tough watch, this compelling documentary series serves as a tribute to innocent astronauts and those who gravely failed them.
I finished watching all 10 episodes of Todd A. Kessler's new World War II and high couture drama. new look I have to say I'm baffled by Apple TV+. What was it set out to accomplish?
It's essentially two heaped-up (dare I say bloated) biopics about French designers Christian Dior and Coco Chanel, played by Ben Mendelsohn and Juliette Binoche. It also depicts the Nazi occupation of Paris and how both designers were accused of collaborating. Sensitive and reserved Dior helps the French Resistance, including his brave sister Catherine (Maisie Williams), while Chanel befriends Heinrich Himmler and embarks on a failed mission to deliver a message to Winston Churchill. , depicts many humiliations.
Director Jonathan Glazer's latest film. zone of interest, shows how the horrors of Nazism can be used as an exciting and chilling backdrop.There is no such cleverness at all new look Change tone and focus. In some moments, it's about couture (beautifully dressed Parisian characters, perfume, rivalries, rebirth). Next up is the Nazis, torture, executions, and Ravensbrück concentration camp. Similarly, Chanel is portrayed as soulless and anti-Semitic. Her next work is somewhat off-putting, as a bitchy but droll camper, an evil queen, and even a feminist heroine who says, “I'm not going to put up with this boys' club anymore!”
Elsewhere, it's chronically overpadded with unnecessary details and unflattering dialogue (“Your boyfriend is a Nazi”), and the cast, including John Malkovich, speak English with French accents (pour?). The sensitive performances, especially by Mendelsohn and Williams, ultimately sink in a vast, confusing, and ethically questionable narrative soup. Kessler was my favorite television drama creator – Compensation for damages —So I don't think he meant it that way.
If you're looking for something new and heartwarming, there's a new six-part acting talent series. bring drama (BBC Two) Presented by Bill Bailey. Here, a mixed group of eight hopefuls who didn't have the chance to attend drama school are mentored by Casting Her director Kelly Valentine Hendry (free bag, broadchurch, bridgerton), their views include the following: “This industry is biased towards privilege. I believe that has to change.” So much!
At the opening, the trainees tried their hand at soap acting (they did their best on the Albert Square set). The next few weeks will include a foray into forensic drama (silent witness) and action drama (peaky blinders). An award-winning industry showcase, this is a beautiful, honest, and nurturing show about having the courage to dream. No one is excluded and everything depends on Hendry's “drop of the magic pen'' moment. Reminds me of old reality TV (remember?) fake it?) Before the hysteria and discomfort set in.
Star rating (out of 5)
alice and jack ★★★
space shuttle falling to earth ★★★★
new look ★★
bring drama ★★★
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