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An episode of a series conceived as a play with five acts with a stoned dealer, a psychologically unstable hacker, his imaginary father and a psychiatrist who is playing for her dear life. All of the characters go through incredible development and you end up understanding Vera in the finale... and that is the scariest thing about this.

The best episode so far. Strongly feminist, but the girls are chosen excellently. They are much more than just pretty faces. Sarah Jones rocks. The finale works with secrecy and it works excellently. The results of the accident seem worse when we don’t see it, but just have to imagine it.

A lot of the wheels have now definitely fallen into place. The flashback to 1985 sets the pace and doesn't falter. The Mirror steals the whole episode, and the scenes with Adrian finally get a payoff that was worth the wait.

The Child is awesomely cute! An episode with a minimum of dialogs, packed full of action and practical and impractical (i.e. digital) special effects. I can’t help thinking that none of these episodes will be more than 40 minutes long. Which I find agreeable.

A memorial to Ken Miles and his friendship with Carroll Shelby. Mangold directs the wonderfully clear screenplay so surehandedly that the two and a half hours spent in the theater just fly by. Ford v Ferrari is a real hit with fantastic race scenes, one-liners from Bale with his brutal British accent and Shelby’s talent as a saboteur. The fight with the big corporation encumbered with a bureaucratic system and dumb managerial decisions works just fine (and in itself mirrors today’s ridiculous times when they couldn’t get the rights to use the title Ford v Ferrari inside the European Union), but it all stands on the performances of Bale, Damon and the Ford GT40.

This hard-hitting western-style snack is a perfect introduction to this world. I have a feeling that some of the scenes are there simply in order for some of the characters to reveal some essential information about the situation in the galaxy. Visually perfect, good music…

Safety takes a backseat… An interesting premise that could have a lot to offer for the future. The screenwriters created excellent conditions for the space race to never end. So far it looks like a mix between Mad Men and Apollo 13. Kinnaman is solid; his performance as the man who could have been the first to walk on the moon is very convincing. Otherwise, apart from the guy who delivered a speech, nobody says much. The scene with the Soviets landing on the moon is crushing.

A beautiful visual aspect and Hans’s faultless, Oscar-winning composition. A remake of one of my favorite kids’ movies with a minimum of changes, which suits me just fine. More action scenes and a little more romping in the perfectly rendered countryside do nothing but good. I liked the voice of James Earl Jones and Seth Rogen is fantastic as Pumba.

Quentin Tarantino declared Crawl to be his favorite movie this year and I understand why. The simple story of a swimmer/daughter in a flood zone in Florida looking for her dad whom she can’t get in touch with has more to it than it seems at the beginning. Although this tense horror chase movie with a dramatic foundation comprising the dad/daughter relationship turns into a classic B-movie in the end, the heroes aren’t dumb and are played well (with Kaya Scodelario giving an unbelievable performance), and there are abundant bloody surprises.

The Twin Peaks episode, or Everybody should spend Christmas with their nearest and dearest. A de-populated world (everybody is eating their Christmas dinner), suicidal thoughts. Bad luck and terrifying howling have the main roles here. A series about hackers that takes place in the middle of a snowy forest? Why not?