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Anonymous

Huh?

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2021

By the episode synopses alone, hoo boy. Among other things, offending "the entire transgender community" is impossible because it's not a homogenous group where everyone thinks and feels the same. (Just for kicks I watched the episode in question and wasn't offended by the fictitious joke at all, but rather the head-up-their-butts virtue signalling writers thinking that it's possible to offend "the entirety" of the transgender population--though I might also add I don't think we're a "community," so there's also that.)

Anyway. WTF is this show; please give us good storytelling rather than utterly-woke BS that will no doubt have certain folks happily squeeing--I suspect this show is for them, not for me? Oh, and I also loved the girlfriend beating down her boyfriend verbally in the aforementioned episode for telling an anecdote where a coworker tried to seduce him. Really excellent stuff. Just what gender relations, already strained, need right now. More of this "women are right, men suck" polarizing vitriol.

Amazon, you've got a crapton of money, why is your "studio" sinking so much of it into project after project that isn't entertainment but political brouhaha? Can we just get some good stories and good characters without this futzery, please and thanks?

P.S. The other one-star reviews--the sane folks who actually watched the show in order--have provided further confirmation that this is some deeply disturbing sh!t. I went back to try and watch the first episode, and couldn't make it through three minutes. What does the publicist tell the naked man, obviously distressed, whose (underage? Barely-18, anyway) one-night-stand she's trying to save?

"Can you roll that thing up? It's flapping really close to my face."

Apparently my relaying of the girlfriend / boyfriend scene from the one episode I actually watched, and calling it vitriol, was small potatoes compared to the sexism the show actually opens with.

But also--way to show a grown-ass man having a one-night-stand with a boy who is barely 18. Just what we need--more "normalizing" of something that's actually incredibly harmful (by which I mean an adult doing drugs and doing the do with a boy who's barely of age--nothing to do with them being gay). And the scene opens with a panning shot and audio as such that the director and editors attempt to pass off the publicist's trying to revive the boy as a sex scene at first--what a reveal!--because, you know, that's funny . . . right?

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Karen

HORRIBLE! Not suitable for teenagers!! Not even good

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2021

Opening scene is a NAKED gay man walking around freaking out while his friend is doing CPR on his one night stand and is asking if the victim is a MINOR, who is also naked. What? What parent would let their 16 or 17 yr old watch this? How is this possibly rated 16+??? Butt naked man walking around SCREAMING and freaking out while listing what they took; multiple prescription drugs, street drugs, alcohol and did you catch that the boy on the floor was a MINOR??? With all the sex trafficking of minors and THIS is on Amazon? What?? How is this soft porn okay for family viewing? I have my TV set to not allow explicit content and my younger kids turned this on and saw this!! I'm so incredibly angry right now at Amazon!!! How dare you!!!! This is rated R+ and I watched about half to see what direction this was going.... and it only got worse. Not funny, not amusing and certainly not even entertaining.

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Incredibly complex and entertaining.

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2021

This is a complex deep dive into so many complicated things but at the center, at least for me, is the struggle with addiction, and all that implies.

I can see how people feel it's inappropriate for teens...I agree, and think it should have and 18+ rating (if that's even a thing), but it doesn't negate some incredible writing and acting. This is a true character study and Ms. Paquin's ability to engage us via the camera is truly awesome.

I also like the character development of the supporting roles and how this thing can go from hilarious to truly heart wrenching and back again very naturally.

Excellent show - binged in one night.

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new mommie

16+ ?

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2021

Rated for 16+? Never allow a 16 (plus) teen to watch this. Starts off with a naked adult male having a breakdown while his PR person is performing cpr on a naked teen he’d been drinking, drugging with etc. Found this movie to be vulgar and not worth my time. Storyline is : unfeeling immoral PR people covering up for their irresponsible also immoral clients. Barf!

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Love this show was hoping we would get season 2

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2021

Dear Amazon please release Season 2 thank you, I already watched Season 1 when it was on Pop

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SoulDance

The amateur version of Olivia Pope, Miranda Priestly, and Samantha Jones

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2021

There. Now you don't have to suffer through it like I did.

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New Quilter

I understand the negative reviews but here's a different spin on it.

Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2021

****UPDATE**** After a few more episodes and looking into the writer some it's clear Oliver Lansley is as extreme as it gets in his personal views and happy to voice them. Instead of rising above it all and giving people something to focus on that isn't yet another sellout, big tech, corporate sponsored narrative he's made sure to add his name to the list of cliche Hollywood (or in this case off Hollywood because they're trying to avoid paying their fair share of CA taxes) celebrities who can't just selflessly entertain us and enjoy their wealth. However, the show stands on it's own merits and to me is a realistic view into what life is like for people (mainly women and the men they're impacting) who subscribe to the writers ideologies and philosophies. I will continue to watch the series and think it's worth watching even with the obvious bias.

I watch the first episode and intend to watch more so I'll update if my opinion changes. Having read the 7 reviews there before I started watching, if I look for the virtue signaling I guess I could sorta see their point. However, for me it just seemed like that world we live in currently. Sure, it's an all female workplace, the protagonist (Paquin) interacts with mostly females but in reality the narrative of the story is essentially her and as such I think it would be very normal for a woman to engage more with the females in the workplace or as a random stranger in public. My spin however is I think this series is perfectly highlighting the negative impacts of second wave feminism and how they're impacting the mental and emotional health and well being of women in modern times. There are plenty of male centric movies showing the impacts of wars, jail, gangs and so on so I don't mind a series like this highlighting these issues it is as they are realistic. The only thing missing is one of the girls being obsessed with her "fur baby".

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A. W. Wilson

FLACK DVD SERIES ONE FROM ACORN

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 29, 2019

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I am in a quandry. How many stars should I give a series that I just didn't like at all.?? I cannot and won't criticise the actors who give their all - Paquin/Lydia Wilson/Sophie Okonedo and Rebecca Benson all do the best they can with what I felt was a script that did not do the subject justice. Neither Fish nor fowl - drama or comedy - an uneasy mix of both. I found myself unable to find anything likeable or sympathetic about any of the characters, and oddly, found the constant (and I mean frequent) use of the "f" word and to a lesser extent, the "c" word to be gratuitous (Paradoxically I can take it in "DEXTER" so why not here? Don't really know. The guest stars are OK, particularly Bradley Whitford in Ep 5, but like the other eps I couldn't see the point. I write this in the teeth of 5 star reviews, all obviously heartfelt, so It's minority/unpopular time for me, but I thought it worth putting my neck on the line. The DVD looks fine, some nice location work, good sound and optional English subtitles. Extras include an interview with Paquin, and actress I have secretly been in love with since "True Blood" - just not here. I have given 4 stars because my disliking the series does not make it bad. Judge for yourself!

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Jim Pinnells

WHAT A WASTE!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 9, 2019

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If this film were half as funny or half as clever as it thinks it is, then 10 stars would be too few. I suppose if you enjoy gratuitous insult, cheap upper-crust grunge, fatuous story lines and characters unlovable to the pount of "fetch me a bucket just in case...." you might get a kick out of this. The sets are as unconvincing as the old Monty Python skits used to be (the aircraft and its bumpy landing!), the filming is unimaginative and repetive, the delivery of the lines is rapid-fire and half-inaudible (except for the one per-sentence f- and c- words). WHAT A WASTE! The idea that lies behind the show is brilliant: to reveal to hollowness, the deceitfulness, the dishonesty, and the hypocrisy behind the fake news, the fake celebrities, the fake entertainment and the fake cleverness that threatens to engulf our daily world. Good idea too to see this threat from the viewpoint of the manipulators -- give them enough rope to hang themselves. But they don't hang themselves -- they just make themselves look like pigs in lipstick. Five stars for the idea: no stars for the execution. Balance: 2 stars.

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Eternita

Really Good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 21, 2019

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Some guy on GQ gave this the thumbs down but I can't believe he was watching the same series. It's set in a trendy PR Agency and maybe he thought it was meant to be a serious treatment of that world. Instead, it's a tragi-comic pastiche of that world, a Devil Wears Prada meets Mad Men thing, which I found both hilarious (the Cheshire footballer's wedding is utterly priceless and had me gasping for breath) and touching (the main character isn't without redeeming features). I really hope they make another series.

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Emilia Mori

Brutale e cinico ma purtroppo vero

Reviewed in Italy on September 20, 2019

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L'acronimo FLACK sta per tutto quello di brutto, perverso e inarrestabile che fa ormai da sfondo alla nostra vita "pubblica".
La protagonista, una addetta alle pubbliche relazioni, riesce a tirar fuori dalle situazioni più difficili personaggi del mondo dello sport, dello spettacolo e affini mettendo in piedi storie truccate che incriminano altre persone facilmente ricattabili e scagionano i veri colpevoli.
Non è uno spettacolo edificante, ma la breve serie è molto efficace.
Lo sconsiglio agli idealisti che credono ancora nella verità e nell'onestà.

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