Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Megamind To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

screenidol The first three seasons, with all the flaws and occasional unnecessary emotional outbursts, make for a good series, one that develops reasonably well over the time period. I'll give it an 8. The end of the third season works as a good ending for the series, though admittedly, one wants to see a bit more. Especially how the warm but sometimes conflicting relationship between Drs. Bramwell and Marsham develops. Warning! If you've read the other reviews, you've heard this before: Do not watch season four! Heed this warning. The Bramwell-Marsham connection turns sour and bitter. The elder Bramwell, now married, is never seen again. Young Sidney, helper in the Thrift, is gone and the building itself is completely different. Nurse Carr becomes mean-spirited. And Eleanor goes off the deep end, abandoning the true nature of the Thrift to (unsuccessfully) take on the cause of child prostitution, longing to marry the military man who seems to represent everything she has been fighting against from the beginning; the relationship is totally unbelievable. Worst of all, the drivel this fourth series calls a story lasts for more than an hour and a half for each of the two painfully dark episodes in this abbreviated season. And the credits shown here on IMDb seem to indicate that the writer is the series creator and most prolific contributor, and the director(s) have done shows in other seasons. What happened?! The direction is abysmal, the photography horrendous, and the interludes of terrible music are completely incongruous and inappropriate. With every extreme closeup (I think at one time Eleanor's one eye and mouth filled the entire screen), with every strange angle of the camera, with every scene too dark to see yet creating no mood or ambiance, I kept asking, "What were they thinking? Who did this? Why???!" There is no good cheer or humor in the entire fourth season, yet there is nothing that involves us or informs us -- other than the overall message that life was tough then and woman and children were exploited, which was handled well enough in the first three seasons. Now, instead, we get religious overtones and a preachiness that could sour the devout. All in all, the fourth season was unrecognizable, from the storyline to the directing to the sets to the music. Even the acting was barely acceptable, and one has to wonder how the three leads who pushed on in a final season felt about their new characters. Since I give both episodes in season 4 a "1", I am forced to bring the show's rating down to "5"; best bet is to ignore the 4th season and take the first three, worth a healthy and hearty "8".

wmeyer-8 *** This review may contain SPOILERS ***First of all, seasons 1-3 were very well done, with few disappointments. Characters were well developed, as were relationships.Then came season 4. With all respect to the reviewer who claims Eleanor "dis not go off the rails", she clearly did. And so did the writers, who appear to have little sense of balance or subtlety in season 4. I am inclined to believe that the absence of some characters in the closing season resulted from their having read the scripts and dashed for the door.Major failings include: - no clear sense of the time elapsed since end of season 3 horrible music, intrusive and forgettableloss of characters without explanation (Sidney, Robert, Kate, and others) new characters whose back story only becomes apparent in snatches over time near total suspension of reason on the part of Eleanor, and of morals, as well utterly implausible introduction of Dr. Marsham's moral turpitude (the man worked too many hours to have had time for that) uneven exposition of plot: there are jarring leaps over details which needed explication, and on the other hand, dreary working to death of the details of the search for Dora, which added little to our understanding, or of the plight of such girlsI could write more, but suffice it to say, your time will be spent much more happily on more engaging activities; arranging your books, or doing your taxes, or even a visit to the dentist.

curleegirl-269-620823 The series started out interesting but very uneven in quality, until (as many other reviewers have also written) the last 2 episodes. These comprise all of season 4, unaccountably, and are nearly twice the length at an hour and 41 minutes as the episodes in seasons 1-3. Season 4 is a debacle.The main character, as written, is a flawed, sometimes impulsive but usually charming woman with a good brain and heart. But all through the series, Eleanor Bramwell's behavior is inconsistent, almost as if the scripts are written by various strangers and in isolation of each other and the character arc. Bramwell's personality is all over the map; selfless yet narcissistic, practical yet silly, gracious yet unspeakably rude and insulting, prudent yet idiotic. However, it was absolutely incredible that any of the other characters in the series could tolerate or forgive the sanctimonious, hypocritical and selfish person she is in the last 2 episodes . Essentially, she goes rogue, morally, ethically and temperamentally. In a show about the difficulties faced by intelligent, professional women of the time, I was quite shocked when one of the characters suggests that she is unhinged not because she is ill, but because she is pregnant! Clearly, something was going on behind the scenes of this series which resulted in such a blunt, clumsy and ridiculous "end" to the story. I'd love to know what it was!

jmcnulty-1 I had never heard of this series but since it was available on Netflix streaming I gave it a go.What a pleasant surprise! It engaged me immediately and I found myself sitting through all night marathons to catch up with the story.What the show does best is not to be cliché. The characters portrayed are not perfect human beings and have faults which makes the storyline nicely unpredictable with a few twists and turns that I found quite emotional at times. It's very well acted throughout and Jemma Redgrave is outstanding and perfectly believable as a late Victorian doctor working in the slums of London and all the supporting cast do a fine job.I have to add an addendum to this review since I hadn't seen the entire series when I wrote it.The show is very good, but somehow it comes off the rails at the end of the line! Talk about a train crash!It's as though the show was canceled at the last minute so they hurried up the plot to wrap up two years into two episodes. Who knows, but all the characters are out of sync as is the plot with main characters disappearing never to be heard from again, and others appearing from no-where to take the lead. And the music get's surreal at times with no connection to the plot... at all. Quite a mystery and quite strange. I had to remove two stars for the above reason.