Colibel
Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.
Noutions
Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .
Seraherrera
The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity
Allison Davies
The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
gretchenw1976
Season 3...Let me say I enjoy this show, I know nothing about the stocks and stuff but I enjoy watching rich people act childish. Well rich men I should say. I wonder, no I do not wonder, I am willing to wager that in real life billionaires act like little kids. Engage in contest that boil down to ego against ego, one man waving his p**** in the air to see if it's bigger than the next. I am sure there are people who would actually fix their mouth to say something as ridiculous as "350 million, how will we live off of that". This show is both a comedy and a drama for me. Some where there are people who are that rich, and that stupid. LOL.
The show itself is very entertaining, but I must say I am not a fan of the guy who plays Axle. While I like Axe per say, I don't like the actor that plays him. That is how much I like the show that I can continue to watch it even though i can hardly stand looking at this man. He looks so weird to me. He looks funny, he walks funny, I don't know I never liked him. The first time I saw him was in that one tv show where he was supposed to be a terrorist (idc enuff to look it up). I can't remember the name of it, I stopped watching it after the 2nd season. Giamatti, I like. He is very hard to look at as well but I like him. I don't particularly care for "Chuck" all of the time. It is hard to figure out just what side of the law he is on. I end up feeling sorry for ole Chucky usually. He is such a punk. With that being said I must move on to Wendy.
I can't understand her role on the show. I do and I don't. At the end of this season I felt like, why don't they just run a train on her and get it over with already? I don't see why so-called rich, and powerful men need to have a shrink with them at all time telling them how to make every decision. I am not against mental health. Therapy is great. Wendy's role is greater than that. It is like she moves them around the board like chess pieces. That may be great for Wendy, Axe is paying her a great deal, but it makes them all look very weak. As if they can't execute any decisions without her telling them how. I honestly don't see anything great that she does. She tells them to do things they should already know to do....
I will say the show down between Axe and Chuck was not as great as I thought it was going to be. In the end it turned out to be nothing. All that build up and they didnt even have a real day in court. What a waste of 2 seasons. Taylor leaving I saw coming, Chuck being screwed I saw coming, I knew how it would end before it ended. I have to add this because it bothers me, calling Taylor "they" is just silly. 1 person can not be a "they" or a "them". It just makes people sound as nuts as the person who wants to be called that...I hope Axe knocks HER on her butt only because, young people always think they are smarter...they haven't even LIVED yet..
insideout098
I just finished the first season and have to say the entire arc was beautifully concluded with "The Conversation," which, beyond question, is the masterpiece of the entire first run. I won't give anything specific away, but my general observations are, nonetheless, that "Chuck" and Wendy are about the least likely couple on the planet. How my suspension of disbelief isn't fractured beyond repair is shocking in and of itself. This portly, pallid, hairy and under-compensated behemoth of a civil servant with a sadomasochist streak of submissiveness, is actually married to this totally hot, super wealthy closet dominatrix who works for his arch enemy is beyond any stretch of anyone's imagination this side of Pluto. I can't even look at them together without my finger on the fast-forward key. It's rough, man. This aside, the rest of the cast more of less works, particularly "Bobby" and his pit bull wife, Lara who together make a plausible Bonnie and Clyde. So the show is about a hedge fund guy who started his own firm on the back of 911, using the loss of his fellow employees as a means to an end. Again, I'll let you watch it for yourself. Bobby is always in the gray to darker gray zones of the law, but always man ages to come across as a good guy to the people around him, making one richer then the next. He is ruthless and arguably a sociopath like many in his field,but on a fundamental level has the capacity to feel, to empathize, to love. I find myself rooting for him time and time again at the same time realizing I'm rooting for a guy who should be behind bars. In this sense, what makes the show interesting to me is the seductiveness of Bobby and his world of excess. I found myself questioning whether or not i wouldn't take a job with the guy if I were on the receiving end of one of his offers. The show beats down hard on the lowly civil servant as it juxtaposes the excesses of the filthy rich and powerful against the backdrop of these well-educated, yet miserably compensated public servants who often find themselves amidst the trappings of a world they will never experience for themselves. This alone becomes the sort of crucible under which they conduct their professional lives and carves a razor sharp blade of focused objectives to come across as going just beyond their "jobs." In the end, I don't know who to root for because the alternative to Bobby is pretty bleak. Enjoy the ride.
prosper1
Enjoy this show immensely. Totally topical, great story, characters and character arcs. Skillful direction; top rated writing; music that must be there, but you never hear it; smooth subplots, in other words one of the best shows on TV today.Into this, someone tries to sabotage the show by casting John Malkovich as an evil, rich, Russian oligarch complete with thick accent who abuses women and causes children to disappear. I hope he takes him money out of Ax Capital soon and exits stage left. I can't imagine the original casting director made this gros faux pas and it should serve as a painful lesson to never ever cast a well known American actor in the role of a foreigner complete with phony accent. An unknown American actor, okay. A known or unknown foreign actor, better, but John Malkovich? Never
brunetel21
Amazing acting, cinematography and most of all the writing. Keeps you wanting to watch the next episode till the end.
If you gave it a bad rating is just because you don't understand it.