Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

TeenzTen An action-packed slog

Twilightfa Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

Alistair Olson After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Maria Trim Finally, a dance show with REAL dancers. The series introduces a new actor and ballerina Sarah Hay, a real ballerina with lots of talent. Sarah is new to acting who would have thought it her portrayal of a darkly disturbed and emotionally challenged dancer who holds dark secrets was simply awe inspiring. Her use of pain to deal with emotions she did so well and I almost believed this was the real Sarah not Claire she had me believing in her character. Flesh and Bone for me I think a mixture of Gothic horror, and fairy tale. Was Claire a Princess escaping a prison and her abusive past. The ending at episode 8, was certainly down to a fairy tale, with the Knight slaying the Dragon to help the damsel in distress.Claire escapes her home to get away from a bully of a father who is disabled and very demanding, and a brother who is suffering with PTSD after coming back from Afghanistan who is also deeply disturbed. Was Claire the only victim in her life growing up? I don't think she was I feel her brother was also a victim of the violent father who treated them both like his slave. I feel the two simply became one to get through the life they had, and turned to each other in an incestuous way. I think they both needed each other and I believe Claire needed her brother more then he needed her in the end, as he had time to get away to the Marines and realise perhaps his life wasn't as bad as he thought it was, as he had seen far worse horrors in Afghanistan then in his own life and tried to get away from her in the end. There are dark secrets to this relationship which will explain in part why Claire is so emotionally in a mess but I won't say anything as it will spoil it but there are tiny little clues if you look for them. Claire arrives in New York and goes for an audition to a ballerina company which is virtually surviving on fresh air. She meets Paul the creative director, who sucks his dancers dry and lives in his own hell and dealing with his own demons. He is almost like a Svengali and manipulates and controls all around him and if they dare to question his methods will use his sinister influences to make their lives hell. He treats people who love him like dirt, he holds them all at arm's length because of the loss of his only love. He is cruel horrible at times, but then can turn into a mesmeric character who can get the best out of people especially when it suits him. Claire moves in with Mia who has a mother who smothers her, Mia has an eating disorder and other issues. We even have time in 8 episodes to meet Sergei Zelenkov. A man who loves ballet, but not a man to be trifled with. He runs a strip club where another principal dancer who is privileged and comes from a rich family Daphne moonlights and introduces Claire to this world. Claire is drawn there on several occasions when she is herself in a bad emotional place, and ends up working alongside Daphne until she realises that Sergei is running a sex slave operation and is actually working with the likes of the Russian Mob. We also meet my favorite character in the series. The amazing Romeo who is played expertly by one Damon Herriman who has been in many films and started off in The Sullivans a successful Soap in Australia. Romeo lives under the flats the girls live he is homeless. Romeo is a complex character perhaps an undiagnosed schizophrenic who has taken it upon himself to look after the two girls. He is also writing a book and shares this knowledge with Claire as towards the end he wants her to read it, he believes he is perhaps a soothsayer, someone who can see what is going to happen in the world, and suddenly this book is the most important thing in his life, and is entwined in the fates of the main characters. In Episode 8 as I have mentioned above he becomes her knight in shining armour and slays the dragon as Claire had earlier told him he was the Knight as in his story he had wrote he had cast himself as the fire eating dragon, but she told him he wasn't that, he was the knight …. And by saying that Bryan her brothers fate was sealed. The end of the series is simply amazing, not only do we see fantastic ballet but unfolding behind the scenes is horror which takes your breath away. The last scene of Claire standing looking in the mirror with Paul the director standing behind her will haunt me for a long time, the look in her eyes when she defies Paul is perfection. You can see she is finally free and curtain goes down. I can't believe the company Starz who made this fantastic series, never continued it with a season 2, I think it would have been great to have finished off all the stories, all the other characters their stories, it would have been so easy to achieve. WARNING. This is powerful over 18, with sexual content of a nature which may upset people.

big_kmc This is so bad that it's literally laugh out loud funny. The dialogue of the Ballet director queen is predictably ridiculous and unreal. Every aspect of this show is predictable because all you have to do is just picture the dumbest direction the scene could possibly take and there it goes.

Jordan Link I just got off an eight hour binge of this show. I have a lot going through my mind right now. I'm accustomed to sex in shows, but the first few episodes were really in your face with it. It made me feel like I was watching a soft core. Luckily, as the series progressed the episodes began to explore other themes, though sex, desire, and lust remained prominent throughout the series. I did question whether some of the sex plots were necessary, like the plot with the underage girls on the yacht and the plot with Cameron in the strip club. After all, they were both sort of unresolved. I'm also fairly confused as to why they made a big deal out of her being a stiff, unfeeling virgin when she had already had sex with her brother. That was another freaky plot that might not have been necessary.It seemed like the show writer really hated Mia. Vision problems, an eating disorder, and a rape? All necessary? Probably not. Why was the character of Mia tortured throughout the series? To show that a dancer's career is finite? Well, point proved.I have never seen a show like this before. I loved the character of Romeo - he was so complex and deeply interesting (perhaps my favorite). I feel that he needed to kill the brother. I completely understood that. The dance pieces were spectacular. They floored me! Everyone should watch this. Mandatory viewing.

warren-levin This is series that wants to portray ballet, that's not a bad idea. But as we know, a proper TV series is not really about it's main subject, it is mostly about human interactions and stories. It's about character development and their evolution.Well, "Flesh and bone" properly show us part of the ballet world, the dancing is good, the dancers suffer (from anorexia, physically, etc). Problem? The plot is rather thin, the characters are quite dull and there is no identification, dreaming or attachment towards these struggling characters. Okay there is only 8 hours, but still, the plot move at a rather slow and weird pace. It feels like some random stuffs happening without any end goal or logic. Characters don't have enough dirt on them to make them interesting. The character development is limited to say the least. It feels like botched and fast writing for producing fast.Claire? She's whining and crying throughout most of the series. She does some striptease, she kisses the mirror with blood on her lips and make us believe she's a virgin then has sex with her brother ... why? It doesn't make sense. She hates her home, her brother and her father, it is shown at the beginning of the series. Why else would she leave in a hurry? I would have loved to see her getting more confidence more quickly instead of her insipid whining and crying. There was a part which was interesting when she gets to embrace the darker part of herself then it suddenly stops then it's back to whining and crying before saying the final "No!".Trey? I'm gay, black and I'm happy about it. Talk about preconceptions. Isn't there more to this character than this? Really, there are better and more interesting portrayal of gays, I almost found it offensive for some of my friends.Mia? Dull. There is nothing there but a whining b****.Pacha? Mia's confident. There is nothing else about him.Kiira? She could be even be more interesting. She's an aging prima who is getting replaced. She doesn't put much of a fight for her last dancing season. She could at least be darker and more manipulative. We see some intent to manipulate the artistic director but she kinds of give up without much of a fight. That's not what I would have expected from someone who worked really hard like hell for decades to get to such a level of dancing. After all, it is better to end a beautiful career in a bang rather than in a duh.Daphne? She is the most interesting in all this cast of characters. Crazy apartment, troubled relations with her father, which she kinds of replaced with Sergei who she works for. She does this in order to afford her lifestyle. She is pretty confident about herself, manipulates Jessica to get to be soloist knowing there are some moves she doesn't master. She gets to do her thing. She really fights and go till the end of what she really began.Sergei? Happy and "nice" mobster. He's kind of okay as a character.Romeo? Weird crazy guy. He doesn't make sense most of the time and is quite irritating. Then for whatever reason, he gets to kill Bryan. Whaaat?Bryan? He's a PTSDed soldier who's incestuous with his sister. OK. Something else about him? That's it? Well ... like I said, limited character development.Tony? Nothing to say about her. She's a cool dance teacher, there is not much else about her.Paul? He's a sadistic and abusive art director. OK, is there a reason for that? Why isn't it more explored? It could be quite interesting.The rest of the characters are always whining and b*******. They are all jealous of Claire, that's it. Nothing to see there.All in all, it was pretty disappointing for a TV series even though it portrays magnificent art.