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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Thx for watching shows so I won’t have to. Hehe. “Disclaimer” sounds like a very un-Steefel household show.

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Steve Goldberg's avatar

Better late than never...I just finished watching this and found it a quite frustrating watch, for some of the reasons you mention and in the other comments. The topic of whether a woman feeling joy or pleasure has to end in tragedy (in film, books, etc.) is an important one, but I don't feel like this series ever truly explores this. Also, the show is extremely manipulative. It's one thing to reveal the rape in the last episode, but to include Catherine's voice-over, implies that we are in her POV at times, which I don't think we ever were. I did start to wonder if we were in the story of the book or the "true" story in many scenes (starting probably episode 3 or 4). I am curious about all the voiceovers, from all the different characters (or was it just Catherine and Stephen?) I'd have to go back and check, but often the character's VO spoke over other characters' scenes, so I'm a bit unclear on what it was telling us.

I found all the characters unlikable and 2-dimensional. I kept with it because the editing and pacing kept me sticking around. But, in general, it all was like an artsy British soap opera. Kevin Kline gave a masterclass in overacting. I kept expecting Sasha Baron Cohen to break into Borat voice. If he did I might have liked it more.

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