TV & Streaming Series Reviews (19)

Nick Koriagin

Spock (Star Trek)

Live long and prosper… Spock Vulcan Spock from the famous Star Trek show and sci-fi film series (the old ones, before the Abrams reboot, were very good - although his new films are also quite nothing for adrenaline-fueled sci-fi action films at one time, which is for Star Trek, however, not very good). A cool character played by Leonard Nimoy - half human, half Vulcan, exploring his humanity and seeking a balance between mind and…

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Nick Koriagin

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Review (2018 -2020, Netflix)

Sabrina Spellman is a high school student at Baxter School, a smart and persistent girl who is friends with two other renegade girls, meets the son of a miner, loves fun and horror movies. She would not be any different from other schoolgirls if she were not a hereditary witch from an ancient family. Soon she will turn sixteen and her aunts, domineering Zelda and timid Hilda, insist that she undergo the Black Baptism ritual…

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Nick Koriagin

June ("The Handmaid's Tale")

Portrait of June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss), the protagonist of The Handmaid's Tale. A4 paper, acrylic paints. If you are interested, here is an overview of the first two seasons of the allegory series on the problems of women in the modern world in an exaggerated, dystopian form. My wife and I really liked it, takes it hard. The third season was not as intense as the second, and, alas, no revolution has happened yet, but…

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Nick Koriagin

The Handmaid's Tale Review (2017-2021)

Offred was not always in red. Once upon a time. In another life. There was a daughter who was taken away. Loving husband. Friend… … once she even had a name. Does it matter which one? Now they found a new home for her and named her Offred. Of Fred Freedom and independence, work and personal money … … an incomprehensible luxury that seemed familiar before the war broke out and the weakened United States…

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Nick Koriagin

Chernobyl Review (2019)

An incredibly heavy five-part film that everyone needs, just NEEDS to watch - a detached view from the outside of our, alas, history, based almost entirely on dry facts and eyewitness memories, with fictional fiction only in some details, admitted for the sake of a better storytelling. This is not horror, not a thriller, or even a forensic drama or detective story. This is a portrait of an entire country and an entire era -…

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Nick Koriagin

Game of Thrones Review (2011-2019) - Khaleesi, how so ?!

The end of the eighth and final season is weak, even with a discount on all the good and beautiful dramatic moments in the previous episodes, concluding the story arcs of the important minor characters. The transformation of one of the main characters into an antihero, and the most vile villainess into a defenseless martyr, was cool. But everything else … the political, haha, final of the War for the Iron Throne (a very unexpected…

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Nick Koriagin

Love, Death, Robots Review (Season One, Netflix, 2019)

… is a collection of 18 animated short stories from top studios, including major game commercials, produced by online rental giant Netflix and directed by Tim Miller (Deadpool) and David Fincher (Seven, Fight Club "). As I understand it, the idea of ​​creating the anthology was to bring together the works of the strongest animation artists and directors under one cover, united by the theme of passion, love, loneliness and despair, as well as futurism…

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Nick Koriagin

The Haunting of the Hill House Review (2018, Netflix)

A ten-part, non-linear, dramatic film that tells in two times the story of a dysfunctional family struggling with grief and seeking the strength to defeat their demons. On the one hand, this is the story of a young married couple of an architect wife and a realtor husband who purchased an old estate in order to renovate it and sell it to new owners. They move there with their five children in the early 1990s…

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Nick Koriagin

Altered Carbon (Season One Review, Netflix, 2018)

On the Earth of the XXV century, there are still the poor and the rich, only the rich, thanks to downloading and copying of consciousness, can live almost forever, and the poor - well, that's how lucky you are. Criminals are deprived of bodies and stored on "hard drives", investigators interrogate suspects in virtual reality, and the minds of deceased people are resurrected to find out the circumstances of death (if they are not neo-Catholics…

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