 Thanks for checking out this show review. This is for the 2019 show nose for a to nose for a to It's a license plate just so people don't know or if people don't know anyway This is currently available on the shutter streaming service It originally ran on the AMC channel, which if people don't know shutters owned by EMC So that's why they end up getting some of the horror stuff that ran on AMC like nose for a to like Eli Ross history of horror stuff like that. So At the top of this if people are watching it and they've already seen the first season of nose for a to it has been renewed for a second season Which I'm happy about I did enjoy this. I'll let you know upfront if you have not seen it It's fine to watch this review because I'm not going to be giving spoilers since it's so new I'm just going to kind of talk about my thoughts on it without giving spoilers But I'm going to give you a lot of stuff So if you have seen it, you'll know what I'm talking about as well And it'll be a good breakdown for you kind of walking that line So the show is actually based on a book by Joe Hill if people don't know Joe Hill is Stephen King's son But became very successful on his own He didn't make it known until maybe about 10 years into his writing career that he was Stephen King's son That's why he had changed his last name He wanted to make it make it on his own and since then he has been You know writing a lot of books that have gotten pretty high acclaimed so he Had this book called nose for a to it's a very thick book I actually looked at reading it at one point and I was like I'm so behind on a bunch of other books I can't get this right now, but maybe down the road because it's so thick It's like this it's huge and I'm not a fast reader and I have all these books to get to so I was like I better do those first and maybe I'll do this but in the meantime I was like I kind of really want to check out this story so I watched it on shutter and I'm glad that I did I think they did a good job pulling it off It would be good to know what's in the book versus what's in the show I have a friend who read the book and he watched the first two episodes of the show and he said that the book is crazy But really good, so I want to get to it at some point, but anyway So I have some notes in here, but I'm gonna try and you know do a little bit of off the cuff talking about it as Well, but I'm gonna I'll kind of bounce between so overall I have to say that I like this show because it has a lot of Interesting subtext to it. There are a lot. There's a lot of stuff at play in this Especially with the relationships of characters within it That it's more than face value like you really have to think about oh well What's really going on in this moment and think about kind of the inner workings and what's going you know kind of looking further looking a little bit deeper and seeing underlying themes and one of the big themes in it is Trauma and it's trauma in the sense of like actual physical trauma sometimes But it's trauma in the sense mainly of like family trauma and like the issues that happen with broken families Families that are actually, you know, no longer together versus families that are still together, but not functional and Really focusing on the children and how that impacts the children So, you know those types of things can be done kind of like overdone and done poorly But I like the way it's done in this and I I'm obviously gonna attribute that to Joe Hill because I'm assuming it's the way it is in the book is It's complicated and a lot of times with these types of themes People they put it into a show they put it into a movie They put it into a book and they simplify things they make it so that okay, so in the relationship This is the parent who's all bad and this is the parent who's all good This show does not do that. You feel very conflicted about Basically everyone in it Yeah, basically everyone pretty much especially when you get to the very end and there's kind of like a Final really short episodes like 13 minutes or something that kind of like breaks down the main bad guy a little bit and You get it like you feel like you feel for characters But then you also look at them at the same time and say God That's a really bad decision or they just did something terrible or they're a terrible person in this instance They're a really good person in this instance and it's muddy. It's gray matter. It's it's a gray area and I love that I love when movies and shows do that for you because it's so easy to just be like this person's good This person's bad, but that's not real life And I like it when it's a reflection of real life and it makes you feel the emotions of man I really like this person and then the next moment being like man I really don't like this person and it gives you a good representation of what the The children or what the main character mainly Vic McQueen what she goes through In her life like it makes you as audience member get a really good taste of like I see where she's torn here I see where she's having problems making up her mind on what to do with her parents because they are both awesome in certain ways and they're both terrible in certain ways and You feel torn just like she feels torn and it's it's really well done and I also have to say bravo to all the people involved in making the show because You know while I'm saying that that has to do with Joe Hills writing You also have to do the screenplay and you have to shoot it and you have to act it and They brought it to the screen really well in my opinion. It translates well and on that note It looks really good. The directing is excellent. The acting is really excellent I can think about like a few moments here or there where the acting drops a little bit But for the most part very good acting One of the things that I don't like about the acting though is the main guy. I forget his name you see he's been in the show like here are heroes and a few other things you'll know if you see him because he's been in a lot Oh, he was Spock in the newer Star Trek films he Does he's this character who's like sometimes he's young and sometimes he's an old man in the show And when he plays the old man in like full special effects makeup practical effects makeup He the old man voice he does sounds terrible It sounds like overwrought and over the top and terrible But his acting other than that is great like he does a great job So that's just one of my main issues and on that since I'm already talking about it The practical effects to make him look like an old man look really really good. There's only one moment in it It's in like the final full-length episode Where it's a very very close-up shot of his face and you can see that it's a prosthetic but You have to like look at it for a while and and other than it being like a super Tight close-up. You don't notice that it's really prosthetic. It's impressive. It looks good. So The you know the the logistics of getting this done and everything that went into the show I think was executed extremely well I think it's really just gonna come down to If you like it or not has to do it Do you like the underlying story and do you like that it goes kind of slow from time to time? But it's necessary like that I don't think that there were any stints in it that were slow that felt like oh my gosh They're just trying to fill time or anything like that Which is a pretty awesome thing because they have 11 full-length episodes and then that little like 13-minute thing So it's a pretty big triumph that I watched it didn't really feel like things were dragging on Necessarily because that has a tendency to happen which shows especially ones that are on channels on cable like this was for AMC so you know But yeah, I really liked it and I thought it was I thought it was well done So let me go over some of my notes here The characters and relationships are complicated which is what I was saying so it makes it hard to take sides I mean you can for moment-to-moment like I was talking about but you end up switching on the characters And I love the complexity of the characters the show is so much about trauma in many ways and how people deal with it Yeah, I did talk about the trauma But it's also about how people deal with their trauma and also how people don't deal with their trauma and what the consequences of Both of those can end up being And I just kind of put a note that everyone refuses help because they'd seem weak That's kind of a societal thing a lot of people don't want to ask for help with whatever issues They're having physical or emotional or mental or whatever just because you'll seem like a weak person and everyone wants to seem like a strong person It also deals with addiction and the tie-in that trauma has with addiction sometimes and that's personal addiction But that's also Addiction that touches other people so that's another aspect of it like I'm saying like if you can tell there's a lot at play in this film Or in the show It makes points about disparity in wealth and how that affects a child's upbringing That's another strong theme in this because the main character, you know, she doesn't come from a wealthy family or anything like that so Yeah, there's a theme of trying to be yourself and go your own way While trying to also please your parents which is hard when everyone involved has some self-esteem issues That's another thing that goes on where you know, even when when people are kids When you're a Teenager I'll put it that way like when you're a teenager you're trying to figure out how your life is is going to shape up What road you're gonna take to get wherever you're gonna end up going and when your parents have very strong opinions about What they think you should do and they're not supportive in that they just want to tell you this is what I think you should do You know, it becomes hard because it's like I want to listen to my parents But I also feel like I should be doing this and there's a lot of that in the film Which I think is written well and and played out well and it could you know Once again kind of like with how the characters are done. It could be something where they simplified it and made it really easy But they didn't and I appreciate that There's also a theme of kind of like an old patriarchal society fighting against a newer More emotional and emotionally involved Society one that accepts different roles for people then are like traditional roles basically And so I kind of see the good the good guy in the in the in the show I don't know why I'm doing that but the the protagonist in the show is basically the new society that's kind of evolved and the Antagonist of the show is kind of the old traditional Ways of doing things that they're trying to hold on to and they're trying to make everyone accountable for that basically in a messed up way, obviously There's a care there's one particular particular character in this Whose backstory it is too much like the way they do it. It's super over-the-top in your face not subtle and it really should have been subtle because You know With a lot of things don't beat the audience over the head with it like be subtle about it They'll pick up on it It was over the top this character's backstory is way over the top people who have already seen it and are watching this We'll know what I'm talking about. It was just too much like not in the sense of I was like, oh, that's that's like too Scary or too emotional or whatever. I just thought it would like I had to like roll my eyes Basically because I was just like really you you had to go that hard on it Like we get it we get it stop. We get it. So yeah, but There's a care so there's a character who's supposed to have a stutter in this at some point and At first I was watching I was just like why is this person like they didn't have a stutter then they did have a stutter So I kind of wrote it down as like being a problem I'm like this is coming and going but there actually is a reason for that. So just know there's a reason for that There's a character's involvement in this that you actually particularly feel bad about actually There's a lot of stuff that you feel bad about in this film because of that complexity of characters where you're just like Oh, you know, I feel for this person, but they're also doing terrible things. So There's a lot of those moments But there's one character in particular that you feel particularly bad for at times where you're just like and you'll know Why you'll understand and then the last thing I kind of wanted to say about this is this doesn't give anything away It's not a spoiler because I said I'm not doing spoilers on this But there are these concepts of strong creatives is what they call them strong creatives and Inscapes that are really good concepts that are at play in the main story of this Awesome, I think For me personally what makes this so good other than what I've already talked about with, you know, the characters being Really complex and it just looking really good and everything being pulled off really well and seeming like it flows Well, I think it's also that the underlying story is very interesting to me It's one that I I'm not Like while I'm watching it, I'm not sure where it's going necessarily and there are tons of shows where I'm like I know exactly where this is going. This is very clichéd It's a it's a like a recycled story and this one is not that it's very original It's doing its own thing for sure and it has a lot of intrigue baked into it where you're like Let's Adventure further. Let's let's investigate this and you and you're doing that with the characters So you're just like I'm not a hundred percent sure where this is going and I'm very interested to see what happens And I think they ended it in a very good way that kind that does set it up for the second season Obviously because they're doing a second season, so I'm very excited that they got a second season for this Just makes me want to read the book now really makes me want to check out that book But I have a lot of other stuff to work through first, but anyway, so giving this show a star rating nose for a two Out of five stars with half stars in play. It's not unbelievably phenomenal, but it is quite solid I'm gonna give a four stars. I like it at four stars. 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