The Ranch - With his good looks, wild success, and baffling lack of acting or comedic talent, Ashton Kutcher is pretty much the quintessential D-bag. It only makes sense then, that his Netflix original series The Ranch is the quintessential D-bag show. The Ranch stars Ashton Kutcher as a Colt Bennett, a pretty-boy college football star who is forced to work on his family's Colorado ranch despite his total lack of ranching skills. Hilarity, apparently, ensues. Like much of Kutcher’s work, The Ranch has been slammed by critics for its predictable plot, cheesy jokes, and weak writing. However, Kutcher’s devoted fanboys have managed to turn a blind eye to such issues, which has led to Netflix renewing the series for a second season of 20 (yes, 20) episodes. Bojack Horseman - Right from the start, you know Bojack Horseman is going to be a painful watching experience. The show’s tongue in cheek title is nowhere near as clever as its creators think it is, nor is its writing or voice acting. In many ways, Bojack Horseman feels like a cheap imitation of Bob’s Burgers or post-2000 Simpsons (which nobody should even want to imitate). Despite its many glaring faults, Bojack Horseman has developed a staggeringly large audience of regular viewers, mostly composed of frat bros …show more content…
Owing to my long-standing love of The Science Guy - as his followers affectionately dubbed him - I was ecstatic when I heard Netflix and Nye had agreed to work together on a new show. Unfortunately, it became clear in the first five minutes of the first episode of Bill Nye Saves the World that the Bill Nye being exhibited was not the Bill Nye of old. Much of Bill Nye Saves the World is Nye simply agreeing with popular opinions, oftentimes contradicting points he presented as fact in past projects. The show is not so much science for DIY scholars as it is science for D-bags who hate
Lost by his parents at a young age, Pecos Bill was raised by a pack of coyotes who treated him like one of their own. When Bill reached adulthood, he left his coyote family and took up ranching and cattle herding as a profession. Most of Bill’s adventures him protecting his herd of prized cows out in the sandy desert. He rode a snarling mountain lion and a swirling cyclone to make sure they did not take his cows. Bill even used a lasso of rattle snakes to rope his whole herd at
From well-respected Director Craig Ross, the film Blue Hill Avenue is a story about four tight knit friends living in the streets of rough a 1980’s Boston. The main characters of the film are Tristan, E Bone, Simon, and Money, these four characters grow up together hustling the streets. After finding a way to make money the four characters go from small time hustlers to big time dope dealers under the guidance of their supplier, Benny who is the main villain of the film. Through the adventure of the storyline, these four friends highlight the characteristics of what it is to embrace traditional masculinity and what it is to be a man.
Freaks and Geeks gives a new and realistic portrayal of adolescence in a nice small package of a television show. It strays from the media stereotype of adolescent by showing adolescent life in a new light. It reveals the lesson that many adolescents have to learn to become a mature adult, the choices they have to make that will affect their life in a major or minor way, and the struggles many endured that makes them take rash decision or lost in what they do. Freaks and Geeks is a show that I recommend to many who are sick of stereotypical shows that media broadcast on television.
Hitch is about Alex “Hitch” Hitchens, the date doctor, who helps men get together with women who are out of their league or otherwise wouldn’t think about dating them. One of those men happens to be Alex Brennaman who is in love with Allegra Cole who happens to be his boss. Hitch is able to build up Alex’s courage and help him get the attention Allegra. At the same time Hitch is falling for Sara, who is a gossip columnist wondering who the new guy being seen with Allegra is. The movie is about falling love with the right person. With that right person often not noticing them. The key is communication between the two people, so then the person can get the attention needed.
Whether it’s through its overly upbeat and positive conflict resolving themes or inclusivity of customary morals and values, each show has seen its fair share of critique in terms of it’s realism to society.
NBC’s Hannibal’s first episode, Aperitif aired on April 4th, 2013 to 4.36 million viewers. The show is based on the acclaimed crime, horror, and drama books by Thomas Harris. The NBC series stands as a reboot for the cinematic Hannibal franchise, which became popular after the success of the 1991 cinematic adaption of Silence of the Lambs in which Anthony Hopkins famously portrayed the character of Hannibal Lecter, although the first Hannibal film was actually the 1986 film Manhunter, an adaption of Harris' Red Dragon. While the first three episodes enjoyed rating of around 4 to 3 million, the rest of the season’s rating hung around the low 2 million mark. Ratings this low combined with the show’s unusual subject matter and brutality almost guaranteed the show would be not be renewed for a second season. However, the show was renewed due to a strong fan reaction on the Internet, specifically from fans on the blog site Tumblr. While the show may not be attracting a large audience, it has an incredibly loyal and outspoken fan base. This is partially why I chose to do this show for this essay. I’ve been watching the show since day one, and there is something about it, the atmosphere, the cinematography, the dialogue, but most importantly the chemistry between Hugh Dancy’s Will Graham and Mads Mikkelsen’s Hannibal Lecter. Everything comes together so perfectly it was apparent from the first episode that Hannibal is show that will develop a loyal following of fans who will fight for its survival. What makes Hannibal unique is that it is a show that should exist on a premium cable network such as HBO or Showtime, however it exists and survives on NBC. Secondly, the show has gathered a large following on Tumblr, a site that is ...
The Blacklist has been able to utilize its marketing strengths to better position itself in the industry. In entertainment, particularly the film and series sector, marketing is a challenging and dynamic function of business. Fortunately, the issue of marketing and positioning was not challenging for The Blacklist because of the brilliance of the actors, scriptwriters and producers of the show. The series is able to capture the attention of its audience, by casting its popular actors. Other audiences that have been and will continue to be crucial to The Blacklist’s success are the fans that each cast member has brought with them from their previous work. For inst...
Ranching goes beyond chasing cows and riding horses. Ranchers are businessmen. They carefully manage their operation's expenses, income, and taxes like other typical businessmen. Income only comes once a year when they sell their calves in the fall. Therefore, each dollar is spent wisely on equipment, feed, and advertising.
The average America watches more than 150 hours of television every month, or about five hours each day (“Americans,” 2009). Of the 25 top-rated shows for the week of February 8-14, 2010, six were sitcoms, averaging 5.84 million live viewers each (Seidman, 2010), to say nothing for the millions more who watched later on the Internet or their Digital Video Recorders. The modern sitcom is an undeniable force in America, and its influence extends beyond giving viewers new jokes to repeat at the water cooler the next day: whether Americans realize it or not, the media continues to socialize them, even as adults. It may appear at first glance that sitcoms are a relatively benign force in entertainment. However, the modern sitcom is more than just a compilation of one-liners and running gags. It is an agent of gender socialization, reinforcing age-old stereotypes and sending concrete messages about how, and who, to be. While in reality, people of both sexes have myriad personality traits that do not fall neatly along gender lines, the sitcom spurns this diversity in favor of representing the same characters again and again: sex-crazed, domestically incompetent single men enjoying their lives as wild bachelors, and neurotic, lonely, and insecure single women pining desperately to settle down with Prince Charming and have babies. Sitcoms reinforce our ideas about what it is “normal” to be, and perhaps more importantly feed us inaccurate ideas about the opposite sex: that women are marriage-crazed, high-maintenance, and obsessed with the ticking of their biological clocks, while men are hapless sex addicts whose motives can’t be trusted. The way that singles are portrayed in sitcoms is harmful to viewers’ understanding of themselves...
For openers: it’s brilliantly written, performed and film. Each episode has the polish of an excellent feature film – with tighter yet more complex... The show is also relentlessly entertaining. The characters are engrossing. The plot twists astonishing but coherent, and the dialogue mined with ironies and poetic resonance quite beyond what we are used to hearing on the boob tube or even on the commercial cinema screen these days. (Yacower, p. 12)
When people read a book that they like they cant wait to see the movie that is based on the book. Many people criticize the movie or are not satisfied. While you watch this movie it is visually breathtaking and easily relatable. Chris McCandless is played by Emile Hirsch who does an outstanding job of portraying McCandless. McCandless’s parents are Walt and Billie McCandless. In the book they are portrayed as a little stuck up and snobbish. Sean Penn is a screenwriter and director for the movie adaptation of Into the Wild by John Krakauer. Sean Penn portrays Chris’s parents in a negative way in order to show that they were essentially responsible for him breaking away from society.
Love is a word that’s been both miss-used and over-used all at once. Romantic movies change our definition of and have a big impact on this definition greatly. There have been many movies and novels made over love, but never like this. “The Notebook” is a love story about unconditional love that two people have for each other. This emotionally, heart touching story will have your eyes blood-shot and burning from you not wanting to blink your eyes. This tremendously wonderful love story will have you not wanting to even miss a millisecond of this heart throbbing film. With many plot twists and many scenes that will have you falling off of your seat and you not having any nails by the end of the movie, this is the movie for you. This emotionally rich film is full of action, laughter, and romance, which is the perfect trio combination. This movie shows us how love can bind us together forever. This film went above and
Based on a true story, the movie ‘Lone Survivor’ features four Navy SEALs that set out on a mission to Afghanistan with orders to capture and kill Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. The Navy SEALS are detected by villagers and the mission was compromised. Ultimately, the mission had been discovered and the men found themselves surrounded by dozens of Taliban soldiers. One of the Navy SEAL soldiers managed to dispatch to base and retrieve assistance but the Taliban shoot down the helicopter. During battle, three of the Navy SEAL soldiers were killed leaving one still alive.
‘Our interest in the parallels between the adaptation inter-texts is further enhanced by consideration of their marked differences in textual form,’
This movie starts off as Jordan Belfort, the main character in the movie, losing his job as a stockbroker in Wall Street. After losing his job, he goes and gets a job in a Long Island brokerage room. In the brokerage room, he sells penny stocks. Thanks to him being aggressive in his selling skills, he was able to make a profit. With the new income, he gives his wife a bracelet and she asked him why doesn’t he go after the people that can afford to lose money, not the middle-class people or lower income people. That is when he gets the idea to get a lot of young people and train them to become the best stock brokers.