04-24-2026, 03:46 PM
Damages is kind of strange in that the central plot of the series makes no sense and is never explained. I also have no clue why people think Glenn Close is acting well and displaying "raw intensity" when it looks like she's going through the motions in every scene. Maybe it's the fifteen times she throws a glass against the wall that gets jaws dropping. Another series with awful music that's too loud to let you know what emotions you should be feeling. The flash forward (and later flashback lmao) stuff is just stupid, I'd argue the series would be more suspenseful without it. Especially because none of the flashforwards ever have any relevance to the season plot until the final episode, so it's mostly about setting up red herrings every other episode that go nowhere. Ted Danson's character is really more interesting than any of the main ones, and they sort of realize this before having to write him out. They also have to suddenly write out Timothy Olyphant because he became Raylan.
The show got cancelled and then picked up by a different channel so they cut down the episode order and replace all the side characters with cheaper ones. I think this actually somewhat improves the show, even though the season plots are worse because it gives the show way more focus. The first three seasons are like stretching eight episodes of plot to 13, whereas the last two are like stretching seven episodes to 10.
Jack of All Trades is simply amazing. It's from the people who made Hercules/Xena/Cleopatra 2525 except it's explicitly a comedy, only half an hour and Bruce Campbell is way better than Sorbo or whoever at actually playing such material. All the historical stuff in the series is clearly deliberately wrong (not that people on imdb realize this) with characters showing up decades after they were dead in the real world, people who would have been very old being young and vice versa, etc. Almost all the historical characters are based off of like a one sentence summary of them and nothing else, Ben Franklin talks about kites for example. Napoleon is played by Verne Troyer so he can be even shorter. Marquis de Sade has a BDSM resort island. The characters make references to commercials/shows and say slogans/slang from the 20th century. The technology is completely nonsense for 1801, the one character builds a submarine in a secret lab, etc. It's all just wonderfully stupid.
It's on Roku and there's only like 20 total episodes: https://therokuchannel.roku.com/details/74f33508a61555a3a59316c757173761/jack-of-all-trades
It can look like pixelated crap though because it seems to have been clearly ripped off an early 2000s DVD release. Woke Hollywood would rather waste time remastering the same woke films over and over again instead of giving Jack of All Trades an 8K release smh.
The show got cancelled and then picked up by a different channel so they cut down the episode order and replace all the side characters with cheaper ones. I think this actually somewhat improves the show, even though the season plots are worse because it gives the show way more focus. The first three seasons are like stretching eight episodes of plot to 13, whereas the last two are like stretching seven episodes to 10.
Jack of All Trades is simply amazing. It's from the people who made Hercules/Xena/Cleopatra 2525 except it's explicitly a comedy, only half an hour and Bruce Campbell is way better than Sorbo or whoever at actually playing such material. All the historical stuff in the series is clearly deliberately wrong (not that people on imdb realize this) with characters showing up decades after they were dead in the real world, people who would have been very old being young and vice versa, etc. Almost all the historical characters are based off of like a one sentence summary of them and nothing else, Ben Franklin talks about kites for example. Napoleon is played by Verne Troyer so he can be even shorter. Marquis de Sade has a BDSM resort island. The characters make references to commercials/shows and say slogans/slang from the 20th century. The technology is completely nonsense for 1801, the one character builds a submarine in a secret lab, etc. It's all just wonderfully stupid.
It's on Roku and there's only like 20 total episodes: https://therokuchannel.roku.com/details/74f33508a61555a3a59316c757173761/jack-of-all-trades
It can look like pixelated crap though because it seems to have been clearly ripped off an early 2000s DVD release. Woke Hollywood would rather waste time remastering the same woke films over and over again instead of giving Jack of All Trades an 8K release smh.