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  • This show has no redeeming qualities. It's not funny, it's overly long, it ruins movies you haven't seen, and provides no extra info or insight if you have seen it.

    This show is almost a movie-review show, but since it features no one (other than Kevin Smith) with any respected opinions, it really falls flat; moreover, since it does contain spoilers, it's not even useful for that purpose, unless you like having movies you'd consider watching spoiled for you. Lastly on the movie-review-potential of the show, they only review(spoil) 1 movie per episode, so by the time you watch a couple of "reviews," you could have watched a whole movie.

    This show is like if you went to a movie with friends and were talking about it afterwards, only you haven't seen the movie, and the people aren't your friends. Kevin Smith just walks from person to person in the group and gets a 30 second opinion on the movie, and the people involved aren't even excited enough to clap whole-heartedly. If the audience can't even get excited about the show they are not only watching but are actively involved in, why the heck would anyone else? Seriously, this is probably the most boring, ill-conceived show I've ever seen.
  • The current top review of this says it ruins movies you haven't seen, in its defence, it's literally called Spoilers so I think you have to know what you're getting into.

    But yes I didn't watch this when it was current but they were generally released at the time the movie first went to theatres so unless you were watching them on their opening weekends, this probably would contain spoilers. This is obviously not an issue if you watch them now.

    This is billed as the anti review, so rather than reading what a critic has to say or anything else you're meant to get a collection of 'ordinary' (some of them are actors) opinions. The problem is, they kind of demonstrate a review is better, as really they just make fairly random remarks that you or I might make but it doesn't help you decide if you should see it or not, no real time is spent on this which feels strange.

    So I do understand what its aim was but I feel like it massively missed a trick for what could be an interesting show for people interested in films/movies. The first episode is an intro to what the show is, at 2 minutes in we then get the discussion on the film start, this lasts 8 minutes and that includes small amounts of banter as Kevin moves around some of the guests.

    There's a break, then we have (only in the first season) a review of a classic film from Kevin and why he likes it. This was easily the best part and lasted about 30 seconds.

    We then have an interview with an actor, some weird science scene followed by a short cartoon.

    They generally speaking are completely worthless episodes, they serve no purpose at all. If Kevin had a YouTube channel and decided to have a 10 minute interview with actors he knew and asked his neighbour what they thought of a recently released film, you'd have the same thing.

    What I think it could have been is a film club with an interview of someone you don't normally hear from, a crew member as an example not an actor. Kevin could then have at least put his side to the discussion, unfortunately you could have replaced him with any generic presenter and it would feel exactly the same.

    I did want to say watching this years later so you could if you wanted seek the film out first and watch it and then follow up with this might be interesting, but so little of the episode covers the film, it's of no purpose whatsoever.

    If you have access to the first season I'd recommend skipping to the Criterion Lounge and see what he has to say about the classic films. Then if you're interested in the interviewee, watch that.

    I'm giving it 5 because somewhere I like the idea and I like someone took a shot at it but they panicked and felt the need to allocate half the episode to an interview.