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Holy crap...

Every single character on this show is so unbelievably awesome. Every single character is likable to some degree.

Let me first say that I see everything. I work at home and I need one of my monitors to have some television show to keep me occupied. I was in such a dry spell lately having nothing to watch when a friend recommended this show. After the first episode, I thought it's not bad. After the second episode and that Spanish gibberish rap, I knew that I had found a winner.

Even the teachers like Senor Chang make me smile whenever they enter a scene.

What is most interesting is that this show is new. It is not based on any formula. The relationships are completely original and they are smart not to get mired down in romantic relationships unless for the sake of a joke.

I'm currently ending the first season and I heard that the second season is even better.

EXCELLENT SHOW

I'm currently watching season 2 and I must admit that most of the negative comments are VERY true specifically about how the soldiers are never wrong.

This show has good actors and very interesting stories. I have actually never been bored watching the show. I watch television while I work for the most part so I've seen EVERYTHING.

The show has a severe lacking of character development and most notably, internal conflict. I have yet to see a single moment where a cast member truly questions themselves and definitely never come to a conclusion where they may disagree with the rest of the core cast.

This is the most important because when I see Shawn Ryan's name I think of the Shield and that show had an immense level of complications for virtually every character. So much so that no one can actually call Vic Mackey a "bad guy".

There's a particular episode where one of the wives goes to see some anti-war guys and completely destroys them in a 2 minute debate. Could they really not find a single person in this country (where way more than 50% disagree with the wars) to argue reasonably against the imperialism of the US. They simply offered their "thou shalt not kill" and "americans are arrogant" arguments and that was ALL. Totally unreasonable.

I noticed something strange in this country after 9/11. Everything in the media, movies and television was completely against war (Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, The Deer Hunter, Platoon, I could go on forever) but after the events of September 11 the media has shifted into trying to convince us that all of these things are necessary to the good of the country. This is purely propaganda, only not as blatant as Boris and Natasha from Bullwinkle.

I actually stopped watching 24 due to its blatant propaganda. I hope this show gets better or I will be searching for something new to watch.

Also no one important ever dies or gets severely hurt. This is simply not realistic at all.

Finally, the wives. Oh god why?! Why must every television show in the US show women to be just as (if not more) strong willed as men? This is seriously the reason we have so many single mothers in this country. In the scenes of husbands and wives, the husbands are nothing more than someone with whom to philosophically and practically argue (and win all of them) and for sex. It's quite pathetic. They are also constantly showing the women as raising the children alone.

There is a consensus that CBS is infamous for this type of behavior but The Mentalist is not truly within the same frame.

I went to see this movie honestly to waste a little time and was in a big surprise.

This movie probably receives more credit due to the drought of original thought from which movies currently suffer terribly but I loved this movie. Let me be clear here though. Action movies are not my favorite genre. My favorite movies are 21 Grams, A Clockwork Orange, and the Shawshank Redemption to name a few. I wish I could put 9.5 because I wouldn't like this movie to be thought of as equal to Magnolia or the Godfather 2 but I can't put a 9.

Back to this movie. It was awesome. It contained what Avatar lacked the absolute most and that is character development and growth.

In a time where making any action movie must compete with the Matrix or Spider-man 2, the action scenes were superb. I was actually worried about the characters and had genuine fear for their well-being probably because all the characters had some lovable quality.

I read in another review that this movie should have been called "Hit-Girl" but that's terribly inaccurate because aside from the fact that the movie is from Kick Ass's perspective, he is the character that actually has a true metamorphosis in the movie. There is a scene where he finally realizes what he is and what he must do while looking in a mirror and it is EXCELLENT. I don't know what it was, the music, his intensity, or whatever else but this scene was the absolute best in the entire movie.

This movie has comedy (and not that quirky joke every 10 minutes bullshit we see in EVERY OTHER movie), action, and is actually inspiring.

Thank you very much to the makers. I went to see it twice and may see it again because it's a pleasure giving them my money.

OK, maybe Arrested Development but I just watched a basketball game on the show and after wiping the tears from my eyes I felt compelled to review the show only to help the rating grow.

Easily the most consistently funny show I've ever seen in my life. I have laughed aloud every single episode.

To all the people who gave this show a 9 or lower, what are you thinking? This show is completely original and hilariously funny. What more could I want in a comedy? Some people it compare it to Seinfeld which I find insulting. Curb Your Enthusiasm is the only thing that comes close.

First of all I would like to say that I watch everything. I work at home so this forces me to have television shows playing while I work. This show came to me because I'm simply running out of things to watch.

This show makes me angry with each episode. I just finished season 1 and although I want to quit, I don't have anything else to watch I can't imagine the second season being worse.

That said here are the positives and negatives of the show....

• Positives The show is watchable. The bad guys are innovative, smart, and very capable even though they are regularly marginalized. I can't give it the lowest rating possible only because I can actually stomach most episodes.

• Negatives The acting is bad (terrible in fact). The only acting that is convincing and acceptable is that of the mad scientist and the bald boss.

The humor is pathetically cliché.

The star agent (Dunham) is unreasonably invincible. This is what angers me the most from the show. Her character is as worse than Dr. House as a boss, kills more people than Vic Mackey, and violates more civil rights than Jack Bauer. What is worse is that she does these things completely without consequence to herself. She's not even knowledgeable about any of these cases yet she commands so much even from superior officers with no repercussions.

The gimp character (Astrid) is completely useless and is part of the show by affirmative action or something because she looks "ethnic". She has no scientific knowledge and no agent uses. She is just there to buy the groceries which is then doubly insulting that she's there for the slave work.

The bad guys are regularly eliminated even though they drive the interesting parts of the show. The double agent whose wife was executed in her own home by agent Dunham and pistol whipped in front of many officers while surrendering was doing amazing things like walking through walls and teleporting people. His character was immediately eliminated and we went back to stories of monsters. What is more important is that the bad guys are much more powerful and intelligent yet they always lose to a team of three whose smartest person has research 20 years old at least which brings me to another problem.

The boss (bald black guy, probably my favorite actor in the show) went from repeatedly relegating the stupidity and emotions of Dunham to giving her any and everything she wants (including many illegal searches, interrogations, etc.) in a span of a few episodes.

The science of these things are much worse than normal and the analogies given are quite pathetic. However if I were critical about this, I couldn't watch the show.

Scientific advancement in this show is so slow that apparently a scientist who has not even touched a microscope in decades has the equipment necessary to solve the current problems.

Finally, the scientist's son is pathetic. His IQ is supposedly 180 according to the first episode. Why then is he relegated to being nothing more than comic relief for the show and a connection to strange criminals.

This movie touted itself as "something of which you've never seen the likes of" however the story was COMPLETELY predictable. This wasn't the worst movie in the world but in comparison to its accolades, it's getting there.

The movie has beat out "Up in the Air" and the amazingly original and inventive "Inglorious Basterds" for best picture Golden Globe. How is that reasonable? I could probably guess the whole story upon watching the first 10 minutes. I felt nothing for any of the characters except Sigourney Weaver.

The icing on the cake was when Michelle Rodriguez (the pilot) started shooting and said, "it's me bitch". Why is this type of crass humor required in all movies? This isn't how people speak in life or death situations. This is how people speak in movies.

The only thing very good about the movie was the amount of detail with special effects but this indeed is not what makes a movie. Furthermore the blue people, I forget what they are called were just taller and blue. Like nothing I've ever seen? Almost exactly everything I've ever seen. Two arms, two eyes, two legs, speaking with their mouths.

That "I see you" crap repeated OVER AND OVER. Now, of course they did explain that this was something important and spiritual to the people. If so, they wouldn't say it English so many times because there wouldn't even be a direct translation.

I really wish I was a billionaire so that I could pay some of these people billions to stop making movies like these.