Thinking of Oscar nominations. I would watch films possibly like Crash showing interconnecting people and themes, or politically Mr Smith goes to Washington. Where any issues raised emotionally bring out a great story, out of award winning content.
What I don't watch is another pretentious series that thinks to associate itself with issues plaguing society today. A series that comesThinking of Oscar nominations. I would watch films possibly like Crash showing interconnecting people and themes, or politically Mr Smith goes to Washington. Where any issues raised emotionally bring out a great story, out of award winning content.
What I don't watch is another pretentious series that thinks to associate itself with issues plaguing society today. A series that comes across as all kinds of bling bling and phoney. Show me a Hero means what it says on the title. Meaning I want to understand how a 28 year old became the mayor. When I see those projects, I want to understand the people living there.
I don't want to see two minute segments dedicated into nothing, jumping around everywhere, but are shown to be about what?
This series starts out in a courtroom showing how the last mayor wasn't terribly competent on the issue raised concerning affordable housing. He fails to connect. Our hero in the opening sceen, and every later sceen regarding his position in public office, does nothing, says nothing, he intsead stares dreamy at the camera.. Any sceens that are shown last about a minute each before jumping onto the next. Later on there is a public debate, also showing anger from the public and the mayor to be quite disconnected. The mayor also asks his councilors for their vote of support on this issue, when he starts losing some votes and when he is pressed by the court for decisions.
The mayoral campaign is shown with our "hero" handing out about 5, or so leaflets outside of a supermarket. He helps a lady carry her shopping, hoping to give her a leaflet. He complains at how far he has to walk., but he drives a car.. He successfully hands out other leaflets mostly to his own age group of peers. Previously he was supported by somebody offering the sum of 40 grand to support his campaign. There was no real lobbying seen, or any real message of campaigned policies.. The leaflets he had typed himself, lazily punching a single key before giving up. He tries copying his own leaflets. He has a friend helping him with his campaign who is around the same age. He is shown getting later support when a young adult shakes his hand, telling him, he will get his kin to vote. The mayor also shakes his hand wishing him luck with his campaign.. However what we actually see him doing most of the time, is him flirting with a secretary. The secretary offers to copy 300 more leaflets for him, because other staff at city hall won't support him running against the mayor. When he was talking with his friend in a diner about his campaign, it was spent largely talking about girls. He gives the secretary a ride home, kissing her, she offers to help him with getting pickets set up. Later on pickets magically appear everywhere within the mayor's district. In city hall he kisses the secretary. Than it jumps to a pub or somewhere serving drinks, he is with his girlfriend and his friend. He has just won being the mayor by starring at a TV. The relationship he with his girlfriend the secretary, in opinion was quite creepy and juvenile, fumbling eyeballs constantly half giggling smirks. She didn't want to kiss him, but no definitely meant yes, twice, in the car and than again in a public place city hall flustering her, causing him to be late to a meeting. In the meeting he gives excuses, a meeting that couldn't care too much about,.
We see glimpses of other segments given about a minute each, before jumping around. In the projects there are some youth dope dealers, and a single mom wanting more for her children and her child minder. The mom was a carpenter struggling to get a raise, so instead she has to move out of her tenement block. The mom was saying that she couldn't afford much, but she was eating 5 different vegetables in the family feast, and her children are seen leaving their toys behind. The dope dealers are flashing lots of cash, even thinking about buying diamond rings, typically slagged everybody off, including the mayoral staff walking on their turf.
I really don't know what I have watched in the opening episode putting me off this entire series. A series I consider to be absolutely pretentious and meaningless, showing me nothing and hasn't really manage to connect to the offered themes. I am annoyed that it jumped around everywhere constantly,, but has left me with little empathy, or any real concern. I wanted to understand how a smart and talented 28 year old supposedly the "hero" managed to become the mayor? I didn't want to see some dreamy eyed charmer magically getting elected, every..
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I thought why not make a better go of it this final time.… Expand
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