50FiftillidideeBrain

I'm a person who attacked life and stayed too busy to watch a whole lot of 📺 (though I was always a bit of a cinemaphile).  I was entirely too busy doing a whole lot of nothing when my entire world crashed in 2020 - emotional, physical, and intellectual devastation.  My health was so severely degenerated that I've been largely unable to get out of the recliner for the last 5 years.  Watching 📺 was all I could do.  It's fair to say that Asian entertainment saved my sanity.  I've never been much of a writer, but I started writing reviews to keep my brain active - and continue for the very same purpose.  Everything looks differently once a person hits bottom,  I've learned, so my perspective is fresh and freshly hewn. 

I try to use all the numbers between 1 & 10 (though I never recall rating anything a “2”).  I've been tested as equally left and right brained, so the technical aspects of a show are almost as important as how it touches the heart, but let's face it:  In the showdown between heart and head, the head doesn't stand a chance😅.  I don't factor the personal lives of the actors (or anyone else) into my ratings. I assume everybody in showbiz is a flawed human, as we all are.  For that matter, I take no delight in tearing down someone's work;  my goal is consistency and authenticity.  

Finally, let's put it on the record that everyone is entitled to their form of mindless entertainment.  Just because a show is (arguably) bad doesn't mean anyone should feel badly for liking it.   I'm only judging entertainment here, not people👍 

~My rating scale~

10  Divine The difference between a 9 & 10 for me is how it hits my ❤️ 

9 Outstanding with only minor issues.  It may lack that magic spark but be technically superb.

8 Excellent 

7 VG

6 G

5 Avg

4 Poor

3 Awful

2 Insulting

1 Detrimental

These are overall ratings and not genre specific.  Many of these would be rated higher within their genre.