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Better than I thought.
I'm usually at odds with ratings and how they can strongly influence whether a piece will be watched or not. Unless it's something I flat don't want to watch or has uncomfortable subjects and all that, I prefer to take a few in B4 deciding. Drama fits well into that category~
It's one of those entertaining gems that displays Murphys law pretty well. Something always goes wrong. If it can go wrong, more than likely it will. Let's take that disaster and compound after problem after problem after problem............and when you think it's done and over with? Boom! Blindsided with a few more. That is the story of Mad Concrete Dreams~
A normal family trying to survive and better themselves, makes a couple of mistakes, a couples of errors in judgment, a couple bad decisions, and gets caught in a neverending merry go round. Trying to fix one thing just oed to another. The story worked. A quartet of A list actors with the usual familiar faces surrounding them~
The problem I had was with ML. His character was a tall solemn hard working man who never shows much emotion, plugging away daily to make ends meet for his wife and daughter. The almost complete lack of emotion was his strength and also the problem. Things got really bad and there were no scenes I felt where that facade cracked, as in you were not able to tell throughout the whole drama what he was thinking, feeling, which meant he didn't or wasn't able to convey any emotions like fear or sense of urgency. He was a robot and I didn't like not being able to tell WTH was going on in his head. That was my only beef worth this piece~
This was not a popular show rating wise and here but I liked it. Was chaos from start to finish, ppl in over their heads, and was entertaining to watch. I recommend watching the 1st 2 eps and I can say if you liked it, then continue to watch knowing things will just continue to spiral~
It's one of those entertaining gems that displays Murphys law pretty well. Something always goes wrong. If it can go wrong, more than likely it will. Let's take that disaster and compound after problem after problem after problem............and when you think it's done and over with? Boom! Blindsided with a few more. That is the story of Mad Concrete Dreams~
A normal family trying to survive and better themselves, makes a couple of mistakes, a couples of errors in judgment, a couple bad decisions, and gets caught in a neverending merry go round. Trying to fix one thing just oed to another. The story worked. A quartet of A list actors with the usual familiar faces surrounding them~
The problem I had was with ML. His character was a tall solemn hard working man who never shows much emotion, plugging away daily to make ends meet for his wife and daughter. The almost complete lack of emotion was his strength and also the problem. Things got really bad and there were no scenes I felt where that facade cracked, as in you were not able to tell throughout the whole drama what he was thinking, feeling, which meant he didn't or wasn't able to convey any emotions like fear or sense of urgency. He was a robot and I didn't like not being able to tell WTH was going on in his head. That was my only beef worth this piece~
This was not a popular show rating wise and here but I liked it. Was chaos from start to finish, ppl in over their heads, and was entertaining to watch. I recommend watching the 1st 2 eps and I can say if you liked it, then continue to watch knowing things will just continue to spiral~
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