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One of them is Demi Moore. The other is Margaret Qualley.

I'm glad the trailer didn't give much of this away, because I had no idea what to expect and I was really blown away. As a 45 year old woman I think this film was a much different experience for me than maybe the average viewer. Demi Moore...just wow. She deserves every bit of praise for this performance.

As for the body horror, which is mentioned in every review for a reason, is pretty intense. I didn't watch a lot of it (I don't love body horror, but I'm a desensitized gen x woman so I dealt with it because the performances were so great.

As a lifelong sci-fi lover it still felt very much like a classic sci fi/horror story with warnings and foreshadowing of how horrible things would get -and boy do they ever! That ending was a doozy 😅 and that props department went above and beyond.

Moral of the story: you may be a 50 year old woman who is aging in a world obsessed with youth, but hey: things could always be worse!

Well worth the watch.

This is one of my favorite books, and I generally have very low expectations of any adaptation, so I went in to this with that mentality. It isn't perfect, but it feels like it's coming from the same place as the book, with the same themes driving the plot and characters (who are very well cast).

The source material covers a lot of ground, literally and figuratively. I've only seen four episodes, but I have been pleasantly surprised at the world and character building. I'm a little more concerned about how they will handle later events, as the story continues and women take power over the new world.

All in all, it's better than I expected and I'm excited to watch the rest.

I have been anxiously awaiting this film, and it really let me down. I wanted to feel the excitement of this time and place and as soon as I would start to, it walked it back and jumped subjects, losing any momentum. These bands defined my early adulthood, at a time when things were really chaotic. But this film was chaotic in a different and uninspired way. I couldn't tap into the nostalgia I was hoping for, and it left me really sad and almost angry because there was so much potential and it could have been so much more.

I'm also disappointed that they gave Ryan Adams any kind of screen time, while giving next to nothing to TV on the Radio. They deserve their own movie. And so does Karen O, who was a bright spot in a really lackluster movie.