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Florida Man : Welcome to Hell, Mike – Episode 2 – RECAP

April 25, 2023May 21, 2023 SkipTvAds

Florida Man I’m sure is not the most watch TV series online at the moment but its very entertaining, the love / hate story between Mike and Delly will make you laugh here and there, she can really be a pain in the ass for Mike some times but he cant say no to her, good thing is that it doesn’t give me the vibe that she is using him more than that she wants him with her but Mike knows he now has to figure out how to kill her legally. Her body was not found after “she got shoot” , local police is on the case, Mike is a suspect and Delly ex boyfriend Moss isn’t sure if she is dead, if Mike can proof it then Moss could try to kill him, lets not forget that they made a deal if he brings back Delly, Moss would consider Mike’s debt paid in full but now she is dead and there are no proofs so technically Mike didn’t bring her back so the deal is off for now, Mike is now trying to get a new deal where he finds out who did it and brings him to Moss. 6.8/10 with more than 3700 votes on IMDB is very good for this series, plus 83% audience approval on RottenTomatoes.com

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In my opinion the most important events

On this episode we get more context on how things really happen, first episode was more of a mystery how Delly manage to fake her death but it look like things didn’t go entirely as she wanted, that’s the entire situation with the ambulance that crash and got stolen, she was suppose to be taken some where else but got thrown out during the crash and that’s how she ends up in Mike’s hotel room without knowing what to do to close things up.

She meets a paramedic, I think he was very low in the paramedic ranks probably been just the guy who drives the ambulance, he looks lonely and she is hot, so Delly flirt with him a bit and then straight up ask him to safe another life by killing her in a figurative way.

I don’t remember his name was mention on this episode but the guys name is Gil Franco, he brings blood from the blood bank at the hospital he works at and a serum that will slow Delly’s heart rate to the point anyone would think she is dead, he shoots twice before leaving and calls the ambulance that will pick her up. After the ambulance picks her up the serum starts to wear off and a guy who stole a cop car crash with the ambulance and then stole the ambulance that’s how she gets thrown out, Delly already knew where was Mike staying since she once saw him talking to his sister outside of Palm’s Hotel.

All Delly had to do is wait for Mike to tell him her plan to go away, basically find a ship underwater full of gold, the golden coin Mike found on her purse, Mike tries to resist but he couldn’t he really likes Delly, he cares for her and its here when he tries to make another deal with Moss, find out who kill Delly as it looks like a “professional hit”, Moss is a bit foolish so he byte it and accept but now Mike needs to proof Delly is dead or find the gold and run far away, keep in mind that the police is investigating the case until now.

That investigation is about to end after officer Andy Boone saw Delly with Mike at the Palm’s Hotel parking lot, I don’t think that’s going to end there because then he will want to know why Delly wanted to fake her death and whats her relation with Mike, anyone who listen to this story knows there is something else building up, until here were are clear on Mike and Delly intentions.

There are other funny side stories that at some point will catch up with Mike like Deputy Ketcher who Mike stole his gun at the airport, until then he has been compulsive to get a gun end up buying a stolen gun and got caught by a trooper patrol after he got stop because of speeding and got the car search, on this scene while at jail his handset broke and had to put her wife on speaker and she snitch on him by accident saying he is a con decorate police man who put lot of criminals behind bars while the rest of the inmates listen LOL.

Close to the end of the episode Delly came back to the place where the ambulance crash, some of her stuff was all over the place, she was looking for a USB thumb drive, they never said whats inside, I guess there must be some data related to the gold they looking for or Moss.

At the same time Mike is looking for a truck where they think the buy who told Moss about the gold before he got killed for owing money to him, Mike got a good hint where the truck is.

While Mike was giving Delly the good news she was actually at Mike’s father bar, I’m sure Mike told her how bad his relationship was, he is going to be mad AF when he finds out about this, they don’t explain why and how she got there, I think its probably because Mike’s father look for her and now helps her to get the gold they looking for, I don’t think Delly did this on purpose but again this is not explain on the episode, it ends right here.

More and more people are getting interested into Delly, we got Moss, Mike’s ex girlfriend Patsy who is looking for Delly as she is Moss alibi for the night a man was found dead who owe money to Moss now Mike’s father is interested on her plus Officer Andy who now knows Delly is alive but wants to know why she fake her death or if there was some one killed that night and the first suspects are Mike and Delly. If you are trying to fake your death and now getting so much attention at some point news will get to Moss that Delly is not death and Mike has been lying to him, ending up Moss trying to kill Mike for the money he owes him and think he has a relation with Delly, Mike is playing with fire here but that’s another theme of the series, gambling, always risking too much expecting to win big.

Dead Ringers: Episode One – Personal Thoughts

April 21, 2023May 20, 2023 SkipTvAds

Similar to the 1988 Dead Ringers movie with Jeremy Irons playing the male version of the Mantle twins, I say Male because now we have the Female version of the Mantle twins with Dead Ringers TV Series, I never watch the movie didn’t even know it exist, I took interest into this series when the trailer came out, for me it was not clear because it really look like a cult with all the red uniform and women giving birth so I decided to start watching it out of curiosity.

I have only watch the first episode since its a season release I prefer to keep the traditional one episode a week, I find out about the movie when I check the score on IMDB which is solid since its not a series for everybody. Dead Ringers is very graphical and to some point disturbing not only because it shows images of women giving birth that is the main topic of this series, the Mantel twins are trying to change how women are seen and treat during this process, many things in life are evaluated based on society perspective, for many people pregnancy feels awkward, uncomfortable and for some a rough moment necessary to accomplish something bigger. I have two kids and got to say not every pregnancy is the same, in my case my wife was very calm and never had issues during the process, when your wife is pregnant at some point you will see her more beautiful than ever, this are hormones but that’s another topic, that’s they way in my opinion it should feel for everyone, enjoy the process until the day to give birth come but for other women getting pregnant might be a nightmare for both her and her partner, this is the impression most people get of the process and natural because humans are use to remember the bad things only most of the time. This wrong impression and the progress of giving birth making it more human, peaceful and cut down the amount of errors that end up ending lives is what the twins are looking for when they try to build up their own birth center with the most advance technology. That’s the impression I got from the series.

RTT: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/dead_ringers_2023

The Mantle Twins, Beverly and Elliot, on the long hair Elliot and Beverly with the hair tied, that’s how you will difference them, works same for everyone who knows them in the series, they constantly team up and swap whenever one of them doesn’t like their patient or any specific situation, they each have different skills when it comes to communicating and handling certain situations.

Beverly is the most affected by how things happen in the hospital, constant delays, errors from both administration and some doctors that on the first episode let to death of a mother who just give birth, there are moments when she snaps because of all this pressure besides that they trying to get their project of the birth center funded, they asking for $16 million, for big investors that’s nothing but its not a amount of cash that you find in every corner.

Eliot on the other hand is more ruthless, she cares about the project too but takes things easier, she is the type of person that can see the world on fire and wouldn’t care much as long as she knows there is a way out, on the first episode it looks like she cares a lot for her sister although this is a twisted TV series, sometimes I feel like more than caring and loving her sister Beverly could be just a very important experiment for her since she cant hold babys, for some reason unknown they keep getting unattached to Beverly and end up loosing them at early stages.

Similar to the movie, the twins are constantly together, this is Beverly asking Eliot if she can go home, both at a club, while Eliot party and do drugs (cocaine) Beverly is studying a case and wants to go home, Eliot is constantly pumping on cocaine

Beverly is under constant pressure form their investors and sometimes she cant hold it to the point of start swearing and telling them to fuck off but when they answer back the same way she just shut up, Beverly have no skin and Eliot loves it, constantly laughing at the situation, the scene above there is Lara patient and investor, the woman in bed Niki who is Lara surrogate for the last six child and ask the twins to close the gap between this and her next son but then that makes Beverly nuts because its not the best for Niki or the child, both start arguing about it until Beverly snaps but then gives up and Eliot had to take control of the conversation, its hilarious every time this happens to Beverly.

First episode is all about introducing the main characters, start to explain their motives, problems, relationships and what the series is about.
Genevieve play by Britne Oldford, I remember her mostly from The Flash TV Series, at actress part of a TV show that Beverly likes end up as one of her patients, Genevieve is exploring the possibility of having a child, Beverly couldn’t handle her because she is bias, likes her and cant take her celebrity status so ask Eliot to swap who is more calm about it, after exams Eliot explains Genevieve that it would be hard for her to get pregnant but not impossible, not the answer she was looking for so gets mad and ask where is the closest bar to get wrecked.
Later on there is an incident with a patient who lost her child giving birth and Eliot felt so depress and guilty she had to go and ask Beverly to cover her, she wants to get drunk and have some fun so she goes to the bar next to the hospital to find Genevieve and get her for her sister, turns out it works, at first it was awkward for Genevieve but then agrees to meet up latter at night in a hotel where she is attending an event.

Latter that night, the twins had dinner with investors, on the left Rebecca on the right Joseph, Joseph is all about progress, feelings, the kids, etc for her is not about the business, Rebecca on the other hand is all about business and passion and give the twins a hard time saying that their pitch was soft and doesn’t trust the project, Beverly again as the most sentimental from the twins reacts emotional and snaps again, ending with fuck off after explaining how important their project is from a technical point. To this Rebecca answer with a fuck yes that’s what I’m looking for but she will be on their neck the entire time, money and family matters a lot for her and wont the twins fuck her, she is all about business.

After dinner, Beverly goes to met with Genevieve as Eliot told her to, they talk on the hotel bar, kiss and end up spending the night together at the twins apartment, the next morning Genevieve sees Greta in the morning and is confuse but Greta is the twins maid, then gest more confuse when she finds out Beverly has a twin sister, later before she goes ask Beverly if she been only with one of them, this make me laugh a bit because I think the twins have done it in the past for sure or will probably do it during the series or probably Eliot is so despicable that she might do it without telling Beverly, the possibilities are infinite.

This is a TV Series I’m sure I will enjoy despite the birthing images that I can stand but make me feel uncomfortable but for me the attraction of the series is the twins, how they handle different situations, they have an asset most humans don’t have an its to be someone else swap their lives in matter of seconds, switching from Eliot and Beverly as they see fit, that helps them a lot mostly Beverly to overcome obstacles in life. Then we have the investors who clearly dont give a shit about the twins, some care about the money, others about the tech and for example Lara cares about producing babies fast for some reason. I give it a solid 7/10 and will keep watching an episode every Friday.

Florida Man : The Realest Goddamned Place on Earth – Episode 1 – RECAP

April 15, 2023May 21, 2023 SkipTvAds

A gambler over all then an ex cop, Edgar Ramirez from the epic Hands of Stone film plays Mike Valentine who currently working for a mobster he owns money while fucking his girlfriend on the side now has to go after her when she brakes up with Moss Yankov the mobster Mike owes money to.

Florida Man from my perspective is not a AAA TV Series although very entertain, so far I have only seen the first episode, this Tv Series is part of a nice group of release from last week that I was expecting. Mike has been working on his gambling issue going to meeting and staying away from trouble but at the same time putting his life at risk since he has been sleeping with his boss girlfriend, gambling is not a problem only related to money and casinos, usually people with gambling problems bring the to their regular life and Mike is taking risks every day that can even get him killed.

RTT: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/florida_man

Mike addiction starts after he found a gold coin inside a fish, that’s weird but fish can swallow things, while fishing with his dad caught this fish who had a golden coin inside that I guess he felt it was his lucky day, that probably push him into trying to feel lucky again, that dopamine injection of wining got him for life.

This was an accident, Mike didn’t brake his leg.

Mike owes money to a mobster called Moss Yankov who agree to hire him to drive and collect but Mike is against violence, just intimidation, during the process some end up in violence even braking a leg like the guy on the screenshot who ran away from Mike thinking he was going to brake his leg, Mike has a good hard although his past actions do not back him up. Gambling got him to loose his job and girlfriend, leaving him alone and now having to deal with Moss life.

Here we have Iris, Mikes ex girlfriend who still works on the police force and now is an investigator, she doesn’t seem too confident and eventually ask Mike for help, she knows Mike is on Moss inner circle, Mike agreement has always been no body dies as he collects Moss money but its not for sure Moss kept his side of the agreement.

Meet Delly West, Moss girlfriend who he loves?? I’m not sure about it, she does look like a trophy girlfriend for him, the type of girl you don’t care about she is just too hot you need to have her in your shelf, not that I think that’s the right thing to do but that’s the mentality of a character like Moss.

Delly is a regular girl, yes she likes expensive things and might be superficial but she is tired of Moss business line, at some point for everyone money and possession becomes irrelevant and that’s what happen with Delly after Moss gave her a used necklace. Delly has been fucking Mike every time she gets tired of Moss just to get back at him but without actually telling him, there is revenge that stay silent for a while.

Delly runs away to Florida and Moss asks Mike to go after her and bring her back, she have been trying to get Mike on board to her plan but he didn’t want to , he thought it was too risky and he is just trying to get clean from gambling.

Delly once told Mike they both will never get away from Moss, they took something for him and now wont get away form him, then Mike answer not for ever.

She probably also took money or a big favor from Moss or his family and was force to keep with him, in the meantime as a Mobster girlfriend got use to nice things, expensive lifestyle but as anything in this world at some point you just want peace and silence, she knew with Moss she was not going to get that and decided to run away.

Mike goes back to Florida, he is from Florida, for sometime he has been trying to stay away from Florida, from this episode I can say its mainly because of his past life, he started gambling in Florida and his dad wasn’t the best, a corrupt police man now retired who is kind of a mobster himself.

Sonny Valentine, Mike’s dad, because of him Mikes is recognize around town and was able to pull a favor and locate her very quickly, a local police man who got his job because of Mike’s dad gave him the tip that Delly’s car has been spotted at a local car sales which lead Mike to find her. He found the place and act like he was interested on the car, inspecting the car finds a parking citation that gave him her possible location at Coronado Beach.

Mike gets to the place she was staying in and saw her get to a cabin with a man, after a few minutes heard gun shots to then find Delly laying cover in blood on the bed, he takes her purse and run away but the owner of the place saw him.

Mike starts his investigation, trying to figure out who and why Delly was killed, he is an artist at tricking people into think he is someone else and thats how he got the tip from the cop, now he goes to a local tv station and talks to reporter that could get him information about Delly because after the murder she cant be found, no news, no reports, they police cant find her body and this reporter got him a video of the ambulance where Delly body was suppose to be transfer, for Mike to find out there was no body on that ambulance.

The police now has a drawing of the man who was seen at the crime scene, although there is no crime if they cant find a body, shots were heard and a man was seen last time entering the cabin with Delly, an ambulance came in and pick her up but then no body knows where Delly is meaning even if someone help the police to identify Mike there is nothing they can charge Mike for.

Everything felt so strange to the point that now he thinks it was a professional job to disappear Delly, that’s the extreme way of killing someone, for that to happen there must be a motive and he is trying to figure out, obviously the first suspect is Moss who Mike confront over the phone but he denied it, says he loves her and would never hurt or kill Delly.

Mikes father also give him a hard time because he had him follow and the police approach him to give him a heads up of whats going on with Mike.

Turns out Delly is way smarter and as she was mention, she would never get away from Moss so she decide to reborn, fake her own death and have Moss know about it to be truly free.

Florida Man is just a story, it wouldnt be strange if its a novel, I havent research into it, I find this series very entertaining, the cast is not the best one out there but its enough to keep you wanting to know more about what happens to Delly and if Moss will ever find her. The story of Mike sound insteresting too as he kept saying he was running away from Florida, we part of it is because of his dad but what else is in Florida that Mike doesnt like that much, then we have that Mike will have to choose between his ex girlfriend Iris who he is still trying to get back with and Delly who is/was his boos girlfriend he been fucking on the side. I think the answer is obvious, Mike eventually choose Delly but ends up alone, the story will be interesting of what happens during that process and if he stays in Florida, his ex girlfriend is investigating Moss since she was assign to task force in the local police department, this investigation might get Mike involve and she knows it. Mike again gambling his life away now helping Iris to get Moss.

The Patient: Alan Learns to Meditate – A Rocket Pocket – Personal Opinion

February 21, 2023May 22, 2023 SkipTvAds

Sam delves more deeply into the reason he entered therapy, but he encounters resistance from Dr. Strauss as he attempts to continue their sessions. A gathering sense of not being alone leads to a revelation about the house. Source

Each episode on this series is twenty three minutes long, I think that’s a great approach compare to other TV shows because if you somehow manage to get 100% of someone’s attention for that amount of time they you did a great job with the script and there is no reason why they wont keep watching the series, instead of spending more resource like time and money better just focus on that short amount of time, its like having a good espresso than a large cup mediocre coffee when all you want is to wake up. There is another factor that comes up on this episode, now that everyone knows what’s what, Alan knows he is captive and Sam that he is control there is a sense of dark humor that comes up on both sides and I couldn’t stop laughing at some one else pain, that’s inevitable.

On episode two of The Patient Alan is still in disbelieve of the situation that he is in, he denies to start therapy with Sam while Sam just keeps almost begging with good deeds like bringing food everyday, establish conversation, coming up with more revealing truth that he is a real serial killer and for what I can tell he is the author of more than one serial killer, I mean more than one serial killer because he is known for individual victims and victims under a patter like the John Doe killer. I mention there is dark humor on this episode as the cover of this post shows where Sam brings a box and put it on his lap while Alan is thinking GOOD LORD!!! who is on that box, but Sam answers back “Don’t worry its not a head” I couldn’t stop laughing to then Alan answer “Oh that’s a relief”, we will probably see more of this during the rest of the episodes.

But at a point in the episode Alan finally realize he has no other option, he is a well known therapist and now he is playing chess, he will have to figure out a way probably not to cure Alan from his twisted reality where he is God and can kill anyone that goes against his believes but figure out the way how either he can brake him or manipulate him so he can get out of his captivity alive. As Alan keeps having flashbacks of his wife, he remembers how he was trying to learn to meditate and in his current situation would help a lot.

Hunger is something that nobody can avoid, yes people can stay without eating for sometime against their will but if you have the choice at some point everyone brakes down, under captivity that’s the first sign of either two things survival or acceptance of where you are and the situation, when I saw Alan eating I thought ok he is going to take some action, his first decision was to open a lock with a plastic fork, really?? so smart to think he could pull that off and then the fork brakes so immediately realize that if Sam finds out he would be in trouble, this is the first time we see Alan analyzing what would be Sam reaction because until this point Sam was in full denial that he would have to interact with Sam.

Eventually Sam comes home and finds out about the fork, I really thought he would react with violence but he didn’t, calmly just explain Alan how foolish was that and that he wont be able to escape by using a plastic fork, Sam has experience killing people so he might have already kidnap a few so this is not his first rodeo.

After Sam asking many times Alan to help him with therapy he finally accepts and decides to move on, here comes some dark humor again, Alan explain him in short words that he cant be violent during therapy and that they both need to feel safe and then says “I don’t know what to do about that…” meaning he doesn’t feel safe, MF Sam only smiles at first, this is they guy that kidnap Alan I told him “I know this is not normal but its ok”

Sam doesn’t look like a violent guy so far, mostly looks broken, if I could take a guess his father was a very strict person that wouldn’t cut corners and hate people who did and thought the same to Sam as kid but then as Sam mention he use to beat him down every time he wanted specially if he has memories of that room where they are so there could attachment to the house, probably not the best place for therapy since it can bring flashbacks of how his father hurt him many times.

So they keep therapy sessions and so far Alan is just listening, I can tell Alan is a very calm and probably naïve guy because so far I don’t see any moves trying to manipulate Sam. Sam keeps talking about his work and how he had this episode with a restaurant manager who had a few violations to an inspection and the guy basically manipulate the system, cut corners to get his way and Sam hate him for that, he cant stop thinking about it, essentially he wants to teach the guy a lesson, Sam has dis obsession that things are either white or black and in his book if you don’t do things right he ends up killing you. Sam has been “trying” to stop and that’s tormenting him from the inside, somehow this time he manage so far not to kill the guy from the restaurant and now decided to seek or professional help of a therapist to stop feeling that way and stop ending up killing people, to make it worst as any other human in life he wants results in a matter of two sessions and start feeling its not helping, Sam is going to kill someone very soon, hope its not Alan.

Alan constantly heard someone walking while Sam was away so he figure out someone has to be upstairs, he kept asking until that someone came down, I guess is an old person as they went down with one of those metal things to move carbon while its on fire and was also walking slowly like he/she is afraid, Alan politely smile.

On this episode we see how the mind games begin, we still see Alan weak, no plan, no intentions to escape but to help Sam, I guess at some point that will stop because when Sam becomes violent, feels therapy is not helping and Alan wants to escape, how long it will take I don’t know but for sure this series is a rocket pocket, its short but kept you glued to the screen in those 20 minutes of suspense.