Radu_A

... Season Two is a trainwreck which has destroyed the premise Season One had constructed. Stop watching after Episode Two, it falls apart as badly as The Witcher in Season Three. I'd give it 5/10 like most people if it weren't for the most annoying cliffhanger in the history of television.

What makes this so terrible is that all characters who are physically credible to survive extreme circumstances die stupidly, while those who are too pudgy or smug to last five minutes in that world go on blundering. And queer backgrounds don't give depth to a story if they're written as blandly as these.

Instead of this overhyped schlockfest, try the surprisingly well done Murderbot.

If there's a genre-bending vampire flick one should have seen it's "From Dusk till Dawn". That film starts as a rampage turned hostage situation and evolves into a battle against vampires inside an Aztec temple turned titty bar. It's fast, dirty, funny and bloody - while this overhyped snoozefest spends an hour on exposition and blends Coogler's usual black power / whites oh so bad formula with not enough blues and too much pathos. People like this either because they were not alive in the '90s or continue to live in their lazy race bubble. A better recent genre update would be the somewhat feminist Canadian film "Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person".

As other people have said, Mo season 1 is a wonderful portrait of the absurdities of the US asylum system with excellent casting and on-spot writing, while season 2 is an ill-conceived propaganda piece (ab)using the established characters.

The response to the destruction of Gaza following the October 7th Hamas mass slaughter has made it en vogue to view this most contentious territorial issue in the world in a 100% one-sided way, and the series spins this into depicting Israelis (and Mo's Jewish antagonist) in the most dehumanizing possible way. What starts out funny because of the romantic rivalry theme turns the main character from a huggy bear into a self-centered douche.

And by the final episode, the series obviously panders to the "From the River"-crowd, throwing all restraint aside and portraying Palestinians as the completely innocent victims of Jewish invasive aggression. While in reality, there are 9 million Israeli citizens of whom 2 million happen to be Arabs, and the Palestinians are half that number, and suffer more from their corrupt authorities.

Season 2 ruined this series for me. While "Ramy" kept its focus on the protagonist's own failures, so that the side political comment was fine, "Mo" turns its main character into a faultless prodigal son, which he is not. Season 1 is a 9, Season 2 is a 3, so I give it 6.

You have to watch documentaries to get an idea of the Israel/Palestine conflict, both sides have shown how effed up the situation is, like Yoav Shamir in "Checkpoint" (2003) or Avi Moghrabi in "August" (2002), and the best Palestinian film is "5 Broken Cameras" (2013) by Emad Burnat next to "The Time that remains" (2009) by Elia Suleiman.