StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Jazzie-too I love this show! Never heard about it or I forgot if I did. So now I just binged the first 8 episodes! LOVE IT!! LOVE IT!! Who are these morphodites bashing this show!! Prissy Republicans or homophobics? So entertaining! OH! I was born 1941!! So I think I've seen quite a bit! And I have evolve! Funny thing, I have been a reg GOP for all my like, but do not support their ultra-hate convictions! I love people! Women's rights!! Peoples Right! Blacks! Gays! All people!!

Maryannmobley I love this show. Alicia Silverstone will get an award for her acting. The story line is great.

sandowl I gave this a 9 to try and balance out the negative this show seems to have garnered.I don't know why people are so disappointed.So far in the series, it's shown a wealthy male having an affair, keeping his wife in the dark about the affair (obviously), their money situation and company problems. The wife (Alicia Silverstone), is never told about money and is simply given whatever she needs. When things go to hell in a hand basket with her husbands' infidelity and then discovering his fraud with the business, the wife is thrown in the deep end.Her marriage has ended, her husband is a crook, she is about to lose her house and has 2 children to support, with no work history since she became married.This is pretty realistic stuff for the time. This is similar to my family. I don't know what other people are expecting.Women weren't leeches, men were control freaks who felt women "shouldn't worry their pretty little heads with money", that they should "just sit there and look pretty". Really condescending stuff.Couples were married, had kids and the man supported the family financially. More often than not the man was secretive about money issues, and could use money as leverage or a weapon against the wife/women/family. Lots of wives discovered too late in the game they were about to lose their homes, and their husbands had laden them with huge debts their names were also attached to. So even though they didn't cause the debt and the marriage had broken down, the wives were still legally obligated to repay the debts if the husband didn't. It ruined people. Ruined lives. Ruined families.That's why things had to change. And they did for many. There are some couples who still practice this sort of relationship and I feel badly for them that they do. Be aware of what is happening in your home, from the finances, to the state of the house, family and spouse. Don't put yourself in a situation where you could be ruined without knowing. Don't let someone else control your freedom, financial or otherwise.This show is a little more polished than many people may have lived, with a fancy house and clothes etc. Yet the self discovery the wife goes onto have with work, her childrens' reactions to the split, sexual encounters, no sex, sexual awakenings, friends who have partners, friends who don't.. it is all pretty standard stuff for the time.It doesn't go into the nitty gritty dark side of the times and situations with despair and harrowing scenes. It does show some complexed issues women were trying to get through during that time all over the Western world. Not just in America. There are also male characters wrestling with their own sexualities and consciences.I like watching this show. It's been surprising in its risk taking and ways the wife has been shown experiencing sexual pleasures and I'm glad of it! All the sexual content on tv, and hardly ever, is it as seen in episode 2 or 3, with the wifes' encounter with the artist. There should be a lot more like that instead of the opposite situation of which there is far too much. I've seen so much penis on tv including fellatio, simulated or otherwise, that if I never saw another persons penis again, I'd already have seen enough to last me several life times.This is worth the look. It's not rocket science and it doesn't pretend to be. That doesn't mean it isn't worthwhile, because it is. The acting is good, the story lines are interesting and overall it is engaging. Why not try it? You've probably watched heaps of rubbish, why not try something that isn't?

plasticanimalz I was really looking forward to this after seeing the trailer. I really enjoyed The Deuce, and was looking forward to another stylish '70s show, and excited to see Alicia Silverstone in something other than a small part in an indie movie. Style is all this show has. The production design, costumes and hair are great but that's where it ends, unfortunately. Within a few minutes I was rolling my eyes. And that kept happening. The dialogue is terrible. They really don't want to leave anything to the imagination and spell out and show everything in pain-staking detail. This really is no Fargo with storytelling in subtleties. More like a hammer to the head. I get it, you're trying to convey that woman don't have all the options they have now. Got it. I really got the sense this was written by someone born in the '90s who has NO reference to the '70s and Goggled, "70s pop culture," and was sure to throw in a pop culture word in randomly here and there, making no sense at all, and not seeming to have any idea what they were referencing. This same person(s) also seems to be a big fan of Mad Men because they've got their eras mixed up in the culture for women, the divorce rate, and that they're always drinking cocktails. The '70s were pretty bucolic, especially for wealthy people. And if they'd bothered to do research for more than 5 minutes they could have seen the countless resources about the working class types, trying to move up in the world and having their family to lean on. Frankly, I didn't get the sense they watched anything from the '70s or ever experienced anything remotely close. If they did, maybe they should get checked out for dementia. I sensed a little Dynasty in there too, which, again, wrong era.Also, the acting is bad. Basically, an extremely heavy-handed, poorly written, badly acted TV show that looks cool. Mena Suvari looked good. It's good to see her again. That's about the only other positive thing I can think of. If they fire all the writers, 'cause not a moment of the writing was good, fire the casting director, get a new director to get better work out of the three leads, maybe it would work. Too bad. Only production seems to have it together on this show.*I just looked up the creator, writer, director. The majority of the show is done by two men. Seriously. One of the two is from England. Fairly ironic that the whole premise is about women being controlled by men, not able to think or act for themselves, and the show is done by two DUDES! I would say I'm surprised but I'm really not. The director not only doesn't know what it's like to be a woman but he was born in England in 1972 so what the heck does he know about the '70s in Beverly Hills, CA, and I can tell you his "improvising" isn't working. Alicia, Mena, and the other lead should get a refund on this BS. I can't tell you how sick I am of movies or TV about women empowerment written/directed by men who have no idea what they're talking about and are cranking out drivel they wrote at Starbucks in an afternoon. Probably just like that Michelle Wolfe skit where the show was originally written about men and the studio said, "You gotta make it about chicks. The networks are breathing down our necks about wanting diversity, or some garbage. Just change it up a little and we need the pilot script by tomorrow."