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From: "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid>
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Subject: Re: THE GORGE
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:47:22 -0800
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On 2/22/25 1:53 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

> On Feb 22, 2025 at 12:48:16 PM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2/16/2025 4:28 PM, Bill Anderson wrote:
>>>   
>>>   The plot points alternate between absurd and impossible but the leads are
>>>   likable and their short distance love story is fun to watch. It was a
>>>   worthwhile waste of time.
>>
>> I thought it was better than Netflix's usual
> 
> It was an Apple offering, not Netflix.

As I said in my rec.arts.tv WDYW? thread review, if Netflix has done 
this, it would have been utter crap (and likely would have had different 
leads).

But because Apple did it, it was actually surprisingly decent.

>> (and I'm crediting the
>> director, Scott Derrickson, for that).  Fwiw, the fact that it ticks a
>> half-dozen genre-boxes, while living in none, is part of its charm.