Mini Reviews: Shrinking, Crime 101 and Something Very Bad is Going to Happen

Shrinking Season 3

If you are not watching this show, then I don't know how you live with yourself. It is consistently incredible. This season has seen Paul's (Harrison Ford) Parkinson's get worse, Jimmy (Jason Segel) deal with his daughter Alice (Lukita Maxwell), who is about to leave for college, and Derek's (Ted McGinley) health scare: just to name a few of this season's plot lines. I've talked before about how great Ford is, and that is still the case. Seriously, he might be doing the best work of his storied career. 

Segal is also doing some great work, especially in the penultimate episode from this past week. He and Paul get into a confrontation that has been simmering all season, and after a long week of work, it broke me. All the pent-up feelings that Jimmy has had finally come out, and his and Paul's relationship will never be the same. According to Bill Lawrence, one of the show's creators, Segel's work in the finale is something special.

"Shrinking" is on Apple TV

Crime 101

Chris Hemsworth plays a thief who pulls jobs near the 101 Freeway in California.

The cast here is full of great actors: Hemsworth, Hallie Berry, Mark Ruffalo, Barry Keoghan, and Monica Barbaro. With a cast this stacked, I was hoping for a better movie, but this was just dull. Paper-thin, generic characters, a flimsy plot, and boring action all made this a dumb movie. I wish there were something good here to recommend it, but the movie is just a giant nothing burger.\

“Crime 101” is on Amazon Prime

Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen

The show follows Rachel (Camlia Morrone) and Nicky (Adam DiMarco) in the week leading up to their wedding.

I would likely have skipped this show were it not for comparisons to "The Haunting of Hill House." And if there is one way to get me to watch a show, it's that. While I am enjoying the show, I don't think it's much like "Hill House." I would go as far as to say that the comparisons are unfair. For me, noting on TV will ever be like “Hill House.”

Nicky's family is very wealthy and owns a massive cabin in the woods where the wedding is taking place. The house is very creepy, and weird things keep happening. I am only four episodes in, and the comparisons to "Hill House are a bit misleading. The show is missing the heart of "Hill House," its family dynamic. The Cranes, before everything happened, were a loving family. The Cunninghams aren't, and that makes them tough to like.

The show is still very good. The mystery of what is going on and what is going to happen is both intriguing. The show drops glimpses of the chaos and blood that are sure to come as it wraps up. The fourth episode really ramps up the show's mystery with the reveal of what happened to Rachel’s mother and a connection her father has to the Cunningham family. It is a show I do intend to finish; each episode does a great job of keeping things interesting.

Comparing the show to “Hill House” is a bit of a stretch, but the show stands on its own. There is something unsettling about the family dynamic, and Rachel’s past is full of compelling, supernatural tidbits. It is a show I intended to finish (and with spring break being this week, I probably will). The show has a title that sucks you in and does a great job of building up to what I assume will be an epic finale and pay off its mysteries.

“Something Very Bad is Going to Happen” is on Netflix