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Disloyal Twat and Ungrateful, Psychopathic Girlfriend......

posted 8 years ago by firstwinsgop-1
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Are we seriously supposed to like Pine? Roper offers him the world and Pine rewards Roper's generosity by undermining his business, conniving to have a perfectly innocent homosexual murdered, and stabbing Roper in the back. And for what? Because of some busted Egyptian whore Pine knew for 15 seconds and who was probably killed by Freddie Hadid and not Roper! It makes absolutely no sense at all. And what makes it worse is the way Pine tricks a little boy in to helping him destroy the boys own father.

And as bad as Pine is, what about the girlfriend? Are you kidding me? Oh boo hoo hoo, I have to live in a huge villa on Mallorca and take weekend jaunts to luxury resorts at Zermatt. And to top it off my charming and devoted boyfriend pays me tens of thousands of dollars allowance every month! What a horrible life! Surely this wretched treatment, coupled with him not keeping me appraised of every last detail of his business enterprises justifies my betrayal. It's not like I'm keeping any trivial secrets from him. The only thing I'm lying about is my secret kid I have stashed back home!

[–] big_kmc 8 years ago

Please seek mental help now. You sound enraged and unhinged.

[–] crwillner 8 years ago

Perfect response!

[–] filmklassik 8 years ago

If I were in the FBI, I'd ask to have you put on a "watch list."

[–] nananow 8 years ago

Of course, the business being negotiating the trade of arms to destroy and kill innocent lives. This series was not for you. Perhaps you would enjoy replays of ISIS atrocities.

[–] politicidal 8 years ago

I take it a lot of women dumped you then?

What's missing in movies is same as in society: a good sense of work ethic and living up to ideals.

[–] Stirchley 8 years ago

If you think Corky was perfectly innocent, I am not at all sure we have watched the same series.

[–] isundling 8 years ago

OMG...thank you all for a wonderful evening of reading some of these posts...truly..makes you wonder...

[–] dexx-26415 8 years ago

She was very vacuous , and biggest letdowns with the show were the rushed ending and plot armor for Pine's allies

[–] ruttlesRevenge 7 years ago

No she wasn't. You're either taking the piss or you weren't paying attention.

[–] dosdanmalo 8 years ago

I agree that the protagonists weren't very likeable at all. The whole series sort of stunk out loud, if I'm honest. Way too many heavy-handed political agendas screaming out of most productions these days, though the basic premise of TNM wasn't very gripping/believable either. Among other problems, I didn't buy Hiddleston, Debicki or Colman at all and the fact that Laurie's character was given a convenient lobotomy to help move the plot along didn't help. Oh well. At least there were some lovely shots of the Matterhorn and the Med...

Hate will never dispel hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, ancient & inexhaustible...

[–] Ehrgeiz 7 years ago

Way too many heavy-handed political agendas screaming out of most productions these days, though the basic premise of TNM wasn't very gripping/believable either.

Hm, I thought it was very old fashioned except maybe Angela Burr. Hero mainly motivated by romanticism (Pine), that also goes kind of for the villain. Damsel in distress and so on...

But to the Op, they also did not really sell Pines motivation for me in the first episode. I get that at heart he is a (capable) white knight whose main goal is to protect all the women, and why not, but they did not really sell it. Maybe they should have gone straightforward with it and did not try to blur it with all that "he has many personalities" stuff.....

[–] ruttlesRevenge 7 years ago

Are you on drugs?