Sentences with phrase «tv blandness»

This mild 1984 comedy about a mermaid (Daryl Hannah) who falls in love with a New York City yuppie (Tom Hanks) isn't at all hard to take (John Candy, in a supporting role, is hilarious and original, and Hannah has a pleasant naive charm), but its appeal is based almost entirely on regression — a thematic regression to infancy (now endemic to the American cinema) and a stylistic regression to the most lulling kind of TV blandness.

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This 1979 movie adaptation of the cult TV series is blandness raised to an epic scale.
In between the mindnumbing blandness of countless Living Dead knockoffs, my ongoing inability to understand the inexplicable popularity of The Walking Dead, and a pronounced boredom with this genre's tropes, I had more or less decided not to bother with zombie movies (or TV shows!)
The Wendy Williams Show Love daytime tv but upset about the dirge of blandness that seems to have infected it since Oprah left.
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