Truth Be Told (2019)

Watchseries; This is a shame. Apple are arguably the best poised to come up with original drama of all the big players. The writing is as bad as others have been saying. The actors are excellent and actually disprove Harrison Ford's alleged slur to George Lucas that, "You might be able to write this s++t but you can't say it." They do well with some utter crap lines and I can almost Imagine them wrapping their head round them. Watch it with subtitles, which I do with my non-native English speaking girlfriend and you end up wanting to applaud Mekhi Phifer for delivering utter drivel so well. Aaron Paul just does what he does and Ocatvia Spencer is excellent, too. But even with this talent.. which lifts it from a 1 to a 4/10 - I would steer clear unless you are an actor who just got a gig on a dull daytime soap and you want to see how grade A actors work with E grade scripts.

This is a shame. Apple are arguably the best poised to come up with original drama of all the big players. The writing is as bad as others have been saying. The actors are excellent and actually disprove Harrison Ford's alleged slur to George Lucas that, "You might be able to write this s++t but you can't say it." They do well with some utter crap lines and I can almost Imagine them wrapping their head round them. Watch it with subtitles, which I do with my non-native English speaking girlfriend and you end up wanting to applaud Mekhi Phifer for delivering utter drivel so well. Aaron Paul just does what he does and Ocatvia Spencer is excellent, too. But even with this talent.. which lifts it from a 1 to a 4/10 - I would steer clear unless you are an actor who just got a gig on a dull daytime soap and you want to see how grade A actors work with E grade scripts.

Truth Be Told watchseries. Absolutely unbelievable on just about every front. Beautifully shot and edited. Not poorly acted. A mildly interesting storyline. But the writing is abominable. Characters are paper thin. Motivations are ridiculous. I really feel bad (well not really) for Octavia Spencer and Aaron Paul. So. Much. Potential.

How do good actors get into these bad shows? When you're reading the script it seems to me that you might just have to say "well that doesn't make sense" or "that's now how the real world works". I get that this is just a show but it's based is reality, right? I had to stop watching after 3 episodes because there was no improvement and it kept getting more cartoonishly ridiculous.

Sorry, this show is so bad. So many good actors, and an interesting premise but the scripting. Good lord. Who wrote this???? And how did these top actors agree with it. It's so over scripted. Nothing left to subtlety. Incredibly predictable and goodness gracious, Poppy is the worst. Basically the show is all about how Poppy is an expert at ruining everyone's life. She's a terrible person and this character is doing Octavia dirty. I watched to the end out of respect for Aaron and Octavia.

1.Script and dialogs are not too exagerated and cliched.

2. Acting of both Octavia and Aaron is well suited for characters.

3. Finally a series about a Journalist at a Crime Show and not a Lawyer, Persecutor or a Detective.

4.Really solid storyline. Yes, the race issue is there, but i would say it deals with it a lot maturely then other shows around and not making it the only layer of the story.

Hopefully, I won't change my mind until the season ends.

So far so good.

... in order to see where it goes. But it's difficult. Poppy is extremely unlikeable and I'm not a great fan of Octavia's acting here. I also find her relationships with the two men (husband and ex) very mismatched - I cant see either of them being in a relationship with her to be honest. Aaron Paul is great but he isn't seen as often as needed to hold this cast up. The Lanie/Josie characters are a bit of a caricature and over-acted. I'm hoping they will pull something out for the last few episodes that surprises us and redeems the series.