Comments on: Venice, the Series: A Season in Review

By: Imane Assi

Imane Assi — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:25:55 +0000

Nadia Bjorlin’s rocking the show.Lara rocks.Nadia is so talented and smoking hot.I’m gonna enjoy Lani as long as it lasts and since we already Know that Giani is end game,I want someone new for Lara.I would love to see Arianne Zucker portray Lara’s new love interest on venice.Nadia and Arianne are so talented and gorgeous.And they have huge chemistry

By: liz

liz — Thu, 13 May 2010 19:23:21 +0000

I agree i would like to know how Gina and Ani met and who this Logan person is and what happened. I think the dead body is ginas aunt well because of the whole drunk calling the guy she was seeing he may have been a psycho. Possibly the same one Michelle dated that tried to kill her as she said to Gina when Gina told her she needed to get laid.

By: Chele

Chele — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 07:54:20 +0000

Fair and balanced review – very spot on. Couldn’t agree more.

And as for those making assumptions about you having a biased opinion or being some kind of fangirl… LOL! Oh how wrong they are!!!!!

Seriously – people can have opinions on quality or content without being a biased reviewer and the fact that someone mistakes opinion for biased when it comes to your writing is laughable.

By: VenicetheMenace

VenicetheMenace — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:52:40 +0000

Oh and Jim before you bash me for spelling Crystal’s name wrong!! Blame it on the spell ell ell ell cha cha check! (insert melody to Blame it on the alcohol) Crystal Chappell XO XO Jim you’re pretty!

By: VenicetheMenace

VenicetheMenace — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:59:41 +0000

Great review as usual. Venice is like hanging out with a group of your partners old friends and not getting all the inside jokes and back stories. The writing is so remedial and infantile that it doesn’t leave the actors much to work with. Oh Jim, you must be psychic…you didn’t have to read the review but you had to comment on it. If you watched the series, Jessica was one of the better parts of the whole debacle.

There is no character development and so many holes in the story. Everyone wanted to see Chrystal and Jess kiss….well they blew that load in the first 30 seconds of the series. Episode two was a total disaster. Ok now i’m boring myself.

For all the fans of the actors, supporting the series is what you do when you are a true fan of these people. But the expectations were set so high and the delivery was less that satisfying. I doubt Venice will get half the subscribers back.

Comon Venice, there are web series out there that don’t have $ from subscribers for production that content and quality wise are totally kicking your ass. Don’t insult your audience by taking all the fan girl praise that you are so amazing and let it feed your egos to put out a mediocre product. It needs a lot of work and the potential is there, put your noses to the grindstone and make it better. Get your heads out of your Grey goose soaked asses…..Put out a quality, interesting, well written and directed project or don’t do it at all. Don’t disappoint us again. You have the tools and the actors….don’t use their celebrity as a facade of a great series.

By: jim

jim — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:08:00 +0000

I didn’t even have to read your review to know what you wrote.Praise jessica leccia, trash crystal chappell.Thats old news ,you have been doing that for awhile.Nothing like a nice biased jessica leccia fangirl review.At least you set crystal up nice, before you went after her.

By: meaux

meaux — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:41:02 +0000

My two cents : Jessie needs to learn how to kiss better on screen… I WANT some GiAni backstory..how they met, etc. I agree re HB Smith and CC…the subtext there was the smokingest moment of the first season. I see Gina as a mess due to her father’s treatment of her, as pointed out by Ani, and I suspect he was a philanderer as well, albeit perhaps with a taste for the kinky. The goodbye scene at the beach with the last photo, the sunglasses scene, the GiAni talkk about Dad scene, all made me feel that these two love each other but that Gina has unresolved issues. I do find Gina to be sympathetic, in the I use bluster to cover my feelings sort of way. I am definitely rooting for GiAni, who as always just sizzle the angst, although I will enjoy the pretty on the way.

By: amy s

amy s — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:17:22 +0000

Nice work on the finding the overarching issues, but I think one of the joys of this format is the moments. And to give her her due, it is in the moments that Crystal shines. I love the look on Gina’s face when she invites Ani into the shower, the pout when Owen tries to tell her about his date when she’s freaking out about her own and the girlfriend gossip with Michele. I thought I would melt when Gina came up behind Ani during the photoshoot. She says more with a removal of sunglasses than the script has said in the entire first season. I say let the girls (Crystal, Jessica and Hillary) have the room they need to go beyond the text.
Then maybe Kim’s characters will be a little more real and a LOT less stiff.

By: Chapeloflove123

Chapeloflove123 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:25:04 +0000

Oh Mindschmootz you have done it again…great review!!

You always say what needs to be said so eloquently. You have thrown the spotlight on the true highlights (Ani, Guya, Lara and Ani) and pointing out some of the most obvious low lights being the character of Gina and her subsequent dysfunctional relationship with Tracy. The fact that Gina has SUCH a dysfunctional family life with her father and her brother (a very weird relationship in itself) makes it a little easier to understand Gina’s struggle with remaining in a loving relationship with Ani, however she has been written up like the the gibraltar rock …showing very few cracks. And in the few moments where she does not cope, we see no remorse.

How are we, as viewers, to feel sorry for the character of Gina when she is constantly sabotaging her own and anyone else’s happiness because she is so B & T (bitter and twisted).

The Gina character is too harsh for a webseries with such little time for character development. if this were a movie (1.2 hours or thereabouts) audiences would come away feeling Gina was the antichrist! Give her SOME compassion make her feel something and stop having her fight for her fathers love… hell if he dont love her by now she should just give up the Goose!

I agree way too many characters.. i like Owen but dont think much of his relationship with his girlfriend… Guya should be focussed a lot more… Ani and Lara light up the screen (especially Ani)… yes let’s hope that the character of Tracy is on the bed handcuffed and been pulled out of the river… oh darn the blanket was not wet!

Seriously a great review and thanks again for sharing your thoughts. Always enjoy your work.

Suze xx

By: Liz

Liz — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:14:26 +0000

Good review! Seems most people are on the same page about what works and what does not. I really hope the V Team are paying attention and there are some significant alterations in Season 2.
My main issue is also with Gina. I find her so unlikeable that I zone out of every scene that she’s in. I don’t understand why they have put CC in such a role, let alone why Gina is the main character. Olivia Spencer could be irritating, and non-committal but she did it with humour and vulnerability. On paper, there are significant similarities between both characters, but acted out.. in front of us… there’s a huge void.

I can’t hear Tracy’s British accent. Are we sure she has one?? I like to think I would hear it… given that I’m… well… British.