"Being the Ricardos' mini review

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"Being the Ricardos' mini review

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Wife and I watched it last night on Prime. Overall, we liked it. I think Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem did a great job playing Lucy and Desi.

J. K. Simmons was f'ing perfect as William Frawley (the actor that played Fred Murtz).

I know a lot of critics claimed the jumping around in time was confusing, but I had no problem with it. Many docu-dramas are done that way. I swear, I think modern critics all think we're too stupid to follow a complex plot nowadays.

IT IS an Arron Sorkin film, so there's a lot of dialog you need to follow, and yeah, sometimes Javier Bardem lays on the Cuban accent a little thick to follow, but overall we enjoyed the hell out of it.

So happened my wife had recorded a Lucille Ball documentary a few weeks ago, so we watched that afterwards, and it was nice to get some more background from that.
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