Likes:  Anything that makes me laugh!  I tend to only want to watch things that'll let me escape for a bit without depressing me.  So that means light and fluffy romcoms, comedies,  or kvariety/reality shows mostly, but I also enjoy other genres especially zombies.  I just love a well done zombie chase!

Dislikes: Depressing melodramas, soap opera style acting, or just bad acting in general.  If it's too over the top, I don't like it.  I'm also getting tired of repetitive formulaic cliches or stupid inconsistencies that make the story fall apart.   Being a drama veteran, my patience has sort of worn thin on that, so I do tend to drop dramas pretty fast now.   

How I review: Ratings are subjective and I'm a strong believer that everyone has a right to their own opinion as long as they are being respectful. For me personally,  I’m a sucker for chemistry...the kind where you can almost see the electric current between the leads.  So if the chemistry is hot, I can overlook a lot of the bad.   I also tend to concentrate on the acting vs overall  writing,  direction, etc.   Would be nice to have a cute guy to gaze at too, but it can't hold my interest for that long if there's no chemistry. 

My ratings meter:

 7 = the baseline average that was just an ok watch.  I don't regret watching it, but it's also forgettable.  Neither here nor there.

10 = The cream of the crop.  Near perfect in my eyes.  This is very hard to accomplish as I'm objective enough to see that even if I enjoyed a watch immensely, if there's even a little part that I was bored or flawed, I can't give it complete 10.  So if I rated a 10, it means I absolutely loved it and have most likely watched this a few times and still loved it as much as the first time.

The rest of the ratings you can sort of gauge from those baselines.

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