I've always considered Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful to be greatly overrated. The whole concept--a father in a concentration camp keeps telling his kid that it's all fake--was stupid and shameless. It's the sort of movie where the Nazis decide to have a children's party at the camp so Benigni can have a scene with a Nazi kid. Never mind that in real life this is the last place, short of the battle zone, that Nazis would have taken their children for merriment!
People talk about how great The Mary Tyler Moore Show was, and a lot of it was great. But the show's last season was really dismal! Rhoda and Phyllis had gone off to their own spinoffs, which hurt the show's balance, and the writers had clearly run out of ideas.
Consider the Teddy Awards episode. The show would run an episode every season about the local TV awards show, and a running joke was that Murray the writer was always being nominated but never winning. For the last season's episode, Lou got a hot tip that Murray was finally going to win, and... Murray lost again! Funny, huh?
And in the second-last episode they had Mary and Lou going out on a date! Though the show's ratings were still adequate, you can see why they decided to cancel it anyway.
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