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Weekend Review: Netflix's Death Note [[SPOILERS]]

To say I’m a fan of Death Note may be an understatement (I’ve even named my dogs after two of the characters who are missing in the American adaptation). I’ve seen most of the Death Note media that I could find, so I feel like I’m in a good position to write this review. I wish I could say that I enjoyed this adaption, but I’m going to be joining the pretty much every other reviewer on the internet in hating it. I’ve read somewhere that this adaption of Death Note is supposed to focus more on the notebook and less on the characters so I will start there. The notebook is barely used. It is shown that there are a ton of rules, most of which don’t exist in the anime, but no one ever goes into detail about any of them. Light is shown reading the rules but he doesn’t bother to explain anything (even when he tells Mia that there are a lot of rules). In the anime there is a scene where Light explains that he wrote his own rules in the notebook to benefit him when the police obtained it, but nothing of that nature happened here. In fact, some of the original rules were ignored, like the cause of death not being written became ‘dealer’s choice’. There were entries from past owners, and the more I watched the more I wished that I was watching some of their stories instead. Now I will move on to the rest of what I had issues with. First, Light had to be forced to use the Death Note. Why was he given a Death Note in the first place? It was clear that he was only using it to please Mia. He also decided that he wanted to be called Kira, and that’s why he drew police attention. No one gave a second thought to his crimes before he used the name Kira. That’s another problem I had with the movie, no one figured things out the way they were supposed to. L seemed to figure out that Light was the killer after doing almost no research. The characters weren’t believable and did not behave in ways they should have, like L exposing himself to Light as soon as he met him, Mia got in a relationship with Light because he used to stare at her creepily when she was at cheerleader practice, etc. Ryuk may have only been on screen for a total of five minutes, which annoyed me. He told Light that he wasn’t like his dog, which was practically the only thing similar to the anime. Ryuk wasn’t Light’s friend, he wasn’t there to help him, and he was only along for the ride. This time he didn’t seem to have a notebook of his own and barely anything was explained about him. There was a scene where Light was looking at a book that had a picture of Ryuk, but he closed it without letting us learn anything about him. L was also a big problem for me. He acted more like an emotional breakdown than a character. He was always let his feelings guide him, even if it meant putting himself/his job in danger. He wasn’t the intelligent character for the anime, and it was hard to watch him eat candy. The movie basically ignored everything about Death Note and tried to make something similar to the Suicide Squad. The closest thing this resembles is the Death Note tv series, but even that isn’t close to what this mess is.   

Allure Magazine is one of the many magazines that only consist of ads

Allure magazine is basically just one big assortment of ads, or at least that’s the conclusion I’ve come to after receiving multiple magazines from them. I recently started getting the magazines in the mail (I didn’t sign up for them, I think an ex somehow sent them to me), but I only recently got the chance to flip through them. I was expecting to find articles on beauty, but I wasn’t prepared for a magazine that blurred the line between ads and articles so much that I couldn’t tell which was which. I had seen a video online last year that pointed out the insane amount of ads in a normal women’s magazine, but it didn’t say anything about the content inside. Basically, the articles were all things such as ‘insert celebrity’s’ makeup bag, or the top ten best beauty products for fall. I understand that Allure is a beauty magazine and the main reason for its existence is to sell beauty products, but there are better beauty stores out there that can be shared. I even have a beauty story of my own that I would love to share with the magazine (How my now ex-boyfriend changed my relationship with beauty), but I doubt the magazine will ever run stories that go beyond the products they are paid to promote. To me, beauty has always been something personal and I believe every woman has a beauty story. There are women in this world who aren’t allowed to express themselves through beauty, so don’t you owe the people who actually buy your magazine stories that actually have some substance to them? I looked around on your website and found a few articles that I would have loved to see in the magazine that was delivered to my door, so I can’t help but wonder why you had to hide them away on your website? I haven’t really read many women’s magazines in the last few years, but the ones I have read have all been the same. I honestly wish that I could create my own magazine full of unedited voiced from around the world. I feel like there’s so much we can learn from each other, even when it comes to beauty. Allure, please look at the content you put out and considering adding new authors to your publication. 

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