Very well executed

The first must-see film of the year.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

This is like watching angst-ridden teenagers of the 90's, that have aged and forgot to change their clothing style, try to make it in 2016. The hosts spend way too much time getting hair and makeup done. Dave's and Chris' ever-changing bangs and clipper designs on the side of their heads make even a 15 year old girl's hairstyle seem constant. The tattooers are dressed in Hot Topic clothing and are caricatures of the "cool kids" they associated with in high school or saw on some TV show aimed at teenagers. Spike TV found a way to make tattoos cookie-cutter by putting total tools on TV that would otherwise be playing dungeons and dragons and/or magic if they didn't decide to hang out at a tattoo shop. This show actually motivated me to have all of my tattoos removed. When tools and douches are getting tats, it makes me hate to have ink all the more. The only reason I began to watch this show was because of the soft spot I have in my heart for Janes Addiction. The show was cool at first but this season just made me nauseous. They couldn't have put a greater number of total douches in the same room if they had an open casting call for it. Even that girl that is sort of hot with the neck tattoos came off as a total douche nozzle. I went from wanting to bang her to developing a hatred for her as I struggled through the first episode. I'm moving on from this show.

The only reason I'm giving it a star is because of season 1, which was pretty decent. From then on the producers focused more on making a soap opera drama comparable to The Housewives of Miami than a tattoo competition. I can't stand the bit**ing and nasty contestants who came on this show to expose their awful characters rather than really tattoo. The worst season yet is the Fifth one. A bunch of mediocre 'tattoo artists' doing really poor tattoos and getting away with it. Perhaps better ones didn't want to participate in this weak show? I can see only a couple of OK artists: Erik and Josh, the rest is embarrassing themselves....And the judges...Where should I begin? First, they have little to say about the quality of tattoos and the critique panel in the end is a joke. I, as a laywoman, can say things like "This tattoo has some good tones", or "This one lacks depth"...The judges are boring and unfit for the job. Not to mention that Nuniez and Peckh are being accused of harassment by a female crew member. Nasty, nasty, nasty...yawn...There are better shows than this one. Master Ink can't even be compared to Epic Ink and Best Ink which truly are about ART and amazingly talented people. Master Ink is just a bad taste TV drama.

This show definitely has the potential to be entertaining: a series of passionate tattoo artists competing in challenges that are relevant to their art form for a chance to win $10,000 and the title of Ink Master. However, instead of respecting their craft the producers(presumably) have chosen to go in a different direction. Create the same drama every episode over and over and over. It has become the most monotonous TV competition show. They not only show a lack of respect for the art form, they go a step further and display a lack of respect for the competition in general by deliberately breaking their own rules week to week. This is not done in a clever way to incite more tension in the competition. This is done in a way to incite more irritation from the viewers. The judges show extreme favoritism and go a step further to even sabotage other contestants. Bottom line: if you want to watch a show that's about great innovative tattoos this may not be the show for you. But, if you wanna watch a show where judges piggy back on a contestant and watch the others squirm than this is a show for you. I am not a tattoo artist, but I have too much respect for competition in general to be entertained by this garbage. I will not watch this show ever again.

Reasons why this show rocks! The flash challenges are relevant and creative, the work that comes out is actual art that I would love to own. Although it is getting a bit shaky usually at least half of the artist competing are actually good and deserve to be there. The best thing about this show is the judging. The judges are brutally honest. If all the work sucks, then they all suck and they say so. Instead of an even top two and bottom two sometimes its a bottom 3 and top 1 or all bottoms. I think this show would have deserved a ten if it wasn't for the new addition of the canvas jury. I think the time management was spot on for the first two seasons. They actually let you watch the tattooing and also see the end result and discussed with each contestant what was wrong or good with it. The canvas jury seems like its going to take time to hear opinions of people who don't really know what they are talking about or the errors they are looking for. Still a way better show then Best Ink.