Very strong start and finish with great ideas that could have been so much better.
This show has a brilliant surprises, clever plot devices, humor, and meaningful moments that are marred by slow pacing, insulting clichés, tired tropes, and lack of substantial character arcs. Thus, I think it should have been only 5 episodes.
Also, it is obviously written at a teenage level, however, the experimentation with drugs & sex make it difficult to recommend. I would say this show is irresponsible for glamorizing destructive behaviors, mainly because the target audiences are young people.
I'm trying to understand why hollywood & british shows portray their characters behaving in maddeningly unrealistic ways. I'm talking about ridiculous situations like: -Characters going through many extreme experiences over an extended period of time but show very little change to personality or maturity -Relationships between characters without significant changes despite many challenges & shared experiences -Impotent villains suddenly becoming strong & capable without any explanation -Main character getting in trouble without any protest -Authority figures jumping to completely idiotic conclusions without explanation -Adversaries going to great efforts to kill one another only to stop for a monologue when they finally get the upper hand, giving a way for their opponent to escape -Multi-episode odyssey for a MacGuffin only to turn away from it when it is nearly in hand for a completely illogical reason.
-Characters discovering cool powers and being hesitant about it rather than being excited about it.
This show has a brilliant surprises, clever plot devices, humor, and meaningful moments that are marred by slow pacing, insulting clichés, tired tropes, and lack of substantial character arcs. Thus, I think it should have been only 5 episodes.
Also, it is obviously written at a teenage level, however, the experimentation with drugs & sex make it difficult to recommend. I would say this show is irresponsible for glamorizing destructive behaviors, mainly because the target audiences are young people.
I'm trying to understand why hollywood & british shows portray their characters behaving in maddeningly unrealistic ways. I'm talking about ridiculous situations like: -Characters going through many extreme experiences over an extended period of time but show very little change to personality or maturity -Relationships between characters without significant changes despite many challenges & shared experiences -Impotent villains suddenly becoming strong & capable without any explanation -Main character getting in trouble without any protest -Authority figures jumping to completely idiotic conclusions without explanation -Adversaries going to great efforts to kill one another only to stop for a monologue when they finally get the upper hand, giving a way for their opponent to escape -Multi-episode odyssey for a MacGuffin only to turn away from it when it is nearly in hand for a completely illogical reason.
-Characters discovering cool powers and being hesitant about it rather than being excited about it.