Runaways (2017–2019)
7/10
Decent, but *not* for kids
6 November 2021
Warning: Spoilers
"All inclusive" bunch of 20 somethings pretending to be early teens with lesbian sex scenes, several times where teens engage in sex, drinking, drugs, etc. "Here, have a drink. It's what adults do to forget their problems." Quote from the show (might be off by a couple words, but the meaning is the same). At one point, a mother hands her son a shot of hard liquor.

If you can get past that, it's a pretty enjoyable show.

Third season goes off the rails. It makes exactly 0 sense for the parents to try using *extreme* force to get their kids to move back home... as if they'd stay... The ultimate bad guys are defeated by a literal and literary handwave. Not kidding. A single handwave defeated all of them at one time, in an instant. So they could introduce a new bad guy in the middle of season 3... who's beat the exact same way... a handwave. For most of season 3, they almost never use any of their powers. I don't think Dino was used even once... the gauntlets were a joke the entire series... There's no way a 10 (stud) would go coocoo for a 2 with severe mental health issues. Somewhere the church leader went from not pregnant to 6 months pregnant overnight (and in-show they just acted as if she'd always been pregnant)... a couple hours later... she's like 8 months pregnant. More than half the time they have a technical super-genius acting like a stupid jock. It makes no sense.

Season 3 was just a hot mess, and easily skipped and you wouldn't miss anything. Just imagine all of the bad guys group up together to shoot light out of their hands... everyone grounded... and one of them simply waves their hand of infinite power... and in a literal POOF of smoke, wins.
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