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Seuwiteuhom (2020)
Starts well and dips fast
Starts off well, and falls apart very quickly. The beginning was very well paced and even the CGI was pretty good. Then after a couple promising episodes in the show stops making sense and becomes a string of random plot lines and awkward emotional scenes where characters just stare at each other and cry, most of the time for no reason other than to kill time (this could have been 4 or 5 episodes instead, with fewer characters).
Eventually character development and motivations just fall apart and it becomes a mystery why anything happens or any character does anything.
Also a lot of seemingly important things happen that are never addressed again.
The Circle (2018)
Way Too Fake
Ok, I get it, pretty much all reality TV shows are scripted.
Issue with this is that they are atrocious. This show made me appreciate the great acting in the reality TV works
The Witcher (2019)
Weirdly Addicting, But Awful
This show is pointless. Don't waste your time.
The biggest strength of the show is a major flaw as well: it pulls you in and is structured in a way that sort of forces you to wait and see what happens (or happened). By the end you'll realize that it was all for not.
Though entertaining, the last few episodes make no logical sense, which kind of reduces the quality of the earlier ones, since you find out that none of the interesting things that happened early on mattered at all. Honestly, it's insulting to the viewer.
MAJOR SPOILERS:
I mean, how can it be that if this idiot had just sat his is cell for a minute longer, then a whole storyline would have been erased? I felt cheated.
So Renfri after all that has zero importance?
Where is the bard?
Do people hate the witcher or not, and when/why did that change, if it ever did?
What's with his thoroughly unclear mom story? Never mind, it prob doesn't matter.
What happened to the shapeshifter?
Why build up all the elf tension, then suddenly ignore it?
Where's the old dragon guy, and why did he need to do anything he did if he's a powerful shapeshifting dragon with warrior bodyguards and therefore literally needs no one?
Why make the actual main character (not the witcher, interestingly enough) so unlikeable? Maybe it was an acting issue.
And how did that main character get so powerful after being a train wreck only a few screen minutes prior? I literally thought I'd accidentally skipped episodes.
And why do they just let her run the show when it matters most if she hadn't even been invited in the first place?
Why are there so many characters?
What are we supposed to care about? Literally anybody could die and I wouldn't flinch. Anyways, I want my time back.
And don't let whoever wrote this script write anything else every again. Fire and black ball them right now.
Giving a 5 instead of a 1 for two reasons:
1. because it's hard to keep a viewer engaged and this show at least does that well (too well).
2. lot of the plot flaws and holes can be fixed in subsequent seasons. a good thing, but this positive aspect only exists because they abused the flashback script function so thoroughly that it won't be out of place to make some filler scenes to fill in gaps and call them flashbacks.
Messiah (2020)
It's Near Perfect
I think this show goes way over the heads of average audiences and it'll reflect in reviews and low viewership.
At the end of the day, the script is airtight, the storytelling is superb, the acting is top notch, the list goes on on.
Not a second of this show is wasted. Everything is there for a reason - well edited, well written, and well directed. It's like watching poetry or a short story in motion.
Lots of clowns will be disappointed because this show is a work of art and not an apocalyptic crap show. For those looking for explosions, excessive action, showing lines, numerous supernatural displays and the like, just look elsewhere.
If you love literature, art, history, poetry, plays, etc., you'll love this.
The show is pretty much perfect, and breaks away from the cliched thriller/drama mold we've seen succeed on TV/streaming time and time again. I admire the creators for sticking to the artistry instead of falling for the trap of entertaining audiences with shallow and annoyingly straightforward nonsense.
Like any work of art, much of the show is open to interpretation; that being said, it's made very clear where the uncertainties are supposed lie.
This show does no spoon-feeding. The viewer does a lot of work deriving meaning from the dialogue, scenes, and character motivations. I can see how some could walk away unsatisfied and frustrated, feeling as if they weren't given answers. My advice to them, honestly, would be to read more.