It's painfully obvious this script must have originally been written for a 1h45m - 2h movie. It is sooo slooow it's almost unwatchable.
Scene after scene the camera just stays on silent facial expressions or people walking, looking, thinking, with no new information, for way to long before cutting away. Combine that with the most slow-motion shots I've ever seen in a tv show, and you've got probably 4/8 hours of people just starring/walking in excruciatingly long takes, in slow-mo. Sounds fun?
Dragging such a simple story that easily could've been told in 2 episodes, into 8, is nothing but wasting the viewers time.
Slow and tedious doesn't equal atmospheric and moody!
The concept of combining French Revolution with voodoo-demon-zombies is pretty cool, and cinematography is breathtaking at times. But halfway through you'll be so bored it's easier to turn off then even try to care.
Oh yeah, and the villain is so hysterically over the top he's basically Skeletor from He-man.
Edit: Forgot the "amazing writing". In one scene a person proves he's infected by showing that his heart isn't beating. In another scene we see the heart of an infected rat starts beating again the moment it comes back from the dead. And let's not forget when the bad guy just rides out in a random direction and just happens to find and capture the heroes because he could "smell a brunette". Amazing.
The concept of combining French Revolution with voodoo-demon-zombies is pretty cool, and cinematography is breathtaking at times. But halfway through you'll be so bored it's easier to turn off then even try to care.
Oh yeah, and the villain is so hysterically over the top he's basically Skeletor from He-man.
Edit: Forgot the "amazing writing". In one scene a person proves he's infected by showing that his heart isn't beating. In another scene we see the heart of an infected rat starts beating again the moment it comes back from the dead. And let's not forget when the bad guy just rides out in a random direction and just happens to find and capture the heroes because he could "smell a brunette". Amazing.