Netflix has come to love taking one or two hours of content and stretching it to eight or more (another recent example being Midnight Mass). That doesn't make it a "slow burn", as the apologists so often claim, or some sort of demonstration of one's superior patience.
It's just a lazy way of controlling your time for longer with less meaningful content. Of padding out viewer hours, and giving more of a sense of "return" for a subscription.
This show definitely has its moments, and if you have time to burn it has an interesting premise. But to enjoy it you have to look past a script that seems to have been written by an angry fourteen year old (the number of awkward, completely misplaced F-bombs might just set a record, and just to be clear I'm no prude and partake myself when appropriate, but just an endless barrage renders it impotent), some seriously cheesy effects, and just loads of lazy filmmaker tools. Every shot, for instance, tries to get a newspaper box in frame somewhere (a lazy trope making sure to communicate "It's a city, remember?!"), including locations like "church entrance".
The main actress, whose acting is basically making pained faces and giving a performance reminiscent of community theater, often gives an exhaustive narration of what she is looking at, what she is doing, among the many F-bombs. I guess it's a homage to its podcasts roots, but it's ineffective and distracting in this medium.
Neat show. Worth the time if you have little else to spend your time doing. But it isn't a positive that it's so drawn out.
It's just a lazy way of controlling your time for longer with less meaningful content. Of padding out viewer hours, and giving more of a sense of "return" for a subscription.
This show definitely has its moments, and if you have time to burn it has an interesting premise. But to enjoy it you have to look past a script that seems to have been written by an angry fourteen year old (the number of awkward, completely misplaced F-bombs might just set a record, and just to be clear I'm no prude and partake myself when appropriate, but just an endless barrage renders it impotent), some seriously cheesy effects, and just loads of lazy filmmaker tools. Every shot, for instance, tries to get a newspaper box in frame somewhere (a lazy trope making sure to communicate "It's a city, remember?!"), including locations like "church entrance".
The main actress, whose acting is basically making pained faces and giving a performance reminiscent of community theater, often gives an exhaustive narration of what she is looking at, what she is doing, among the many F-bombs. I guess it's a homage to its podcasts roots, but it's ineffective and distracting in this medium.
Neat show. Worth the time if you have little else to spend your time doing. But it isn't a positive that it's so drawn out.