I like the basic idea time travelling and ideas about changing past and the effect over the time line, but that's all, the acting, direction and sequence on scenes is worst ever, I think a couple of kids with a cellphone can film a way better material than these guys.
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Did anyone notice???
psyfer-9465120 January 2021
I don't know if anyone actually sat and watched the intro of the show but there's a few images of Master Chief from the Halo video game series. Please tell me I'm not the only person to have noticed this. I even compared the two together and they're identical. So my question now is, why is my favorite video game character on a show that has absolutely nothing to do him?
Dissapointing
pantagorian20 April 2024
The thing about such a show is, you have to be prepared that low budget doesn't offer as much as you are used to, and we are pretty spoiled with triple A shows via streaming.
Taken that into consideration...
Positives: Good looking actors. Some good prop use. Potential story.
Negatives: Bad acting. Bad editing(even audio sync issues, and at some point even a dodgy audio sync done by someone completely else, as if the original actor didnt felt like recording lines again after they lost the original audio) Bad shaky camerawork. Poorly executed story. Bad narrative. Lots of important context missing and numerous (obvious) plotholes.
All in all, I can understand this could've been a school project and if this was so, I would totally respect and forgive all blamages. But most school project don't make an entire season of a show. And most actors would be a bit younger. So, it this reeks like a low budget production by a small studio. And for that, this show is beneath low budget level quality. I have watched it from A to Z, as I hate to do partially reviews and sometimes mid season things can change, but alas.
This show does serve greatly as an example for filmclasses, how to detect certain errors, and how to avoid them, doing it better. I give it three stars, because nobody deserves one stars because efford and attempt alone counts for something. But it is well below OK.
One important and funny addition: Michael Madsen played a influential role and isn't credited. Was this on purpose? Did he even wanted to put this on his resume? I guess not.
Even Michael Madsen didn't lift the acting levels up. It felt like he did this one a lazy sunday, and shot the entire season worth of his lines in a few hours. Logically, since his time is too valuable. But it's a shame that even Michael was acting poorly, as if he didn't memorized anything, and just line for line recorded his part. So I guess he did someone a favor, I think. I felt like he didn't wanted to be in it. Or maybe it was because he had to wear eye liner. I don't know. Dissapointing, Michael... I would expected better from you!
Taken that into consideration...
Positives: Good looking actors. Some good prop use. Potential story.
Negatives: Bad acting. Bad editing(even audio sync issues, and at some point even a dodgy audio sync done by someone completely else, as if the original actor didnt felt like recording lines again after they lost the original audio) Bad shaky camerawork. Poorly executed story. Bad narrative. Lots of important context missing and numerous (obvious) plotholes.
All in all, I can understand this could've been a school project and if this was so, I would totally respect and forgive all blamages. But most school project don't make an entire season of a show. And most actors would be a bit younger. So, it this reeks like a low budget production by a small studio. And for that, this show is beneath low budget level quality. I have watched it from A to Z, as I hate to do partially reviews and sometimes mid season things can change, but alas.
This show does serve greatly as an example for filmclasses, how to detect certain errors, and how to avoid them, doing it better. I give it three stars, because nobody deserves one stars because efford and attempt alone counts for something. But it is well below OK.
One important and funny addition: Michael Madsen played a influential role and isn't credited. Was this on purpose? Did he even wanted to put this on his resume? I guess not.
Even Michael Madsen didn't lift the acting levels up. It felt like he did this one a lazy sunday, and shot the entire season worth of his lines in a few hours. Logically, since his time is too valuable. But it's a shame that even Michael was acting poorly, as if he didn't memorized anything, and just line for line recorded his part. So I guess he did someone a favor, I think. I felt like he didn't wanted to be in it. Or maybe it was because he had to wear eye liner. I don't know. Dissapointing, Michael... I would expected better from you!
A show so bad it prompted me to create an account
arnaudrivest29 November 2019
I decided to watch the show despite the reviews. I figured that there's no way that the show can be THAT bad, right? Wrong. This show has HORRIBLE actors. You know when you watch something and you can tell the people are acting? Yup that's how it is with this garbage show.
The show also makes no sense. They did even proof read their own plot? There are so many plot holes
The show also makes no sense. They did even proof read their own plot? There are so many plot holes
What a mess.
vudubluzman28 July 2019
Warning: Spoilers
I can get behind the concept of this show, but the presentation is a total wreck. Bad acting, horrible dialogue, atrocious camera work, contrived situations. This show is a hot mess. From the tanning beds turned time travel pods to the cartoonish bad guys, everything about it is wrong. And it has Michael Madsen, from every Tarantino movie, and he is wasted here. Couldn't get through the first couple of episodes, even though I wanted to see where this was going. But when one of the characters enters a multi-national bio-engineering firm wearing badly fitting, stolen clothes, presents himself at the front desk as a venture capitalist without a business card and claims that he wants to invest in the company as a ruse to gain entrance, and a company rep comes out to fawn all over him, I was done.
Worse description ever!
grahamantonykelly6 August 2019
Great premise. Horrible acting!
vwaken7 October 2020
Scientists ruin everything
rachelstuartwhite7 October 2020
I'm 4 minutes in and suits with bearded thugs go after one voice of reason. Pushing on in hopes of it getting better...Sounds familiar in 2020 during a pandemic. Horrible acting and writing. And um, 2012 is when we stop having kids but they send people back 5 years too late to fix it? Kinda defeats everything. This could have been so so so much better.
I can't force myself to watch anymore m
jckmdtwn11 October 2020
I finished five episodes and it feels like a chore to watch anymore. I want to like this show. The idea is there but thats it. The characters are unlikable. The plot is vague. Its as if this is season three rather than season one. I love the actors but thats about it. You can't act your way out of a poor script.
Ick
jacqcrosby13 January 2020
Not good. I love sci fi and I'm fine with time travel. This was absolutely garbage plot, writing and acting. 45 minutes I'll never get back. If you want to watch a series about time travel watch Travelers. Much more engaging.
Tanning Bed Time Machine!!!
rivalfit28 April 2021
Best time travel spoof since the hot tub...
Wait... it's not a spoof?
People were actually trying to make a serious show? Then why does none of it make any sense?
Well I give it 10/10 for the ingenuity it took for a C+ grade 9 english student to write and produce a whole series on a budget of $17 and a tanning salon punch card.
People were actually trying to make a serious show? Then why does none of it make any sense?
Well I give it 10/10 for the ingenuity it took for a C+ grade 9 english student to write and produce a whole series on a budget of $17 and a tanning salon punch card.
Children of Men except written by children.
brindergrewal6 July 2021
Rip off 2006's movie Children of Men which was a great movie except this was written by the kids in high school no one wanted to partnered with.
I wonder if the talentless dinguses that wrote this script actually thought they had an original idea after forgetting about watching the original movie or if they thought hey could get away with blatantly copying an idea without people noticing.
I wonder if the talentless dinguses that wrote this script actually thought they had an original idea after forgetting about watching the original movie or if they thought hey could get away with blatantly copying an idea without people noticing.
Horrible writing, mostly bad acting, just wasted potentional
natashakatsman19 November 2020
They took an interesting concept, some decent actors, some HORRIBLE actors and just some of the worst writing, threw in some plot holes and major misogyny and wasted my time. I kept fast forwarding hoping for something to spark. Then I realized there wasn't going to be anything better. How, how did something this terrible make it? I went back to the Utopia show.
Was 12 Monkeys Never Made?
grnwltr-1121211 October 2020
Extreme worst TV serial of all time.
Akter197112 December 2020
Good script ruined by horrible acting
slim-443 May 2020
I saw the reviews here before watching but decided to take a chance. I thought the script and plot were good. But, the show was completely ruined by the acting, editing, directing. The acting was soooooo bad at points (adult Trevor for one) that I actually found myself laughing.
With more money, better production, AND actors, this could have been a pretty good show.
With more money, better production, AND actors, this could have been a pretty good show.
Too many cliché too quickly
hjqppdzmp27 April 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Post apocalyptic environment caused by an evil corporation: Check
Evil CEO: Check
Rebel scientist built a teleportation machine that is actually a time travelling machine: Check
Binary code on a computer screen: Check
Halo Master chief suit: Check
Bodyguard wearing balaclava face mask in the summer: Check.
Um. No.
dabungay8 March 2021
Ok. I gave this the old college try. I managed to make it through the first episode with an equal number of out loud guffawing and head scratching moments.
Conceptually, on paper, in theory this is pretty cool and should work. It's too bad the concept was the only interesting thing in execution. Jesus, Mary and Joseph the writing, the acting.....Oh did I mention the writing? Holy whole herd of cows. It's not good. Really not good.
The classroom scene in episode two was so bad I blushed. Really. Full facial flushing. I kind of panicked a bit thinking I was having a stoke and a heart attack. Then I realized I was just embarrassed at what I was watching. Feeling I had to do something in response, I turned on light in the TV room. As if more light would make it better. It. Did. Not.
When I started fantasizing about the end of the world as a legitimate reason to stop watching, I gave up and turned it off.
I wanted to like it. I wanted to watch it. But I couldn't.
My mothers go to compliment in situations calling for a compliment, but where no compliment is readily obvious, always has something to do with having lovely hair.
You have heard "the bigger the hair, the closer to Jesus?" The bigger, and softer, and shinier and bouncier my mothers compliment, the more she's tying to cover up a bald spot where something good is supposed to be.
To that, Dystopia has really, really, lovely hair. A big bouffant of lovely hair. Piled high and held in place with three cans of Aqua-net, lovey hair.
Conceptually, on paper, in theory this is pretty cool and should work. It's too bad the concept was the only interesting thing in execution. Jesus, Mary and Joseph the writing, the acting.....Oh did I mention the writing? Holy whole herd of cows. It's not good. Really not good.
The classroom scene in episode two was so bad I blushed. Really. Full facial flushing. I kind of panicked a bit thinking I was having a stoke and a heart attack. Then I realized I was just embarrassed at what I was watching. Feeling I had to do something in response, I turned on light in the TV room. As if more light would make it better. It. Did. Not.
When I started fantasizing about the end of the world as a legitimate reason to stop watching, I gave up and turned it off.
I wanted to like it. I wanted to watch it. But I couldn't.
My mothers go to compliment in situations calling for a compliment, but where no compliment is readily obvious, always has something to do with having lovely hair.
You have heard "the bigger the hair, the closer to Jesus?" The bigger, and softer, and shinier and bouncier my mothers compliment, the more she's tying to cover up a bald spot where something good is supposed to be.
To that, Dystopia has really, really, lovely hair. A big bouffant of lovely hair. Piled high and held in place with three cans of Aqua-net, lovey hair.
A master study in how not to write female characters
caitlyn_harris18 January 2021
The female characters having nothing of substance to add. They are whiny, boring, and have no real part to play except talking about men. It's 2020, let's start writing capable, strong females characters!
Oh yeah, and the writing/acting is awful.
Oh yeah, and the writing/acting is awful.
Bbanging classic
daerang28 May 2020
Its kind of dr w.h.o esque. only for 14 yr old boys who like watching trashy women getting 'the stick'. this series has potential. the premise is absurd but they pull it off with a kind of sincerity. but the actresses hired to play along the leads, seam to have been chosen for their capacity to portray brain damaged crack users, who love to party. it is the straw that broke it for me. cant help but wonder of the casting couch got a work out with this one.. cause acting wasn't the main concern.. LOOKS low budget, and i like the exploration of our society from a future vantage point. a society of the wendigo
Frankly my dear...
orianna-698339 April 2021
I do give a damn ( about the the poor reviews. I loved this series. I binge watched over 2 nights. The lead characters are engaging and come across as genuine. The only issues I found were that the supporting actors were in need af some acting lessons. The budget didn't bother me. And I saw no holes in the plot at all. If there were, considering I have to suspend rational thinking to the I would have turned it off. But I kept going until the end. And I wanted more.
Bad bad acting
lauraelaine-6869219 June 2021
I refuse to rate this show because even one star is to much. The acting alone is horrible. You can tell each actor is in fact acting and bad. I'm not sure if better acting could have even made the show better in any way. If you're bored and cannot find anything else to watch then go for it but only if you are completely bored out of your mind. Which is me today lol.
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