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Red Rose (2022)
4/10
Really wanted to like it but...
22 August 2022
First and second episode were pretty good and had the makings of something interesting and scary, but the show quickly fell into sloppy, lazy writing and then devolved further until it was relying upon the basic cardinal sin of having characters make stupid decisions and/or not talking to one another properly in order to drive the plot forward. Even though the group of protagonists is supposed to be a Goonies-esque tight crew of friends, they somehow managed to be randomly stumbling around by themselves in various situations right up to the final episode, due to the bad writing and poorly planned or outright nonsensical motivations forcing them into ever more unlikely and dimwitted scenarios to force some level of suspense.

About halfway through the run I realised it was going to be a disappointment, but even still I didn't expect how shambolic the final episodes would turn out. Really, really bad.

On a positive note the writers did manage to create some excellent one-off scenes, but the overall narrative and writing around them was simply too poor and lazy, with the show descending into cringeworthy farce when Red Rose is finally exposed for what it is in the final couple of episodes.

Overall I'd not recommend anyone waste their time with this. It actually reflects poorly on Sex Education that it's the same writing team.
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Studio 666 (2022)
5/10
Would have benefitted from a tighter edit
17 March 2022
Came into it expecting exactly what it was - a goofy B-movie with plenty of comical gore, horror tropes, and amusing jokes made at the expense of each band mate. I got all of these, however these moments were far too sporadically spaced throughout the movie, with idle chit-chatting that took the plot nowhere and scenes of the band rehearsing and chilling out, eating etc that were much too leisurely employed and dragged out for what felt like eternities at times.

It's a shame because there were enough quality moments in this to make it a great 70-80 minute movie, but space these out over the course of nearly 2 hours and it's a totally different prospect. The latter part of the film contained at least 3 places where the movie could have ended satisfactorily, only for another rather pointless event or 'twist' to take place to stretch it out another ten minutes.

Overall a slightly missed opportunity, as with tighter editing it could have been a cult classic.
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Locke & Key (2020–2022)
9/10
Most negative reviewers haven't even watched it
18 February 2020
Seems to me like the vast majority of the negative reviews here are addressing "issues" that either aren't issues at all because they're literally written into the plot, or things that only occur in early episodes. This makes me question how many people are writing negative reviews after watching 2-3 episodes and then giving up.

In actual fact this show does an extremely impressive job with its storytelling. Characters make decisions that are driven by good reasons and motives, but aren't necessarily shown to the viewer at the time, no doubt causing confusion amongst viewers whose attention span is rather short. The magic is imaginative, well demonstrated, and most importantly doesn't break the rules that it establishes within the logic of the show's universe.

I've seen people carp on about how there's too much focus on the school stuff, when in actual fact, aside from the fact that it's actually pretty good content anyway, is mostly phased out by the 4th-5th episode, so how are these people reviewing the show based upon its full run? None of the negative reviews even talk about the ending, which was clever and extremely well implemented -- another reason why they're most likely not even reviewing the full show. People have questioned why the mother character seems clueless and forgetful when that's something that's literally written into the show as a plot point.

In actual fact this show is a very well written and produced mystery/fantasy, with great characters and acting. Watch the full thing, don't believe most of these nonsense reviews from people who either read the comic and are disappointed that a TV show can't be a scene for scene recreation, or from people who didn't even bother to watch the full season or watch closely enough to understand what's even going on.
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