Had the look of something I would really love. Just enjoyed it. Episode 6 which is thrown at you at a tangent I have given a rare 10/10, but only for that episode. Most of the others vary from 6-9 in quality. The change in showrunner midstream a la Covid may or may not have affected story, but one would think these things are hammered out before committing to production, yet it somehow feels impacted nevertheless. Even if it crashed and burned from Weedon's tarnished rep, and HBO's wholesale cull, it does show he hasn't lost his grip on executing a good idea. Also it was a great showcase for some damn fine acting, particularly those with characters with issues maintaining personality cohesion, ie. playing True and Maladie.
Yesterday's review on finishing (it took me a while to assemble this show in a watchable form with subtitles which is why I only just finished it.) :- At the end this was an over-populated and meandering serial crying out to be a pretty reasonable film. Yet there is something rather endearing about the characters and story that all the extra folds of flesh just add wacky twists and turns, some of which can be rather annoying (added:feels like extra padding as per a old black and white serial cliifhanger). In a sense perhaps COVID killed this, yet I am glad it lived, and returned from the dead.
Review by amasulemVIP 5BlockedParent2023-04-22T02:33:13Z
Had the look of something I would really love. Just enjoyed it. Episode 6 which is thrown at you at a tangent I have given a rare 10/10, but only for that episode. Most of the others vary from 6-9 in quality. The change in showrunner midstream a la Covid may or may not have affected story, but one would think these things are hammered out before committing to production, yet it somehow feels impacted nevertheless. Even if it crashed and burned from Weedon's tarnished rep, and HBO's wholesale cull, it does show he hasn't lost his grip on executing a good idea. Also it was a great showcase for some damn fine acting, particularly those with characters with issues maintaining personality cohesion, ie. playing True and Maladie.
Yesterday's review on finishing (it took me a while to assemble this show in a watchable form with subtitles which is why I only just finished it.) :-
At the end this was an over-populated and meandering serial crying out to be a pretty reasonable film. Yet there is something rather endearing about the characters and story that all the extra folds of flesh just add wacky twists and turns, some of which can be rather annoying (added:feels like extra padding as per a old black and white serial cliifhanger). In a sense perhaps COVID killed this, yet I am glad it lived, and returned from the dead.