decent acting and a quick binge if you're bored, but after suffering through all of pretty little liars i'm a little exhausted by the scary faceless tormentor trope.
haven't finished it yet so can't say for sure, but i love the acting in this. all incredible actors playing people who are at times stupid, obnoxious, and pitiable. i've got emotional whiplash from how back and forth i go on david tennant's character in particular.
if you watch this as a thriller or survival story, you're going to be disappointed. it's a drama, and it's a story that resonated with me as someone with a parent who has a personality disorder (rather than a mood disorder, like liv's mother). i liked it and i cried some. but if i'd continued expecting a thriller after the first episode (and the genre tags include thriller, so literally no one can be blamed for expecting that) i probably would have felt incredibly let down by it. i mean netflix literally specializes in entertainment; surely at this point we can use genres correctly??
disclaimer: i haven't played the games and never watched the jovovich movies. my gummies kicked in around episode 7, too.
this was entertaining. acting isn't always great and suspension of disbelief was difficult at times—how this girl survive the apocalypse but also routinely stand there and stare at giant insects instead of running immediately?? i mean that's what i'd do, yeah, but i'd also be the first to die in an apocalypse. for me and my trash taste, though, it had good cgi and the representation didn't feel forced to me. just bear in mind i'm an outsider with zero knowledge on the franchise. lance reddick was delightful, honestly. and it was watchable both before and after i got high, which is more than i can say for some horror.
my favorite character was baxter though.
all the trappings of a good bbc drama. the gq quote saying tom hiddleston is the only man who should be allowed to wear a suit probably said it having watched this, or at least dreamed of this.
i think the greatest part of this was the intentional inclusion of what roper actually did to make his money. it wasn't terribly graphic, but burr recounting what made him go into arms dealing and then the fireworks display were both unsettling as all get out. the series confronted viewers with both the excess of wealth and the reality of how it was accumulated at every turn and i mean, if you're ever in need of a reminder that there are things you would never, ever do for any amount of money? this show's a good one.
just started this because it came up in netflix and it's been on my to watch lately and tbh the lion roars and dog barks have tickled my housecat so 10/10 purely because she's entertained
this was really a beautiful series. visceral and bleak, but also funny and familiar. highly recommend, i binged it all in one go and it was amazing. also, the fuckin ACCENTS were so good, god.
anyway petition for evan peters to never have his hair longer than he did in this series, he's never looked better
the series overall is a great adaptation, and this media format really serves the original story well. after all, it's hard to tell the stories of so many characters in a single book, no matter how much of a saga it is. i think everyone was well rounded, the acting was amazing and the effects were solid. the last episode is a bit silly, but i also don't think stephen king necessarily wrote it for audiences so much as just himself, seeing as how he's rewritten the original story before.
also, i would like alex skarsgård to be given some sort of award or medal for the number of times he's played huge antagonists with grace, talent, and constant shots of his butt. i'm pretty sure the man is out here singlehandedly trying to balance out decades of gratuitous female nudity all with his own lily white ass. what a trooper.
this was a beautiful and quick series addition to the mcu. i don't recommend it for anyone who takes marvel very seriously or who gets aggravated by storylines that don't always get seen through to their end. a big part of comics is constant branching stories and complicated continuity and also the whole multiverse thing, so i've never come to the mcu expecting logic or sense or perfect choices. this was entertaining and emotionally powerful thanks to its leads, and if those are what you come to the mcu for then you'll love it. it's very much agents of shield, and that's a positive for me, personally.
being into true crime i knew the gist of what happened in this series which is why i put it off for so long. it's so worth the watch though! even with prior knowledge going in its a wild ride.
i love netflix for so many reasons, and this is one of them. there are a ton of screen adaptations out that have failed to do their original book justice, but it especially bums me out when an author is unable to write the screenplay for an adaptation of their book or unable to have enough of a say in how their story plays out on screen. this series, unlike the movie adaptation, has lemony snicket written all over it, and watching it has been so much fun.
