Despite the season preview at the end of the pilot previewing some intriguing "witchy" scenes ahead I think I'm going to pass. Wasn't certain beforehand how YA oriented this will be but from what I've seen that is certainly the target audience (if I had known it would air on Freeform I wouldn't have bothered - just thought that this being at SXSW would mean something different..).
Lots of stuff gets skipped over or is handled superficially which is weird for a show declaring sisterhood/their squad to be something crucial.
As lowbrow as this is I actually found myself enjoying this quite a bit from the second episode on.
I wasn't aware of many of those supposed "curses" surrounding the movies so while that info was somewhat interesting there wasn't enough for it there to fill a streaming services desire for multiple episodes - so what do you do? Pad them with often times irrelevant stuff to make them longer...
The Twilight Zone Movie episode also highlighted the more exploitative side of the subject mater but it's also the first time a horror doc actually did not idolize John Landis as an icon which was unexpected to see on Shudder of all places.
Edit: Updated my overall rating to a 6 since the second season is actually a lot better with less focus on "cursed" aspects and instead more interviews about the filming itself.
While usually in an anthology you have your good and bad segments here they felt quite even being created by the same staff but still dabbling in different kinds of "horror" each time. Problem is that there really wasn't anything that would make them stand out. The premises are not bad per se but with 30 minutes episodes being told in a straight forward narrative they can't seem to hit a sweet spot in addition to making almost all "twists" predictable.
I'm not sure why I even watched four episodes but this is it for me... It's a super generic MMORPG fantasy show which only selling point is the girls playing it (being as moe-blobbey as possible). It offers no plot to care about and the protagonists are not only clueless about the game but also just happen to be overpowered^2.
I have never really watched Star Trek (except the odd episode of DS9 and Voyager) but having watched every RLM episode about it I can only feel sorry for the die hard fans...
Yeah this is terrible. Nauseating concept (which makes hardly any sense nor is consistent), unfunny humor, lame ecchi and certainly the worst main duo I've seen in a long time... and somehow this gets 2 cours?!
Run off the mill chunibyo show that starts out high-energy but is overall quite uneven in entertainment.
Seems kinda silly but dropped after Episode 9... At this point it's just a melodramatic slog where everyone's parents are abusive in some way or another. But thank god there is Maki to fix things who is apparently also an empath in addition to already being the "gifted" tennis ace of the show. Kanako also is handled very weirdly making her mainly a fujoshi insert...
Dropped at three episodes. It's not the worst show you can pick but it hardly feels original... it's like a mashup of anime which were popular in the US in the 2000s coupled with some other stuff he did. Go back and watch those instead as they have a lot more character.
So far this contains a lot of quirky/oh-so-random segments without much of a hook alongside some recurring bits - out of those Quarter Life Poetry is the highlight for me (which you might as well just watch on other platforms, eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELTRkamduIc).
Update 2021: (not a lot of people watching huh ;)) Now in Season 4 the show lost decent recurring segments with S3 so it's mostly mediocre or worse in quality with only occasional standouts in episodes. I think it's still great to give a platform for all these different creators but the writing seems to be more self-indulgent these days?
Despite having been hesitant to watch this (bc superheroes :rolling_eyes:) I gave it a try anyways in hopes for subversion or spoofs of the genre (hello https://trakt.tv/movies/super-2010). Unfortunately this was just very bland and slow with some seriously lacking characterizations and world building just for the sake of being able to do an otherwise generic but raunchy "thriller/heist-ey" type of deal vs the hot current :superhero: everyone seems to crave...
I'm rating this after only watching the first episode. It's 2019 and I'm not ready for a Gonzo shitshow:
No thank you Netflix. If you know how long the source material is why don't you actually bother doing a proper adaptation... Not interested in continuing this.
You know, I thought I'd give this a shot given it's "horror" roots and provided that it is already canceled (and possibly cannot go too superheroish) but I cannot get into a story when I have to scratch my head every few minutes; this plays out too illogical. Be it terrible scene flow or the fact that no one reacts or handles this setting in a believable way. Dropped.
I guess this was OKish but very skipable.
The only thing this got going for it is the weirdness of the inventions... everything else is the same "joke" beaten like a dead horse.
Sorry but this is just trash... There are no jokes in the show and the scenarios are stretched out despite being only three minute long. They also decided this should be a SILENT comedy but somehow found it a good idea to include grunts instead. :exploding_head:
I have never seen the old "Twilight Zone" but heard a lot about it so my expectations of a "modern" adaptation were quite high... and apparently way off. None of the episodes had a particularly interesting gimmick or explored that in any meaningful way. Instead the episodes end up being quite boring, sometimes goofy and just not very good... this also partly because in 2019 you have to include an important message in each episode, regardless of cost.
I'm just watching this on the side (dubbed even) but dang, it's worse and more clichéd than I expected. Hard to believe someone would actually produce this.
This show had a compromised production and was supposed to air quite some time ago... and while it doesn't look like anything is wrong with, there are noticeable gaps given it's shortened runtime. I'm not sure if I would have enjoyed this more if it was released as planned but as it stands there is a lot of focus on yuri and dragon tails which I frankly don't really care about.
Apparently it is required to have one jailbait anime in each season now...
I wasn't sure what to expect from a Shonen Jump adaptation airing in NoitaminA's programming block but I got pleasantly surprised. Doing this kind of story with kids is a very easy hook and while mainly twist based it works quite well for the most part. Really loved the conclusion of the arc in regards to Mama too. I'd imagine further seasons to be more in line with regular shounen fare so we'll see how this goes.
At somepoint I put SYFY on my blacklist for potential interesting TV shows so I only started this after it was already canceled... in hindsight that was maybe not exactly fair since I got a lot of enjoyement out of this. All of the seasons had some interesting concepts going on and somewhat decent FX for TV so as a horror fan I don't need much else ;)....
I have no idea what I hoped for (and my expectations were looow) but this show is offensively boring and generic at best... I don't think I will finish this. It feels very un-animeish (just the OP alone will let you know that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YheFQ6y0xlA) and is more akin to procedurals aka very exposition heavy and frankly boring since they forgot to add interesting characters into the cast (if they are even worthy of being recognized as a human being). Many of the action scenes are also done quite poorly and suffer from sometimes atrocious editing so nothing to see there either. The mask as pretty much the only sci-fi element of but didn't add any excitement either.
Eff me, this is a 2 cour show... going to drop this then. Really hoped for this to be an above average isekai but it really isn't. Any promise of individuality in the first episode was not touched upon and it instead went the boring Gary Stue-lets-be-friends-with-everyone route without a hint of an interesting story to be found.
(If you haven't seen a few of these enjoy yourself, be my guest but I'm too old for this now ;))
I'm really liking this second season. Watched most of the first one without any strong feelings to it but it really improved all around with fun guest stars and ever creative animation work. Mårten Tedin joining as a cinematographer is also a perfect fit.
I can power through some awful sub 5min shows no problem but this one does not seem to be concerned to explain what it's whacky story concept was about and instead focuses on unfunny comedy normalizing zoophilia he gets turned on by a wiggly tail (target audience is probably in the furry realm..).
I wasn't sold by the earlier episodes but this got really whacky really quick and makes the case that screaming with le epic meme faces comedy can actually be quite entertaining ;)...
I think Mike Flanagan is quite competent in most of what he does, but nothing of his ever blew me away. This show is no different as he certainly is aware of today's tropes and crafts an unusually slow paced horror story more focused on the psychological impact of the haunting than scares, but after so many scene transitions between the story's timelines it gets quite tedious. It is really the later half of the series that tainted my enjoyment with more focus on melodramatic elements, monologues and a conclusion that had me feeling like I just wasted quite a lot of time...
I fear this has nothing to offer besides KVs by Yoshitoshi ABe..? The pre-release seems to be a good dump to get impatient people on it (seeing as CR also has production credits).
