Category: Live Action

Despite a strong first episode this show soon devolves into but another uninspired and clueless character piece with plot threads being introduced and thrown away seemingly at random. It’s pretty apparent the creators never had a clear vision for where they wanted to take the story, and were just making stuff as they went.

I don’t think I’ll be watching further than the first season.

Positive:	Negative:
A fascinating setting of Prohibition era in USA	Plot keeps going in circles with threads introduced and thrown away almost at random
Some characters, especially the sleazy protagonist, are interesting	Characters keep changing personalities and making weird decisions to suit the schizophrenic plot
	No actual story, at least in the first season

 

A quite hilarious comedy show that unfortunately got canceled before it could go anywhere (although I doubt that was ever its intention to begin with).

Positive:	Negative:
Likable characters	The plot feels a bit too random and all over the place sometimes
Genuinely funny	The recent continuation just doesn’t have the same steam

 

The show might have appeared as ingenious sixty years ago, but from the lens of a modern viewer it is but a compilation of already tired ideas that are conveyed with naivete and superficiality more reminiscent of a cartoon.

If you’re curious, I would recommend only checking the episodes that make it to “best of twilight zone” lists.

Positive:	Negative:
Some of the better episodes might explore fairly interesting ideas	Acting can be quite cringeworthy depending on the episode
Some of the episodes are good at building expectation for that upcoming twist	Lots of weak episodes
	Most of the ideas are given very superficial treatment

 

I should’ve probably known better than to try random TV shows, but damn this thing was bad. Dropped after the pilot episode.

Positive:	Negative:
	Low production values
	Awkward acting
	Scenes that are supposed to be scary are funny
	Dumb, inconsistent characters
	Pacing is all over the place
	Plot consists exclusively of generic horror tropes
	Story? Haha…

 

A show about hackers made by people who actually know how to use a computer for a change. Unfortunately, it becomes a tad dull after its amazing pilot episode, as the plot starts moving in circles seemingly unable to decide what it wants to do with its characters.

Then all sorts of shit goes down in the last few episodes, and I still can’t decide if they shot themselves in the foot with all those suspension of disbelief breaking twists, or are they on the right track to make the following season an amazing roller coaster.

Well, at least I can certainly get behind the idea of the concept of corporations being the bane of mankind.

Positive:	Negative:
Fascinating concept of hackers trying to fight the impersonal evil of society	Characters other than the protagonist aren’t that interesting
Interesting, schizoid protagonist	Seems not to go anywhere for the first couple of episodes
Based on actually legit computer knowledge	Some of the twists near the end threaten to shatter the suspension of disbelief
Corporations are evil, good point

 

Resident Evil playing a big part in my childhood, I just can’t help being attracted to zombie fiction, and The Walking Dead is about the only actually competent TV series in the genre. It’s just too bad it doesn’t really offer anything special, and its most interesting and least annoying characters are the mute monsters.

Nowhere near as good as the game, unfortunately.

Positive:	Negative:
Zombies are inherently fun	Bland, boring characters
A couple of tense moments	Stiff dialogue
	Dull, simplistic plot

Before trying to shill their nonsense as “based on a real story” the writers of this show should’ve stopped to consider if anything in their story made sense outside of their shriveled heads. Not a single thing is properly thought through in this “police drama” where police don’t investigate crime scenes, ignore obvious evidence and then convict random people on assumptions that make no sense; where serial killers run wild across the town without even trying to conceal themselves and pose for security cameras; where grown up people talk to each other like middle schoolers (the dialogue of the two FBI agents is in particular moronic).

Then at around episode 7 the writers seem to finally give up, and the show completely falls apart with characters purposefully acting against their own interests to get killed.

Positive:	Negative:
A couple of characters are kind of likable	Crimes aren’t thought through and make no sense
So bad it’s funny	Everyone in the show is exceedingly dumb, and can’t solve kindergarten-level “mysteries”
	Dialogue is so poorly written you can never guess when a character is supposed to sound dumb and when “witty”
	Motivation of some characters is muddled beyond the point of understanding
	Feels more like an abomination of a hundred of random half-baked ideas rather than a cohesive narrative
	Completely falls apart around episode 8