Episodes seen 4 out of 6
Yelawolf the tv show. Ironically the music choices in the show were bad and often very unnecessary, its like a music label financed the show. The same is true for the soundtrack.
Joel Oulette seems like a better version of Jake Manley. He is good at conveying things with his body language, would even say perfect. spoken acting was mostly ok, the emotion often is not in his voice.
"INDIGENOUS" people in these reviews are screaming about how indigenous the story/setting are. indeed its "ambiguously" indigenous in the sense that its all very surface level and not tied to one specific tribe, but you can tell vision of which indigenous people were in the author's mind through demonstration of beliefs that in other indigenous groups of the continent are represented very differently or not at all. The setting is stuffed full of tired plot aspects, there is even a pipeline protest, so if you were hoping for a fresh view, this is not it.
Lore wise, I don't think you need to be a level 9000 nerd to know what is going on from the mystical standpoint unless it's your first work of this kind. At the same time if you don't know anything about on subject matter you are out of luck because the show won't explain much to you, so it's in that place where you should not go in if you know nothing or if you are hoping to learn new things.
The mystery of the story is in the dynamics between the characters and as far as that goes the supernatural nature of some of the characters has very little relevance to the story, they might as well be humans involved in the criminal word as far as the impact of their nature goes. Since everyone and their grandma seem to be on drugs in this story, making drugs hallucinogenic would cover the visuals you want.
Characters were mostly well acted and mostly enjoyable but also very archetypal, especially Crashpad and Sarah who seem like executives copied characters from popular works in hopes of gaining similar success, making failed or at best uninspired ports.
There is a character who is a "talented underachiever" and a drug dealer who after the first episode is perpetually out of drugs and despite hints that he might remedy that, he never does. There is a character introduced as a selfish user of people only to have that characterization vanishes after the first ep. Its like they want to say "this is the characterization" but not actual have that characterization or consequences. like pirates that don't do any pirate work, it "looks cool" in their bio but otherwise has very little relevance or impact.
Budget limitations. budget limitations are there but its not low budget as such. what budget is, is used smartly. Instead of using money bad effects or stunt action they use cut aways and practical effects. I can say that there are some notably bad jump cut transitions that give you a feeling like there are bridging scene that have been cut(or likely were never filmed). Cast also seems to be kept at bare minimum, with peripheral characters vanishing out of the story with little or no explanation, having had little or no impact on the story or characters in it.
Pacing was abysmal, from painfully slow to lighting fast and back. There are jumps in the first episode that made me think "well they are going fast but I guess they want to get to the point" but then in the second episode time is given to stuff that was already self evident or adds nothing.
This editing and pacing combines into questionable character motivations, where after one conversation you will have romance, animosity,etc with no real development or breathing room.
I would not call it "darkly humorous". ep 4 and still no "crescendos to an epic clash of magic, monsters and mayhem" I mean I have seen more epic clashes of magic, monsters and mayhem in street brawls and I dont mind that but lets be honest about what things are.
The show was mostly fine but in ep 4 all of its flaws seem to have been amplified and gathered together. All the good seems to have been drained, even the acting took a dive.
If I had to call it an X meets Y, I would say its pg 13 shameless meets hemlock grove but worse than those individual shows separately.
Yelawolf the tv show. Ironically the music choices in the show were bad and often very unnecessary, its like a music label financed the show. The same is true for the soundtrack.
Joel Oulette seems like a better version of Jake Manley. He is good at conveying things with his body language, would even say perfect. spoken acting was mostly ok, the emotion often is not in his voice.
"INDIGENOUS" people in these reviews are screaming about how indigenous the story/setting are. indeed its "ambiguously" indigenous in the sense that its all very surface level and not tied to one specific tribe, but you can tell vision of which indigenous people were in the author's mind through demonstration of beliefs that in other indigenous groups of the continent are represented very differently or not at all. The setting is stuffed full of tired plot aspects, there is even a pipeline protest, so if you were hoping for a fresh view, this is not it.
Lore wise, I don't think you need to be a level 9000 nerd to know what is going on from the mystical standpoint unless it's your first work of this kind. At the same time if you don't know anything about on subject matter you are out of luck because the show won't explain much to you, so it's in that place where you should not go in if you know nothing or if you are hoping to learn new things.
The mystery of the story is in the dynamics between the characters and as far as that goes the supernatural nature of some of the characters has very little relevance to the story, they might as well be humans involved in the criminal word as far as the impact of their nature goes. Since everyone and their grandma seem to be on drugs in this story, making drugs hallucinogenic would cover the visuals you want.
Characters were mostly well acted and mostly enjoyable but also very archetypal, especially Crashpad and Sarah who seem like executives copied characters from popular works in hopes of gaining similar success, making failed or at best uninspired ports.
There is a character who is a "talented underachiever" and a drug dealer who after the first episode is perpetually out of drugs and despite hints that he might remedy that, he never does. There is a character introduced as a selfish user of people only to have that characterization vanishes after the first ep. Its like they want to say "this is the characterization" but not actual have that characterization or consequences. like pirates that don't do any pirate work, it "looks cool" in their bio but otherwise has very little relevance or impact.
Budget limitations. budget limitations are there but its not low budget as such. what budget is, is used smartly. Instead of using money bad effects or stunt action they use cut aways and practical effects. I can say that there are some notably bad jump cut transitions that give you a feeling like there are bridging scene that have been cut(or likely were never filmed). Cast also seems to be kept at bare minimum, with peripheral characters vanishing out of the story with little or no explanation, having had little or no impact on the story or characters in it.
Pacing was abysmal, from painfully slow to lighting fast and back. There are jumps in the first episode that made me think "well they are going fast but I guess they want to get to the point" but then in the second episode time is given to stuff that was already self evident or adds nothing.
This editing and pacing combines into questionable character motivations, where after one conversation you will have romance, animosity,etc with no real development or breathing room.
I would not call it "darkly humorous". ep 4 and still no "crescendos to an epic clash of magic, monsters and mayhem" I mean I have seen more epic clashes of magic, monsters and mayhem in street brawls and I dont mind that but lets be honest about what things are.
The show was mostly fine but in ep 4 all of its flaws seem to have been amplified and gathered together. All the good seems to have been drained, even the acting took a dive.
If I had to call it an X meets Y, I would say its pg 13 shameless meets hemlock grove but worse than those individual shows separately.