Devil in Ohio (TV Mini Series) Broken Fall (2022) User Reviews

Mildly interesting, but we've seen it all before.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 5/10 · 26 October 2023]

Dr. Suzanne Mathis takes pity on a girl who's brought in for treatment after being found with a wound, Mae refuses to speak, but Suzanne takes her into her home, in order to try to help her.

This was sold to me as something I'd really enjoy, if I'm totally honest, I find myself feeling a little underwhelmed, and hardly desperate to move onto episode two, my main gripe, there's nothing new or original here.

I haven't read up on it, but I assume Mae is from a cult, and I assume Suzanne has had the same experiences as her new charge. Mae will cause chaos for the family, but Suzanne will put her first, prove me wrong.

At least it was only 40 minutes long, maybe it's a grower.

5/10.

I blame myself for not just rejecting it from the title.

[GiraffeDoor · 3/10 · 12 September 2022]

I don't think I'm going to follow this series. I pushed myself to finish this episode and while I cannot in all good conscious review a series until I have either seen at least 24 episodes or 50% of total episodes (whichever is smaller) I will review this first chapter.

With a title like "Devil in Ohio" you don't expect much do you? I mean...having the word "devil" in anything short of a comedy is pretty on the nose especially when there actually is a religious theme to the show.

I am tired of Satanists as villains, I really am. I know it's rarely meant in a "Satanic Panic" type way, and I could have been really into it if I didn't see it too often, but we are at the point where it is just a go-to for lazy writers. By all means use some kind of cult but try to have a paucity of originality. It's offensive how they smugly show the symbols of pop-culture satanism as if it were some big reveal but you put the word "devil" right into your title. Do you think we're idiots?

The worst part of this however is the obnoxiously tedious vision of a cliche sitcom modern family.

It's like they had a checklist:

-wife waking up to her husband and bland marital flirting

-morning rush as everyone goes to school or work

-the daughter somehow not fitting in with no-one but her gay best friend (and it's such a '90s sitcom vision of homosexuality) for support

-youngest daughter telling everyone about her audition

-daughters sort of getting along despite mild annoyances

It's all excruciating as these null characters are being used to manipulate me. I don't care about these people, I really don't. The only intriguing character is Lauren. Or was it "Mae"? (pronounced "Mei")

She is the only interesting character; I am watching for her. Maybe it's because she doesn't talk for so long but sadly when she does it's very stilted. She isn't familiar with the modern things, I get it!

A show that on absolutely no level brings anything fresh to the table. My curiosity on how it unfolds isn't really piqued at all, unless you count the morbid curiosity of whether it might just get better or even worse.