It's a quality tv show; the production standard is high, the verisimilitude is authentic, the subject matter and the horror/ spirituality is an interesting angle to refresh "war is hell".
Unfortunately seven episodes in I am baffled why it's so terminally dull. It seems each episode is in recursion, except for the one episode that was completely different. Hector is a perennial manchild sacrificing his adopted family, his grieving mother of his children lurches between catatonic and delivering inconsequential expositions. The melodrama is so high it's practically soap. Everyone else mopes around looking sullen.
Every episode someone (a minor character) will deliver a "you don't scare me/ death with honour" soliloquy while being tied to something and brutalised. Any real drama (stolen children, outbreak in the hospital) gets ignored to allow for yet another racially charged standoff.
It's a shame because their is an interesting story buried underneath the shock and awe and macho postulating, but the sensational drowns out the intrigue like a pianist bludgeoning keys with a hammer to MAKE A REALLY IMPORTANT MESSAGE ultimately breaking the piano and alienating listeners.
Sure zombie ghost ladies are creepy but after 7 episodes even her antics are wearing thin, so the makers resort to horror and shock to cover up the lack of substance in their tale of racism is bad. There are no laughs, and there's nothing to make you cry, but you will feel angry and frustrated that no one seems capable of acting with any decency or honesty or integrity. There's no one to root for and no one to love. Intentions are universally selfish and hostile, actions are spiteful, cruel and cowardly.
Makes you wonder what the fighting's even about. National pride? Or just the wheat and oil show again.
Unfortunately seven episodes in I am baffled why it's so terminally dull. It seems each episode is in recursion, except for the one episode that was completely different. Hector is a perennial manchild sacrificing his adopted family, his grieving mother of his children lurches between catatonic and delivering inconsequential expositions. The melodrama is so high it's practically soap. Everyone else mopes around looking sullen.
Every episode someone (a minor character) will deliver a "you don't scare me/ death with honour" soliloquy while being tied to something and brutalised. Any real drama (stolen children, outbreak in the hospital) gets ignored to allow for yet another racially charged standoff.
It's a shame because their is an interesting story buried underneath the shock and awe and macho postulating, but the sensational drowns out the intrigue like a pianist bludgeoning keys with a hammer to MAKE A REALLY IMPORTANT MESSAGE ultimately breaking the piano and alienating listeners.
Sure zombie ghost ladies are creepy but after 7 episodes even her antics are wearing thin, so the makers resort to horror and shock to cover up the lack of substance in their tale of racism is bad. There are no laughs, and there's nothing to make you cry, but you will feel angry and frustrated that no one seems capable of acting with any decency or honesty or integrity. There's no one to root for and no one to love. Intentions are universally selfish and hostile, actions are spiteful, cruel and cowardly.
Makes you wonder what the fighting's even about. National pride? Or just the wheat and oil show again.
