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Mytho (2019)
horrible everything
The story is very unbelievable and inaccurate. First off, when someone actually has a tumor and it isn't yet clear if it's benign or not, you don't speak of cancer. I feel everyone does know this? Or at least should.
Secondly the way they - unlike a series like Euphoria - still use a non trans person to depict a trans character is disgusting.
The sound design is complete rubbish too. The crickets are too overdone and often completely out of sync when a door opens or closes, which is not how it sound works. Especially since often the sound stops before a door is closed.
The dialogues are very shallow and staged, like a pre schooler playing with barbies. It lacks realness, believability and maturity.
Acting isn't great either.
Honestly I have no clue what would be good about this series. Too many characters, with too little dept.
Insane to think I'm now 6 episodes in and it still has not touched anything, compared to a show like After Life, where in little time you feel for more than one character so deeply you have to laugh and cry soon and throughout. Whereas here you're constantly reminded you're listening too crappy dialogues, poorly acting out a very unbelievable and somehow shallow storyline.
Mr. Robot (2015)
An unpredictable struggle of accepting or fighting the global economy as well as internal conflicts and everything in between
It tackles both our global economic system as well as internal conflicts - such as childhood traumas being an intricate part of one's being - and the struggle of either accepting or fighting both and everything in between.
It isn't like with soap operas or series alike where there's so much random plot twists and turns happening, that somehow magically comes together to fit a narrative. Here everything that happens makes sense. Yet very often not at the moment you are watching it unfold, whilst maintaining a completely believable narrative.
Despite it being so extremely controversial, brutal and beyond our daily realities, it's completely possible this would or could actually happen. It's like a good sci-fi making many critiques about society and the self, where the analogies to daily life are actually not even truly sci-fi, if that makes scene?
Every plot twist and every move I didn't understand or even felt was unnecessary or annoying ended up making sense in retrospect. It's the only narrative - thus far - I truly cannot predict and that's one of the major reasons I love it, yet not the most brilliant of it even.
The most brilliant part remains its message. Which is similar to any good sci-fi, making you look critical about the world we live in as well as our part in it.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)
the inconsistencies are unbearable (despite being a true fan from the moment it aired)
First off most other negative reviews are focussed on the acting and or role of Sarah Michelle Gellar and sometimes includes that of the others. I don't agree with that one bit. That time Sarah for instance had to play Faith's character, it was uncanny believable acting and vice versa. So were the changes acted out by Alyson Hannigan, David Boreanaz and James Marsters. The style of acting fits perfectly with the target audience of teenagers and genre - pretty light hearted fantasy - of the series.
Yet despite all that and the nostalgia I felt when binge watching the entire series again as an adult - like I had done when I was a pre and early teen - this time around I kept being distracted by an inconsistent aspects in the storyline in almost every single episode.
When dealing with fantasy topic such as magic, vampires, zombies and demons, consistencies in the rules laid out by writers become crucial. The inconsistancies throughout this show is like watching a law show where the constitution keeps on changing (without any mention on it happening nor any explanation or reasons for it to just be different each and every time) to fit the plot of each episode. That seemingly extremely lazy writing drove me mad.
Like (spoiler alert and many ahead:) the time Buffy died for a few seconds and immediately a new slayer rose, Kendra, whilst when Buffy was dead for months, there was never any replacement for her. Also the fact that Joyce didn't knew about Buffy being the slayer and neither did Buffy until she was fifteen. Whilst Kendra supposedly was send of since birth by her own parents to train for her calling, when she wasn't even made the slayer yet.
A couple more inconsistencies that annoyed me immensely: There was this episode where two guys tried to build a zombie girlfriend for the zombie brother of one of the guys. Yet they needed a freshly dead brain to make the perfect zombie girlfriend. Supposedly because of the treatment dead people get in the morgue brains in humans would not be working anymore. So the boys could not use any of the heads of the three girls that died in a car accident, who they took all the other body parts from. So they tried to kill Cordelia that episode for her head and specifically her then fresh brains. Whilst in another episode Xander was hijacked to help zombies to reawaken from graves, that worked perfectly fine when they woke, meaning they would not have working brains left according to the previous zombie episode;
There was (I believe during a Halloween episode) a moment where there was suddenly an uninvited vampire in Buffy's kitchen, which made absolutely no sense whatsoever.
I could go on and on about how inconsistent the supposed rituals and traditions kept being changed sometimes even within one season. The fact Giles didn't train Buffy since she was a slayer though it seemed like that was the procedure. So many things did not add up, which is sad, because all of that could have so easily been avoided.
It's sloppy writing, which could also be seen in other things like people commenting on Buffy's new short hair whilst it was in a bun where it was completely impossible to tell she had cut it or the angle in which Tara was shot. From where the bullet entered the window, it could have never been from Warren's gun.
Don't get me wrong, I still enjoyed rewatching it even despite unnecessary misogyny and other bigotry that gradually seemed to get a little less throughout the seasons, but was felt throughout the end. How Dawn was written as a potential demonic entity at first, was proper writing and acting. It's just a shame the rules kept changing throughout episodes, which made it very hard to stay captured by the fantasy world that was tried to be created by the show. A damn shame, so much potential, yet as a true fan of the show who carefully watched and followed everything happening, these inconsistencies truly hurt all throughout the seven seasons.
Without all the unnecessary inconsistencies, it would have been a hell of a show. Since the acting and most of the separate storylines where in themselves often amazing. Yet put together made it often very annoying, painful and even cringe worthy to watch.