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The Stairs (2021)
Wasted potential
The stairs in woods concept is so good because of the many ways you can spin it and build a mysterious atmosphere around it. This movie capitalizes on none of it. It's your stereotypical people being hunted in the forest movie, complete with stiff dialogue and cheesy writing. This one's just got a pretty set of stairs on screen for about two minutes of total screentime. In fact it's so unimaginative that they had to add a door to it.
Save yourself the time of this one, even if you're a fan of the NoSleep stories.
Mr. Robot (2015)
Good idea gone bad
This show starts out very interesting, with having a seemingly corrupt hacker using his skill set to do good in the world. After a couple episodes the show divulges into the mental illness plot which adds flavor and makes for a nice revelation towards the end of season one. Most technicalities and computer things shown are actually very well researched and accurately presented, something which I did not at all expect. So far so good, if they left it at that I'd have rated the show a solid 8 or 9.
However they decide to repeat the entire plot for season two, just in a different setting. The same setup, same confusion, same revelation, just disappointing. After episode one of season three, which seems to be set right on track for another season of pointless mind games, I have lost almost all motivation to continue with the series.
Hacking has become a side dish, doing good in the world has completely left the premises. The show has deteriorated into the main character running around like a headless chicken doing damage control against his alter ego in some kind of absurd and bizarre Jekyll & Hyde clone.
Do yourself a favor and stop after season one.