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 Plot reminder: American dream family at the brink of divorce ends up in an inescapable two-square-long village that also happens to be targeted by some kind of shapeshifting vampires. Yes, they've tried driving away but they got looped, P.T. style. Will they escape the town or die miserably? We at Through Deviant Eyes hope for the latter. 

The suspense in the series is very well handled and the characters are interesting. They all seem to be affected by the extreme conditions they're in, even if pretending that everything is normal. There's gore and tension, drama, and mystery in a good mixture and combination. Expecting season 2.

For All Mankind (Waiting for something cool to happen, still.)

"I could've been the first man on the moon, you know?" -the protagonist every time he gets a chance

 The series is incredibly slow, and one has to pretty much push through the first few episodes, but the development of characters and the interest of the audience has steady progress as the storyline furthers separates from ours starting with the Soviets winning the moon race, passing through historical events and adding small details here and there that start to pile up big changes until season three where it has nothing to do with reality.

 Each episode lasts an hour and the three or four major problems entwine through the ten hours until they become one, giving the feeling that one's watching a ten-hours movie rather than a ten episodes series.

 Clearly meant for very, very patient audiences probably more mature than me. I kinda liked the series, but it left me a nasty aftertaste of waiting for some big event to happen that never comes. I remember being particulary dissapointed when the protagonist, who in the first episode, or one of te first episodes, almost becomes the first man on earth but aborts because of mechanical failure, gets a second chance to be the first man, this time on mars and still blows it. 

The Sandman (Supernatural drama TV series)

Literally my face during the whole show

 The best thing about Sandman is also what keeps it from being accessible to the public (I'm included), and that's the artistic approach. The scenes and the effects are very well crafted, and it makes me hesitate to say that it's outright bad, but it's certainly not entertaining and that's a big flaw for a TV show. 

 Now, on the review webpage, it's labeled under "superheroes" but I'm yet to see one, or any of those SFX-overloaded battle scenes with the bad guy on one corner and five good guys on the other. The Sandman, Morpheus, isn't a character meant to generate empathy, it's not a hero nor an anti-hero.

 He's neutral and cares only about his kingdom, which has unfortunately fallen apart in his years of absence due to captivity. 

Overall, a promising plot and good artistic direction, but heavily lacking accessibility and rythm.

Severance (Thriller suspense drama sci-fi tv series)

 

 The first three episodes are quite boring and made me question if I should push on the series, but after that introduction, the events start to chain in a way that puts you on edge.

 One has the constant feeling that the way Severance depicts reality is very close to ours, even if it's sci-fi, and at some moments in the office, I forgot about the fiction part. The suspense is very well handled and the characters feel real, the plot is full of twists and surprises, and it finishes on a cliffhanger. Expecting season 2!

Stargate SG-1 (Sci-fi adventure series, '90 style)

 

 The series that Macgyver picked and at some point even founded, was very changing and surprising, with a wide variety of characters, each unique and deep in their way.

 All of SG-1 members are of equal value to the others, with their traits, quirks, and sense of humor, from Teal'c, a strong-willed legendary alien warrior that can't quite get the full grasp on human society to Samantha Carter, a top-notch scientist that can brain her way out of very dire and sometimes confusing situations.

 Daniel Jackson, a tough-to-kill linguist architect, the key to the plot to Jack O'Neill unlike his previous role as Macgyver is sometimes hard-headed and difficult to reason with but charming in his own sarcastic, laugh-at-the-face-of-death way.

"Are you a russian spy?" "No! (in russian)"

 They go to other planets through an ancient wormhole gateway and meet new enemies and friends, with refreshing circumstances in each episode, sometimes is non-linear, sometimes there are double episodes, now and then there's a comedy episode, and sometimes they travel to other dimensions, sometimes they go back or forward in time.

 Few are the series that can go on for ten seasons and keep their originality, fewer are the ones that can replace part of the main characters with others and not decay. Fully recommendable. 

The Wheel of Time (Tolkien-like fantasy TV series)

 Even though there are a lot of awful similarities between the lord of the Ring and the Wheel of Time, like the white tower, the one power, the dark one, and things of the sort, the series indeed find its uniqueness in its way.

 Well, not unique exactly, but entertaining nonetheless.

 Unlike some other LotR wannabes, The Wheel pulls out a couple of concepts such as reincarnation that add a new spark to the matter, and they manage a fair share of special effects and regular well-rehearsed battles, not to mention a good grip on danger-sense since there's no clear main character. 

Les revenants (Don't watch things made in france)

                                                 

 Ever since the walking dead zombies had been overexploited in the entertainment media, and even the mention of them nowadays shuns the public away. I think.

 Les Revenant doesn't have zombies, nonetheless, and rather uses a very boring resurrected character as a device to fire up old secrets.

 The rhythm of the series feels heavy, slow, and always at the brink of being unbelievable.

 It has been said that French cinema was slow, but this is beyond the pale. Like a morbidly fat person who happens to be a rope walker. I'm not a fan of drama, and definitely not a fan of slow plots. It took me a season and a half to pin down what exactly wasn't working.

 There are scenes of characters walking in silence that could've been cut out the episode, and in the second season, there's a horrible ellipsis that breaks down whatever was they were trying to build in the first season.

Into the Night (The Sun is not smiley anymore)

Guys thought the title for their series was so cool, but it really sounds like cheap perfume.

 The most remarkable part of the series is that with practically no resources Into the Night manages not only to build an oppressive environment but also to put together a most diverse array of characters, all with a corresponding backstory to give them depth.

 As the series progress, the show gets more resources and the course changes, as it was inevitable to happen, to maintain things thrilling. The writers are not afraid of killing characters, and although all the death scenes feel a bit overdramatic, it's true that since there's not a clear main character, death can fall to anyone, further increasing the tension.

 The biggest problem is that, since they didn't use enough resources to end the world, the apocalypse is quite unrealistic with the sun just waking up in a morning mood and making people drop dead all of a sudden, through walls and bunkers. In summary, I think that since the whole series amounts, six hours is a good thing to watch in your free time.  

I get it that you make different nationality characters speak their native language for realism... but I'll stick with "only American" please. Not even British English, just american.

Sweet Home (Korean zombie "drama" Tv show)

I came with low expectations. To anyone watching Korean content: have low expectations.

The best part of the series is the effects and the visuals in general, which are smooth and complex. Now, as for the plot or the actual drama... I didn't feel it. It was there, but just didn't reach me.

 The settling is so unrealistic, and the actors so hard to believe, that it felt like something far away.

 Plot reminder: Some kind of curse that comes out of nowhere for no reason starts to affect people like a demonic possession, turning them less like possessed and more like zombies, but some people (for plot-convenient reasons) can withstand the curse and harness the positive effects of the curse without losing their humanity.

 The building where the story begins is some kind of purgatory where all the crazy, deranged, and god-forsaken people come to live. You got a psychopath, a pedophile murderer, a regular murderer, a super greedy wife beater, a couple of orphans, an ex-alcoholic katana-wilding priest, and the main character, the depressive suicidal guy that was beaten daily at school for literally no reason at all, plus some other unfortunate souls. It wouldn't surprise me if the building was on Hell Street 666.

 The monster is fun, but the surprise fades quickly, and the interaction between the characters is weird and uncomfortable. In general, the series is fun, but I don't recommend it. 

The Order (For teens, but enjoyable overall.)

 I approached this series with great disbelief, partly because it was Netflix and I have a great deal of unfounded prejudice against Netflix movies and series, and mostly because it has all the looks of a teen show.

Can you blame me?

 I wasn't entirely mistaken, all the characters' affairs with each other add nothing to the plot, there and the petty conflicts with the family and some questionable, irrational behavior.

 But that's not the important part, the important part is vengeance. It's the main driver of most if not all of the plot: It is vengeance that formed "the knights of Saint Christobal", the one that put Jack into the order, and the one that leads Pete to the ultimate consequences.

 The show was enjoyable and even if a bit shallow at moments generally well made, there are still questions left unaware but for the tweets, I read from the management of the series it got canceled just in time.

Mindhunters (Cop shows finally up the game)

  

The series takes a realistic approach to the beginning of forensic psychology, and show us the reticence that the federal bureau had to put resources into this investigation of the yet unnamed serial killers. I suppose that back in the day things like mind control and telekinesis were the hot topic.

It is thanks to the extraordinary skill (yet believable and still human) of the main character and his experienced partner that slowly but surely the ongoing research takes place in the mind of cops around the country. 

The fact that characters such as Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Edmund Kemper, BTK, and other serial killers among which we can so on, kidnappers and other charming companies are all real, and their dialogues are based on actual interviews gives the series a sickening feeling that gets you to the marrow.