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With how many of my absolute favorite, really well made shows have been cancelled recently, I don't think I'll be watching anything except long established shows or one-off mini-series.
This was without one of the best surprises I've seen, going into it blind and I couldn't wait for season 2 and then, for some absolutely baffling reason, they cancel the show despite the obviously great viewer score too. Same thing with Shadow & Bone... what's next, cancellation of The Silo?
Streaming services are making their libraries tv-show graveyards and the more they do, the less likely I am to subscribe to their services, as one of the greatest strengths any streaming subscription has, is having the option to watch whenever you want and find gems from longer ago to watch. But if I feel like I either gotta start watching as soon as possible to try and make showrunners keep a show and then most shows are cancelled anyway, it is a waste of my time and my money.
This show is the perfect example of showrunners using instant gratification as their merit for success instead of seeing the big picture of incredibly good premises for shows that could go on for several seasons and genuinely hook people in once the word gets out.
Netflix' The Warrior Nun is an example of that. I had never even heard of the show once it had it's season 1, then I heard the buzz when season 2 came around and before I got to season 2 (as obviously I'd start from the beginning), it was cancelled.
Word of mouth goes around with a delay and I guarantee The Peripheral's season 2 would have had people buzzing and making people pick it up as one to watch.
This was without one of the best surprises I've seen, going into it blind and I couldn't wait for season 2 and then, for some absolutely baffling reason, they cancel the show despite the obviously great viewer score too. Same thing with Shadow & Bone... what's next, cancellation of The Silo?
Streaming services are making their libraries tv-show graveyards and the more they do, the less likely I am to subscribe to their services, as one of the greatest strengths any streaming subscription has, is having the option to watch whenever you want and find gems from longer ago to watch. But if I feel like I either gotta start watching as soon as possible to try and make showrunners keep a show and then most shows are cancelled anyway, it is a waste of my time and my money.
This show is the perfect example of showrunners using instant gratification as their merit for success instead of seeing the big picture of incredibly good premises for shows that could go on for several seasons and genuinely hook people in once the word gets out.
Netflix' The Warrior Nun is an example of that. I had never even heard of the show once it had it's season 1, then I heard the buzz when season 2 came around and before I got to season 2 (as obviously I'd start from the beginning), it was cancelled.
Word of mouth goes around with a delay and I guarantee The Peripheral's season 2 would have had people buzzing and making people pick it up as one to watch.
I have loved this show so far and the acting and mysteries etc. Are definitely very cool.
However I am starting to get a little worried that this is going very much towards the "Lost" vibe.
While "Lost" was also a fantastic show in terms of acting, directing etc. In the very end what annoyed me was how much of the mystery was there just to be mysterious.
Watching the second season, I kept finding myself a tiny bit annoyed whenever yet another weird mystery was introduced, be it a symbol, object, thing, event... mainly because I can't stop myself from thinking "Will this be relevant in any way in the long run? Is this just one of those there's-a-mysterious-fog-creature or hatch or light etc. That is never mentioned again or explained in aaaany way, ever.
Because that kind of mystery writing eventually just ends up annoying me, since the writer can reach into their behind and pull out absolutely anything and never circle back to it.
"Ok next there's a llama in a red hat that whispers the words "paleontological" and "spatula"!" aand that's it, forgotten one season later, no explanation, it was just there to be weird.
Still, will keep on watching, but if this has an ending one day where it's just on the level of "it was all in his head!" and there is no attempt at even tying some theme-logic towards all of it, then consider this review at least 2-3 points lower...
However I am starting to get a little worried that this is going very much towards the "Lost" vibe.
While "Lost" was also a fantastic show in terms of acting, directing etc. In the very end what annoyed me was how much of the mystery was there just to be mysterious.
Watching the second season, I kept finding myself a tiny bit annoyed whenever yet another weird mystery was introduced, be it a symbol, object, thing, event... mainly because I can't stop myself from thinking "Will this be relevant in any way in the long run? Is this just one of those there's-a-mysterious-fog-creature or hatch or light etc. That is never mentioned again or explained in aaaany way, ever.
Because that kind of mystery writing eventually just ends up annoying me, since the writer can reach into their behind and pull out absolutely anything and never circle back to it.
"Ok next there's a llama in a red hat that whispers the words "paleontological" and "spatula"!" aand that's it, forgotten one season later, no explanation, it was just there to be weird.
Still, will keep on watching, but if this has an ending one day where it's just on the level of "it was all in his head!" and there is no attempt at even tying some theme-logic towards all of it, then consider this review at least 2-3 points lower...
Not that it had anything to do with metal, but if that title resonates you, you just might be the kinda audience who will love this for what it is.
This is absolutely NOT for everyone. It was VERY graphic, VERY violent and does not have a plot that takes really any braincells to process. I can easily imagine it loses a good few viewers to the "This is just torture porn at this point"-territory.
Despite all of that, I feel like I finally watched an actually GOOD HORROR MOVIE. I don't remember which horror movie I felt great about before this one.
It's not that I want a gorefilled ultra violent movie for it to be good, just that it's consistent. That it sets the mood and goes with it, no compromise and no sudden need for some happy-go-lucky ending or explanation, yet, this still had an ending that satisfied a "resolution" which didn't feel like it just did something and then just ended.
I think this was just a relentless and disturbing ride from the very beginning to the end and it did not have that annoying tone shift that incredibly many horror movies have, where it sets one tone for 70% of the movie and the ending goes for an entirely different tone and therefor makes you feel it "got kinda ridiculous at the end".
I also feel like the evil in it was shown in a very menacing way. The absolutely fantastic performance from Alyssa Sutherland plays a big part in that. She managed to be genuinely disturbing, even when saying everyday lines in that state. Something that is often very hit-and-miss territory.
If you're into classics like Freddy Krueger and Jason Vorhees and like "good kills", you'll have a few scenes here that will scratch that itch too.
So all in all, this was a very demonic, uncompromisingly violent and powerful ride from the beginning to the end and I felt that all it did, it did better than your average horrorflick today.
It also had me actually tense up as it pushed further than movies usually do... which I don't really remember having happened in... at least a decade. (I'm 39)
This is absolutely NOT for everyone. It was VERY graphic, VERY violent and does not have a plot that takes really any braincells to process. I can easily imagine it loses a good few viewers to the "This is just torture porn at this point"-territory.
Despite all of that, I feel like I finally watched an actually GOOD HORROR MOVIE. I don't remember which horror movie I felt great about before this one.
It's not that I want a gorefilled ultra violent movie for it to be good, just that it's consistent. That it sets the mood and goes with it, no compromise and no sudden need for some happy-go-lucky ending or explanation, yet, this still had an ending that satisfied a "resolution" which didn't feel like it just did something and then just ended.
I think this was just a relentless and disturbing ride from the very beginning to the end and it did not have that annoying tone shift that incredibly many horror movies have, where it sets one tone for 70% of the movie and the ending goes for an entirely different tone and therefor makes you feel it "got kinda ridiculous at the end".
I also feel like the evil in it was shown in a very menacing way. The absolutely fantastic performance from Alyssa Sutherland plays a big part in that. She managed to be genuinely disturbing, even when saying everyday lines in that state. Something that is often very hit-and-miss territory.
If you're into classics like Freddy Krueger and Jason Vorhees and like "good kills", you'll have a few scenes here that will scratch that itch too.
So all in all, this was a very demonic, uncompromisingly violent and powerful ride from the beginning to the end and I felt that all it did, it did better than your average horrorflick today.
It also had me actually tense up as it pushed further than movies usually do... which I don't really remember having happened in... at least a decade. (I'm 39)