NullUnit
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The story, sans, musicals, COULD be decent. The problem is it's exceptionally slow to progress because every 5 to 7 minutes there's another way-too-long musical interlude.
They've basically created their own distractions by adding musical to break up any tension, comedy, suspense, etc.
The audio, to me, all sounds like it's a looped 100%. As if there is little no actual live filmed audio and it was all added in post. That would make sense for the musicals (even though I disliked them) but even when characters are merely speaking to each other, it sounds looped.
Meh.. I lost interest QUICKLY due to the musical interludes. Ended up fast forwarding through most of it after roughly 30 minutes and the 4th musical number.
Acting was passable, not bad. And singing was good however misguided the idea was.
But ultimately..... ------- PASS ------
They've basically created their own distractions by adding musical to break up any tension, comedy, suspense, etc.
The audio, to me, all sounds like it's a looped 100%. As if there is little no actual live filmed audio and it was all added in post. That would make sense for the musicals (even though I disliked them) but even when characters are merely speaking to each other, it sounds looped.
Meh.. I lost interest QUICKLY due to the musical interludes. Ended up fast forwarding through most of it after roughly 30 minutes and the 4th musical number.
Acting was passable, not bad. And singing was good however misguided the idea was.
But ultimately..... ------- PASS ------
While all the "tricks" are rather remarkable and amazing. And the series in overall pretty interesting......
I find Blaine's "comatose-like" narration just sleep inducing. He speaks fine, and NORMAL, in the "live" footage at the settings with other people. No issue.
But then the voice over narration kicks in and it feels like it's at half speed and designed to lull you to sleep. Or perhaps somewhat condescending in nature. The narration is entirely unsavory to me for some reason.
There is quite a bit of "filler" in each episode.. but ultimately the things on display are pretty miraculous and worth the watch.. truth is, one doesn't *really* need the audio anyway.
---------- Meh ----------
I find Blaine's "comatose-like" narration just sleep inducing. He speaks fine, and NORMAL, in the "live" footage at the settings with other people. No issue.
But then the voice over narration kicks in and it feels like it's at half speed and designed to lull you to sleep. Or perhaps somewhat condescending in nature. The narration is entirely unsavory to me for some reason.
There is quite a bit of "filler" in each episode.. but ultimately the things on display are pretty miraculous and worth the watch.. truth is, one doesn't *really* need the audio anyway.
---------- Meh ----------
Acting is OFTEN over-the-top for characters that could not possibly be more cliché if they tried.
It goes NOWHERE for basically 7.5 episodes.. then the last 30 minutes of the season finale, the characters explain the mystery through dialog.
How is that good writing? Having the characters explain the previous 7 episodes??? That goes to just how poor the disclosure within the series is. Basically it's like someone wrote episode 8, then worked backwards.. and it shows, terribly.
It's cheap and cheesy in the writing, each episode gets more ridiculous and nonsensical.. until the finale, which is completely ludicrous.
------- PASS --------
It goes NOWHERE for basically 7.5 episodes.. then the last 30 minutes of the season finale, the characters explain the mystery through dialog.
How is that good writing? Having the characters explain the previous 7 episodes??? That goes to just how poor the disclosure within the series is. Basically it's like someone wrote episode 8, then worked backwards.. and it shows, terribly.
It's cheap and cheesy in the writing, each episode gets more ridiculous and nonsensical.. until the finale, which is completely ludicrous.
------- PASS --------