justinmo-1

Like Haven it's a new girl in a country town apparently by chance but occultly predestined to be there and supernatural forces are thought to be at work. There's less of the concretely reified majic than Haven shows and less episodic storylines but it would seem to be derivative, not helped by the fact that Mia Skaringer looks like an older Emily Rose. But it's watchable and entertaining if you can binge-watch it. It's probably more for "Nordic Noir" fans than those of standard mystery series.

It's weird that all the other reviews so fare are either 10s or 0-3 and the comments either damning or lauding, it just seems to be a normal detective thriller to me. Maybe it's the cross-cultural Chinese foreign student element that creates the huge reaction but since SBS specializes in multicultural progamming you'd think viewers would expect that. A normal well plotted twist-and-turn detective thriller for mine.

Another mediocre Western spoiling SFs name by pretending to be it. During the depression studios still made obsolete swashbucklers because they only had the sets and costumes for them, they had a poverty of material means. These retro Westerns can't claim that excuse. They're as rich as anything now; but it has made them all backward. What they suffer now is a poverty of soul and mind, destitution of spirit and imagination, absence of intellect. We continue to hope for the day Hollywood actually films some SF not just lousy mafia and Westerns. I wish they'd go back to some good writers and actually film decent SF not reduce SF to retard Westerns. If you like Westerns Defiance might be OK. I don't, it's rubbish.