Ron

The kid actors are really bad: the brown headed kid is over acting and the curly headed kid is playing it too flat.

I know Down Cemetary Road is written by the same person as Slow Horses, but it feels like they put it into chatGPT to adapt it for TV. The acting is bad, the characters are worse. If you close your eyes and stuff cotton in your ears you won’t be able to tell any difference between Emma Thompson’s delivery and Gary Oldman's in Slow Horses, it’s the same rhythm and tone, but the acid doesn’t really land coming from Emma Thompson. Slow Horses works bc all of the actors and characters are multidimensional, sharp and funny, not so on Down Cemetery Road. Wigwam’s character and the actress playing her are particularly superficial. Joe’s grieving mom was horrible. All the fake-crying from all the characters is awkward to watch. None of the characters are seem real enough for me to care about any of them. (Also what is going on with AppleTV lately? They are churning out garbage and reviewers are really over hyping it). Speaking of garbage: the sets look cartoonish. The books and shelving behind Joes desk are clearly a flat 2D print or greenscreen. The street where Sarah lives is so fake, I keep expecting Oscar the Grouch to pop out of a can. It seems like they spent more on the CGI for the intro than they did for actual sets. It seems like casting tried to appeal to MAGA and appear less-woke by making all the minority-played characters either dumb or villains. Then again, all the characters are dumb, so it’s hard to tell. How many more times are they going to use the joke where Sarah doesn’t want to name their race, or their hairstyle. And then Zoe has to call her out and explain the joke, as if we didn’t understand it the two times before. That’s what really annoys me, bad writing treats the audience like we’re idiots and need everything reallllly spelled out. Like, we get it, they live on a kooky bohemian University street, we don’t need chickens and flags and pallets and tiny cars, where even the trash looks freshly painted and gentrified. The more I think about this, and put it in writing, the angrier I’m getting, and the more I realize I really hate this show.

I’m only through episode 1 and this is so cheese ball. It feels like I’m watching an AI-generated musical where they don’t sing. Everything is so choreographed, keeping me from caring about any of the characters. All I think is “wow this is fake”. That fire scene with the barrels was like someone opened chatGPT and typed “generate a video of burning barrels set to rap music alternating with a rousing irish jig”

This movie is bad. No one can act. Denzel plays Denzel. Jeffrey Wright (Bernard from Westwood) tries to play an ex-con and doesn’t come off convincing. The mother never cries when her son is kidnapped. The weird times you can tell Denzel is improvising just come off cringe. Like when he tried to get the guy to speak into a paperweight decorative microphone. You can tell Denzel is really impressed with the idea, bc it does it twice again within the same conversation, juuust in case you didn’t catch it. So awful. And the music is bad.

I love sci-fi and I also love drama. But this show has awful writing, and is so boring. The characters are walking cliches. The fake southern accents for San Neil’s character’s town are inauthentic and forced. People in the South (even in OK) don’t use the word “ain’t” in every other sentence. For really good dramas to work, the audience needs to empathize with the characters and understand why they make decisions, even if they are bad decisions. These characters are all over the place. It’s hard to empathize or understand any of them. With the amount of time that I have sat here watching, now on episode 7, that is plenty of time for me to understand their backstories and motivations. It’s like this series was written for dumb people who have to be explicitly told everything about each character. Invasion is a boring show and I don’t care for or like any of the characters. I hope the aliens eat them all

I’m a huge sci fi fan but this show was extremely disappointing to me. It has too many plot holes and realllly awful writing. The acting is just mediocre. For a series about multiple dimensions, these characters are extremely one-dimensional and superficial: Good-jason is all good. Bad-jason is all bad. Joel Edgerson acting out-of-breath is so 😬 The writer did not do enough research to write about the subject matter. It’s 9 episodes of “smart people” making dumb decisions. You can’t make a character smart just by saying they have a PhD. The in-universe logic isn’t even consistent. I haven’t read the book, and won’t, bc this series was torture to watch. I haven’t been this disappointed in a while

Ugh I can’t believe I watched this TRASH. I binged it in two days because it seemed like one of those thrillers that will satisfyingly make sense in the end with a big reveal. It had least one plot twist per episode. It’s GALLING that I sat through this to the end. I am really annoyed. The big complicated last episode used TIRED thematic devices like a ‘day of the saints’ parade, a scary-mask masquerade ball, a debutant with a dirty daddy, a southern small town conspiracy, and even a mirrored fun house, and with WAY more sociopaths and plot holes than I have ever seen in one series. SPOILERS: There are significantly more murderers in the ending than there are non-murderers. To sum it up: The serial killer is a serial killer. The missing girl is a serial killer. The missing girl’s mom becomes a serial killer whose parenting pushed her missing daughter into becoming a serial killer. The serial rapist is a serial rapist. The towns rich patriarch is a serial rapist, and, oh yeah, also sells the eggs of the underage female orphans, and also provides IV drugs so he can rape and then kill them, but only after also giving them fertility drugs to get more eggs to sell. His daughter is a murderer. The swim coach is a rapist and pedo. The psychiatrist is a rapist and a pedo. The psychic, the southern mom, the motel manager, and the orphanage workers are all complicit in the massive conspiracy. I honestly can’t sleep just because I’m so annoyed. I’ve never written a review before, but this series was just over the top. I should have just trusted my gut when it said not to get attached to this bc they allegedly just let this chick out of a *TEXAS* prison after 7 years with ONE weirdo creepy handler who is ALSO a pharmacist/psychiatrist/therapist/landlord combodude, just so she could recover anonymously??? By herself. Cutting hair. In Louisiana. With two underage bff’s. Ok. TURN IT OFFF

Best TV I have ever seen. I watched the whole season in 3 days and now I want MORE