Weston Buswell

I feel like a could post a novel about how awful this show is. Instead, here's a nutshell: DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME!!! This show is VERY poorly written. It's an incoherent and pathetic attempt at a horror / mystery story filled to the brim with unsupported drama and forced "emotional" sequences. There's absolutely no originality in any of their short "ghost stories" and they are all completely irrelevant to the main story. (Which all together feels like an hour or 2 spread out over 10 episodes and offers absolutely no resolution.) There's not a single redeeming quality in this show. I finished it out of a hope that it just MIGHT have some big twist or some creative way to tie in their fragile paper mache "ghost stories" into the main story... But no... I was left completely unsatisfied. The season cliffhanger was just as pointless and unsupported as the short stories. Not to mention the acting was so terrible that it completely destroyed any hope of immersion. Basically, this is just a REALLY awful attempt at AHS + Pulp Fiction + M. Night twists. Sounds good in theory, but trust me... It was not done any justice. This show completely bastardized some of the easiest and common themes to write about, Love and Death. I will not be watching season 2. (God forbid it gets any funding or support) Dear Netflix, Stop canceling good shows to make room for complete GARBAGE like this. Also, I'd like my 10 hours back. Where can I apply for a full refund?

NUTSHELL: Overall, this series is a complete mess. Episodes 1, 2, and 5 are the only ones worth the time. Even still, those episodes left me wanting so much more story wise, that I don't want any more at all... The concepts, and the SFX / CGI in those episodes were the redeeming factors. Should have scrapped all the other nonsense just to focus on those episodes. So just how jumbled up are these shorts? VERY... There's not an overlapping cohesive theme at all. It feels to me that the "experimental short films and technology" thing is just a very lazy cash-grab excuse for them not having any kind of structure, cohesion, and leadership. It seems like they were just begging for funding with as little work as possible. It all felt very rushed and lazy... NOTES FOR IMPROVEMENT: Episodes 7 and 8 (ADAM) should have just been a single cohesive episode, but it seems there was literally no attempt to even try to tie them together aside from the "human brain bots" theme. Could have simply had the "Mirror" reveal the robot's name as "Jacob" and voila! Not to mention, there's no "ADAM: Episode 1"??? I guess they don't know how to tell a story or count... The CGI was the only interesting thing of those 2 episodes, and yet, it still needed some real TLC. I'm not sure I'd go as far as to say it was a "redeeming factor" at all... Episodes 4 and 10 are "meh..." at best.... And episodes 3,6 and 9 are a complete waste of time. Episode 9 should have been either been split into 2 "full" episodes and had them each elaborated with context, or just scrapped entirely. CONCLUSION: (Something OATS knows nothing about) Love, Death, Robots and Black Mirror have a FAAAR superior format with their "experimental shorts"... If you want good storytelling and solid CGI / SFX. Simply stick with those. Even the 5 min episodes have a viable and understandable beginning, middle, and end.