Michael J

It has some phenomenal acting, and there is a lot happening. The costume design is very strong too. This is not a show you should watch while doing something else. It merges a dystopian world with our current reality. It is like a Barton Fink meets Fight Club with hacktivist jargon throughout. and while suffering from a lack of budget for its special effects and editing at times. While I agree with most reviews, the problem I find with this is too much maladaptive behavior shoved into every character. While this proves to be the protagonist’s point of view, i find it oversaturates the plot and character development. This review is only based on the first three episodes, which include: drug addiction, S&M with a pregnant woman, beating someone nearly to death for therapy, battered and raped relationship, high amounts of infidelity (with a hint at pedaphilia), sexual espionage, and the main character’s fall into addiction, and accepting physical abuse. The one character removed from all these neurotic and harmful behavior just suffers from anxiety.

Modern dressing on rigid Catholic values. The writing struggles throughout. In the first episode, the warriors have to ask for a pain reliever for their dying comrade, as if this would be withheld unless asked. But then, this is the overt goal of the series. You have an orphan who has suffered tremendously, but because of her purity through suffering she is rewarded. Catholic views of demons and angels are tweaked, but maintain the traditional values. The interesting tension is with female agency. The warriors are all female, and one of the main characters is trans. Yet the heroine, as she mentions in episodes 1 and 2, needs “to be rescued” by a man. It is so apparent she has to scoff at it. and men are the superiors of the female warrior monk order. Let’s not mention the common showing of the heroine’s ample cleavage. the writers fail to make the plot and dialogue believable, and interesting, leaving us with Oliver Twist morality with strong Catholic undertones, that become more clunky, than evocative and interesting.