Felix Bauer-Schlichtegroll

Time and attention are valuable commodities. Disclaimer: This is not a review, but a meta-review of the reviews. --GOOGLE REVIEWS-- A non-insignificant proportion of the 5 star reviews seem to be quite clearly AI-generated. Out of those 5-star reviews that seem more natural, noticeably many fall within the category of reviews where the review in question is the only Google review that the reviewer has ever given. A number of '5 star reviews' acknowledge areas of improvement/ things that were not so great; A) Why give it 5 stars if one has acknowledged areas of improvement? B) Does the reviewer understand how the star rating system works for most people? C) Can I trust this review[er]? The negative Google user reviews generally display a common theme: - The show is [very] poorly written; - Incoherent plot; - The characters have little depth; - Disregard for original lore; - The acting is not convincing; - Concerns regarding 'woke'-ness. --AUDIENCE VS CRITIC REVIEW PLATFORMS-- Metacritic and Rotten tomatoes display an extreme spread between Critic review scores and audience review scores: Metacritic - Critic score 67 - Audience 3.9 Rotten Tomatoes - Critic score: 80% - Audience: 17% --CONCLUSION-- The show seems to be suffering from poor audience reception. There are indicators of positive review/ rating manipulation and fake/unnatural promotion on Google reviews, as well as review bombing. There is a very large spread between Critic scoring (positive) and Audience scoring (extremely negative).