turu

I knew it was bad about 10 minutes into the first episode but I watched it to the end knowing it wouldn't get any better because I wanted to be able to write an honest review and because I took some pleasure in critiquing how awful it was. I don't want to waste time here as I've already wasted 6 hours. The script was poorly written, all the main characters were unlikeable, shallow, lacking in empathy and deceitful. It was laughably soap-operaesque with all the close ups and overly mawkish facial expressions and sentimentalism. The repetitive snarky comments by the main characters reflected their emotional immaturity and lack of emotional and relational intelligence. All the performances seemed staged or dialed in. All the characters were 1 or 2 dimensional, had no emotional depth and seemed preoccupied with materialism, domination, power, sex or how they appeared to others. Perhaps one of the points was to coax people who aren't super wealthy to delight in the downfall of such a materially obsessed, shallow, narcissistic family but I found it poorly executed, poorly directed, and the plot preposterous at moments, like when NK's character was at the police station being interrogated without an attorney. Really? Someone of her status and social power would allow herself to be interrogated by police without her attorney present? Every character was a cutout stereotype, down to the two cops. The lesbian-like rough around the edges detective, the ethical black single-father cop, the pretty single young woman who is pregnant with the father's child, the entitled, pot-smoking devil-may-care father, the 3 brothers- one, a complete obnoxious jock, the middle brother who is an artist type, and the young innocent brother who still has a conscience.....The troupes go on and on.. People are more complex than these characters and it makes me think the writers might not have had the savvy to adapt the book in such a way that sustained the complexity and humanity of these characters.