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Part fun, part unbearable dialog from the most idiotic, spinelss adult characters I've ever seen. ------------------ Pros: - Northwest woods mystery vibe - 30 year-old small town coverup story - Great acting - Interesting, artistic shots - All around a very fun show Cons: The fashionably spineless parents who set no boundaries (and apologize for not obeying their kids' whims better), plus a privileged main character who can do no wrong. Seriously, the amount of affection the "cool-dad" pours on the nine year-old girl, plus the lack of boundaries, while desperately trying to keep her happy is super-weird. Kid-driven shows need the adults out of the way so the kids can solve the problems. But that means the adults are dead, dumb, or degenerate. I've never seen a show where the adults are fully present AND the kids still run everything. There are literally no boundaries or consequences: - Cops: "You skipped school? Well if you don't want to be there I guess there's nothing I can really do. Here, let me show you the evidence locker." - Parents: "We have to make her stop posting stories. But, what can we do? There's no way we can change the wifi password! What to do, what to do... " - Dad: "My best friend was kidnapped on a bike at night, so go ahead and take off on a BIKE AT NIGHT. I mean, you're nine and alone, what could happen?" - Also Dad: "You stole something from the principal's office? I'm SO SORRY I didn't tell you more about my past sooner! And p-please promise me you'll be careful...it's not my place to give you rules, so please? Just p-promise me?" - Principal: "Your kid accused someone OF MURDER!" Mom: "Can't stop my LITTLE GIRRRL!" (cue Runaways) As a parent, you will definitely need to suspend belief. Here is the crux of the problem IMO: - If a show is kid-driven, remove the adults. - If adults are present, introduce boundaries for the kids—it's just another challenge for the kids to surmount. But you have to pick, or you end up with unbelievably stupid adult characters that you pray don't really exist.

A timid teen hero has an existential crisis at the exact moment he should be saving thousands of dying human beings. After a sufficient amount of slaughter, he has finally summoned enough white-hot rage to do his job. This is followed by another 5 minutes of powering up as countless more die. Any other worker would have been fired by now. Finally he cuts loose with that wild pubescent boy-shriek so common to anime heroes, and charges the monster who should have been dead 10 minutes ago. The population has been reduced by half, but the hero has found himself. He will do the same thing tomorrow. Other common anime features of this show: • main character who stares at the ground and talks in halting whispers • overbearing girl who pushes him around • brooding father-figure with strange hair and sideways beard • confusing ending which makes the entire story pointless

Great show except for Dr. Hemlock in the most recent seasons. The old "slow-walking evil genius who always has his hands behind his back and is too cool to ever talk in more than a whisper" trope. Ridiculously annoying. Other than that one minor part, it's great.

We are only two episodes in, so maybe I should give it more time. But those two episodes are trying really hard! We already have fully developed characters that the show tries to develop anyway, plot points that are way too complicated for the second episode, lots of reminders that the main characters are geniuses, never ending wit, fashionably cold family members, sudden and repeated lesbian sex scenes (because this is a very brave and important show), and characters who repeatedly remind us that we are on a luxurious vintage yacht lest we forget this is supposed to feel like Agatha Christie. In episode 2, the main detective is already giving the kind of summary dialogue that belongs at the end of a whodunnit, a new character is introduced to put him in his place (as if enough time has elapsed for us to care) and most of the characters have had secrets revealed. Pacing doesn’t seem to be a concern. And this is just my opinion, but if I wanted to hear the sound of a man clearing phlegm from his throat, I’d listen to myself in the bathroom on any given winter morning, not the main detective speaking. There are some good moments. The sets are elegant and the style is quirky and fun. But it feels like the sets and style are trying to cover for the tropes and the unearned emotions that get thrown at you quickly. I’ll give it one or two more episodes, but if it continues like this, I would not recommend it.

"Fight your way to the front of the train" is the sole premise of this movie. Of course the writers can't just say that. So they use the well-worn backdrop of climate collapse, add a little class division, and copy the slightly mad feel of 'Road Warrior' to make viewers feel like they're part of something important. But none of these themes are ever developed, because they're not important enough to be developed, because they're only there to support the sole premise of "fight your way to the front of the train." There is literally nothing more to say about this movie. That's why they crash the train at the end, and everyone except the two obligatory "Adam and Eve" characters die. They only wanted enough story to support "fight your way to the front of the train" and once that was accomplished, everyone needed to be gone, or they'd have to write an actual story about them. This movie is little more than a video game, and the people trying to pull some deeper meaning from it are putting more time into figuring it out than the writers did in dreaming it up.