Sløborn

The 8-episode series will keep your attention until the end! My recommendation

Great drama with great characters. The actors are superb and the storyline flows. Not a dull moment! Obviously very relevant to present day situation taking it a few steps further, showing us where this all could end.

No idea why it has sci-fi listed in the description as it is not sci-fi, it is just a drama/thriller. Thought it was a good effort though. No idea when it was filmed but quite relevant as it based around a growing global pandemic. Not familiar with any of the actors but thought there was some decent performances. Hope they do a season 2.

"Sloborn" tries to keep too many balls in the air and ends up dropping them all.

There is simply too many plots and sub plots in this series. It starts to show by the time you are about half way through, as the plots intersect and become more scrambled as the story moves towards its odd ball conclusion.

It does have some merit up to the fourth episode and the acting is decent. I found a number of the characterisations a bit too peculiar and some, deeply unlikable. The abusive cop/father and the druggie author, stand out in this regard.

Not bad but could have been better if the story had been kept simpler and the characters made a little more relatable.

5/10 from me.

Up until episode 6 Sløborn goes strong with convincing character and story build-ups (although there's a few too many different storyarcs), and does especially well with introducing the main issue - a deadly pandemic - quite in quite subtle tones, focusing more on societal reaction and the slowly growing awareness towards the virus, instead of throwing in right into your face. Thing is: everything that was built up before is drawn through the mud during the last two episodes, where the tone of the Series changes radically, nobody in the writers room seems to care about inherent logic anymore, but just throws one wanna-be drastic moment after the other into the plot. It's actually really painful (not in a good way) and even cringey to watch in the end - especially because of the fact that it had so much potential in the beginning.

Episode 1-6: 7-7.5/10 Episode 5: 4/10 Episode 6: 2/10