Jungle

The first episode tries to be a mix between a musical poetry similar to romeo + Juliet while also trying to be like the kidulthood trilogy but it just fails at both unfortunatly, on the up side we get to see k koke make an apperance. Everything is just so bland.

Its like the show has identity issues, its not exactly cyberpunk although it tries so hard to be, with its bright neon lights in places where it has no business to be and lifts with no light at all... the whole episode just reminded me in the worst way of how a blade tv series could go so horribly wrong and yet its not exactly hip-hop either as actors will for no reason at all start rapping to eachother in the most bizarre places... theres no real explanation or proper transition.

Very very strange musical style to the show which makes no sense at all, kind of like it's tried to replicate shiros story and blue story while trying to be like top boy/kidulthood at the same time.

Once again Amazon making a series look good with awful film makers, writers and producers you can't stick good actors in a awful show and just expect it to work.

Everytime you think the show is about to get good they do another one of the stupid musical cut scenes and try and make it into some unique style of their own and it just fails miserably I honestly think Amazon need to hire better people to decide on good ideas and better produced film/series. Netflix seems to get it right with everything they put effort into and I can't understand why the richest company in the world is struggling so hard to make anything that isn't cheesy.

Where to start?

This series is just as tired and warn out as the UK drill scene.

The amount of service level conversations portrayed as deep meaningful dialogue. Honestly, it's so highly cringe is almost unbearable.

The acting is very sub par...so much over acting, you can clearly see that every is trying, but it just looks forced, cringe and falls flat on it's face.

It's looks slick, but after a few slow motion panning shots this runs dry pretty quickly.

Overall a wasted opportunity with a big budget to do something great. If this gets renewed for a second season, I'll eat my hat!

It's a 1/10 for me.

Jungle brought some really creative heads come together to give us something fresh and unique. However, I felt more effort went into the style of the show than telling a solid story.

My main issue with the show was that it felt rushed and things didn't really pay off, instead story arcs were left at lose ends and even though the show tries to bring things full circle at the end, for me it didn't work as I wasn't given enough time to care for the characters involved.

This show gave us the idea of the characters breaking out into drill in certain scenes. This is an interesting idea and sometimes it really works, however there were times where it took me out of the scene as it felt forced on some occasions. As a drill producer, I really appreciate the effort to bring drill and mix it with a crime drama. However, this idea can be improved upon.

The setting of Jungle is also really interesting. A near future London looks visually pleasing but that's where it ends. The setting or technology shown in this series isn't used to push the story and while it seems they're going to do something with it at the start of the series, it didn't go anywhere which is something I quickly got used to.

I would like to see another season as I feel it can be significantly improved upon as the ideas are good but don't help to push the narrative. While I have my issues with the show, I appreciate the effort gone in to create something different hence my 6 star rating.

I watched this after seeing posters for it everywhere in London, which look sick and really attention grabbing. The opening sequence with the lips and the clock was cool, I had high hopes. But it just never really went anywhere. I feel like it could have been great if it was more polished and more thought through. Cos there was lots of good stuff in there. Visual style and cinematography was on point, Ezra was solid, so was Poundz, the girl who played Gogos girl, Poundz mum. But then so many of the other performances were wooden and awkward. There were scenes where I had second hand embarrassment watching it- Tinie Tempah's scene? So bad I had to watch behind my hands. There were a few bits that were so corny I was shocked they made it in, it was like GCSE drama. I liked the two stories thing but was bored by ep 5 and 6. It definitely could have been 4 killer eps if it was written better. And the way they were woven in could have been more slick.

But the weirdest thing about it to me was the narrator. What was that? At first I thought it was Gogo at the end of his life looking back, or his Dad or father figure that we didn't see. Read books, travel the world... DMO! It felt like that wear sunscreen song- preachy and egotistical and unnecessary. And what was said in the narration didn't relate to what was in each episode. It was just a load of random thoughts- a vanity thing by the writers I guess. I was thinking, who is this brudda and why is he telling me how to live my life??

Overall- ok to watch, lots of potential, visually good but basic storyline, felt a bit amateur. Oh and the rapping- really worked for some people, not for others.