Alpie

The positives: Alfred Molina is the heart and soul of the show. He carries himself with grace and calmness. The show is amazingly picturesque, I wish we got to see more of the surrounding area. Finally, you have to commend the use of so many indigenous people in the show.

The negatives: the characters- the town is full of horrible people, who very quickly become tiring. Some may have a quirky trait but are nothing much more beyond that. And the Blue-Jean family are a different level of annoying, their reactions, responses, approach just comes across as overly melodramatic. The suffer from bad writing and bad direction. But my biggest issue with the show is the mystery/whodunnit aspect, the reveals are so mundane.

So what you're left with is either a murder mystery show, where the mystery is mundane or a drama where the characters outside of the lead are shallow and unlikeable.

From the trailer I was expecting something similar to 'Are You Afraid Of The Dark?' But instead we get a lite version, where the stories shared is less than 40% of each episode. The remaining 60% is tediously spent on the story tellers. Tedious because the central character Ilonka is not a believable 90's kid. She is some modern day teen equivalent making it difficult to empathise or even like. Maybe that's harsh and it's a character with little to no space for growth or an arc It leaves you wishing for a different balance in the episode and a different lead character. Personally I think it should have been centred around Amesh.

Watched this film because it was repeatedly mentioned as a good film. Genuinely struggling to see what's good about it. The story is fairly generic with a twist you see a mile away. The lead actor is poor, he cannot emote and is more interested in looking stylish and a wanna be James Bond. Certain actors who are made to look old just look like someone has thrown chalk dust in their face.

My biggest problem is with the amateurish execution of the film, it's little things that wound me up and they mounted up to the point I lost patience.

If there was a better lead actor and a better director at the helm the film could be passable at best but as is, it's just been a waste of my time