Don't Watch This

I went into this one with zero expectations and somehow I still managed to get disappointed.

The "stories" of each episode are so poorly scrambled together I can't believe anyone thought they were a good idea... The third one was the only one that made me even slightly uncomfortable and that's just because they just threw in every single phobia imaginable without any kind of coherent plot.

So ...my qualified guess is that they kidnapped a bunch of car mechanics, put a gun to their heads and forced them to write a horror story in 10 minutes and then direct the episodes and act in them. That's the only reasonable explanation why this show is so god damn awful.

Seriously, who authorizes this crap? 3 minute "episodes" from the mind of prepubescents. Take anything you've seen before (no context, no plot, just a scene) & think of it being recreated for the Syfy channel...bad cgi, laughable dialogue, saying wtf to yourself, all that. You've got Don't Watch This.

The title of this Netflix mini-series, Don't Watch This, is at high risk of becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy if one merely looks at how sloppily the horror shorts in this collection have been assembled, without a single theme to bind them. This series is undoubtedly off to a bad start with Season 1, but could still fulfill a larger purpose of becoming a solid platform for short horror films from aspiring filmmakers around the world. Within Season 1, barring Episode 2 and 3, the others have at least a semblance of a plot and are watchable. Watchable, yes... but no one's saying they are worth-watching, because there's nothing here that you haven't seen before.

The title is probably the most apt thing for this show. Don't Watch This. Enough said.