Chosen

This series had some moments of intrigued, but, nonetheless, it is one if those series where you can fall asleep during part of an episode and when you wake up you didn't miss much!!!

Over half of this show is what I guess to be suspense build up. You get 25 cuts of someone walking, with music building up for every piece of dialogue delivered. There is no real explanation given for mostly everything going on and the characters aren't asking any.

The show also tries to focus in and spends way too much time on a love triangle thing that just does not work and adds needless sex scenes. It is like the entire story was written around a 17 year old girls sex life.

The story kept me interested, and there was intrigue. Enough that I watched the full series in a short space of time. The Sci-fi elements were really good. It was enjoyable at moments, but it was far from problem free. One of the main plot points I saw coming from the word go.

BUT I disliked how unhealthy many of the relationships between the characters were. I was hoping for a teen, let's discover ourselves whilst we uncover this mystery and get to the truth. There was so much backstabbing, and all the characters hurting each other a lot.

Also no one actually talked to each other, instead they jumped to conclusions, lied, and often did something stupid behind someone's back. With the exception of Marie, she was the only really likeable character.

Emma even did this to her Mum. Mads was actually vile. A lot of these things were often different to how the characters started out, and seemed to be there just to forward the plot.

I can honestly understand the mixed reviews to this.

Plot with holes. Bad acting full of long slow scenes. A dreadful lead actor whose character behaves irrationally.

I sat through two and a half episodes. By that time I was about ready to gnaw my own leg off to get away. So I fast forwarded through the other episodes. In total I gave this silly program about 3 hours of my life that I'll never get back.

Do yourself a favour and do anything other than watch this.

Seventeen year old Emma lives in Middelbo, a town whose sole claim to fame is that it was hit by a meteorite seventeen years before. She works at the meteor museum until an incident leads to her being fired, it also leads her to question whether the 'meteorite' on show at the museum is even real. She gets involved with a group that has other theories about the nature of the incident seventeen years ago. Soon Emma's life is get distinctly strange and more than a little dangerous.

I thought this was a decent enough series; it is by no means a classic but equally it is far from terrible. It gets off to a fun start and once Emma has a good idea about the truth there is a good level of threat and some solid action Emma is a good leading character and the supporting group is solid too; if more than a little irritating at times. The self-proclaimed leader of the group is petty and childish most of the time; jealous that Emma is discovering things as soon as she joined while the others never really found anything. The cast is solid enough with Malaika Mosendane being likeable as Emma. Many questioned are answered by the end of the sixth, and currently final, episode but more are raised leaving scope for another season; if there is more I'll watch.

These comments are based on watching the series in Danish with English subtitles.