Chosen

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.

Mostly here to counter-review the plethora of naysayers- it's entertaining and not about a bunch of bored American teens being ridiculous.

The comments about "bad parenting" seem almost scripted.

I'm surprised by the number of bad reviews that are supposed to be here. There are supposedly 207 reviews before mine but none of them are available to view. I found this show engaging and I always wanted more. I didn't find it completely predictable and I felt like I really cared about the main character. The story is more or less from her point of view, and doesn't show any scene without her as far as I remember. I'm only on the third episode and I have to say the three or four star reviews (or less) which I can't see can't be right. Perhaps that's why they are hidden. I've seen some real stinkers in this isn't one.

I rated Chosen a 3 and I was being generous. Never have I ever rated a film or series so low. The worst part is I gave it two episodes to redeem itself though it was obvious from the very first scene it wasn't worth viewing. How could no one scripting, producing, directing, edition the mess not realize how completely bad it is? Chosen gets my vote for worst dialogue in film history.