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I couldn't make it through the first episode because the voices all sound like a terrible dub. What is going on? If you are going to dub over actors who are literally speaking the lines on camera, it needs to be done FLAWLESSLY. Though I'm not even sure that this is dubbed? The voices and levels on the voices of the characters just sounds super bizarre and unnatural. It's literally so bad that the show is unwatchable. How did this get the green light? Am I taking crazy pills or does it sound like the actors are speaking from inside a low budget sound booth? I'm padding this review for length, sorry.

I'm not sure wtf happened between season one and season two, but the show has taken a nosedive in quality. The costumes are goofy, the plot is all over the place, the kid actors besides Gus are literally some of the worst characters put to screen (pEEeTeR). They are comically wooden and one dimensional, we get it there is an elephant kid. Also why do all of the hybrid kids look like they were dressed by the crew of 1970s Sesame Street? The Becky side story is painful to watch, general abbot has 0 charisma. The show focuses on every character except Big Man and Gus, who are literally THE reason anyone is watching this show, and in doing so it completely loses any sense of tone or coherency.

I don't understand the attention that this story has received. There isn't a single part of Where The Crawdads Sing that stands out, besides the painfully obvious fact that given a couple of weeks nearly anyone could have written this story. It's also obvious that this story was written by someone with next to no knowledge of North Carolina.

As SOON as the movie opens it is obvious that Louisiana is the setting. Even the TITLE sounds like a story set in Louisiana. It's like an AI was told to write a story about North Carolina and it just nonsensically peppered a bunch of random "southern" seeming things together. The end result of this is that the story seems to take place nowhere.

So to summarize, the plot is mediocre at best, the acting is so wooden that it verges on laughable, the characters are completely forgettable and again, the scenery is clearly NOT North Carolina. Overall this movie felt like a generic mess glued together by some of the hackiest writing in recent memory. Speaking of the hack who wrote this, the author of the book that this film was adapted from has an EXTREMELY questionable background.