Much Was Improbable - None Of Which Was Unexplained
Warnings - mature audience material: violence, violence against children, suicide, open-mouth eating, drinking, more violence, pulsing lights, mature audiences.
Acting: enjoyable; double popcorn w/butter for the central character.
Script work: exceptional.
Production values: somewhere between good and very good.
Directing: the director is responsible for everything. Props for how everything came together; however, the director is also responsible for editing...
Editing: not without glitches and occasionally bothersome. There were jump-cuts that should not have occurred. Music segues and scene transitions were occasionally jarring. Maybe the series was artlessly recycled from the movie. The director should have made the editor fix these things.
Notes: The talented writers use of misdirection in Mouse kept me second-guessing until the 19th episode. Much was improbable; none of that was unexplained. And plenty of themes to discuss after viewing. A tangled skein that fully needed 16 of its 20 episodes so the writers could address all the times viewers hit the stone wall of improbable action.
My hat is off to the script coordinators, who kept all the threads in sight and without loose ends. They likely wondered why the writers hated them.
Highly recommended if you are not bothered by violence, psychopaths, and/or K-drama eating scenes.
Acting: enjoyable; double popcorn w/butter for the central character.
Script work: exceptional.
Production values: somewhere between good and very good.
Directing: the director is responsible for everything. Props for how everything came together; however, the director is also responsible for editing...
Editing: not without glitches and occasionally bothersome. There were jump-cuts that should not have occurred. Music segues and scene transitions were occasionally jarring. Maybe the series was artlessly recycled from the movie. The director should have made the editor fix these things.
Notes: The talented writers use of misdirection in Mouse kept me second-guessing until the 19th episode. Much was improbable; none of that was unexplained. And plenty of themes to discuss after viewing. A tangled skein that fully needed 16 of its 20 episodes so the writers could address all the times viewers hit the stone wall of improbable action.
My hat is off to the script coordinators, who kept all the threads in sight and without loose ends. They likely wondered why the writers hated them.
Highly recommended if you are not bothered by violence, psychopaths, and/or K-drama eating scenes.
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- Jan 1, 2022