Halfworlds

The story starts promising with dark and ancient Asian monsters, sound good and exciting. But its all end with just a simple explanation "Because they look just like us." Wow... In the end the whole story is blurry, there is still no real meaning behind everything and to be honest i was expected some supernatural monsters, superhuman abilities at least but it is just like low class gangsters cutting each other throats the whole season. The actors & actresses look gorgeous but that is only it. Shallow acting, trying to hard to be cool and look dangerous they forgot to act. Dialogs are short and sketchy, characters have no deep intact to the storyline, Everything are just flowing around each other. Hope they get it together for next season.

the genres are horror, drama and mystery. but the horror did not make the heart beat, even though I think Indonesian ghost is the scariest supernatural creature in the world. the drama is pretty confusing. the mystery? did not make curious and wonder. watching the first episode I immediately said "that's it?". but hey this TV series, show must go on, give a chance, it's a long story anyway. The second episode actually does not improve, along with the appearance of new characters the story even more chaotic. "Hey you can't judge this TV series ugly because it's only second episode without watching the whole episode". OK i watch until eighth episode, I have concluded, "do not waste your time".

I don't have a lot of knowledge about HBO Asia, but if this is the first TV show from Indonesia, I'm a really proud Jakartan. Although without this, I'm still a proud Jakartan for many other reasons. Anyway... Let's talk about Halfworlds.

Regardless of the pictures, it's good. It has a unique quality of Jakarta. The background story about the Demit and everything else is really interesting. I was quite fascinated when I heard the stories because from what I know, the story about these Demits are altered.

The length of the pilot is only 30 minutes, which kind of disappointing for me. I expected 15 minutes longer. But in only 30 minutes, it's packed well. A solid start, I must say.

Again, applause for Joko Anwar, my favorite director in Indonesia. Hoping the next episode would be better. I'm excited to see where the story goes, because after watching the pilot I still have no idea what's going on.

I knew for the first time about the series from social media then from the HBO advertise. I said to my self, "Wow an Indonesian series, directed by Indonesian top director, broadcast by HBO. Its going to be awesome!". Until I actually watched the first episode. There were so many "wait what?", "why?", "who are you" moments. The flow of the story was confusing, the transitions from one scene to another was odd. There were many flashing scenes jumping from one situation to another situation then back to the previous situation then jump again and so on. The acting were below HBO series bar. The episode was also ended awkwardly leaving me confused. I watched the second and the third eps and the conditions above still occurs. I am hoping so much there will be so much improvements and this series could have second season. I am very proud with this series and the director, cast and crews. Come on Joko Anwar!

Really liked the story and the concept. Watched the entire first season but spent the entire time trying to figure out if the main character was a different person because her hair went from bangs to no bangs. I found this confusing cause when her hair is up she looks completely different. Story made no sense and how do these people have super powers but fight like average joes? There was a lot of of random people with no explanation and the story would randomly throw stuff in and then completely abandon the plot or explain what was going on. Overall, I enjoyed it but remained confused. I tired to watch the second season but it got way to confusing and I liked the first season charters more.