The Back Pages

These actors are all like caricatures - the stories are also uninventive, short, and confusing. For a quality anthology series with excitement, strong acting, and innovation, stick to The Twilight Zone or Black Mirror. I only watched three episodes of this, but I can imagine the rest of the series also feels like a low budget acting school production.

It's times like this I wish I could quit my desk job and screen-write. I also wish I had read the reviews before trying this; I assume many of the high ratings are illegitimate reviews. Watch at your own risk, and be prepared to be bored to death.

There are moments.

What I liked most about this anthology series was...

THAT THE FOLKS BEHIND IT DID IT!

It's called gumption. These are Indie producers, probably Indie actors, Indie directors, and Indie writers.

And I could find them on Amazon Prime...not in some obscure little theater buried on some college campus somewhere in the West for a one-night showing, then release to DVD.

No, it's not what we're used to, but with this series of episodes behind them, they've learned a little. And maybe if there is another season, the directing will be a little tighter (the shooting and editing is not bad at all), the acting a bit crisper.

There stories are better than the negative reviews indicate.

Low budget, terrible acting and predictable and very corny plots. Do yourself a favor and watch Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams and/or Black Mirror.

I'd say this is probably the first review I have put up on IMDB! So, Backpages is an anthology series where each episode is a standalone show and it has a sci-fi. I am a huge fan of the classics like Twilight Zone and Outer Limits (the 90s version), so these kinds of shows always appeal to me. The first episode in this didn't make sense, although I desperately wanted it to (I re-watched the ending several times). And the second episode had a creepy mysterious feel of a young woman in a coma and parents tormented with the idea of pulling the plug. I enjoy the creepy atmosphere of the two episodes I've seen so far, even it takes me a bit to piece together what's going on. It's really well produced I thought, and I love the music too. I think it's a series with a lot of potential.

Grading on a curve this is D minus, right when I have had too much, its LITERALLY over. So keep that 13 minute run time AND I'm still watching the first 4, and were too low budget to show us more than shadow puppets. I mean this is not exactly Prime content . The endings dont make any sense. Remimds me a kids tv show called Mr. Dressup, but it's missing the talent.

Gosh what a bore.