The Back Pages

Incredibly low quality and terrible acting. I stopped watching it after the 4th episode. The positive reviews should be from relatives.

I get that this is shot, written and directed by indy everything, making a show isn't easy. However, the acting and storyline is just cringy. I'm in S1E3, the the old guy just can't stop overacting - his lines make me cringe. Not only that, the whole dialogue seem entirely scripted. There are people who have probably never acted before.

I'm sure the storylines are great, but I can't waste any more of my time trying to get through this. I guess i'm not a fan of indy projects. TV shorts like Love, Sex, and Robots and Black Mirror are more my speed. The Back Pages suffers more from everyone with a lack of experience in all their roles, including the director.

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.

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.

The plots are interesting. The dialogue is horrible. The actors are atrocious. They are just really, really, really bad. Their movements are robotic and their facial expressions are ridiculous. When they're supposed to be sad you want to laugh. When they're emoting anger you want to laugh. When they're supposed to be funny (like the ridiculous old man in episode 3) you want to vomit. The show could have been so much better if they hired actual actors instead of pulling people in from the streets. Did the director have any experience or did he just ignore the ridiculousness in front of the cameras for the sake of a quick paycheck?