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Beautiful to behold, but almost completly lacking in substance. So far slow paced, which I usually enjoy because it gives time to flesh out characters. This show how ever is let down by poor writing and bland acting. Everything is spoon fed to us viewers through meaningless dialogue which often tries to sound elevated and grand, but falls flat as they are just long sentences full of fancy words without any meaning. After two episodes there are none of the characters I care about, is intrigued by, or am the slightest curious as to how their story will unfold. "this does not bode well...".

I honestly think that this is a missed opportunity to create something really special considering the source material and the budget, but despite the beauty of the product ion it fails to draw me in.

I guess this film is watchable if you are able to suspend disbelief and ignore obvious devices used to try and create the story line and tie it all toghether in some way. The inmates are portraid as stereotypical parodies found in other movies of this genre, and have no depth whatsoever (except the main character who sort of have an arc... sort of). The correctional officers behave more unpredictable than a racoon on cocain, and the prison system itself is just a chaotic mess without any form of control or function.

The story itself has been told before, and in better ways, but there is some potential which unfortunatly is left unresolved because of poor writing and character development. Feels alot longer than the 90 min runtime.