JabezGill

Things I love: The Chateau and the property.

Things I hate: 1. The couple, they're annoying. Especially the woman.

2. Their design capabilities. They're making a 500 year old chateau/castle look like a millennial home makeover for an Airbnb. Things just look cheap and plain. If they had shiplap in France... I guarantee every wall would be ship lap.

3. THE MANUFACTURED DRAMA... it is unnecessary and so so so so so stupid. The fake wind storm that showed hypersped up video of the breeze blowing through the trees.

The little jokes and quips between the couple that is clearly staged and forced. Potential Disaster after disaster that is always conveniently avoided. Also, let's not forget that they had trespassers on ATVs and dirt bikes... that we hear but never see... even though there is a camera crew filming everything... 4. Their Budget... they're clearly giving the prices in Francs and not in USD because there is no way the bland Solar cost them 35k the French Franc equivalent of 6k Francs seems more plausible. The budget just doesn't make sense and they never said "we have 200,000 dollars to do this" or what it is. So far it seems the budget is whatever they need it to be for drama.

They need to focus on the restoration and bring in some historical preservationists and advisors that can give more information and help with their accuracy.

We get it, you want to be immersive and give honest portrayals of characters... but when the show is as average as this... people are barely watching the screen... so don't make us have to read 50% of the show. We are watching an American show in English for a reason.

Don't get me wrong, when done right (and used sparingly) it's awesome to have accurate languages in movies... but not for a "face paced" action movie. Let them talk with Russian accents but speak English. Let them talk to each other in Russian with certain lines or the top secret info. But not 5-8 minute scenes of it.

Overall... this show just isn't great. Pretty boring. Jensen Ackles is charismatic but even he seems to be giving half effort here. Everyone else is generic and forgettable.

Acting: David Corenswet was a bright spot.

Every other actor was just ok. Serviceable.

The Kents were awful. Hokey, twangy, southern accents... but they're supposed to be from Kansas.

Characters: Superman was a strong point, but too cheesy and immature at times. Lex was okay, Lois was okay. Mr. Terrific is getting hyped up on reviews but the character really wasn't anything unique or special. Same with Hawk Girl and Guy Gardener/Green Lantern. It was just "meh, okay." Supergirl was too brief to judge but I look forward to her movie still. All of the characters, including Superman, felt flat. The Kent's were awful. They're from Kansas but have hokey southern accents? The Kent farm was also a letdown. Krypto was fine but a little too front and center. The elemental guy was interesting but I can't remember his name.

Story: The story was average.

The script was bland, no laughs, all the potentially dramatic/emotional moments were immediately undercut.

I am glad that they didn't spend and hour and a half doing an origin story, but I wasn't fond at how you're dropped into the story with 5-6 lines of

Unless there is a big twist that Superman's message from his parents is actually some shenanigans from Zod... that "twist" is a bit stupid.