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There were loads of monsters with scary teeth, but their barks are always worse than their bites. Actually, they don't bite at all and don't even really have teeth.

No matter how many times you defeat a monster, they just resurrect. No matter how many times the main characters die or land in a pit of inescapable darkness, they just pop back up again.

It is difficult to find a story interesting when the stakes aren't high and there is no follow through.

When you say you're leaving forever. Leave. When you die. Die. When you jump into an endless inescapable pool, then be bound forever. Without follow through, there is nothing but blah blah blah.

Unfortunately the storyline and chacaters were also underwhelming. They are so good and pure and wise, I thought I was watching paint dry. Less fireball, more cotton ball.

Then there was the desperate attempt by writers to create the melodrama of teenage love. Unfortunately, they made Landon so boring (and a goody love puppy) that I kept wishing he would disappear to greener pastures. It was maddening every time I sighed with relief of him finally leaving the show, just to reemerge. The love interest should be a stronger character with flaws that makes him stand out and interesting. Not the lovesick pupy that follows everyone around with his mopey head of hair.

Saying that, all the high school students looked like they're touching 30, are thin and scrawny with way too much make-up and hair pieces to make them pretty. They looked fake, and therefore it was terribly difficult to get invested.

If one ignores the violence, then the show would probably best appeal to kids under 13.

If one ignores the complete absurdity of the storyline, then the first series is rather entertaining. We watched this and joked that it is MacGyver with gore and nudity. Every now and then MacGyver/ Da Vinci would concoct a miracle machine out of sticks and stones in record time.

However, somewhere in the second season the story starts to loose its way. But it is only in the 3rd season that it completely spirals into chaos that bores. We're dragged along as Da Vinci loses his sanity, and there is seemingly endless chaos, murder, death, pain and war. In the midst of all this, he tries to solve a couple of murders. Apparently the show suffers an identity crisis.

I didn't find Da Vinci's ineptness in the third season fun to watch. I struggled to reconcile it with the happy-go-lucky oblivious MacGyver from the first 2 seasons. Too much dreaming and fighting and nonsense. It diluted the entertainment value.

As the seasons and episodes progress Lucifer increasingly becomes a whiny man child. The melodrama also increases with each episode. Did these writers attend soap opera school and what would a good soap be without endless manipulation? Less grating, that's for sure.

The storylines become more formaliac and monotonous. I suspect AI generated content would've been more creative.

The final nail was when I wondered whether making the devil the main character, is like making the lead character a paedophile. Then continuing to write it to show him as vulnerable and sad, yet oblivious about his manipulative and childish behaviour. Put him in an expensive suit and bring in his friends and mum that enable and exploit this behaviour and a new TV show is born.

As I couldn't stop associating the character with a horrible person hiding behind innocence, I decided to turn this off.