You can really feel this show's wanting to stretch its creative limbs. It wants to bring a certain respectability to the superhero genre and does it fairly well, by way of a focus on mental illness and society's misunderstanding of people who suffer from them. But weirdly that same focus on mental space, memories lends the show an almost nebulous grounding, making it difficult for this viewer to connect to what I'm seeing when the borders of the characters feelings are with each episode becoming increasingly complicated and harder to pin down. ( this is usually David) Also, each characters specific beliefs on mutant rights are either altogether ignored or layed by the wayside to deal with David's growing instability with his massive psychic ability . This wouldn't be such a problem if I was interested in the characters when they weren't looking after David, if they had unto themselves some strong charisma.Whenever a character does veer off into more personal unrelated territory, the awkwardness of the show does bleed through. There's also the problem of writing about psychic or mental abilities. That power specifically when it's the focus requires delicate explanation. You could almost say it saves the writers from getting ahead of themselves but it also also lays far too many roadblocks for the show to truly gallop The shows strengths are it's deft execution of dread and horror and it's willingness to experiment visually with untreated material. Sadly, though the shows thematic focus does nearly get lost in its own logistics. 7/10
Review by DeletedBlockedParent2017-03-27T07:23:54Z
You can really feel this show's wanting to stretch its creative limbs. It wants to bring a certain respectability to the superhero genre and does it fairly well, by way of a focus on mental illness and society's misunderstanding of people who suffer from them. But weirdly that same focus on mental space, memories lends the show an almost nebulous grounding, making it difficult for this viewer to connect to what I'm seeing when the borders of the characters feelings are with each episode becoming increasingly complicated and harder to pin down. ( this is usually David)
Also, each characters specific beliefs on mutant rights are either altogether ignored or layed by the wayside to deal with David's growing instability with his massive psychic ability . This wouldn't be such a problem if I was interested in the characters when they weren't looking after David, if they had unto themselves some strong charisma.Whenever a character does veer off into more personal unrelated territory, the awkwardness of the show does bleed through.
There's also the problem of writing about psychic or mental abilities. That power specifically when it's the focus requires delicate explanation. You could almost say it saves the writers from getting ahead of themselves but it also also lays far too many roadblocks for the show to truly gallop
The shows strengths are it's deft execution of dread and horror and it's willingness to experiment visually with untreated material. Sadly, though the shows thematic focus does nearly get lost in its own logistics. 7/10