Sweet Home 2020

One of the best thing I've seen in a while.

Let's start by what's wrong:
- the intro scene is a very bad choice, not only does it not introduce anything, but by the end of the first episode you have forgotten it, it totally fails to create an expectation. Worse: it's entirely useless when it finally happens.
- Very often the music chosen for action scene feels out of place to the point that it's actually disturbing

That's it. Everything else is great.

First it looks amazing. The general atmosphere, the light, the colors, it's gorgeous. The FX are pretty good too, enough so that the pretty complex monsters do not look cheap.

The concept is quite nice. It's like a regular zombie story, except it's not contagious but anyone can turn at anytime. And usually there are regular and sometimes special zombie, here all are special with a special characteristic.

We're following several plots:
- The way the whole building population settles and tries to survive the situation
- The main character dealing with his transformation
- The monster hunts
- A small investigation in what happened (it's pretty light in this season)
- The relationships between the individual characters

And it's all great

Interestingly, the best part is not the monsters, but the characters. There are a lot of characters, like a lot, and even if some of them are glorified background mobs, there are maybe 15 noticeable ones. Each bring something to the group, and to the story. It's kinda hard to follow, and hard to remember their names, but going with their defining characteristics is enough (the firewoman, the teacher, the gangster, etc.). For some we see a background story, for some not, but they all have their moment to shine and you get attached to them fast. Which is harsh because in GoT fashion: no plot armor. A lot of them will die along the way. But there can be a whole episode without any monster and the story is still great.

You get some great action scenes because some of them are real badass.
You get very emotional scenes on some deaths.
You get some pretty gory ones too, depending on the monsters. Warning: lots of blood.
A lot of extreme tension scenes.

Each monster has a gimmick. And even if we don't see them that much, it's fun.

Often in Netflix shows quality goes down after a while, probably not intentional but it often feels like they had already spent the budget or they were behind on the deadline and that in the second half (be it of a movie or a season) they gave up on details. Not the case here, not only the quality never drops in the whole season, the final three are even a notch above (at least in Season 1, we'll see for the rest, I hope).

MY THOUGHTS ON SWEET HOME:

-WARNING: Spoilers Below-

This was such a good show! From start to finish it kept me hooked, there's one MASSIVE downfall though... And that is it... ENDED! I cant BELIEVE they ended this only after ONE season?! It definitely deserved another season at least just to finish the story but at the same time the ending was good enough for it to be the ending of the show entirely.

A major thing about this show that caught my eyes was the Monsters and how they were created and came to be. I actually loved the design of all of them and how they all connected to the desires of the people. Someone desired to be the best runner in the world? His monster was extremely fast. Someone desired to be a mother? Her monster gave her that... Someone desired to kill everyone? Yeah that wouldn't be a good monster! it's such a brilliant idea and they managed to pull it off amazingly.

I'll be honest though, I usually avoid shows which are dubbed because I struggle to get immersed into it because I focus too much on the subtitles and not what's actually happening. If you're anything like me though I promise you something, that won't be an issue with this show. You will be hooked!

My only problems with this show (there aren't many) is firstly that I felt that it wasn't long enough and they could have added a lot more to the show and secondly the bleeding was so unrealistic and unbelievable. When the characters had a nose bleed it would always bring me out to the immersion because of how weird and badly created the blood looked. If you can look past those 2 things you're in for a treat though.

Overall rating: 8/10

After watching the first season for the second time, i noticed a few overshadows and details that i didn't catched at first, i also realised some of my ratings of the first episodes were actually wrong, this series is full of beautiful moments, i love how they make even in scenes that don't have dialogue move the plot further, yes, it's an apocalypse, and there are a lot of things going on, but i appreciate that they dedicated minutes to show how characters are dealing with grief, fear and even rage. This is a huge slap on the face for certain apocalypse series out there, that mistake character development as a 40 minute episode dedicated to endlessly chat and unecessary drama. Sometimes, you just need to make three characters hug each other and start to cry, and it's enough to tell you how they're feeling, and solve their plot so they can start to move foward. And this series does it FLAWLESSLY. Actors and Actresses exceed on showing with their eyes, expressions and even with the lack of them, not only their characters motifs, wants, fears, but what they really think of the situation. It's a wonderful series, in both his action and "drama" contents, and it's worth wacthing a second time or with more attention.