Hollywood Reporter calls the series "A derivative bore"
especially in light of a recent glut of excellent superhero shows.
That reminds me of a similar complaint people had with Runaways (2017) where it took the entire first season for the kids to actually run away :P
But yeah... I don't know if I'll check this one out; I feel like the 'edgy superhero show' genre is starting to get played out and the reviews aren't helping.
As someone who watched through all eight episodes while doing some other stuff simultaneously... yeah, it is quite dull. Which for a superhero work is the worst thing imaginable.
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x4 - Not sure if that would have helped the utterly abysmal pacing or the fact that it's been released after two praised extremes on the superhero scale, an extreme deconstruction in The Boys and an extreme reconstruction in Invincible. When even the big two are doing what you've done before, then it's an extreme case of "Seinfeld" Is Unfunny.
RUNAWAYS basically had the problem that the writers clearly didn't want to do a show about teenage superheroes and were intrigued by the idea of a bunch of adults working on an occult mystery.
Which is...not Runaways.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.I'm watching it right now. Knowing nothing of the comic book beyond what I've read about it here, I'm pretty much going in blind (with knowledge of the Utopian being killed off by his son I believe).
So is this a big deconstruction of Thou Shalt Not Kill? I admit, I'm seeing them ask a lot of questions other series have already asked.
One Strip! One Strip!In terms of the pacing, I've seen a few reviews that said a 10 episode event series would have easily been able to adapt the entire comic, plus the spinoff. But since Netflix bought Millar's comic company, they obviously want a big superhero franchise they own the whole rights to.
They do have Umbrella Academy, but they're more just the distributor there. Universal's the main producing company and Dark Horse still owns the comic rights. With Jupiter's Legacy, Netflix owns everything about the production.
If the series continues, it's more "Whatever Happened to Truth, Justice, and the American Way" versus a validation of the opposite. Basically, there's a massive amount of arrogance from those who think the Authority way works.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.
