The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself is a young adult TV series based on the Bad Half book trilogy by Sally Green. The premise is there's a world of Witches we don't know about and a half blood boy that is stuck between two warring factions. We follow Nathan in the first few episodes as he goes to school, gets bullied and learns about his "blood". The story quickens the pace when he and some others become hunted and need to find a secretive Witch to help them.
Upto that point the story is engaging, the dialogue sometimes witty and it's quite interesting to watch. However after getting to Paris the gang rather hangs out in bars getting drunk and doing pointless things to waste time rather than actually getting to their destination. Character interactions become weirder with each following episodes. For instance one person, who is distant and completely uninterested in the group becomes a life long friend after hanging out with the gang for 5 days when there's very little reason for his change of heart. You'll watch the rest of the episodes of them hanging out having a dandy ol' time even though the clock is ticking for Nathan and they are being hunted by people that shoot first ask questions later. It starts making less sense every episode.
One of the pitfalls here is we follow the "good guys" and the "bad guys" at the same time. Meaning the viewer has way more information than the people involved making all their decisions painful to watch and many of the things that happen are incredibly obvious and predictable. It's a young adult show in the end so all the tension is forced. The writing takes a nosedive after the first four episodes upto the point where you have to force yourself to finish the show. It does not get better.
Nathan ends up being totally unlikable and stupid. If you expect him to become some great witch in these 8 episodes don't hold your breath.
Finally you can clearly tell the story leans heavily on the series Heroes. So not much originality here if you saw that series before.
I think there's more episodes coming, but I'm not sure I'll be watching them. Shame since the start was fun. So I'd rate the first four episodes 7-8 and the last four 5-6.
Upto that point the story is engaging, the dialogue sometimes witty and it's quite interesting to watch. However after getting to Paris the gang rather hangs out in bars getting drunk and doing pointless things to waste time rather than actually getting to their destination. Character interactions become weirder with each following episodes. For instance one person, who is distant and completely uninterested in the group becomes a life long friend after hanging out with the gang for 5 days when there's very little reason for his change of heart. You'll watch the rest of the episodes of them hanging out having a dandy ol' time even though the clock is ticking for Nathan and they are being hunted by people that shoot first ask questions later. It starts making less sense every episode.
One of the pitfalls here is we follow the "good guys" and the "bad guys" at the same time. Meaning the viewer has way more information than the people involved making all their decisions painful to watch and many of the things that happen are incredibly obvious and predictable. It's a young adult show in the end so all the tension is forced. The writing takes a nosedive after the first four episodes upto the point where you have to force yourself to finish the show. It does not get better.
Nathan ends up being totally unlikable and stupid. If you expect him to become some great witch in these 8 episodes don't hold your breath.
Finally you can clearly tell the story leans heavily on the series Heroes. So not much originality here if you saw that series before.
I think there's more episodes coming, but I'm not sure I'll be watching them. Shame since the start was fun. So I'd rate the first four episodes 7-8 and the last four 5-6.