With decent child acting, an enjoyably unsettling score and good direction and pacing, this series is great... until the final episode, which is a mess. The painting? The serpent? The amulet? The kids' equations? It all adds up to nothing. Really seems like the writers were just throwing a bunch of ideas up in the air to keep the audience engaged but had no idea where the story was actually going. The final episode is an exercise in atmosphere with zero logic. The overall result is a lot like Lost or The Leftovers - mystery-box storytelling that wants to seem a lot smarter than it actually is.
Review of Children of the Stones
