So many people are complaining about the highschool setting, so many about the writing, the story, the characters, annoying girls...
Yes, this show had its problems, but it didn't deserve to be cancelled just because of an upset fan community.
Especially when considering that there are a lot worse series that are not cancelled.
Someone wanted to make a story from material that didn't provide more background than three sentences per person. And for me, that story clicked after a time, even when I had to realize that this about the relationship between teenage twin girls and their father, who is the (well-known) Whisker, and how this relationship will actively accompany the apocalypse soon to come.
I adapted to that premise relatively fast. I found it a good idea to split the narrative into two parts that are several years (14) apart. The earlier part is where the basics for the apocalypse are laid out, the later story does cope with it and provides us definitely with a fair amount of zombie action.
But, and that was the first problem I encountered, It was difficult for me to accept the two different actors for Jade as the same person in both time periods.
The second issue may be that the Show does try to serve too many tastes. Putting in a slightly unnerving main character, styled (and even named!) as Billie Eilish, easily decipherable as "troubled young girl" may not have been the wisest decision.
Production values are good, the first two episodes are very interesting, but after that, problem no.3, the show gets more and more stereotypical aspects. It seems that the authors got not much clue how to fill the space between the good intro and the big finale.
So they decided for standard hide-and seek, with a few twists.
As a fourth problem, I think that. Evelyns' character is a bit overacted. The actress is great, but she has to be too much "bitchy" here.
Yet Lance Reddick wore the show for a big part of it on his shoulders alone, something we have to admit about Milla Jovowich in the movies, too.
I give that production 6 stars.
Especially when considering that there are a lot worse series that are not cancelled.
Someone wanted to make a story from material that didn't provide more background than three sentences per person. And for me, that story clicked after a time, even when I had to realize that this about the relationship between teenage twin girls and their father, who is the (well-known) Whisker, and how this relationship will actively accompany the apocalypse soon to come.
I adapted to that premise relatively fast. I found it a good idea to split the narrative into two parts that are several years (14) apart. The earlier part is where the basics for the apocalypse are laid out, the later story does cope with it and provides us definitely with a fair amount of zombie action.
But, and that was the first problem I encountered, It was difficult for me to accept the two different actors for Jade as the same person in both time periods.
The second issue may be that the Show does try to serve too many tastes. Putting in a slightly unnerving main character, styled (and even named!) as Billie Eilish, easily decipherable as "troubled young girl" may not have been the wisest decision.
Production values are good, the first two episodes are very interesting, but after that, problem no.3, the show gets more and more stereotypical aspects. It seems that the authors got not much clue how to fill the space between the good intro and the big finale.
So they decided for standard hide-and seek, with a few twists.
As a fourth problem, I think that. Evelyns' character is a bit overacted. The actress is great, but she has to be too much "bitchy" here.
Yet Lance Reddick wore the show for a big part of it on his shoulders alone, something we have to admit about Milla Jovowich in the movies, too.
I give that production 6 stars.