Delivery (2021)

Salmonella warning

Sushi doesn't need to be cooked. Chicken is a different story. Perhaps if "Delivery" was about a sushi delivery, things would have come out fully cooked, but this show is about chickens, fried chicken and a company that delivers it. It's not an altogether bad concept. But it's not even half baked. Or is it fried?

In any event, it starts with a perfectly suitable setup. Mi Yeon is the ace delivery driver. Lee Tae Vin and Kim Jae Won are sidekick material. There's a missing mom, a mysterious hotel room, an alien cult and a ridiculous wig. None of these by themselves are really flaws. But there's not a fully developed show around all this. In eight episodes that run 8-10 minutes each, only the first and last episode have more than a shred of actual action. There's also a brief rehash of the previous episode and credits. All told, there's only about a dozen minutes of legitimate content and a good chunk of that is incoherently edited fighting set pieces.

The main culprit is that there's just no dialogue. Without lines for the actors and almost entire episodes with no forward plot movement, even an 8 minute episode is tiresome. Obviously the budget for this project was extremely limited, but that's no excuse for not having any semblance of a script. In the absence of it, there isn't even much to praise or criticize. It's simply an empty (egg)shell.

Not recommended.

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