Joshua Bemerlick
This review may contain spoilers
"All Of Us Died The Most Unnecessarily And Pointless Death In The History Of Cinema" - I-Want-My-15-Hours-Binge-Watching-This-Back Edition
The show just deliberately and continuously creates problems that didn't need solving in the first place then they themselves didn't know how to solve them so they just be like: "Let's kill 3/4 of the cast then bring down the curtain, the end." I will try my best not to spoil anything but god damn it's hard because everything in this show just "happens" and in the most illogical way possible.
The characters. Boy, they show absolutely no development in any aspect whatsoever throughout the entire show. You would see them spending 3/4 the time of an episode rambling about the philosophy of life, friendship and knowledge about zombies then the rest 1/4 pulling a complete 180° when they were facing the actual situations, stopping halfway because of friendship and dumb teen romance. They also behave in a very weird way, they would be bawling out for the people they met just 5 minutes earlier, but be like :frown face: for the people they knew their whole life.
The plots. To sum it up you can leave out the first 2 episodes, compress the rest down to 30 minutes, slap it in any section of any other zombie show and the whole thing still would still make sense. It had a good start I admit. But then it got so tiresome and inconsistence and this is the first Kdrama show in my 20 years of watching Kdrama that got me this tiresome of inconsistencies. They introduced too many characters and social topics like teen pregnancy, bullying, internet points addiction, half-assed political stuff, injustice, adult's heartlessness,... and they all contributed this ?much to the actual plots development, if it had any. If there's someone who's trying to develop something that seemed to be an actual good set up for the advancement of the plot, that person would be dead, and the set up would meet a dead end, everytime, for some reason, like why? Some of the characters were actually forgotten, gone, into oblivion, like they didn't exist, or having as least screen time as possible even when they've fully shown potential to contribute something to the cause. Some of the scenes felt like the scripter crossed them out but the director kept filming anyway (like the rats scene). Characters deaths or sacrifices didn't make any senses, unnecessarily and pointless, making the plot getting nowhere due to our extremely one-dimensional group of friends, despite having fought and ran through hordes of zombies for nearly 4 days in movie time, referencing themselves every possible motif of a zombie movie, making sharp pointy weapons while watching their archer shooting the brains out of the zombies, still didn't know how to effectively kill or outrun them. And it the end everything was just for them to return to the literal hell they just escaped by sacrificing god knows how many people, because friendship.
The acting. I like the big dude and the pink sweater girl, not because their acting was stellar, but because they're the only ones who put efforts into it. Everyone else acts like a robot in this show. I get that the majority of the cast are young age, but you can't use the "it's how their characters are" as an excuse in this era anymore. Some of the voice I've noticed to be added later on, tears had to be made using eye drops, so much that it created straight lines on the bloodstains sticking to their face.
The music. You would see people's body being split in half on a funky summer vibe OST in the show that's trying desperately to be serious while shooting in their own foot and fail miserably. It's just all over the place.
The cinematography. If not for this the show would've gotten a 1/10 from me.
Overall, imagine that scene where Rick Grimes was fighting his best bud Shane over his wife Lori and the leader position in the middle of the farm. But instead of taking advantage while Shane's distracted and lowered his gun and kill him himself, Shane got hit by a car instead. That's what this show feels like.
And don't even get me started on the cliché of tripping and locked doors. It's like they kept forgetting they used that last episode.
The show just deliberately and continuously creates problems that didn't need solving in the first place then they themselves didn't know how to solve them so they just be like: "Let's kill 3/4 of the cast then bring down the curtain, the end." I will try my best not to spoil anything but god damn it's hard because everything in this show just "happens" and in the most illogical way possible.
The characters. Boy, they show absolutely no development in any aspect whatsoever throughout the entire show. You would see them spending 3/4 the time of an episode rambling about the philosophy of life, friendship and knowledge about zombies then the rest 1/4 pulling a complete 180° when they were facing the actual situations, stopping halfway because of friendship and dumb teen romance. They also behave in a very weird way, they would be bawling out for the people they met just 5 minutes earlier, but be like :frown face: for the people they knew their whole life.
The plots. To sum it up you can leave out the first 2 episodes, compress the rest down to 30 minutes, slap it in any section of any other zombie show and the whole thing still would still make sense. It had a good start I admit. But then it got so tiresome and inconsistence and this is the first Kdrama show in my 20 years of watching Kdrama that got me this tiresome of inconsistencies. They introduced too many characters and social topics like teen pregnancy, bullying, internet points addiction, half-assed political stuff, injustice, adult's heartlessness,... and they all contributed this ?much to the actual plots development, if it had any. If there's someone who's trying to develop something that seemed to be an actual good set up for the advancement of the plot, that person would be dead, and the set up would meet a dead end, everytime, for some reason, like why? Some of the characters were actually forgotten, gone, into oblivion, like they didn't exist, or having as least screen time as possible even when they've fully shown potential to contribute something to the cause. Some of the scenes felt like the scripter crossed them out but the director kept filming anyway (like the rats scene). Characters deaths or sacrifices didn't make any senses, unnecessarily and pointless, making the plot getting nowhere due to our extremely one-dimensional group of friends, despite having fought and ran through hordes of zombies for nearly 4 days in movie time, referencing themselves every possible motif of a zombie movie, making sharp pointy weapons while watching their archer shooting the brains out of the zombies, still didn't know how to effectively kill or outrun them. And it the end everything was just for them to return to the literal hell they just escaped by sacrificing god knows how many people, because friendship.
The acting. I like the big dude and the pink sweater girl, not because their acting was stellar, but because they're the only ones who put efforts into it. Everyone else acts like a robot in this show. I get that the majority of the cast are young age, but you can't use the "it's how their characters are" as an excuse in this era anymore. Some of the voice I've noticed to be added later on, tears had to be made using eye drops, so much that it created straight lines on the bloodstains sticking to their face.
The music. You would see people's body being split in half on a funky summer vibe OST in the show that's trying desperately to be serious while shooting in their own foot and fail miserably. It's just all over the place.
The cinematography. If not for this the show would've gotten a 1/10 from me.
Overall, imagine that scene where Rick Grimes was fighting his best bud Shane over his wife Lori and the leader position in the middle of the farm. But instead of taking advantage while Shane's distracted and lowered his gun and kill him himself, Shane got hit by a car instead. That's what this show feels like.
And don't even get me started on the cliché of tripping and locked doors. It's like they kept forgetting they used that last episode.
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