I'll start with the good. The FX work on this show is solid coming from the Rocket Jump team. This is what they excel at, and I commend them on rising from viral videos to now having 2 series on Hulu.
The acting is mostly decent, but the actors aren't really given deep roles so it's not like you're going you see any outstanding performances. There are a handful of recognizable faces like Patton Oswalt, Lea Michele, some sitcom actors and narration by Mark Hamill.
None of the episodes were so bad that I had to turn it off, but they weren't really that good either. This show begs for good writers. Each episode follows a very, very basic plot that feels like it never really got past the concept and storyboard stage. Girl is obsessed with a 90s cartoon, the cartoon comes to life, and she has to fight evil. Guy is obsessed with arcade games, an arcade game comes to life, and he has to fight evil. None of these stories are very original or complex.
On top of the airy writing is the curiously bright production. I don't know if they did this deliberately or just didn't know what they were doing, but the look and feel of this thing is similar to a light afternoon kids show. I'm pretty sure there are grittier episodes of Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of the Dark than anything you'll find in Dimension 404.
Watch it if you have nothing better to do or if you need an introduction to sci-fi anthologies. It's certainly not the worst thing on Hulu.
The acting is mostly decent, but the actors aren't really given deep roles so it's not like you're going you see any outstanding performances. There are a handful of recognizable faces like Patton Oswalt, Lea Michele, some sitcom actors and narration by Mark Hamill.
None of the episodes were so bad that I had to turn it off, but they weren't really that good either. This show begs for good writers. Each episode follows a very, very basic plot that feels like it never really got past the concept and storyboard stage. Girl is obsessed with a 90s cartoon, the cartoon comes to life, and she has to fight evil. Guy is obsessed with arcade games, an arcade game comes to life, and he has to fight evil. None of these stories are very original or complex.
On top of the airy writing is the curiously bright production. I don't know if they did this deliberately or just didn't know what they were doing, but the look and feel of this thing is similar to a light afternoon kids show. I'm pretty sure there are grittier episodes of Goosebumps and Are You Afraid of the Dark than anything you'll find in Dimension 404.
Watch it if you have nothing better to do or if you need an introduction to sci-fi anthologies. It's certainly not the worst thing on Hulu.