Suffers from mediocre script, direction and acting.
Actors are unconvincing. Granted the material they have to work with isn't the best (to say the least) but they lack energy and passion.
Dialogues can be cringe worthy at times. It feels like the show is expecting to create tension and emotional involvement by merely being set in the time when medieval Serbian state was being created.
Characters lack any development and appear to be nothing more but a bare bone recreation of historical characters, which is very weird since important historical events like battles are merely hinted at or shown in the background, while majority of screen time deals with character interacting with one another.
Cinematography is great and really puts you in the mood, but it alone isn't enough to make you emotionally involved, even if you're a Serb. For any non Serb, this is going to be extremely boring.
Very little substance, all in all. It feels like the producers are expecting success simply because of the time period it is set in and money spent on cinematography.
Hopefully it picks up, but beginning feels very underwhelming.
Actors are unconvincing. Granted the material they have to work with isn't the best (to say the least) but they lack energy and passion.
Dialogues can be cringe worthy at times. It feels like the show is expecting to create tension and emotional involvement by merely being set in the time when medieval Serbian state was being created.
Characters lack any development and appear to be nothing more but a bare bone recreation of historical characters, which is very weird since important historical events like battles are merely hinted at or shown in the background, while majority of screen time deals with character interacting with one another.
Cinematography is great and really puts you in the mood, but it alone isn't enough to make you emotionally involved, even if you're a Serb. For any non Serb, this is going to be extremely boring.
Very little substance, all in all. It feels like the producers are expecting success simply because of the time period it is set in and money spent on cinematography.
Hopefully it picks up, but beginning feels very underwhelming.