Look, I understand that everyone WANTS to give this show praise because of it's message. And that's just it. I don't dislike the show because of it's message. I dislike the show because ITV thought 'Hey, the masses will LOVE this'. About the MESSAGE. They also thought 'Let's use the MESSAGE and just write the show and concept around THAT'. Writing 101: everything in your story needs to start from one base concept or idea for it to work. Imagine that a story is a building. With a building you would build it's supports and structure before, say, the walls or windows. The concept IS the supports. Everything else, specific dialouge, characters, MESSAGES and overall storytelling and pacing come AFTER that concept is set in your mind. What ITV did is try to balence some bricks and glass to make walls and windows BEFORE installing the structure. So, in theory, the building could, if there was a blue moon on Friday the 13th and all the planets aligned, survive. However it would most likely crumble and fall. ITV did something even worse though. They didn't even build a strong structure. They tried to make it out of glass. They tried to make the message and concept one in the same but glass cut in the shape of a metal beam and painted grey is still glass. The show's writing was weakened by that structure. The characters were mostly an extreme of either side of the argument or just plain unlikeable for a multitude of reasons. The story was badly and unevenly paced throughout and characters motivations would change at the flip of a coin. Acting was decent for the abismal script they were given. No disrespect to them, they're probably good actors but the delivery on a lot of lines just seemed off. A lot of over and underacting was also present although with a rushed to television ITV drama that's par for the course. Overall, this show is itself a message. And a bad one at that. It's a message to networks that they can get mass praise and rave reviews if they create the bare minimum as long as it has a good message. And that IS NOT what we need. I don't know why I'm writing all of this as most people will probably look at my rating, call me a transphobe and then do it to the next review below 10 stars. But if you did read this, thank you for taking the time out of your day to see my side of the story. It really means a lot to me and, hey, maybe it'll give you a new perspective.
Review of Butterfly
