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Parasyte : The Grey is sadly not memorable nor is it remarkable . It is a shame that the producer and director failed to fulfil the potential of this series . It was like a series from the 70s but without the charm . There was no atmosphere . There was no suspense or frights or surprises . No twists or turns . It was bland . The monsters were also very boring .

A parasitic monster enters a human . It eats the human's brain. Then it cuts cut off the human's head . It grows a new head and takes over the human's body and pretends to be that person . Sometimes the monsters kill humans for food , as that's all they can eat . It is very 'matter of factly' portrayed . So as they were going down that road , they should have used the analogy that humans kill animals for food too . It would have been somewhat logical and fit into their general concept.

( NB . They did tried to make it gruesome by showing human body parts and deceased humans in plastic coverings but it lacked substance contradicted their entire theme)

There is a government secret organisation who deal with the monsters . The organisation is called The Grey . They are independent of the police .

After incidents regarding the monsters rise , the active head of The Grey , Choi Jung ,holds a conference whereby she tells the police about the existence of monsters and recruits their help.

The actress who plays Choi Jung ,over plays her role. We see the past . She was meek before her husband became a monster but now she's strong and stubborn to the point that she'd stupid and defies logic and so places her team at risk .

There are terrible and obvious failings in The Parasyte . Grey which include : .

1) The monsters secretly take over the human's body and pretend to be that human . However they do not know how to imitate any form of human emotions and characteristics.and expressions . They don't smile , frown , get annoyed, laugh etc . They are robotic like. They speak in a monotone voice of a robot ( like in films made in the 70s) . YET NO-ONE NOTICES THAT ! They all believe it's the real person ! Lol!

2) Choi Jung is THE expert regarding monsters .When the main detective who she always talks to becomes a monster she doesn't notice either ! He talks in a monotone robotic voice, has no expressions and yet she doesn't notice!

It's ridiculous ! Her character is incredibly stupid! . (The actress is terrible in role too . Awful actress!)

3);There is a major incident with monsters killing humans . The policeman Cheol Ming wants to follow his friend Jeong Su-In who is in a truck ,as she is in danger . He knows his fellow colleague is working for the monsters yet he lets him get in his car and even lets him drive . Then Cheol Ming is surprised when his colleague takes him to another destination off track . His colleague asks him to join him by working for the monsters as the money is good .

Instead of pretending that he will so that he can get out of a dangerous situation he shouts at his colleague and says he'd never do that . Cheong Min knows that his pistol will not kill a monster but when the Pastor who is the leader of the monsters shows up he shoots him. The body that the Pastor is using is destroyed but the monster isn't . So the monster cuts off Cheol Min's head and gets into his body and grows a new head. So the monster becomes Cheong Min

4) One of the prominent female monsters is very vicious and hunts and kills humans. Suddenly without any logical explanation she starts helping humans .

She mumbles some nonsensical garbage which I presume is meant to be her reason . These parasitic Monsters are not capable of having any kind of emotion. They merely exist . So why would she start helping humans!

5) The physical apprarance of the monsters is not original . It's been done many times before.

The monster gets these long tentacles like that of an octopus, growing out of its head , which it uses to attack people . The way it moves when attacking people is laughable . The movement is like when a woman who has long hair, moves her head fast from side to side. Her hair would have a momentum and say there was a light ornament as she was doing that, she'd knock the ornament of its pedestal with her hair . It's the same kind of movement the monster uses . Actually they could have used that movement to their advantage by having rock music in the background .That would have been cool and amusing .

The positives of this series : The female lead character Jeong Su-In, is believable and a plus in the series..The actress is good at her role. The main lead character Seol Kang is brilliant . His acting is fantastic ! The men who play cops are good too. The CGI effects were okay .

Love , Love , Love this series .

I watched episode 1 , (which I thought was great ) Then I didn't watch any more episodes until now. I binge watched from episode 2 until and including episode 5 Michonne made new friends and then lost them again . It was pretty sad when Nat was shot He was a good actor and I wish they'd kept him on

When Michonne found Rick , I thought they'd go back to Alexandria , kill lots of zombies and live happily ever after, well until some disaster arose. . Instead Rick and Michonne go to this huge military base . It's extremely regimented and strict there. It was a shock that Rick wanted Michonne to go back to Alexandria without him and never meet again . Michonne was furious ( As any woman would be ) The actress Danai portrayed that very well .

It appears that Rick was flirting with Thorne . And was perhaps a bit in love with her . Thorne kept asking Michonne why she let Rick live and what he meant to her . Thorne seemed very jealous of Michonne . I thought it contradictory that Rick wanted Michonne to be a wimp and not reveal her true identity .Years ago Rick was kidnapped by Anne because he was an 'A' and put into CRM . So why did Michonne have to hide she was an A too?

The scene when Michonne grabbed Rick in the helicopter and pushed him out was gripping . I believe Episode 4 is where Rick and Michonne are in an apartment and Rick doesn't want to go home with Michonne even AFTER she told him he had a son . Michonne was furious ! The way Danai and Andrew acted in that whole scene was as if they were in a real relationship ! They were bickering too! The way Rick kept lusting after Michonne was great and realistic . Rick had s*x with Michonne then afterwards still wanted to leave her ! Very realistically, lol! Actually the whole love scene was done very tastefully .

Michonne tried to persuade Rick to go home with her but Rick wasn't having it ! He still wanted to go back to the CRM . Then Michonne tried the 'softly softly ' approach to undo the brainwashing the CRM had done to Rick . And it worked ! Rick wanted to go home !

It was fantastic to see Rick and Michonne fight t against the zombies together . Those fight scenes were really good as R & M were in sync with each other

Anne met up with Gabriel every year . It shows us that she still has some humanity left

Anne tracks down R& M , tries to kill them and the gets bitten by a Zonbie and dies .

Anne has written a dossier explaining where and what Alexandria is . So in the case of her death that dossier will be read by the commanding officers in the CRM and they will then destroy Alexandria . So now Anne is dead , Rick and Michonne need to destroy the dossier. They go to the pick up site and get picked up by a helicopter and taken to CRM

It's going to get pretty exciting ! Michonne wants to destroy CRM . Will Rick let her ? Will he get back to being brainwashed by CRM? I can't wait for the next few episodes .

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I've watched the whole franchise . The original The Walking Dead ( TWD ) was phenomenal when it first started . It was different . It was exciting . It was intelligent . We needed a good Zombie show. It looked like the budget was high . The main male lead was played by British actor Andrew Lincoln , who is the character ' Rick ' Andrew Lincoln used to play the character 'Egg ' in a British drama about lawyers. The series was aired on BBC's side channel, BBC 2 . So it surprising to see him in Hollywood! , . ( Obviously being Jethro Tull 's SIL helps with connections in the showbizz industry ). The rest of the cast was excellent ! Whoever was the Casting Manager was spot on . They cast actors who were all in a role that suited them and so they played their character very well .

As the Series TWD progressed it became better and better. However they then it changed ! They killed off main characters. BIG MISTAKE ! They introduced new characters . Negan played by Jeffrey Dean Morgan was FANTASTIC . After the' Negan Era ' was over , the series plummeted , The budget obviously decreased . There were hardly any zombies . You couldn't tell there was a Zombie Apocalypse. It became a badly made drama . It became 'touchy feely ' . It was extremely boring ! Maggie's character changed . Maggie was soft, sensitive and strong . She was excellent in her role ! They then changed her into a , ruthless , selfish uncaring , leader . Lauren Cohen played the new character of Maggie very badly. The role does not suit her ! The viewers decreased . TWD closed so hence the spin offs !

Jeffrey Dean Morgan's role as 'Negan' has changed in The Deady City. He's softened. He's become very kind , caring and selfless. However , you can sense that the original menacing side of Negan is still there in the background . In order to survive Negan purposely brings out the old 'Ruthless Negan ' sometimes ( He actually says it !)

Lauren Cohen has got better as the new ruthless uncaring Maggie but she's still not great at it . She's not convincing .! So that lets the Dead City series down .

Jeffrey Dean Morgan carries the whole series . You can see the difference between a very talented actor to a mediocre actor . However , it's still a good series and watchable . The Dead City could have been great with just Jeffrey Dean Morgan in it ( And perhaps Maggie as a side character )

Production has stopped! I read that there was a problem with the writers wanting more money. I'm not sure I if that's accurate .

Lauren Cohen had left the original TWD for a while and that was because she demanded more money . She obviously got it and she also became one of the leading characters in TWD . So I wouldn't be surprised that the real reason production was halted on Dead City was because she demanded more money again .

Further I've watched the Daryl spin off which was good . The next part is about Carol. She's searching for Daryl . I'm watching the spin off with Rick and Michonn which so far is also good . The spin off 'The World Beyond ' is absolutely terrible . It's obviously directed at teenagers as the series is full of them but they can't act ! It's seems like the teenage actors have no talent but Mummy and Daddy are Uber rich and are 'connected ' in showbizz , so they got their baby a role! . The main character is phenomenally bad . She's pretty but no offence she's a bit chubby . How can you be overweight in an apocalypse where food is scarce or is there a 24 McDonald's somewhere with an unlimited supply of burgers , fries and shakes ?!

1st Season. The show is about the earth being destroyed and a man called David who has Cryogenic Pods built for about 2000 people . Then the 2000 people stay in their pods until it's the year 4028 . There are what is left of the human race . Some people were kidnapped and some people volunteered to the whole venture , However not all the people were woken up . After the earth was destroyed humans who survived on the ground evolved into creatures called Abbys . The Abbys were living peacefully but David went in a helicopter and shot many of them. . David also shot a group of Abbys who were in the area where he wanted to build a town called Wayward Pines. The Abbys then became violent towards humans .

David LIED to all the people . He didn't tell them that the world had ended , the date , that they were in Cryogenic Pods, about the Abbys etc . David also had a powerful electric fence built around WP so no-one can leave or enter WP . A small group try to escape WP as they want to go home back to their lives unaware that the world has ended .

The first episode was very good ! The Episodes 2,3 and 4 were slow and I nearly gave up watching it altogether . However , I didn't know what else to watch so I continued watching it . I'm glad I did that ! The rest of the episodes were really good . All the acting was great ! Matt Dillon was as always the best actor in the show. The boy who played his son Ben was great ! Season 1 is Worth a watch !

2nd Season What a total mess ! More people were woken up from their pods . Ethan aka Matt Dillion was killed off. Big mistake to get rid of Matt Dillon ! The main actors from season 1 were also killed off at the end of season 1 or beginning of season 2 . If you're going to get rid of strong great actors then you HAVE to replace them with them with equally good actors . The directer and producers didn't do that ! Instead they had a bunch of soppy teenagers who couldn't act very well I guess it was much cheaper to hire unknown kids . The worst actor was a teenager who played Jason , the main evil leader of the people . He had a lot of screen time . Obviously his parents are 'connected ' in Showbizzz otherwise no way would he have got the role

Ethan's son Ben was around for 2 minutes in episode 1 and 2 . He was exiled and we saw Abby's ambushing him and he said 'Sorry Dad' but we never saw his actual death . And as we all know characters who we presume to be dead haven't always met their demise in movies and series and suddenly reappear ! .

Suddenly a dishevelled man with scruffy hair and beard shows up outside the fence . We learn it's Adam . Adam was the agent who sent Eathan to Wayword Pines in season 1 . We learn that Adam was in love with Eathen's wife Theresa and so sent Eathen to WP It was so unfeasible because he never even went to see Theresa when Eathen was away , The bloke who played Adam was an appalling actor ! Also much more time has elapsed between the first lot of people in Season 1 and the second lot of people Season 2 , So how is Adam still alive ?

There are quite a few holes in season 2 .

The last episode was great ! We found out Jason's girlfriend Kerry was really his mother. ( He didn't know nor did she until the end ) Thousands of Abbys are outside the fence and angry as Jason killed 3 Abby males for no reason . They are ready to attack Food source is low for humans . Humans dont have the numbers to defend themselves .The only solution is to get back in the pods until the Abbys have been naturally wiped out . So 300 pods are already occupied by people who have never been woken up , AND Only over 500 pods are working . . There are around 1300 people . Before Jason dies he writes a list of the people who should be in the pods . The rest are left to die .

Kerry injected herself with small pox , typhoid and another disease . She then walked into where 10000s of Abbys were . She knew they'd eat her and so she wanted them to be infected with the diseases and most to die .

We presume the Abbys decided to not attack the humans ?

The closing scene was Abbys living peacefully once again and a female Abby being a mum to a human baby.

Yes what a surprise ,,..NOT ! It dragged on and on . It was very predictable . The plot has been done so many times before . It was like watching an 80s TV film. The main lead , Benicio Del Toro looked haggard. He's normally a good actor but he seriously looked bored in the role and it seemed like he was about to drop off to sleep . Justin Timberlake was quite good but did over play his role a bit . Alicia Silverstone is Benicio's hot younger than him wife . She played the role well .

And then you had two crazy men in the film which just didn't work ! TBH it's a waste of time ! Don't bother !

The ONLY part of the film that was good was the scene at a Line Dancing evening with Del Toro and the builder, who had just finished working on Del Toro's kitchen . The builder is after Del Toro's wife and Del Toro threatens to kill the builder if he tries to hit on his wife . Then the wife , Alicia Silverstone joins the men and wants to dance . Del Toro tells his wife he is too tired then asks the builder if he wants to dance with his wife . The builder is in shock and very scared of Del Toro and says very timidly that he doesn't want to dance with Del Toro's wife ! Lol!

It was a nod to Stephen King's Children of the Corn . The acting was great by the two kids and the entire cast were good too .

The director created an eerie atmosphere and suspense.. It was a novel idea in the aspect that religion can be misinterpreted and so can have negative results However the film displayed that miracles can happen too. What didn't make sense is that when the kids sedated the dog, then cut him up , took his heart out , put it back and then sewed him up again , the parents thought the kids had innocently made a mistake by interpreting the Bible literally . The Bible refers to death a lot so the kids at their age would know that cutting up a dog would kill it, yet in the film the kids didn't know that, which was ridiculous

The ending was totally predictable. However I've seen much worse films in the cinema , Meghan for example . Overall it's a fun horror to see with a bowl of popcorn .

1st story : Very well acted by the male lead . He made the short film work. The girl was good too at acting her part. The story had a twist . It was loosely based on a true life serial killer who used to fly his victims by a little private plane to a remote area , which had woods . Then he'd tell his victims to run and he'd hunt them ( (Hunting Humans ) . I enjoyed the first story . It was unpredictable . However , There was an axe so when the man was unconscious the girl could have chopped off his head . He wouldn't be able to grow a new head and the wound he said takes 4 minutes to heal . He would have had a headless body and wouldn't be able to find her !

2nd Story was very predictable and very slow

3rd Story . It was just depressing . It wasn't very interesting . A plot twist at the end would have been good . It was predictable that the woman would live .

4th Story . It was pointless . I fast forwarded a lot of it . It was senseless . The man married to the woman was good looking - That was the only plus point ! Lol!

What was the point of all these four stories?

The Colony is worth a watch . It's a well crafted Show but the obvious flaws are a tad annoying . It's a Dystopian society . Aliens nicknamed 'The Hosts ' have landed on earth and are ruling humans . A human military regime rule the earth under the instructions of the Hosts. They are nicknamed 'The collaborators ' or the Raps.

There are several groups opposed to the Collaborators and the Hosts, nicknamed 'The Resilliance .

The main characters are the Bowman family.

The male lead is Will Bowman . The female lead is his wife Katie Bowman. They have 3 kids , Bram, Charlie, Grace .

The good points about the Show 1) It's well crafted .

2) Lots of twists and turns 3) Exciting in parts 4) Some very good actors 5) Some theories are plausible 6) Well directed 7) Shows how good people can be ruthless

FLAWS 1). Will starts working for the Collaborators . There are cameras everywhere and it's a very strict regime. There are no cameras officially in Will and Katie's house.

2) Will has NO tracker on his car and no chip in him to track him . That's totally unfeasible a due to the strictness of the regime .

3) Unofficially Jenny a colleague of Will and has placed cameras in Will and Katie's house. We don't know why . We also don't how she put them there. She hears Will calling her 'weak' and criticising her . She will lose her job if does not expose Katie , yet still decides not to do it even though Katie and Will used her . NOT FEASIBLE

4) WILL is an ex specialist FBI agent and interrogator . He is very sharp. He's a hard man and is ruthless at times. His wife Katie is working for a Resilience group and gets all her information from Will and passes it on to Will .The only person he tells EVERYTHING to is Katie. She nearly has him k.illed but she doesn't care . Will doesn't suspect her at all until right at the end of series 1 ! That's ridiculous! Also Will stays with Katie , even though she doesn't care that she put his life in danger several times .

5) There is NO onscreen chemistry between the actors who play Will and Katie . They show intimate scenes between the two which are 'meh'.

Also a couple married over 20 years with three kids , always pawing at each other is NOT realistic .

6) Will goes to find his son Charlie outside of the Colony , which has a thick surrounding wall and small alien flying devices that can blow people up . He has a pass given to him by his boss Alan Snyder . So he drives outside outside the Colony. Then we see in the first episode of the second series Will dishevelled , dirty and without a car in another town . That's unfeasible . As an ex FBI agent and working for the Collaborators , Will would have been fully prepared . We aren't told why he's in this state and what happened to his car . We've seen Will fighting off many men with his specialised combat skills and suddenly he doesn't have them and gets beaten up, UNFEASIBLE AND S. TUPID. He goes to his friend Denise's house for help

3) Charlie is a street kid who works for a ruthless man . Will has to barter with the man and gives him his pass and gets Charlie back . Will leaves the man's premises A few minutes later , he goes back and k.ills the man and all his men and frees the street kids . Will doesn't bother looking for the Pass . He tells Denise he needs to get back into the colony and tells her he doesn't have the pass. RIDICULOUS

4) There is an ex army specialist called ERIC BROUSSARD . He is wanted by the Collaborators . There are posters EVERYWHERE for his capture and a reward offered .

Yet Broussard goes out and about in the day time , ALL the time. He does not use a disguise . HE NEVER GETS SPOTTED !

LAUGHABLE AND S. TUPID .

5) The Collaborators are on the hunt for the entire Bowman family . Of course they are not caught even though the parents are 'out and about ' in the small community .

6) The girl Grace, Bowman's daughter is always crying which is super annoying ! In the Show it's as though she hasn't seen the hardships and that the world has changed ! ( She's meant to be 10 yrs old in the first series ). Was she in a coma for 3 series this time? In reality she'd be a tough cookie ,

7) The Bowman's just give up a very valuable part of the Alien's body to a group , they don't even know ! They don't barter , aren't suspicious of the group and don't even meet the group leader until later . That does NOT fit into the narrative of the Show or Will's and Katie's suspicious personalities They also trust this group with their three children! UNFEASIBLE

8) A big deal is made of a man with a Tattoo but we learn he's been killed ( Or does he return? ) .What was the point of him?

9) The Bowmans go into the group leaders cabin without a care or strategy to capture him . UNFEASIBLE ! Will a FBI agent would be strategic That scene was badly done

10 ) Snyder gets one of the group to call the Collaboration who use grenades etc and cause Mayhem . Katie, Wills and Bram are about to be executed but due to the mayhem they survive . Charlie gets shot . NONE of the Bowman's check him to see if he is alive ! ODD .

11) Will doesn't' kill Snyder although he blames him for Charlie's death. Bram hates Snyder and doesn't kill him either . He doesn't appreciate that Snyder saved his life

We don't see the Bowmans devastated by Charlie's death . They are just a bit upset and the subject is ignored

The Bowman's hijack a family's car who stopped to help them that belongs to another . The have no scruples

Katie and Will Bowman ruthlessly kill people in cold blood . . Yet they are not made to be accountable . They are deemed to be the goodies . They only care about their family and no-one else . Their friend Eric Broussard is also seen as a hero , although he kills a lot of people . The Resilience a group they belong to are meant to be fighting for humanity , yet they are all killers. They don't care that the red hats have families too and are just following orders and kill them . .

WILL SUDDENLY GETTING PTSD IS BIZARRE It doesn't fit into the Show! It is not a drama about mental health . Also as an interrogator Will would have seen a lot of violence and done it to others. He would have experienced a lot as an FBI agent at the top of his profession . So it's NOT BELIEVABLE . HIS ACTING IS LAME IN THIS AREA .

There are other discrepancies in the Show too

THE ACTING

The actor playing WILL is EXCELLENT . He's very good playing an angry man . And he's great playing an ex FBI agent . He's gorgeous too! WOW,

The actress playing KATIE IS TERRIBLE. Her facial expressions are awful ! She looks as though she's constipated . Although she's been trained by Eric to handle a gun and herself , she does not handle the gun or herself well . That is due to her poor acting . She played Rick's first wife in TWD and her acting was AWFUL. I'm not surprised she was killed off very early on .

The actress playing MADELINE , Katie's sister is FANTASTIC ! She is a very good actress. She is good looking too and charismatic . I'm sure the the male audience appreciate that she's in the Show! Lol! The man who plays her boyfriend is great too!

The actor playing BRAM is WEIRD . He is ALWAYS hunched up . He always looks startled . He looks jittery . (I wonder if he's an addict in real life) His acting is the SAME IN ALL THREE SERIES. He's a very BORING and BLAND actor . He was pointless in the series

The actor playing CHARLIE was EXCELLENT . HE WAS VERY BELIEVABLE . They should have kept Charle and got rid of BRAM

The actor playing ERIC Broussard was okay . NOTHING SPECIAL. The same facial expression of him screwing up his face is very annoying . He's meant to be a hard man but he can't playthe role well . I suppose he's the invisible man too as no-ons sees him whilst he's strolling about town, even though he's Wanted by the Collaboration.

THE ACTOR PLAYING SYNDER STEALS THE SHOW . HE IS FANTASTIC. HIS FACIAL EXPRESSIONS ARE GREAT . THE SHOW WOULD HAVE BEEN BORING WITHOUT HIM.

It's worth a watch . Don't expect too much though ! This film didn't know whether it was a vampire , a possession or zombie film It starts of with a scene of a woman lying seductively on the bed and heavy eye make up . She starts writhing about and out comes her very fake chest . Is it Hammer House of Horror ? Will Christopher Lee appear ? Nope ! We see this very tall priest ! The actor playing the priest was clomping around as though he was in jogging pants and a T-shirt rather than robes for a priest . He should have moved about with some elegance and grace. He looked ridiculous !

Then Geoffrey from Fresh Prince appears ! He's now a priest ! He's swigging alcohol and swearing away . He's still got a sense of humour though. His role in the film is redundant and his acting is appalling .

We then get a bunch of Zombie like creatures appearing . Possessed Zombies? . It was rather amusing .

Then ending is excellent and that's why I've given this film 4 stars .

It's such a shame as this film could have brilliant . The director creates a mysterious , dark atmosphere then totally spoils it by having the possessed girl over act . Her make up is just silly . She looked like she'd been partying hard and then the next day had woken up with a hangover and smudged black eye make-up all over her face . Her mum always looks worried and confused . Maybe the actress who played the mum, was wondering if she'd walked on to the wrong movie set? ( But didn't have the heart to ask anyone )

The director just dumped everything he could think of from every possession , vampire and zombie film he's ever seen into this film . It's a mess with glimpses of potential greatness . The final scene is the best .

It didn't start of well . So I knew within the first five minutes it was going to be a rubbish film . However, I was hoping , even praying I was wrong and it would get better . To no avail , it became worse .

There was no spooky or even eerie atmosphere . In fact there was no atmosphere at all, it was flat! . The acting was pretty awful . The actress who played Grace sounded as though she was continuously auditioning for a role in the theatre production . It's okay love you don't have to impress anyone , you've got the lead in a B rated film ( Actually it was Z rated film , I was being kind ) The priest and the mother superior were hysterical ! Their acting was really OTT ! . Then you had the dark and mysterious Nigerian nun ( who was probably from Peckham ! ) And we saw a nun who had a bandage over her eye! Spooky! Not ! Every time Grace entered a room the nuns ran out screaming ! Nice!

The plot was unique as there wasn't one! This movie was just one big jumbled mess. It couldn't decide what it was or which direction it should go . We learn Grace is good . Then we learn she's bad . The priest wants to stick Grace in a vault but Grace won't have it and walks out of it . We suddenly see two Graces , one who walks out of the vault and one who stabs priest with a cross! Ouch! The Mother Superior says Grace can't die but in one of the final scenes , she tries to kill Grace her with a gun! Whilst trying to shoot Grace , The Mother Superior gets run over by a truck , so Grace must be bad . Lol! Grace is an ophthalmologist and restores people's sight . We see in the final scene that Grace touches an elderly patients eyes who is blinds and restores her eyesight. So the woman can see! I knew Grace was a goodie. Yup she's definitely not the Devil and is just defending herself from all the Crazies trying to kill her.

Like many productions it started off well . Then half way through it faltered and started dragging. It seemed as though the writer had run out of ideas and so drew each episode out . It also became repetitive . It was also very predictable . The initial charm of the show vanished . It's not horror at all . It's a drama . It's more of a show for Americans who think that everyone in England lives in a mansion ! The narrators accent kept changing too ! .

The actor Henry Thomas is an American actor and his attempt at an aristocratic English accent was very strange indeed . Maybe he thought he was still on ET ! Although his acting was good! The main female lead was Victoria Pedletti who played the nanny Dani Clayton . She was talking normally in the first few episodes then the other episodes she was slurring her words and sounded drunk ! It was very irritating . Her acting suffered too . Amelia Eve played the gardener Jamie and her acting was appalling ! She was Dani's love interest

This series was just a mish mash of things all jumbled up . It was all so politically correct with two Black characters , an Indian characterand a lesbian couple ! There was also the cliche of the lady of the manor having an affair with her husband's brother and him fathering her child, Flora .

The housekeeper Grace was played by T'N'ia Miller . Her acting was great . She was in love with the Chef Owen played by Rahul Kohli . His acting was also excellent Grace is an integral part of the Manor . She interacts all the time with Owen, Jamie, the children and the nanny Dani . Yet Grace doesn't eat or drink so we know she's a ghost . . (Yet we did see her guzzle wine from a bottle once which was odd). . It didn't make sense as how was she able to interact with everyone ! How could they all see her and hear her ? How did they not realise she was a ghost , yet perhaps Owen did ? (We see Miles pushing Grace into a well too and that's when she dies but doesn't realise she was dead , apparently nor did anyone else! Lol!)

Henry's gofer was PeterQuint played by the handsome Oliver Jackson-Cohen . His acting was fantastic . His love interest was Rebecca played by Tahira Sharif . Her acting was terrible . She wasn't convincing at all , that she was madly in love with Peter . She was meant to be an intelligent woman but she came across as being very stupid . The way Peter died was stupid and made no sense . Why did the lady in the lake only drag him off ? Why didn't she drag Owen , Jamie off too?

Then there was a some silly story about sisters who lived in Bly manor in the 1800s. One of the sisters died and didn't have a face and lived at the bottom of a lake and killed people and dragged them into the lake . The series just became more and more ridiculous !

The acting by the two children was impeccable . Amelie Bea Smith played Flora and Benjamin Evans Ainsworth played Miles . They're both very talented children . Their acting skills were exceptionally good . They were both fantastic but Benjamin was that little bit better .

The almost last scene of everyone at Flora's wedding was lovely . We discover the narrator was Jamie but a lot older . We see Henry, Owen and Miles .

It's advertised as a survival story but it isn't . The movie is about Liv the female lead 'finding herself' in the jungle . It's the usual dribble ! THIS MOVIE IS FULL OF CLICHES It has no charm or grace We're meant to be touched by the poetry and the philosophy in the movie when it's something that you could read in a trashy woman's magazine whilst waiting at the doctor's . The only saving grace to that movie was the man who played Liv's boyfriend . His acting was good ! Although his character was sweet but a bit drippy and and he had awful weird hair!

Liv was awkward , introverted and strange as a child . Her mother left Liv and her father , when Liv was about 10 yrs old . We see Liv as a very successful lawyer, who is outgoing , sociable and attractive . She also is very rude to everyone , entitled and arrogant . She even shouted at a doctor . That's so unrealistic , NO doctor would accept to be shouted at by a patient . Liz was a spoilt adult brat . So, how she was as a child doesn't fit into what she became as an adult! A woman with that attitude is usually from a very privileged and connected family and has got her way since she was a child . Also, Although she's a sharp lawyer she doesn't realise the men she hitched a plane ride with are drug smugglers NOT FEASIBLE!

Further what makes absolutes no sense is that she takes 3 plane rides to meet her mother when her mother doesn't know that Liv's going to meet her and her mother might not be there ( wherever that is ! ). And can't Liv meet her mum another time? Or is that not possible because her mum's going to Mars forever ?

Yet another aspect that didn't make sense is that she was pregnant but had nothing to eat except a few berries . We saw her belly had grown quite a bit due to her pregnancy which means she was in the wilderness for months , with no food! How did the baby survive? How did Liv not die from hunger ? And even though she hadn't eaten for months she wasn't even dizzy and had lots of energy! ( and her morning sickness had gone!)

Liv was talking to a dead man ! Why? She met him and talked to him for a minute when he was alive , so how could he have a rapport with her ?

, We see at the end what Liv could have had with her boyfriend had she been nice or even civil to him ! That was totally vomit inducing !

I admit that I fast forwarded a lot of the episodes as they were a load of rubbish!

It started off well. Cheryl walks out on her life and reinvents herself as Neve . So 15 years later , Neve (aka Cheryl ) who is black ( but looked half white ) was married to a white man and had two teenage children Mary and Sebastian ( Seb ) . They don't know about Neve's past life . As Neve behaved as though she was white ,she'd bring up the kids that way too. Yet the kids weren't like that , which didn't add up .

The both went to a private school. . There's a new janitor at the school who is Black . Seb after one conversation with the new janitor becomes friends with him . That would NEVER happen . Firstly , Seb would look down on the janitor and also , be would suspicious of him . He wouldn't meet him in the woods of the school . In fact Seb would report the janitor for asking to meet him in the woods . On another day , the janitor invites Seb on to the roof of a building to smoke weed

A black girl who is a complete stranger approaches Mary on the street . And they suddenly become friends ! That would never happen in real life . You don't become friends with a stranger who approaches you in the street The girl invites Mary to her hotel room and they drink and 'hang out ' . Mary invites the girl to her mother's party for charity .

At the party Neve screams at the girl . The girl screams back and exposes Neve . She reveals that she is Neve's daughter and the janitor is her son Neve's family are shocked . At night the boy and break into the house . WHERE IS THE ALARM ? WHERE IS THE CAMERA THAT EVERYONE HAS OUTSIDE THEIR MAIN DOOR? The girl and boy go to everyone's rooms and takes their phones. NOT ONE PERSON HEARS THEM . They all wake up when the boy puts on the telly . The boy also turns on the tap in the sink and floods the kitchen . It's the girl's birthday so she demands Chinese take out

There is tension from the family . That is well portrayed . The girl and boy don't have any weapons . No-one in the family tries to run or tackle the boy. The boy takes the Neve's husband to the gym in the house . The boy kills the husband . When he is in the gym the family could easily have tackled the girl but they don't

The Uber eats delivery arrives , Neve takes the food, then gets her wallet to give the man a tip. She then gets on the back of the Uber Eats motorbike and runs off .

The people in the house all realise thar she's run off again .

The acting was good . The atmosphere was good but there were too many pot holes. And Neve kept freaking out. She offers her estranged children money to 'disappear ' . Neve had reinvented herself so she would have been more strategic and cunning when handling her estranged kids . She wouldn't have been so clumsy Everything the estranged children did made no sense. There was no 'body ' to the whole movie . Anyway ,how convenient that r the boy got a job as a janitor ant the school and the girl got a job at Neve's husband's business.

Series 1 My sister recommended this Show to me ! Thanks sis.... I think ! I've got heavy flu so am in bed! I love post apocalyptic movies and series This started off well Then became a rollercoaster ride. It was really good and then dipped and became bad . Admittedly it was exciting at times. . The two actors who carried the show were David Lyon's who played 'Bass' and Giancarlo Esposito who played 'Major Neville ' The main male lead 'Miles' was played by Billy Burke. He was acceptable in his role . The female lead Tracy Spiridakos who played Miles's niece, Charlie was terrible ! She only ever had one gormless expression on her face ! And even when she was badly hurt or getting beaten up she had this stupid smile on her face . She kept looking at Miles with puppy dog eyes , like she was madly in love with him , forgetting that she was playing his niece ! Miles and Charlie had some s*xual chemistry ! Lol! A side line actress who played Grace , had strange bug type eyes, always a startled expression on her face , looked very weird, was irritating and spineless AF and her character was POINTLESS

The MOST annoying actress and character was. RACHEL played by Elizabeth. Mitchell . She was soooh irritating! She really got on my nerves. She loved her kids but had abandoned them for 15 years . She was sweet and gentle one minute and next minute she was ruthless and didn't care if people who helped her died . She managed to fight and kill people but never managed to kill Miles which was her main goal ! Lol! This kind caring woman didn't care if millions of people died as long as she killed Miles . She was meant to be this GENIUS but we NEVER saw signs of her brilliance . She was more like a school teacher for young kids

Miles was a general in the army before the apocalypse but post apocalypse he was portrayed as some super hero who could defeat 50 armed men in one attempt . He was locked up in handcuffs and chains , and some on his feet too, MANY TIMES but ALWAYS escaped . It was ridiculous ! Bass , the villain kept on escaping too! Lol!

The concept of this show was stupid . And the outcome of not having electricity was not realistically portrayed . In fact nothing was realistic. There wouldn't have been a food shortage after a few weeks as was portrayed . Also there's no reason for governments to collapse just because of lack of electricity. THERE ARE OTHER SOURCES OF ENERGY , EG SOLAR, GAS . OIL AND PETROL

The American government and DOD were aware of the dangers of the 'experiment' in Kabul . They would have been prepared and would have had measures in place . The army would have been brought in to pre-empt looting of supermarkets and department stores . Rations would have been allocated to the public . People would have been growing fruit and vegetables on the land . WHAT ABOUT FLORIDA? Surely many would have moved there as it's warm and sunny so they don't need to use much electricity via heaters , lighting etc

The 'goodies ' were all true to America with the American flag tattooed on their backs . Usual cliche ! Anyhooo how can they get tats without electricity! Lol!

SERIES 2 I've just started it and it's irritating me already . That woman Rachel keeps saying that it's all her fault and YES it is ALL her fault. We the audience are meant to feel empathy towards her but she's just whiney and would kill her own grandmother in her sleep for her packet of Werthers!

MILES was looked up in jail and has escaped yet AGAIN . I think Bass and that wimp Charlie will escape too . A young male character who captured Charlie has been introduced and it's glaringly obvious that he is BASS's long lost son

. In SERIES 1 There was a very fat boy . In series 1 & 2 one of the main characters. ARRON PITMAN is also FAT . How can there be fat people where food has been scarce for 15 years and many people have starved to death ?

How has RACHEL always got clean , beautiful flowing hair with different streaks for 15 years ? . Why has she not aged?

How has Charlie got lovely long , clean, hair with different coloured streaks? How does her vest top keep changing colour? . Most of the time she's living in the wilderness . Why is she never dirty? Where do they get their food from? We never see them hunt for food. We only saw that they slept once otherwise they are always on the go . Not possible ! After 15 years EVERYONE HAS BEAUTIFUL TEETH AND LOVELY AND WHITE TOO! Lol!