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Mai Demon (2023)
Could have easily been a 2 hours movie
If this was a Hollywood drama everyone would say it's hot garbage, the only reason it gets a pass is because it's Korean.
I watched it with my girlfriend, for her, because I know she loves these things, but man, every single episode I found myself questioning my very existence and counting the seconds until it ended, 1 hour felt like an entire evening. We still have 3 episodes to go and I don't know how I am going to make it.
The intro song is super catchy and that's why I gave this a 4 instead of a 1/10. I love the beginning of each episode and everytime it ends and I know I have an hour to go, I cry inside.
This series does not know what it wants to be, a love story, a depressing tale about death and suicide, a fantasy, an action movie, a thriller, and everything in between. The series tries everything and does nothing right. There are so many plot holes and so many convenient/unrealistic things that happen for the sake of moving on with the plot. It's dragged on, and on, and on, without anything interesting happening.
I have no idea who the audience for this literal garbage is but if it works it works.
Silo (2023)
Started off really well then fell off a cliff
The first couple of episodes were so good they glued me to my chair, but ever since then they stopped advancing the plot, they keep going into these obscure side stories that are supposed to connect you to a specific character and form a deeper connection with them but fail miserably at doing so.
It feels like they don't have a long enough plot so they're trying to drag out episodes starting with season 1. You can afford three filler episodes in a row in a 15-20 episodes long season, but when you go with a 10 episodes per season plan, and have half of it eaten by filler sidelines, it gets plain boring.
My wife went from "oh my god a new episode of Silo's out let's goooo you get the home cinema ready I go prepare the snacks" to "hey Silo's out, wanna watch?". At this point I'm not sure we may even finish the season, we're one filler away from forgetting all about it.
Edit: Review above was written after the end of episode 5, my faith in the show is restored now after episode 7.
Imawa no Kuni no Arisu (2020)
Exciting start but ran out of juice
Season 1 started out very flashy, the plot kept me interested, games were unique, I genuinely wanted to find out what happens next at the end of each and every episode.
The problem is that is rapidly began to lose steam, starting with the beach house: "maybe we need to get all numbered cards", then "or maybe we need to get all higher order cards", not to mention how they always felt the need to add at least one random psychopath every step of the way, so out of nowhere, felt very cheap and uninspired, just to make things complicated.
But worst of all, I completely dislike how they focused so much on the psychological aspect of it in season 2 to the point where it got boring. I get it, they're all depressed, anxious, suicidal, most of them just want to die, but for the love of god just stop rubbing it in my face every minute of every episode, it goes without saying what they feel, a few scenes is enough, we can guess the rest, you don't need to emotionally damage your viewers.
To be completely honest, after seeing episodes 3 and 4 of season 2, it made me realise how I'd like and enjoy so much more if this show was focused solely on Chishiya's journey in this world, by far the best character of the series.
Gave it a 6/10, 8 for first part of the first season, 4 for the rest.
Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)
Absolute dissapointment
Really? That's how you wanted to go about this? Obi Wan as a washed has been scared of his own shadow Jedi? That third episode had literally the worst lightsaber fight I've ever seen in Star Wars, and I must admit I bursted laughing outloud when I saw Obi Wan peacing out at the beginning of the "fight" with Anakin, or when DARTH GODDAMN VADER was scared of some fire and didn't chase Obi Wan, really? Hahaha.
The good part of all of this is that Obi Wan was the last card Disney Star Wars had to play, they completely MASSACRED this franchise with their terrible writing, acting, editing and wokeness.
Please Disney, just go out into the darkness already.
Jigeum uri hakgyoneun (2022)
Boring, cheap weird teenage drama with zombies
There's no congruency in the time required for the humans turn to zombies, some take seconds some take whole hours, there's no realism in the state of the corpses after being clinically dead for days, no explanation as to why some people only partly turn to zombies and how the whole thing works except a few remarks about how the virus might have mutated (?).
The actors are absolutely terrible, there's almost no action whatsoever. It's just full of teenage drama, and by teenagers I mean those weird kids in every class that nobody talks to and their problems.
And for the love of Christ, what's with the "bad guy" running around his classmates trying to kill them the entire series? Why? What's his motivation? "Aaaaargh I must take your eye aaaargh!! You didn't let me kill you now you must payyy aaargghhh!!". What in the world?
Luckily people have a soft spot for Korean series and always overrate them for some reason, because if this was in English it would have had a 4-5 rating tops.
Snowpiercer: The Tortoise and the Hare (2022)
Not a fan of where this is going
I don't understand Layton's role in the story, why is he in charge? No support of the tail without Josie, first class never liked him, and he doesn't offer ANY "cop" or detective vibes whatsoever, if anything he comes off as being really slow.
I kinda get what they're trying to portrait him as, as this moralist nice guy that leaves noone behind and rallies people behind him with all his 'kindness' and 'goodness', but this concept is just so juiced out at this point it makes you fall asleep, and he doesn't even do a very good job at playing that role.