Reviews

It had potential but turned out pretty poor, like most netflix shows it suffers script-wise. Story pacing felt weird and inconsistent. Actors did a great job I gotta admit this. But there is one breaking point after which I kinda had to force myself to continue watching it.

Everything happens in desolate ish town in UK which seems like a summer resort but wrong season. Closed arcades, ferris wheel stopped, empty beach. Calm, lonely colors and moods occupy this show. But suddenly. Couple of hired psychopathic assassins/mercs show up. They look barely legal age. They wearing pink. They dance. They used to be in school theatre group. They mercilessly kill people left and right, do unimaginably cruel things without blinking an eye. There is a scene where they drive to dispose of the body, start doing two minute long dance, and he accidently touches her breast and goes like those japanese animes "OH MY GOD ONIICHAN I TOUCHED YOUR BREAST IM SO SORRY" and then they continue disposing of the body.

At this point I couldnt continue trying to watch it seriously. Its just clown fiesta show with cheap netflix tropes thrown in for idk what reason. Its cringe. Its extremely misfitted. Everyone involved in this decision should go do something better with their lives. This was the final nail in the coffin of this already not very good show.

Was 5 different ppl working on different parts of show but two of them refused to communicate or align with the others?

I watched this film like a week ago. I was impressed, but after thinking more and more about it, I am ready to say that this was one of the best films I've seen in life. Don't want to talk too much about visual and soundtrack - they are STUNNING and could make this movie alone. You can find that in other reviews. I want to talk about what else this film has to offer.

The pacing is slow, not as slow as 2001 but still. Story is pretty simple, a 16 year girl from countryside comes to LA to pursue a model career. She has natural beauty while her competitors have implants and plastic surgeries. In a blink of an eye, all the 'important people' like photographers and designers are thrilled with her. This film explores topics of beauty, jealousy and vampires in a cruel field of beauty business. Beauty is a slippery thing - if you are born pretty, you are lucky. If you're not - you can try and undergo a bunch of plastic surgeries like Sara and Gigi did just to be "OKAY". Then Jessie comes around and you are instantly out of the game, no matter how hard you try. Jessie possesses natural beauty and is genetically superior to any other model in the film. This beauty of Jessie is a gift and a curse at the same time. She falls in love with her self image and then we are presented with Neon Demon herself - a self-confident and arrogant woman who is ready to exercise her unmatchable superiority. Which ultimately gets her killed. But what made the ending so shocking is how understandable and even relatable it felt. The film presents murder, cannibalism and occultism from a perspective of hopeless attempt of 'simple' people trying to fight the nature.

To sum up, The Neon Demon is one-of-a-kind masterpiece. I loved watching every minute of it. I loved remembering it and trying to understand it. I am very sad about people who found it boring or lacking substance. Clearly chickenheads were not the target audience here.

Just finished watching this show and dear God the more I think about it the more upset I get. Noir-ish sci-fi series - that sounds pretty cool huh? Well, noir was hiding somewhere in the basement when this was shot. Overall feel of this movie is nowhere near hopeless or even remotely depressing. In fact it has no lasting emotion, no aftertaste at all. It's just generic good versus bad story with superpowers. The plot had few semi-interesting twists and really without those I wouldn't even make it through the series. But mostly it's plain boring. "Ex bad guy" who is really an "emotionally hurt good guy" is chasing his "lost love" and some "bad guy" who is apparently the "worst guy" and oh the "bad guy" is actually his sister and oh it was her who killed his love. I've seen this before :D By the end show just gets ridiculous, I mean for the 3 last episodes the bad sister keeps repeating how much she loves the main character while proceeding on hurting him in every possible way and oh my god you won't believe this - but he kills her in the end. We still get a happy ending. Oh and there's a bunch of generic fight scenes - Netflix better implement that "skip fight scene" button soon.

The main disappointment is that this show could've been NUTS but instead it has this generic cheesy stuff. There are a few interesting dialogues and Poe character was truly beautiful in every way. Lizzy was cool too.

4 is a passing grade where I come from, so this show gets a three.