I tried really hard to like this as I love Alpha House & Betas and really liked Transparent. Amazon is doing some great things with their original content, but I have no idea how this got a pilot.
There is no structure, bad edits, nudity and cursing thrown in for no reason. Don't get me wrong, I like nudity and cursing, but they need to have a purpose in the script or be used sparingly to have a shock effect. When every 3rd word is F###ing and there are just a random pair of breasts in a scene that feels completely out of place to the rest of the "story" it just takes you out of the moment.
The lazy writing and ethnic stereotypes are worse than most, I almost felt this was a satire at times with the overblown Real World does the Apocalypse vibe thru out the show. The drunk cursing Irish man, the French model, the Latino Cop, the gay clown (yes a clown), the rich old white lady and the black thug prison escapee who has to tell us how the prison system only works if it has black men to destroy.
This was a pure disappointment, I gave it 3 stars for the idea this could have been, but bad acting, writing and storytelling leave it a mess that I regret watching.
There is no structure, bad edits, nudity and cursing thrown in for no reason. Don't get me wrong, I like nudity and cursing, but they need to have a purpose in the script or be used sparingly to have a shock effect. When every 3rd word is F###ing and there are just a random pair of breasts in a scene that feels completely out of place to the rest of the "story" it just takes you out of the moment.
The lazy writing and ethnic stereotypes are worse than most, I almost felt this was a satire at times with the overblown Real World does the Apocalypse vibe thru out the show. The drunk cursing Irish man, the French model, the Latino Cop, the gay clown (yes a clown), the rich old white lady and the black thug prison escapee who has to tell us how the prison system only works if it has black men to destroy.
This was a pure disappointment, I gave it 3 stars for the idea this could have been, but bad acting, writing and storytelling leave it a mess that I regret watching.