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From (2022)
Good premise but basically a soap.
Driving along a country road surrounded by woodland, our characters are stopped by a fallen tree across the road. One character asks "Why is there a tree on the road?" From that moment on, I knew we were in for a feast of dumb dialogue and even dumber characters. The first few episodes do show some promise, but this quickly evaporates as the show descends in part, to the level of a soap opera and gets bogged down by boring and inane domestic chatter and arguments. Some might call this exposition, but not in this case it isn't. Its just waffle and padding. Of course the f word is frequently used, perhaps to make the non violent parts of the show appear less soapy. The horror scenes are OK although one scene seems to copy the upside down world of Stranger Things. So if you take out the f word and the very few scenes of horror, all you're left with is a low budget, boring, badly written and acted soap.
La dernière vague (2019)
Truly awful!
If you thought the French TV version of War of The Worlds was bad just wait till you feast your eyes on this steaming pile of Gallic merde! Or actually don't bother wasting 6 hours of your precious life on what is essentially a low budget and badly acted daytime soap with a daft script, a bit of dodgy sci-fi eco-nonsense and a touch of light sex thrown in to make it appear "grown up".
It appears mother nature has had enough of us and creates a long white cloud to hang over a small seaside town. A group of surfers disappear and then re-appear with "special powers". One has improved eyesight and can see through things, another can heal with his hands. This might have led to some interesting plot developments and cool cgi effects. It doesn't and prefers instead to get bogged down with tedious domestic strife amongst the inhabitants - pure soap. Perhaps the most stupid thing of all is the lighthouse which overnight relocates itself inland. Why? Who knows. Who cares? Certainly not the authorities, who in any sensible script, would have been swarming all over the place. When in the end, the surfers sink to the bottom of the sea in order to disperse the cloud, the cloud disappears and is next seen hanging over somewhere in India. Yes, it really is that bad!