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HELLBOUND
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Thanks to Squid Game being the number television show at Netflix… audience looking for the next big South Korean horror/thriller series.
Enter Hellbound, a new series from Yeon Sang-ho, the person responsible for directing Train to Busan and Peninsula. The show is about these people who are given judgement sentences to hell. Three demons will appear on the date of their judgement to beat and incinerate them.
At first you think it’s only judgement against criminals or sinners… but you soon find out bad people aren’t the only ones being judged.
I find that the world’s fantasy rules aren’t exactly spelled out for the audience. In fact, it felt like the writer/creator was making up the rules as they were going along. Why were some people judged, and not others (like the cult that rose to punish the judged)? If the demons can appear anywhere and carry their punishment, why bother chasing the humans? Why haven’t the judged encased themselves in a fireproof box? What if the judged killed themselves before the demons arrived? Why are some people given weeks, while others are given only seconds to live? It just made absolutely no sense to me.
In other films, like The Ring, you have three days before the girl in the well kills you. In Death Note, if you know the person’s real name, you can write their name in a book to kill them. In One Missed Call, the supernatural phone killer will call everyone in your contact list. These rules are established so you can follow and understand what is happening. With Hellbound, it just seems like anyone can be judged… and there is no escape from it.
The ending of the show is somewhat predictable, even though it made no sense to me. I don’t want to talk about it in details, but it did leave me puzzled. You can’t approach this show with logic.
While the show will like thrilled audience, I just didn’t enjoy it.
netflix.com
Thanks to Squid Game being the number television show at Netflix… audience looking for the next big South Korean horror/thriller series.
Enter Hellbound, a new series from Yeon Sang-ho, the person responsible for directing Train to Busan and Peninsula. The show is about these people who are given judgement sentences to hell. Three demons will appear on the date of their judgement to beat and incinerate them.
At first you think it’s only judgement against criminals or sinners… but you soon find out bad people aren’t the only ones being judged.
I find that the world’s fantasy rules aren’t exactly spelled out for the audience. In fact, it felt like the writer/creator was making up the rules as they were going along. Why were some people judged, and not others (like the cult that rose to punish the judged)? If the demons can appear anywhere and carry their punishment, why bother chasing the humans? Why haven’t the judged encased themselves in a fireproof box? What if the judged killed themselves before the demons arrived? Why are some people given weeks, while others are given only seconds to live? It just made absolutely no sense to me.
In other films, like The Ring, you have three days before the girl in the well kills you. In Death Note, if you know the person’s real name, you can write their name in a book to kill them. In One Missed Call, the supernatural phone killer will call everyone in your contact list. These rules are established so you can follow and understand what is happening. With Hellbound, it just seems like anyone can be judged… and there is no escape from it.
The ending of the show is somewhat predictable, even though it made no sense to me. I don’t want to talk about it in details, but it did leave me puzzled. You can’t approach this show with logic.
While the show will like thrilled audience, I just didn’t enjoy it.
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WHEEL OF TIME
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The long-running Wheel of Time books are finally being made into a television series from Amazon Prime. If you have Amazon Prime, as I do, via my brother’s family account, then it’s free for you to watch.
I’ve never read the books by Robert Jordan, and later, Brandon Sanderson, but I understand it’s epic and spans 14 books, including a prequel and two companion books. I can only assume the television show follows the first book. So far, the pilot ends with a sneak attack by the Minotaurs (or orcs?) on this small village. I don’t know about you, but based on the snarls and brutishness of these creatures… there’s no way they can ninja their way to the village.
The two characters that I’m most interested in are the powerful sorceress and her swordsman companion. They seem to be roaming the country, searching for someone who can stop “the Dragon”. By the end of the pilot, you understand that it’s one of the four or five characters from the village that will become Dragon. We don’t know who it is, and personally speaking, I don’t really care.
The show was sold to me as the next Game of Throne-ish series, and, indeed, it does feature a cast of hundreds, based on viewing the pilot, I can tell you that it’s nowhere near the budget or scale of the HBO series.
I think where Game of Thrones succeeds, it is that the show starts off in realism. It’s a world without magic… and slowly through the series, it introduces us to fantasy and magic (with the birth of three dragons). In Wheel of Time, you’re hit with magic and fantasy right away.
amazon.com
The long-running Wheel of Time books are finally being made into a television series from Amazon Prime. If you have Amazon Prime, as I do, via my brother’s family account, then it’s free for you to watch.
I’ve never read the books by Robert Jordan, and later, Brandon Sanderson, but I understand it’s epic and spans 14 books, including a prequel and two companion books. I can only assume the television show follows the first book. So far, the pilot ends with a sneak attack by the Minotaurs (or orcs?) on this small village. I don’t know about you, but based on the snarls and brutishness of these creatures… there’s no way they can ninja their way to the village.
The two characters that I’m most interested in are the powerful sorceress and her swordsman companion. They seem to be roaming the country, searching for someone who can stop “the Dragon”. By the end of the pilot, you understand that it’s one of the four or five characters from the village that will become Dragon. We don’t know who it is, and personally speaking, I don’t really care.
The show was sold to me as the next Game of Throne-ish series, and, indeed, it does feature a cast of hundreds, based on viewing the pilot, I can tell you that it’s nowhere near the budget or scale of the HBO series.
I think where Game of Thrones succeeds, it is that the show starts off in realism. It’s a world without magic… and slowly through the series, it introduces us to fantasy and magic (with the birth of three dragons). In Wheel of Time, you’re hit with magic and fantasy right away.
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