Oh for some relief from the deeply and dolefully self conscious and contrived. I stayed to the end of the first episode because of the beauty of the art direction, music, costumes, production values and cinematography. Unfortunately the writing is 'Saturday afternoon teenage horror', very predictable and boring. Or it could be the editing which destroys any sense of flow in the unfurling of the mystery. As beautiful as the surgically brow-lifted and filler-ed senior actors and the fresh faced younger actors are, much of their work is stilted to the point of amateurish.But remember the writing is bad...god help them. Please stop spending money on making footage look and sound like this, the quality of a wonderful BBC series, and then give us a tween-age non-thrill ride worthy of the Fox News channel and the purple prose cinema. All in all the series is unworthy of the wonderful atmosphere and music created by the "support people"...all support no substance.
Review of Hemlock Grove
