Good production value, beautiful faces left and right, inconsistent but overall okay performance all around. That being said...
It starts slow but with quite a good build up of thriller and mystery, with some good horror scenes as well. But that's all there is to the end. Let me tell you a little bit about storytelling: give a series of mystery that makes the viewers guessing and theorizing, and after a while (in a six episode season, maybe the end of episode 2) reveal some kind of answer that makes the viewers go, "Damn, I was wrong!" or "I knew it!" Either way is good. Then deliver some more mystery and story that seem to support the first reveal, then after a while (perhaps episode 4,) give another, preferably bigger, reveal that turns everything upside down. It's called a twist. More and more mystery, then reveal everything in the season finale. But of course, the last reveal doesn't mean the story is concluded, as there's new mystery up ahead that makes the viewers eager to see the next season.
Instead what we have here is simply a stack of mysteries compounded one on top of the others with ZERO reveal, right until the end. I'm dead serious, you know absolutely nothing about the story you just watched for six episodes and where it's going by the end of the season.
Watch Inside Number 9 season 2 episode 2, The 12 Days of Christine. It's also a stack of mysteries compounded one on top of the others. BUT, in the final 90 seconds or so, they reveal everything that makes every single mystery, scene, shot, dialogue and even prop meaningful. It works because it's a 30 minute episode and that big reveal in the end. A 6 episode season with no reveal at any given point? Sorry, it doesn't work.
It starts slow but with quite a good build up of thriller and mystery, with some good horror scenes as well. But that's all there is to the end. Let me tell you a little bit about storytelling: give a series of mystery that makes the viewers guessing and theorizing, and after a while (in a six episode season, maybe the end of episode 2) reveal some kind of answer that makes the viewers go, "Damn, I was wrong!" or "I knew it!" Either way is good. Then deliver some more mystery and story that seem to support the first reveal, then after a while (perhaps episode 4,) give another, preferably bigger, reveal that turns everything upside down. It's called a twist. More and more mystery, then reveal everything in the season finale. But of course, the last reveal doesn't mean the story is concluded, as there's new mystery up ahead that makes the viewers eager to see the next season.
Instead what we have here is simply a stack of mysteries compounded one on top of the others with ZERO reveal, right until the end. I'm dead serious, you know absolutely nothing about the story you just watched for six episodes and where it's going by the end of the season.
Watch Inside Number 9 season 2 episode 2, The 12 Days of Christine. It's also a stack of mysteries compounded one on top of the others. BUT, in the final 90 seconds or so, they reveal everything that makes every single mystery, scene, shot, dialogue and even prop meaningful. It works because it's a 30 minute episode and that big reveal in the end. A 6 episode season with no reveal at any given point? Sorry, it doesn't work.