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Dead Boy Detectives (2024)
Sigh
What could have been a decent spin-off from the Sandman universe ends up only keeping the worst parts. In typical Netflix fashion it's turned an interesting brand into a teenage coming of age-drama where everybody's gay for some reason.
Every single main character is as physically attractive as they are vapid and utterly boring, and the only thing you need to compare to understand that Netflix has utterly violated yet another IP is to compare the cover art of the TV series to that of "The Children's Crusade". London is immediately replaced with the US for no reason other than pandering to an American audience, doom and gloom is replaced with a graphical profile reminiscent of "Stranger Things" since it's the only series Netflix has widely succeeded with, and somewhere along the way all creativity bleeds out, the idea dies and you spend a season watching a corpse of an idea -- or perhaps more accurately a ghost.
Constellation (2024)
An interesting story left dead in the water
I really don't quite know where to begin. Without spoiling anything, the premise of this series is actually pretty good. Much like "Dexter", if you watch the entire first season and summarize what you've seen in a few sentences, it could be not only a good sci-fi series, but a great one.
What instead happens is that through bad direction, bad writing and frankly bad casting in some cases, this series becomes a total train wreck. The pacing is abysmal, the arches feel like a parody of "Lost", and honesly when I finished the last episode which of course ends with a cliffhanger teasing a second season, I almost stood up yelling. This series does NOT need a second season, it needs a complete remake. Scuttle this and sell it to someone who cares.
I'd give more examples but I'd like to keep this spoiler free. The only thing this series is good at is wasting your time, so if you have nothing better to do and you're lacking something to watch, by all means, give it a shot; but if you're into sci-fi, multi-dimensional characters and good writing, prepare for frustration.
Beef House (2020)
A hard sell even for fans of Tim and Eric
I'm a huge fan of their other material but T&E do have a tendency to phone it in at times, and this series seems like one of those times. It's weird for the sake of being weird without pushing a point, and when you compare it to what I would consider low-key satire masterpieces like "The Trial" or "On Cinema at the Cinema" or whatever, it's just hard to understand why this was even made. At the end of the day it feels disrespectful to the audience and the fans to spend so little time making something that is just a repeating non-sequitur meme that you expect fans to repeat over and over again assuming that they "get it". Tim and Eric are funny, they've pushed the envelope in humor many times, but that doesn't mean anything with Tim and Eric in it automatically becomes funny, or that you should, as a fan, internalize it as yourself "not getting it".