For those who worry about revivals not sticking to the source material, I can promise you that the show holds the exact amount of 80s cringe as the movie did.
The series does look like a direct continuation of the story from the film. It also helps that they have Warwick Davis as an anchor.
Most of the characters are idiotic and insufferable with over-dramatic-completely unnecessary- cringe acting.
My favorite character was Boorman who was an actual delight (and Willow obviously).
I also appreciated that they did a queer love story because all the straight ones are so boring at this point and that they brought in a very nice surprise character (and actor with Christian Slater) also keeping up with the asthmatic to appear canon.
Their biggest miss was their struggle to stick to the times, they did a great job recreating the feeling from the movie in a nostalgic sense but then they ruined it by putting current random music in the background, or adding the occasional not-so-very-80s-fantasy-vibe slang words and phrases to the dialogue. They probably wanted to cater to a younger audience but that audience would most likely won't even like the show because of its nostalgic tone.
Some of the episodes were interesting enough and a few were a pain to watch. I hope they won't get renewed for another season.
The series does look like a direct continuation of the story from the film. It also helps that they have Warwick Davis as an anchor.
Most of the characters are idiotic and insufferable with over-dramatic-completely unnecessary- cringe acting.
My favorite character was Boorman who was an actual delight (and Willow obviously).
I also appreciated that they did a queer love story because all the straight ones are so boring at this point and that they brought in a very nice surprise character (and actor with Christian Slater) also keeping up with the asthmatic to appear canon.
Their biggest miss was their struggle to stick to the times, they did a great job recreating the feeling from the movie in a nostalgic sense but then they ruined it by putting current random music in the background, or adding the occasional not-so-very-80s-fantasy-vibe slang words and phrases to the dialogue. They probably wanted to cater to a younger audience but that audience would most likely won't even like the show because of its nostalgic tone.
Some of the episodes were interesting enough and a few were a pain to watch. I hope they won't get renewed for another season.
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