Review of Between

Between (2015–2016)
3/10
A virus is killing people over 21, there's just one problem...
28 May 2015
All the survivors are played by actors that look 25-28.

A mysterious illness is striking the people of Pretty Lake. I can't tell you what country the idyllic small town of Pretty Lake is in cause the show never tells us.

'Between' is basically a festival of cinematic clichés: there's a pregnant teen, we aren't old who the father is, some bad clues can give us a good guess, there's a rich family that easily earns our hate, there's a poor family that is easy to like, there's a hacker--or at least cinema's idea of a hack--complete with fancy graphics on his computer that no one has ever seen, there's the overused motif of an aggressive military cordon--but they let the dude smuggling drugs and weapons pass through the checkpoint. "Here, you'll need these," an ambiguous military person says as he hands the drug smuggler his guns back and releases him into the quarantine zone.

And yet, the above things are believable. What is not believable is a disease that presents no symptoms and then *BANG* a person spits up some blood and keels over in five seconds.

Netflix will be releasing one episode a week... and I cannot wait to not watch them.
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