Where to begin, this might be the weakest possible take on a Marvel adaptation. Proving that Marvel can also miss the mark.
The two protagonists seem to aboslutly hate eachother and can't act their way out of a paperbag, they have no chemestry despite the whole show building on their friendship. When you hear the black boy that goes to a private school tell the white homless girl with a dead father and alchoholic mother "to check her privleges" you just cringe and wonder who is really this stupid, the character or the script writer?
The "villains" are one dimentional and nothing more than background noice. The Roxxon CEO needs to be portayed as evil so badly they show us that his biggest wish is to loot dollars from the pockets of drowned workers?! What? And then there is Detective Connors, that despite being protayd by a great actor, has little to work with as the character has no depth wahat so ever. The one character that actually had great potential to develop is stagnated as Baddy McBadguy through the whole first season with no explanations to his actions. A small shift comes in season two, but ths script drops the ball on that development also.
As for Mayhem, a potentially interesting character, we are left with a whiny girl that constantly about her ex boyfriend.
Inbetween the over the top writing and constant inconsistansies, the viewer is sent between rolling their eyes and hoping that it will get better. What is sad is that there are a few glimmers of actual good scriptwriting, like when Mayhem encounters Connors in The Dark, or when André is faced with his past, or when Adina has a purely honest conversation with her son's killer. All those times are almost enough to keep you interesting in the show, but it just isen't enough. A show that gives you four scenes of great writing over 20episodes is unfortuanlly not worth your time. The scrips should have had another round at the writers desk, and all we can hope for is a reboot in a few years when this outmost forgettable show has faded in to The Dark where it belongs.
The two protagonists seem to aboslutly hate eachother and can't act their way out of a paperbag, they have no chemestry despite the whole show building on their friendship. When you hear the black boy that goes to a private school tell the white homless girl with a dead father and alchoholic mother "to check her privleges" you just cringe and wonder who is really this stupid, the character or the script writer?
The "villains" are one dimentional and nothing more than background noice. The Roxxon CEO needs to be portayed as evil so badly they show us that his biggest wish is to loot dollars from the pockets of drowned workers?! What? And then there is Detective Connors, that despite being protayd by a great actor, has little to work with as the character has no depth wahat so ever. The one character that actually had great potential to develop is stagnated as Baddy McBadguy through the whole first season with no explanations to his actions. A small shift comes in season two, but ths script drops the ball on that development also.
As for Mayhem, a potentially interesting character, we are left with a whiny girl that constantly about her ex boyfriend.
Inbetween the over the top writing and constant inconsistansies, the viewer is sent between rolling their eyes and hoping that it will get better. What is sad is that there are a few glimmers of actual good scriptwriting, like when Mayhem encounters Connors in The Dark, or when André is faced with his past, or when Adina has a purely honest conversation with her son's killer. All those times are almost enough to keep you interesting in the show, but it just isen't enough. A show that gives you four scenes of great writing over 20episodes is unfortuanlly not worth your time. The scrips should have had another round at the writers desk, and all we can hope for is a reboot in a few years when this outmost forgettable show has faded in to The Dark where it belongs.