Alphabetically, the first show on Disney Plus is "101 Dalmatian Street" a spin off from the animated films. I'm really not the audience that they were after with this series, but I wanted to at least aim to try everything so I watched the first episode and, although I don't want to watch anymore, there were some aspects about it the I liked.
Several generations after Pongo and Perdita, an unrealistically large amount of Dalmatian siblings live in customised house in Camden, London. With their parents working, looking after these puppies usually falls to the eldest two, cautious Dylan (Josh Brener) and adventurous Dolly (Michaela Dietz).
I'm not going to go into too much depth with my review here, as I said I only watched the first episode, which is made up of two stories. Then I found out that Michelle Gomez was playing Cruella De Vil (a part she was born to play in live action), so I watched a little of the last episode too, to get a flavour of that. Visually I quite liked the show, it's an abstract art style at times, particularly with the backgrounds that often use big splashes of colour rather than detailed drawings. There are also recognisable London landmarks in there and I liked, in the first episode anyway, that there was some attempt to actually represent the people you see in Camden, rather than just generic humans. The cast is pretty good too, aside from people I've already mentioned, Conor MacNeill appeared in the first episode, and I can see that Rasmus Hardiker, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Olly Murs and Stephen Mangan also appear later on.
So, why am I not planning to watch anymore. It's a big, noisy, vibrant but basic show, and though I'm not above watching a series aimed at children primarily, I'm looking for it to have a little more to it to keep me engaged, a bit of subversion, or wit and, based on that first episode, this show doesn't have enough of that.
Several generations after Pongo and Perdita, an unrealistically large amount of Dalmatian siblings live in customised house in Camden, London. With their parents working, looking after these puppies usually falls to the eldest two, cautious Dylan (Josh Brener) and adventurous Dolly (Michaela Dietz).
I'm not going to go into too much depth with my review here, as I said I only watched the first episode, which is made up of two stories. Then I found out that Michelle Gomez was playing Cruella De Vil (a part she was born to play in live action), so I watched a little of the last episode too, to get a flavour of that. Visually I quite liked the show, it's an abstract art style at times, particularly with the backgrounds that often use big splashes of colour rather than detailed drawings. There are also recognisable London landmarks in there and I liked, in the first episode anyway, that there was some attempt to actually represent the people you see in Camden, rather than just generic humans. The cast is pretty good too, aside from people I've already mentioned, Conor MacNeill appeared in the first episode, and I can see that Rasmus Hardiker, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Olly Murs and Stephen Mangan also appear later on.
So, why am I not planning to watch anymore. It's a big, noisy, vibrant but basic show, and though I'm not above watching a series aimed at children primarily, I'm looking for it to have a little more to it to keep me engaged, a bit of subversion, or wit and, based on that first episode, this show doesn't have enough of that.