12 girls, all unknown to each other, wake up in stately manor. Doors are bolted, windows bullet-proof, a small back garden is open, but walled in by an electrical fence. Soon they are informed through a TV set that they are there to help create a vaccine for the terrible, deadly flu that is killing off the world. Because of their DNA being unique.
Not very likely. Not very creative. But a nice enough setting for short TV series. Lost meets Lord of the flies meets Swedish bikini team.
The good stuff: These are 15-minutes episodes. You can watch the whole series in one evening. And one of the girl exhibits some very creepy psychopatic traits.
The bad stuff: The story is just horribly rushed together. No sense of time. Has it been two hours? Seven days? Several months? No way to tell. The first three episodes most of them use the same clothes (fresh supplies are provided), yet they have already started a cargo cult religion, made weapons to kill each others and hacked into the surveillance system with an X-box. After all 6 episodes you have gotten to know know about half the girls. Two of them have something close to a personality. The rest are cardboard figures. There is no continuity between the scenes. One scene can end in a girl getting beaten and hauled away, the next she comes hand in hand with her attacker. Key figure Rita knows more than the others and has been given great trust by their detainers. They all know that. But they never ask her about the truth. And she shreds her loyalty to the detainers at the first suggestion she should do so. And of course, we have some very very stilted lines delivered by some very very unexperienced actors. The dialogue really hurts badly sometimes. And the revelation of The Truth? Please. I have no words.
A weak 3 from me. (I know I might not be in the key target group for this, being a 50+ years old man. But I know quality when I see it. Here there was nothing to see.)
The good stuff: These are 15-minutes episodes. You can watch the whole series in one evening. And one of the girl exhibits some very creepy psychopatic traits.
The bad stuff: The story is just horribly rushed together. No sense of time. Has it been two hours? Seven days? Several months? No way to tell. The first three episodes most of them use the same clothes (fresh supplies are provided), yet they have already started a cargo cult religion, made weapons to kill each others and hacked into the surveillance system with an X-box. After all 6 episodes you have gotten to know know about half the girls. Two of them have something close to a personality. The rest are cardboard figures. There is no continuity between the scenes. One scene can end in a girl getting beaten and hauled away, the next she comes hand in hand with her attacker. Key figure Rita knows more than the others and has been given great trust by their detainers. They all know that. But they never ask her about the truth. And she shreds her loyalty to the detainers at the first suggestion she should do so. And of course, we have some very very stilted lines delivered by some very very unexperienced actors. The dialogue really hurts badly sometimes. And the revelation of The Truth? Please. I have no words.
A weak 3 from me. (I know I might not be in the key target group for this, being a 50+ years old man. But I know quality when I see it. Here there was nothing to see.)
