Tell Me a Story (2018–2020)
3/10
I came for the pedigree, but found it woefully lacking
26 August 2020
Between Kevin Williamson, and several the actors involved, this seemed like a sure bet, but I watched more than half of the first season, and just couldn't take any more of it. The problem, for me, is that there isn't one likeable person in the whole series. Certainly, there are many stories (even some of the so-called classics), where that is also the case, but usually applied to a much smaller group of self-centered people. Here, though, everyone is either super sleezy (e.g. criminals, murderers, etc.), and/or super stupid, doing not just one stupid thing, but stupid, after stupid, after stupid. Regardless of the attempt to spin some fairy tale inspired, horror genre story, it just fell short of the mark for me, by requiring every character to be so unbelievably dumb.

It's one thing to populate a story with a few idiots, because certainly, they do exist in the real world, but to build an entire series based upon every main character being an idiot, and never seeming to learn even a single lesson, from all of their previous mistakes, just didn't seem like entertainment to me. Maybe I just missed the point, and the whole idea is that this is a different universe, where "common sense" didn't evolve as a human trait. If that sort of universe sounds interesting to you, then you might enjoy the series.
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