Review of 1899

1899 (2022)
2/10
I definitely understand why it got cancelled
27 July 2023
I tried to like this. The premise was interesting but it was too annoying to watch. What made it more annoying is that I just finished watching "Dark" and everything that annoyed me about "Dark" was carried into this. I enjoyed the first two seasons of "Dark" but then season 3 was horrible and all of the traits injected into this series became that much more annoying.

The most problematic traits? With 7-10 minutes left in an episode, they play music and pan the different characters to I guess add drama and depth. I've seen this done well and sparingly in previous TV shows so it's totally not original by these makers and they overuse it to where it's just like, wow, can you be that lazy and unoriginal?

Another annoyance is how slow and dragged out everything is. The focus on a person's face for too long. The focus on an object for too long. It's just the same thing over and over and you're left to just suffer through the sludge pace.

There is also the common progressive nonsense that is so obvious that it adds to the reasons why you just want to throw up while watching. Good riddance. Smart of NF to cancel. I gave this a 2 instead of a 1 for the well done set designs and imagery. I'll never get this time back, arghhhh.
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