billsoccer

I generally love roasts and have a long history starting with the Friars club roasts, especially with Dean Martin. I've always felt the best were brutal, fair and (relatively) clean. Nicky Glaser is not my cup of tea. She wasn't involved with this, but if you're familiar with her style you know what I'm referring to. Well, this was closer to her style, without being funny! So, if you like her, you'll possibly like this mess.

This was brutal alright, but I found most attempts at humor just tasteless. It seems they were self-referencing - incidents where they spent time with another on the dais, but left the audience (at least this one) waiting for a punch line.

Love this series - they present a morality tale, like all Folk tales. However, some of those German tales have topics that I feel may cancel the theme. This tale of a boy who can't be scared seems to me to also be saying you can't be hurt/killed either.

He sinks into a river, can play, breathe, etc. At one point he befriends a wayfaring stranger and shows himself dangerously naive - though I'm only adding this to fill up the 600 - character quota.

The rest of this review can be ignored. It's only filler. Can't understand the criteria and it's obvious that it doesn't apply to all - just look at short reviews on most movies.

Starts with an interesting premise - a bunch of people in a small town return to life - hence the title. To keep it in the realm of believability, it's announced that the area is quarantined, so no riots, etc. The town adjusts - in a manner of speaking - a month or so into the event. The CDC (?) is conducting tests, schools reopen (with the Revived), everything seems "normal".

Some animals are found mutilated and it appears a 'revived' is killing them. Our police chiefs daughter, also on the force, is looking into it when she finds a captive, dangerous Revived, and her estranged sister, also a Revived!

Good - It's an interesting proposal Bad - I wish they would have gone for serious, as the story would have supported that approach. Instead we get a lot of 'characters' - particularly the morgue attendant, who injects camp, ruining these scenes for me. Also, the protagonist has 'issues', the writers apparently thinking this is necessary but to me just continues the recent (?) practice of having the lead character being off-kilter - a trend which may be overdone.

The 2nd episode may cement my ability to continue watching.