Halfworlds

Really liked the story and the concept. Watched the entire first season but spent the entire time trying to figure out if the main character was a different person because her hair went from bangs to no bangs. I found this confusing cause when her hair is up she looks completely different. Story made no sense and how do these people have super powers but fight like average joes? There was a lot of of random people with no explanation and the story would randomly throw stuff in and then completely abandon the plot or explain what was going on. Overall, I enjoyed it but remained confused. I tired to watch the second season but it got way to confusing and I liked the first season charters more.

I knew for the first time about the series from social media then from the HBO advertise. I said to my self, "Wow an Indonesian series, directed by Indonesian top director, broadcast by HBO. Its going to be awesome!". Until I actually watched the first episode. There were so many "wait what?", "why?", "who are you" moments. The flow of the story was confusing, the transitions from one scene to another was odd. There were many flashing scenes jumping from one situation to another situation then back to the previous situation then jump again and so on. The acting were below HBO series bar. The episode was also ended awkwardly leaving me confused. I watched the second and the third eps and the conditions above still occurs. I am hoping so much there will be so much improvements and this series could have second season. I am very proud with this series and the director, cast and crews. Come on Joko Anwar!

The story starts promising with dark and ancient Asian monsters, sound good and exciting. But its all end with just a simple explanation "Because they look just like us." Wow... In the end the whole story is blurry, there is still no real meaning behind everything and to be honest i was expected some supernatural monsters, superhuman abilities at least but it is just like low class gangsters cutting each other throats the whole season. The actors & actresses look gorgeous but that is only it. Shallow acting, trying to hard to be cool and look dangerous they forgot to act. Dialogs are short and sketchy, characters have no deep intact to the storyline, Everything are just flowing around each other. Hope they get it together for next season.

The HBO TV series Halfworlds has a very interesting back story but suffers from bad casting, fake acting extras, bad costume and seem to do little in drawing you into the story.

In terms of the main cast they are way to good looking and polished to be believed that they are your normal everyday people stuck in a battle between good and evil. Everyone looks like they belong in a upper crust telenovela Mansion instead of the dirty streets.

All seem way to good looking and clean to fit into the dark story line. It attempts to create an Asian Underworld type of TV series but falls way short on execution.

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I am Indonesian and I live in Jakarta. When I first saw the trailer I said to myself at last a good series made by Indonesian. It featured Indonesian supernatural myths and it looked different from other Indonesian made. After all, it was picked up by HBO, so it should be good, yes? No! I didn't see the first episode, but I saw the second, and it didn't take me 30 minutes to change the channel.

To me it was a big no. The story was actually promising but the execution was not. The dialog were somewhat scarce, short, and not really interconnected to one another. The acting was worse. They were not actually acting but only tried to look cool. Trying to be cool was not the same as acting.

In short, the overall look was not really different from other Indonesian horror film.