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A good effort, with some decent acting, creature make-up and some interesting sets, but sadly lacks any kind of humour, spontaneity and all the things that made TV series like Knightmare, The Crystal Maze and even Fort Boyard interesting and fun to watch. It's far too polished and controlled by the producers and is in no way "immersive" as they claim to be.

The stakes are so incredibly low. There is literally nothing to lose here other than the plot of the storyline. There are no prizes to be won. The contestants are therefore not much more than glorified actors that occasionally must solve puzzles - the rest of the time they're told what to say and do.

Plus there's far too much post-production work that further drives home that this is highly controlled, cheap way of getting a knock-off fantasy series that's disguised as some kind of real-life puzzle adventure game show. It doesn't know which genre it wants to be in.

Low budget where all the money went into costumes.

Acting is really awful, specially the teen heroes. Excuse me, Paladins. They are unproven yet.

As others said, I haver seen high school plays that were much much better.

Plot is thin as the hope of a snowball in hell.

There is almost no world building. We know nothing about the 8 teens that were summoned to boring world. At the end of episode 1 we still do not anything. There is no character building.

And it is boring. Eye glazing boring.

I am a geek who love all things fantasy. This ain't it.

For those of you that keep comparing this to the original, you will keep being disappointed by the fact that it isn't equal to its predecessor.

It will never be better or equal to original but that does not mean that it is not worth watching.

The acting is phenomenal, the makeup is incredible and the special effect are state of the art and the storyline reminds me of the Witcher.

Stop comparing it to something that it will never be.

This is a reinvention of something classic that happened 8 years ago.

Move with the times people.

There was alot of work, effort and care that went into this show and it shouldn't be based as heavily as it has been on this app.

Give it a chance, get lost in the story, enjoy the tension and Lord of the Rings like battles.

If it's not your cup of tea go rewatch the original after all nobody is making you watch this.

TV is for your pleasure alone so enjoy yourself elsewhere if you keep comparing it to some blast from the past.

A few people don't remember that this is not a new show. The Original concept for the show came out back in 2014 on ABC.

Then it was 12 people with the contestants aging from 19 to 40.

The biggest challenge of this show was to actually sit through it.

Hammy, wooden acting.

Tropes and jokes that never land.

A mish mash and rehash of tales already told with better direction and effects.

I'm sorry but i can't recommend, i wanted to like this so much, as i'm a huge fan of the Fantasy genre, but this was unwatchable.

Get a different director and try again is about all i can say.