Reviewenstein

...Strikes me as ridiculous. I can't fathom what the writer was thinking. Assuming Ms. Jang's dialogue is being accurately translated, I don't see how he decision she made makes sense from a character perspective. If I'm supposed to think the lives of this young mother and her baby are somehow more important than the lives of anyone else and that their survival should be inspirationally paramount, then the show's lost me. I have a bad feeling that the rest of the episodes are going to feature at least one impassioned speech about it.

ETA: Oh. Huh. I did not see that coming. Well played, show.

If you like that - and if you do, you must be in movie heaven the last decade - you'll probably enjoy it. I say this because somehow no other review has mentioned it and I don't want anyone else who's looking for atmospheric, slow-burn, folk horror *without* a lecture about society's ills and how they're mostly men's fault, to spend money on it and be disappointed. Otherwise, enjoy.

Ah, not enough characters. I don't have anything much to say (like the movie! Ha!) so I'm going to pad my review with this unnecessary filler (I'd say "like the movie" again, but that's debatable). I wonder if Amazon will give me a refund.

The post-millennial generations' self-absorbed obsession with trauma has birthed a million of these. This one takes an interesting approach by being super on-the-nose... it's so blatantly silly that it's probably intentional. When it's leaning into the silliness it works and provides some surprisingly witty dialogue, but when it tries to take itself seriously the embarrassing thinness of the premise is impossible to miss. Very little happens. It's just a monster that's a metaphor for trauma, there is nothing else here. It also feels like a dramatization of what it must be like to live inside a middle class white woman's head. Make of that what you will.