Runaways

Instead of breaking the mold with the characters on this show runaways basically copies and pastes most of it's characters and decides that it's clearly morally wrong to give them any real nuance. From the parents who fit neat little boxes like the ultra religious types, or the angry abusive and power hungry dad with no redeeming qualities whatsoever, to the angry girl with dyed hair and an attitude that does nothing but relate everything to some sort of social agenda. It feels like Marvel decided that every character has to substitute uniqueness with box ticking. Let's appease people's desire for simplistic characters that do't challenge our perceptions at all. Like so many shows it had lots of possibility that simply fell flat

Poor acting, really bad story. Boring... it's taken them 5 episodes to get exactly nowhere with the plot so far. Also.. the characters in this show are Stupid... and I do mean stupid with a capital S... characters. Seriously... Nobody is this clueless.

The entire theory of the show seems to be that the bad guys are bad guys because everyone on the planet is so dumb that they haven't noticed the idiotic stunts they've pulled. The show also seems bent on portraying the kids as mentally challenged too. Sure one of them has some tech savvy but, seriously... some of the 'mistakes' they made are 3rd grader nonsense, not high school.

Not believable at all. And I'm pretty forgiving of most marvel titles. I've liked a lot of them just fine. This one is just... awful.

Not sure how the critics are rating this so high. It's absolutely NOT that great a show... it's not even that good a show... it's borderline awful.

Watch it if you have some time to kill and nothing else decent is on... that's about the only advice I can give.

This is a true light in the dark of a show! I dare you to watch 4 episodes despite all the BS in other reviews. In fact I double dare you! If you like the superhero genre, this will stand out as one of the best since season 1 of Heroes. The show demands that you pay attention, both to the subtleties in the characters, and to the in your face stunning cinematics.

And if you haven't seen the trailer yet, DON'T! Saw the trailer after two episodes and Just as I suspected I'm glad i did't watch it before I started episode 1.

I never write reviews. So if this is the review that will make you watch this show, I'm grateful. Because if the series continue for more seasons in the magnificent way the first four episodes have, we're all in for a treat.

I'm the person who didn't bother to watch season 2 of Arrow because it's just to repetitive and boring. Same with many of the other «Marvels».

Just watch it.

I just marathoned the first half of season 1, and I'm shocked at all the 1-star reviews. Every negative review I've seen says that the entire thing is teen drama, that it's too slow, and that it's nothing like the comics. One person I noticed only watched the first two episodes and said he's surprised there's no LGBT stuff. To him in particular, I ask did you even pay attention at all? Almost every time Karolina was on screen, there were massive lesbian undertones, and it was awesome. To everyone else: 1. Only maybe 1/4th of each episode is what you might call "teen drama", because, guess what? They're teens, and so is a big portion of the audience. I think you can stomach 12 minutes of drama sprinkled in around the mystery, tension, and good old comic book weirdness. 2. If it's too slow, you're too ADHD. My brother's best friend, one of the most ADD people I've ever met and has barely enough of an attention span to watch a 23-minute episode of Boruto, had his eyes glued to the screen the entire time and was dying for another episode each time one ended. 3. Saying it's nothing like the comics is an INSANE exaggeration. All the major plot points hit in much the same way they do in the comics, and of course they're gonna add in more stuff that wasn't in the books because if they didn't, and just did a shot-for-shot remake, the whole thing would be over in 2 episodes. Everything they added was very much in the spirit of the original story, and gave us a lot of extra character development, not only for the main 6 kids, but for the villains too, who got next to no facetime in the original story. Not to mention, this is probably the most faithful production Marvel has ever put out, considering this is essentially adapting an entire graphic novel, whereas pretty much everything else, movie or TV show, had either mixed and matched comic storylines, or been completely original. I think they did an outstanding job sticking to the source material for reference points, and given us something that even fans of the original story will be trying to figure out while enjoying their favorite characters recreated on the small screen. This show is amazing, and I can't wait for season 2.

The show is moving at a much slower pace than the trailer suggested which I wouldn't have minded had the show been any good. Runaways is decent at best with mundane script writing and an over saturation of clichéd characters. They've introduced so many characters early on that you're almost perplexed at times as to who's who and their relation to the other characters as well as their relevance to whatever the plot is becoming. As for the plot, it tries to be too mysterious and foreboding that it only confuses itself in numerous plot holes and bad character decisions for the sake of extending the story and providing unnecessary drama.