Chosen

Like many European shows like this one it's gloomy, bleak and dark. Featuring desolate dirt roads and abandoned buildings. There can't be anymore than a handful of pages of dialog in the entire series. The characters are shadows, unable to draw you in or relate to them.

Mostly here to counter-review the plethora of naysayers- it's entertaining and not about a bunch of bored American teens being ridiculous.

The comments about "bad parenting" seem almost scripted.

It amazes me sometimes what people see when they watch shows. This is a short series that crams a lot of themes in. Sense of identity, being an outsider, emotional problems, sexual identity, friendships, strained friendships, parental relationships and all that wrapped around the central mystery of what really happened when the meteor struck in a one horse town in the middle of nowhere.

I found it it to be well paced. The mystery is not taxing so its not a 10/10 series but I finished each episode wanting to watch the next immediately.

I have seen criticisms on here of the acting but for me the central characters behave and in a way that I have seen thousand times in real life when they consider themselves to be outsiders in some way. As the series progresses certain characters are revealed to have certain secrets and the way others have reacted and behaved previously becomes clearer. If someone appears emotionless, the reason becomes clear.

The series ends with some things unexplained and I hope that it means a 2nd series to expand further on what we understand from the first.

While I wouldn't say this is a must see it is certainly worth a watch.

I rated Chosen a 3 and I was being generous. Never have I ever rated a film or series so low. The worst part is I gave it two episodes to redeem itself though it was obvious from the very first scene it wasn't worth viewing. How could no one scripting, producing, directing, edition the mess not realize how completely bad it is? Chosen gets my vote for worst dialogue in film history.

The story kept me interested, and there was intrigue. Enough that I watched the full series in a short space of time. The Sci-fi elements were really good. It was enjoyable at moments, but it was far from problem free. One of the main plot points I saw coming from the word go.

BUT I disliked how unhealthy many of the relationships between the characters were. I was hoping for a teen, let's discover ourselves whilst we uncover this mystery and get to the truth. There was so much backstabbing, and all the characters hurting each other a lot.

Also no one actually talked to each other, instead they jumped to conclusions, lied, and often did something stupid behind someone's back. With the exception of Marie, she was the only really likeable character.

Emma even did this to her Mum. Mads was actually vile. A lot of these things were often different to how the characters started out, and seemed to be there just to forward the plot.

I can honestly understand the mixed reviews to this.