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If you're a purist of the comic, this is definitely not for you. If you separate it from that, it's still not that great of a show. No particular actor or actress steps out to steal the spotlight. The directing of the first episode is horrible and jumps around too much to allow the viewer to understand what is happening. It gets marginally.better but it's been done before and done better.

This is not a 1 score, neither is it a 10 score. Its just a lazy, badly put together, forgetable trudge through a DMZ that is unrecognizable from the original comic. I gave up after the 2nd episode because I had absolutely no interest in seeing anymore or it.

Future dystopia, action, Rosario Dawson - what is not to like? A broken post-war place where everybody is cheery, clean, well dressed and well fed. The camera work is sunny and bright, wardrobe colourful. No broken people. The action involves sitting around talking, moves on to some discussion and finishes with some dialogue. Dawson is given a hopeless script and does as well as anyone could.

Okay - it's a little slow - a little drawn out - but - it's actually not that bad - I'd definitely say it's better than most reviews - I'd give it a 6-7 - it has its moments for sure! Not bad!

I barely made it through the first episode.

My opinion is that it's not gritty enough for the setting that it proposes and story isn't very compelling. I had higher hopes for an HBO production. They should have put the money for this into more seasons of Raised by Wolves. :P.

This was a nice show, a world with a full cast of characters to follow. Deep character driven, and most of all about having hope with a broken past. The love of a mother shown on full display. There are many flaws and great things about the show. It's truly up to you to watch but it's only 4 episodes so it's not a waste of time nor too short. I enjoyed it, pacing was right, music was attractive and the writing is average just for a watch.

The acting is OK. No stand-out performances, but none too terrible. The twists and character arcs are predictable.

Instead of focusing on the effects of civil war, it's a run-of-the-mill turf war that borders on racist stereotypes of gang communities. There's an election too, although the candidates are all violent kingpins preaching about unity while murdering dissidents, so it's difficult to really care.

Tonally it's a mess. In one scene the DMZ is portrayed as ruins torn apart by a decade of war, and in a subsequent scene you have vivid yellow colour grading and twenty-somethings barbecuing and drinking out of mason jars like it's Glastonbury festival. Everyone is clean, well-dressed, and happy. I really admire the costume design, but it's more suited to a catwalk than a war zone.

There's a very tone-deaf moment early on where Ortega is smiling in a happy hipster marketplace, chuckling over "people at their worst" - as if civil war isn't so bad as long as you can drink home brew at the vintage fair. Ten seconds later we're in a clinic watching a teen cough blood.

The cinematography is all over the place. A particularly heavy-handed shot is filmed upside down, because "Ortega's world has been turned upside down" and the only way to show this was by making viewers stand on their heads. The words "I don't want to be reminded" are scribbled on the wall of her old apartment building. My, how symbolic. Several close-up shots of a character's hands, and dialogue is repeated just in case you didn't realise it was important the first three times.

There's an almost comical over-reliance on lens flares, shaky-cam, and focus pulls. Action scenes are a blurry, jumpy mess of dutch angles. Each line of dialogue has its own shot, sometimes two. There's never more than a few seconds to focus on a character's emotions or reactions before cutting away.

And of course, there are plenty of inaccuracies and continuity errors. Little things like wounds requiring major surgery are miraculously healed with just some stitches and kind words. Dates on ID badges, Ortega's son's height chart, in dialogue and in promotional material don't quite add up. A gubernatorial election is held, glossing over issues like which federal union the governor belongs to. It just feels lazy.

Because, you know, there's a civil war. Apparently that's supposed to affect things.

It's a decent post apocalyptic tale, with good acting and good production value, but it strays too far from the source material. And while I'm not a purist, if you're gonna work within a narrative framework based on existing property comment try not to change the existing property completely.

No one says it has to be about Matty but Parco is a completely different Parco and Wilson is a completely different Wilson, so absent the names of characters and the basic core premise of the setting, it barely resembles DMZ as an adaption.

It's kind of Preacher all over again, but with less faith to the source material.

Despite some interesting visuals and good acting, this show is just not compelling! :-( The first episode could barely keep my interest :-( What a waste of Rosario Dawson's talent :-(

It's not a bad miniseries to binge in a day. I don't agree with other reviews calling it "woke". Yes it doesn't feature caucasians as main roles, but also there is no agenda to the series. All around an average watch. If your like me and struggle finding something new, this is decent.

The characters are so cringeworthy with their decisions and choices and just general demeanor. The story crawls at a snails pace and is filled with SO MUCH melodrama. Most of it isn't earned or built up to begin with to leave any impact. The editing and direction makes me want to vomit, there are so many cuts in a scene...cut to face, cut to other face, cut to handshake, cut to face again, cut to other face in like 10 seconds...It's extremely annoying. There is one big action scene in the 3rd episode that could have actually been cool, all the elements were there to make it cool, but you definitely could tell the person never shot action before and it was LAME. I'm being generous with a 5 because the actors all do fine work and are really giving it a 100% effort, the set pieces and world building were pretty cool as well. Disappointing.

I remember reading the first few issues of the comic book many years ago.

I don't really remember what happened but I remember it being really good, which means that the creators of the show deviated a LOT from the original material.

Everything is so polished in this show and the way society formed in the DMV feels incredibly naive in a way that happens only on TV.

The writers definitely chose the wrong direction, the director definitely didn't have the budget to create the atmosphere of DMV, and the producers could not save the end result from looking lame no matter how much money they've decided to pay to add catchy hip hop songs post-production.

I started watching this show knowing that other reviewers seem to hate it. Honestly, I don't see what's so awful about it. Sure, it's not a 10/10 and it may be a bit slow sometimes. Or perhaps even strange... I'm not from the US, so can't quite comment on how "real" or not this show is (Hey, if you know who could be elected and then get to stay on as leader of the nation, how could this show be any more strange than reality?). And I don't watch dystopian TV shows because I want reality, anyway. I think this show deserves a lot more than a 1/10 score. I'm not comparing this show to a comic or anything else, nor do I think of what's possible or close to reality,,, I just don't think it's bad. In fact, I liked it. I wanted some fairly light entertainment and that's what I got. I would give it a 6 or a 7 out of 10. So I'm giving it a 7. I think this show was worth watching.

Just like Y last man, this book ruined by Hollywood. It's watchable but we had to add love stories, lost love and a bunch of other BS. Why is it so hard to stick to the book? The book was so much deeper on the political view and what happened before the DMZ. That's the best part. Hopefully it gets better.

Great show but suffers from the miniseries format. It would have benefited from either cutting the script a bit tighter and releasing it as a movie or further developing the characters for an 8-12 episode tv series.

Wild cheetah 10 feet from a little boy and it just yawns and stretches. No running water, yet everyone has new & clean clothes. Cigarettes are easy to find. Free tacos and grilled cheese sandwiches are aplenty. Everyone is healthy, wearing jewelry, makeup, drinking alcohol and having a great time. Everyone even continues going to their local barber every Friday night to get a fresh fade, isn't the DMZ utopia wonderful. It's amazing Hollywood continues to put out trash like this...

Its based on comics low budget road mini series, decent flick for one night watch, like it and maybe budget will be increased for season 2, keep in mind that is long in development, 8 years from idea of series to final result.

This is either being directed by committee, by someone who has never directed an action series before, or a combination of both.

Acting is generally above average, even good. Dialog is a bit cheesy in parts, but the actors carry enough scenes for you to overlook the unbelievable ones.

Editing is all over the place, and each episode flows different from the next. Needs a more coherent top end in directing and editing.

Worth a watch if you have binged all the old SyFy series beforehand, which is about the quality we are getting here.

Not sure why people are hating on this. I really liked this look at a distopian future where a mother is trying to reunite with her son. It's a great take on what happens to the people in the middle of a war, those who were forgotten and abandoned. Give it a chance.

For being a DMZ kill zone, buildings destroyed and no running water everyone is dressed to the nines with $500 sunglasses that aren't even scratched , fresh makeup and food trucks. None of it fits the premise of this story and not realistic at all. Not even close. Another flop by HBO.