Shatter Belt

I am a huge fan of Coherence like I assume most of the viewers of this series are, this is immensely lower quality than Coherence. I had to leave a review to offset the amount of 10/10 reviews claiming this was a groundbreaking and quality show. Every episode is poorly produced, poorly acted and conceived with very little logic. I hope James Byrkit makes something at the same level of Coherence in the future but this entire series was a waste of time and effort.

You are better off watching old episodes of Black Mirror or any of the weaker shows with a similar format than giving this series your time and money.

The concept and writing throughout Shatter Belt shine. It never panders to the audience or uses cheap gimmicks for impact. As a result, each episode stays with you. Sure, you can binge them, but I strongly encourage watching one episode at a time with someone else (phone a friend). You'll want to talk about it. They deserve tone talked about. Now, if you do binge everything at once, worry not: There is a thin through-line connecting the episodes that will have you talking about it all on its own. The best movies and shows are always the ones that you keep thinking about; the ones that force you just a bit out of your comfort zone. That's Shatter Belt at its best.

I will admit, I'm not hard to please, but I think this show was great! The isolated episode nature reminds me of Twilight Zone or Black Mirror (which are probably the most obvious comparisons) but these are just as fun. Some of it was a little complex so I'm sure a bit of it went over my head and might go over yours, but over all it was a good time. Definitely check out "Immotus" and "Pearls", I really enjoyed those. I imagine that since there were only 4 episodes the budget was fairly small, so if that was the case then I think they especially did an impressive job with what they had. Again, I just like anything sci-fi or mind-bendy, but if you do, too, this is worth a watch!.

I believe the people who gave 10 points to this mess are from the actual production or the marketing team. No sane person can like this mess, it is that bad. But why?

First of all I loved Coherence. Its one of my favorite indie sci fi films and I had big expectations from this. However, what we got is a very bad show with extremely bad acting, non resolving -so called- mysteries. Before it bored me to death, I could able to watched 2 episodes and they were beyond awful. I really gave all my patience to episode 2 but after all that pointless satirical lines and overacting bad actors, the episode rewarded me with an ending which explain nothing.

Writing is bad, acting is beyond bad, nothing is nearly ok with this show. Do not waste your precious time this this pile of trash.

The episodes were pretty easy to get through and the fact that the season only has four of them made it possible to enjoy in the span of one evening. Admittedly, I would hope the next season would have more episodes before leaving you waiting, but I'm guessing this was just a test season of sorts. Kind of like The Office, its first season is much shorter than the rest of the show, I'm thinking Shatter Belt is in a similar position. Which is exciting in a way, the first season is easy to enjoy and can be done quickly, but gets you excited enough for more episodes, where ideally in a second season we will get more than just in this dip in the water that we're starting with. It would be cool to see what more episodes could look like and what kind of stories could be told!