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So I must say this must be a rare unicorn of a movie. The action movie with well thought out story, and a complex plot, with good acting. I wasn't really looking to see this movie but it was on Netflix, so I thought why not? I'm glad I did, can't believe it was probably one of the best movies I saw during this pandemic.

It's an interesting story-line, and Zachary Quinto is doing an excellent job portraying his character, especially when he transitions between the various age ranges that Charlie Manx occupies. But the female lead, Ashleigh Cummings playing Vic McQueen, is completely miscast. She's a 28 year old woman playing a teenager! If that wasn't bad enough, the actress they got to play her mother, Virginia Kull playing Linda McQueen, is 39 years old, and she doesn't look like her mother, but like her sister. Then they gave Vic McQueen an old-fashioned hairstyle, she looks like Adrienne Barbeau straight out of Maude from 1972! The character looks closer to her mother's age, than an 18 year old teenager. It's completely distracting, it's hard to suspend your disbelief, everytime you see the character you can't believe that she's a teenager.

Very entertaining show, and so what if you're seeing parallels to Harry Potter and Narnia all over the place. They are pretty much referencing every other pop-culture iconic show around too, like Doctor Who, Star Trek and Lost in Space. I've only seen the first season so far on Amazon Prime, and I'm hooked, the final episode was just chock full of ironic twists that you didn't see coming. A lot of the twists came from actually thinking it was too much like Harry Potter, etc. and it didn't end up like what you expected. Starting season 2 now.