marcelo-vasconcelos

The show starts off strong, with an intriguing premise that immediately grabs your attention and sparks curiosity about what's unfolding. The actors deliver solid performances, and the initial episodes hint at a compelling story. However, as the series progresses, it unfortunately devolves into something akin to a bad soap opera.

While the premise holds great potential, the narrative lacks the special "glue" needed to link it all together and the ending is deeply unsatisfying. As a sci-fi and thriller enthusiast, I had high hopes, but the execution left me so disappointed that I felt compelled to warn others. If you're considering watching this, be prepared for a letdown.

I strongly believe good fictional stories should be well balanced. This includes funny, witty, silly, happy and sad moments. Olive Kitteridge felt like sadness and depression; some could say it mimics real life and I guess it could be true, but who wants to see a show like that?

If you enjoy sadness, depression, suicidal ideation and good acting you will definitely like this show, but if on the pther hand you enjoy harmony, some kind of closure and well shot scenes, then stay away from this and to watch something better like Rectify.

To be fair, I won't give it one star because the acting is really good.

Before watching this I've read some reviews saying this was just another teen drama and now after finishing season 2 I 've decided to write something about it;

I've really enjoyed LOST back in the day and still highly recommend this one. Apart from the whole stranded in an island theme, It has nothing to do with LOST but succeeded anyways by providing an interesting storyline and misterious sub-plots. The overall ideas thrown here are quite universal so it's just unfair to say this is just a teen drama. It has drama, adventure, mystery and at the same time most of the characters happen to be teenagers. It is quite philosophical at times, makes you think about ethics and some other deep questions and mist importantly at least for me : it is rarely boring!

I say give it a shot, it positively surprised me.