andy-goris

Great premise that the writers and actors use for great humor. Each episode is rich with people with new superpowers and they use them in hillarious ways. I give the writers A+ for creativity. The actors execute well, with just a little over-acting. The pace is a tad fast. It would do to be about 10% slower so you can take it all in.

They use the superpower thing to create humor, sadness, curiosity, fear, obnoxiousness, camaraderie, naiveté, surprise, and dozens of other emotions. Again, a great premise well written.

Unfortunately the soundtrack is the worst I've ever experienced. The volume of the sound track is 10dB over the voice track, the music selection is terrible, and the music cuts in at the worst times. If there was a way to completely delete the music and just watch with the rest of the audio, I'd stay with the series, but after a few episodes I just couldn't take it.

I wish my superpower was to ignore the music track :-).

I'd give it an 8 without the music. 5 with.

This series has many similarities to the excellent Russian series Detective Anna. If you like one, you will surely like the other. Similarities include the richness of characters, the time period, the story arc as well as the individual stories, the sets, and the amazing costumes. Wow. Even a large yellow house. That said, Lidia Poët is unique in it's own ways and very well done. It may have been inspired by Detective Anna, but stands on its own as a tale of a young, intelligent, gorgeous, persistent woman in the late 1800's unapologetically forging her path through the challenges of society, family, career, and romantic relationships. And solving a few murders along the way.

Lidia does not have Anna's supernatural powers, but she does have superpowers of keen observation and deduction.

My only two nits: (1) (the big nit) is the music. What's with the hard rock music? I love that genre of music, and enjoy those specific rock clips outside of a series like this, but in the context of a period piece it's just weird. (2) (small nit) Lidia's makeup, while beautiful, seems overly modern, not period.

The acting is excellent. The occasional sexual tension is excellent, yet not overdone. The suspense is real.

I'd give this 10/10 for the story, the details, the ease of understanding the different concepts, the thoroughness, the demos, the cinematography, and the way they present history as a compelling story. All of these are engaging for anyone with any level of education or any age. So why only 6? The narrator is terrible. This narrator must have watched too much Sponge Bob Square Pants, or Rug Rats, or some cartoons with loud, loud, loud characters over-annunciating every word in every line, because that is how he talks. My wife and I considered turning the audio off and just reading the captioning to not have to listen to him. Think of someone as opposite Sir David Attenborough as you can think of, and that's how this show is narrated.