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Reviews
The Fear Index (2022)
Awful.
Utterly unconvincing plot, weak acting, poor characterisation. It could have been better to the effort had been put in. But this was just an annoying waste of time.
Shadow and Bone (2021)
I won't be watching a second season
This had so much potential, but as the series progressed, the weak sub-plots, with implausible twists and unlikely turns, put me off. This, however, was not the worst thing. The quality of the acting was very mixed, some better than others. The lead character, Alina, was irritatingly badly acted by Jessie Mei Li, to the extent that she was just annoying. She was like an early Keira Knightley, not acting but just reciting her lines. Such a pity, because the general production values like good CGI, locations, costumes and premise initially looked promising. As a result I won't watch a second season - all told, season 1 left me disappointed and annoyed.