I kept wanting to like it more than I could. It was a big narrative mess that relied on eccentricity in characters and set up more than anything else.
Main problem: the series was very stop/start and kept running out of any sense of urgency. This is a very strange thing for a show which set up a "only days away" coming crisis in the first episode. What a weird decision it was in the penultimate episode, for example, to have a character whose death was meant to avert the apocalypse killed already, so no one then knows if the end of the world is still on or not.
Other problems: as I wrote before, the male characters were much more interesting and sympathetic than the female, yet one of the latter was crucial to the series plot. And it had to be Ellen Page, didn't it? She with the enormous forehead, mopey face and limited acting range. Good thing she had those contact lens to tell us when she was going into an end-of-the-world-by-Goth-power fugue state.
I don't think the Hazel and Cha Cha characters were half as cool or interesting as they were meant to be, either.
And that ending - that was a really lazy opening to a second series, wasn't it? "Can you do that Five?" "I don't know, but I think I can." Jeez, couldn't the writers at least try a bit of foreshadowing that it might be possible before then?
It has been renewed for a second series. I'll still watch it, to see if they can fix the obvious problems of the first series.
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