Saw it trending in Overseerr so i snatched the whole season cause i needed something to watch this weekend.
I went in blind, all I know is that is based on some Chinese Novels.
I watched the first couple of episodes and so far:
- The two main characters are insufferable girl bosses, specially the Eiza Gonzalez character. Like the bestests of the best in their fields.
- Males are either simps and / or buffons.
- Every relationship is interracial. Asian / Curry eater, with white dude simping over 6/10 Asian. Whitexican Coal burner.
- Cop is kid is a faggot, because.. reasons?
I HIGHLY doubt a Chinese author would create these characters, so this makes me believe NF just did a Witcher 2.0.
Anyone that has read the books or is familiar with the story, whats the take?
Starts off well, then kind of falls flat. The novels are more towards hard science fiction and the point is to think about how the implications of many scientific theories are playing out or could play out at different levels, centered around some mystery elements like some physicists committing suicide for reasons unknown. It’s very good.
The Netflix version is a bag of skittles that mostly shuffles random elements around from the various plot points of the novels. It clearly has no idea why people liked the novels or what made them unique. It’s also not very well made or well acted in most cases. I was surprised they had the balls to show a black guy smoking too much pot and criticize him for it.
Novels are worth reading. The Netflix version had potential but they fumble pretty hard as they go. I don’t personally care about it being in the UK and merely having it start in China, but it seems like it’d have been a slam dunk for diversity quotas to just make everybody Chinese.
Must be why they get desperate enough to rely on women. Anyone who knows their ass from a hole in the ground must have offed themselves.
If it makes you feel any better one of the first to off herself’s a girl.