Can't put a finger on why it doesn't work... I chuckled here and there... and I know the ideas would've sounded good in a writer's room, and the issues they're addressing are important and not addressed anywhere else on TV. For some reason, having a whole stable of thespians in it too doesn't quite hit the right sketch comedy note (though Zoe Terakes was just the right tone of underplayed deadpan in the first ep). Hope it picks up.
Review of The Moth Effect
