chloemcclure-36351 Review of Channel Zero

Channel Zero (2016–2018)

don't watch if you're wanting actual creepypasta retellings

[5/10 · 17 January 2023]

This show honestly really disappointed me. The reviews were good, the horror vlogs I watch recommended it, but it just fell kinda flat for me. I mean for starters; they aren't making the creepypastas for tv, they're taking the themes and doing whatever the hell they want. Season 1 did a decent job of following the actual story and then making it into something crazy, but I found it quite boring. Season 2, I honestly hated. The no end house story isn't followed whatsoever, different amount of rooms, there's exits all the sudden, the rooms aren't what they are in the story, or even anything close. The only decent scene are in the physical house which are few and far between. Then once they get into the house "world" or whatever it just dragssss on. Season 3 was paced better, but still rough. They didn't even keep the actual premise of the story and did whatever they wanted from the beginning. And then they end it with little to no explanations. Like who was the weird meat/guts/flesh guy that's in every episode but never explained? The lead, Alice, was kinda just annoying. The more I think about this season the less sense it makes. Season 4 started out like they were gonna follow the story with some differences, then they just made it weird. Like the baby scene is unnecessary and adds literally nothing other than a reason for Tom to go outside. Ian eating the burgers made me unbelievably nauseous. And the dream seizures or whatever to create the doors just made me laugh. I get that part of art is your own perception of it, but that's part of why this bothered me. Creepypastas are literally set up to start creepy, and let you're mind wander. Instead of following what they did season one, following the real story, then going onto making it their own crazy story, they just took concepts and morphed them into whatever they wanted. Seems misleading to put out that the show is based of these stories when honestly they just aren't, they're weird copies. If you hadn't known the stories, if they hadn't put the names, and acted like it was creepypasta retellings, you wouldn't even know that's what they were based on other than season 1. They took some of my favorite stories and just didn't really do anything with them, didn't even retell them. Maybe had they put "lightly based on" I'd be less annoyed? Just feels like I was lied to almost, I kept watching hoping they tell the ACTUAL stories before going down their own rabbit hole, but nope :/ some really good acting, some weird cgi here and there but overall it's made well, just misleading in my opinion.