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Population: 11 (2024)
American Idiot Abroad
Started watching, seemed ok, but the more episodes I watched, I realised that the writers had made the protagonist to stupid in his actions, personality and character that I just couldn't root for him to get the money he's after. Maybe they had a reason for that, but I can't see it. The Australian actors/characters are good for their part in the story, and I'm just watching the rest of it purely for closure. I doubt I'll watch a second season, should it ever come to be.
If they'd written it as a pure mystery; there's enough of a plot for it to have been rather good. I think, also, there's enough quirks amongst the town's population to have given it something different to the usual drama we see nowadays. Ah, well.
EDIT:
Ok, just finished watching ep12... The unraveling and solution to the ongoing mystery was a surprising twist, and I'll probably watch a second season. Still don't like the protagonist, though, but I'll knock my initial review of 4 up to 5.
The Sandman (2022)
Slow and boring
I was really looking forward to watching this. The first few episodes were okay, then it got boring. The dialogue is so slow that I found myself browsing my phone, only looking up at the TV screen now and again, rather like skim-reading.
I thought the battle between Sandman and the devil to be sooooo underwhelming I just lost any interest in watching the rest of the series, and deleted it from my watchlist.
I did think the gender reversals for the devil and Constantine were innovative and welcome, though, and David Thwelis' portrayal of John Dee was really good, but it still wasn't enough to stop me from putting something else on to watch instead; namely, The Twelve, which was brilliant!
This was my second attempt at watching, and I just couldn't get past the overall slowness and general lack of real action. I.