Reviews

Loved this film, full of suspense, great cast, kept me guessing the entire time.

All the way through I kept thinking what on earth is going on here?! I'm still a bit confused to be honest!

The ending totally ruined it for me. Not the first time a netflix original has left the ending on an abrupt note. I feel for such a long movie we deserved a bit more, it needed wrapping up!!

I want more explanation about the animals and why/who did this. What involvement did George have. What involvement did dannhy have.

Overall though a gripping and really cool movie and ever more terrifying that this could actually happen!

I have to start by saying, I am a MASSIVE SMG fan. I must have watched a different show than the one that the people who gave this show 5 stars watched. My friend and I watched this show together as we are massive Buffy fans and love SMG and wanted a show to watch together for fun.

Needless to say we were disappointed although we managed to make laughing at the terribleness worthwhile. Where do I start? The acting is terrible, even SMG was poor but we felt it was likely due to the horrendous juvenile script that made little sense. The direction and editing was also terrible as the characters seemed to jump from one environment to another with little explanation and deaths of different characters had no lasting emotional impact. The explanation behind the werewolves and their ability to shape shift as well as their powers was poorly explained. Like fire can change them into their Wolf form and back again? Wtf?! That makes ZERO sense.

The teenage characters were difficult to like: Everett's anxiety issue was frustrating and made you eye roll with how pathetic it made him seem. Blake was another example of trying to make moody teen girls likeable but failed, especially when her attempts to make her look like a good sister to her autistic brother ended in her yelling at him most of the time. Luna had pitifully little flesh to her personality with her obsession with finding her pack and she spent most scenes stood around with a disturbingly Amber Heard-esque expression on her face. And Harlan's motives and mood seemed to go from one end of the spectrum to the other with no warning as well as the show overly objectifying his character for the sexual content.

Then there's the special effects which belong somewhere in the pits of hell. Even the practical effects they had back in the Buffy days would have been preferable. Oh and I'm surprised no one has mentioned the woeful makeup on the show which seemed to get worse with every episode to the point where me and my mate could not believe what we were seeing. The womens' foundation was literally orange to the point where their necks and ears were fluorescent white compared to their faces. The makeup was so thick and cakey, and this was noticeable on the men too. Luna's character suffered the most with this as her makeup was on thick even when she was in bed and in a pool.

It's hard to hear that SMG had a part in producing this show but I hope that they can try and improve for the second season which I've heard is happening. Thank you for reading my rant.

I binged this in a day and it left me thinking if we ever had any sort of apocalypse there is no hope for mankind and civilization learning from mistakes and living as one and helping each other to thrive. People are god damn evil. Jill and amber are just THE WORST human beings ever. Jill has something seriously wrong with her, she is the spawn of Satan. The way people treat each other in this is dispicable. The men that won deserved to win in my opinion.

If it has taught me anything, it's why bullies and narcissists get so far in the world. Their little sheep (amber) follow them and the nice guys finish last because they cant be bothered getting caught up in this awful drama.

What shocks me the most is that the production company showed absolutely no duty of care to the contestants. They watched grown adults get bullied, stollen from, intimidated, all of which resulted in them being mentally and physically abused and sleeping without sufficient means (no sleeping bags) and they didn't intervene. This isn't survival. When you sign up for a survival show this isn't what you sign up for. Im sure none of these contestants signed up to go and be bullied and humiliated, they signed up to test thier strength and skills and see if they were up to the tough wilderness of Alaska. As if it wouldn't be hard enough. The producers really let the contestants down and should never have let team alpha continue, they ruined so many peoples experiences and made it into a soap opera more than a survival show.

It's a good watch though and a very interesting eye opener to the human psych.

It had the potential to be something great but it was so difficult to keep interested. Nicole kiddmans character was so boring and lacked any emotion which is such a shame as she normally plays such powerful characters in mini series. It got to the point that I didn't actually care who did it. The first episode had me gripped then it just went on a downward sprial of bordem. Some episodes didnt really have any content whatsoever and just felt like bulkers to pad it out a bit. It was mega unrealistic and hard to believe that a wife would behave like that if her husband had been accused of murder and exposed as having an affair with the victim. Very strange series and extremely disappointing from such high profile actors.