Reviews

At first, I really liked this show. It's stylish and some of the settings and themes (Asylum, Freak Show) were interesting to me. There is also good acting and some um, attractive talent. All these things held my interest for awhile, until the story line in each season started to drag, going nowhere- especially in Freak Show. In Freak Show they killed someone in like, every episode and it seemed like an uninspired way to change the plot or offer thrills. Some of the deaths were just ridiculous! Also, Gaboury Sidibe is a terrible actress.

Now in 'Hotel' they're trotting out Lady Gaga, who registers no emotion and who's character has no depth or complexity at all- she just looks cool. To me, her presence indicates that the whole series is becoming more about style than substance.

Then yesterday I started watching Bates Motel and suddenly realized what a good horror show looks like. Now I'm feeling even more critical of the plot progression and character development in American Horror Story- which is stylish and visually impressive but also aimless and dull, sometimes ridiculous.

Some movies are so bad, I feel embarrassed even watching them alone. Safelight is one of those movies.

Most of the acting was horrible, (although the two leads were usually adequate) the cookie-cutter characters were shallow and unlikely and the script was absolutely AWUL. The story was boring; It was hard to care what happened or who it happened to. The scenes of family members fighting were cringingly melodramatic. The scene with the mom cackling with her girlfriends at the bar made me want to stick my face under a lawnmower. What gang of idiots WROTE this?!

I have never posted a review before but I feel a personal responsibility to warn you of this train wreck. Unless you have a morbid appreciation for terrible movies, AVOID. This movie is unbelievably, painfully, dangerously, SO embarrassingly bad.