I would have actually loved to give it 10 stars, but there is one problem, this show doesnt really know which audience it is targeting.
Its age recommendation is 12, but for that i think its too violent sometimes, people are getting killed, theres swearing, theres a lot of topics that are way too complicated for children of that age, they just wont understand the plot. Theres clearly some dialogue written "easier" so children could understand them. But as an adult you feel like youre getting talked with like you were a child, or stupid. Just makes you cringe a lot of times.
But for older ages, lets say 16 to adults there will be a lot of scenes that are just cringeworthy, boring and almost, i dont know how to call it otherwise, too much like Disney family series. Loving father drawing books for his son, jumping and running around, chasing geese, playing games and so on. We all know that overexaggerated, unrealistic picture of the "perfect family" Disney likes to use.
Yes, that would fit in a family friendly Disney series, but also in the next scene somebody gets an arrow in the shoulder and one guy gets killed with a sniper rifle.
So they really dont know what target audience they are aiming at.
Same goes for the plot, some plot points are made easy so kids could understand them, but some are that complicated, theyre clearly adressing an older audience with them.
Best example is the villian. Hes your stereotypical, dictator, crazy, bearded, military guy and hes doing evil things, cause hes just plain evil.
Ok, that works for kids, cause they are not likely to ask about the motivations this evil man has.
But for adults that just seems to be lazy writing. He has no backstory, no intentions, no motivations, we never see why he is evil or crazy, what turned him this way? Was he like that before the outbreak, or was he a decent human that experienced a lot of bad things happening? We dont know and never get told.
For that reason i just couldnt give it 10 stars. Seems to me the series isnt yet sure in which direction they want to go with it, targeting children or adults. At this point theyre stuck in between and this for me ruins a otherwise very enjoyable series.
I liked it a lot and i hope they figure it out to make it even better.
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