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I think I'm going to wait until I finish all thirteen episodes to say something much for reals about Hemlock Grove, the Eli Roth produced monster show for Netflix, but for now, at the halfway point (I made it through a six episode marathon last evening), let me just say oh my god this show is awful but I cannot look away. And not just because I'm worried Bill Skarsgard's pretty Buscemi-ish eyes will pop right out of his head if he tries acting any harder. As my viewing partner put it, it's pretty clearly written by space aliens trying really hard to pretend they understand what "Human People" are like, and failing miserably. It is dancing back and forth and back and forth on the line bordering awful and camp, leaning pretty hard towards the latter. I really hope it loses its damn fool mind all the way in the final stretch.
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4 episodes in and I have to say it is pretty awful, from writing to acting. Also, not sure why it bothered me so much but I really didn't like the scene (spoiler) where the two school boys were "forced" to kiss as punishment. I remember when Josh Whedon talked about a scene in "Buffy" where one of the writers suggested Willow punish two jocks (who called her "ellen") by making them kiss and he nixed it because it sent out the message that being gay is something to be ashamed of (instead he put the jocks in go-go cages - Go Josh!).
yes, theyre serving up campy sci-fi fantasy for dinner and i'm eating it up. i'm only 4 episodes in as well and while the acting has so much room for improvement, i'm willing to forgive and move forward. roman's off-duty model, too cool for school attitude is perfection. famke jansen's accent is terribly delicious. emphasis on terrible... but she's cheeky and off-kilter and i want to see her manipulate these men the way she does so well. and i think there's some serious incest happening between daddy dearest and the virgin mary knocked-up cousin, for realz. i'm hooked.
plus i too am looking forward to a roll around in the woods between the roman emperor and peter the wolf. grr.
not to mention i have since gotten two new iTunes additions to my library from this show... superhumanoids "geri" and perfume genius "sister song." look em up!
It started out the perfect blend of camp and awful and it quickly slid right over to awful. But I can't stop watching it! I'm 8 episodes in and so gonna watch the last 5.
I watched them all over this past weekend: some Friday, & the rest Saturday. And...maybe (not really maybe) I watch some AWFUL TV, but I didn't think it was *that* bad. I liked the humor A LOT, enough to forgive most of the over-acting. Honestly, since Eli Roth is involved, at one point, I started to wonder if all the over-acting was PART of the camp. I still think it was. The worst thing, to me, was poor Bill Skarsgard's awful American accent. I mean, I get it, the kid is green, but seriously, they should have made up some boarding school plotline for his terrible accent. Anyhow, for those of you getting ready for it to fly off the rails...well, hang on.
I am with the rest of you. This show is not very good, but I keep watching it. I am on episode 11. Will probably finish it up tonight.
This train wreck of a show is addictive (Famke's accent anyone?). Spent the whole weekend watching it, hoping for it to get better. Perhaps that is one of the problems with producing all the episodes at once: no feedback, just a huge circle jerk. Granted the writer of the book (terrible too!) was one of the main writers of the show. It seemed as if there were major scenes missing to hold it together. I really wanted to like it. Did enjoy the homo-bro relationship between the boys...especially the prison line about Skarsgard's lips!
I like many had to watch it. It was bad but it was addicting in the same. Nothing was good about it much like a horrific vehicle accident you have to look. I so love Lili Taylor.
I must say, this show is almost so bad it's good. Almost. The dialogue sounds like a 3rd run-through of a Babelfish translation of an eastern European soap opera.
And I nearly lost my mind laughing when the "fish and wildlife doctor" told werewolf boy that he was "very hirsute" (and then had to explain for stupid people that it meant very hairy), yet the kid barely has a straggly emo beard and a tiny little treasure trail.
It's really bad but I'm still watching it 'cuz Bill Skarsgard.
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