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Decent premise, decent execution to the premise.

Though there are some very huge production quality issues. Frame rate discrepancies, rolling shutter, weird crossfades between talking heads - and hand held footage as wobbly as a melting bowl of jelly. Gimbles are stupidly affordable, guys.

The radio scanner thing has no reason to be mixed so loudly, it's just annoying static at this point.

I found these issues super distracting from the show. Distracting enough that I'm here writing this review instead of paying attention.

Also, the "Replays" are super corny, and seem like blatant filler.

We get it, you subtitled it the first time. We don't need an instant replay of something we just saw, heard and read guys...

Interesting content with sub par execution. Seems more akin to something you would find on YouTube.

This episode, I am sorry to say, was the absolute most boring episode out of the entire series this far.

It seems to be trying sooooooo very very hard to be politically relevant and make a statement. I'm sorry to say though, but that's absolutely not what I'm watching a television series to see.

If I wanted to induce depression and distrain towards the worst aspects of the world we live in, in the few spare moments I get to watch television in my busy life, I'd just turn on the news.

Stick to fires n crap, please.

This was the only episode in the entire series both my partner and I saw more of our phone screens than this dribble on the TV.

Dissapointing episode. Actually the surrounding few episodes, in an otherwise very entertaining series.

Begging you to Segway back to, you know, fighting fires n stuff...

Had never seen this film, thought it would be a good Sunday afternoon watch.

It's basically the same story as top gun, just in stock cars.

Also has stupidly loud car scenes vs stupidly low volume dialogue. I spent the entire movie with the remote in my hand.

Not overly impressed, not overly disappointed either though to be honest. All a bit meh.

Heard about this movie and was surprised to see it on my streaming service, decided to see what the fuss was about. The movie was decent, for its originality and story focus (as opposed to the generic, slasher flick). I didn't find it as horrendous to watch as it was made out to be, and that was mostly due to what I'm about to mention... The film was grossly let down by the over the top VFX. It made this very painful to watch. Old VHS tapes just do not look that bad, and it was a constantly annoying over the top attempt at selling the idea. It pulled me right out of the movie and killed the realism it was so desperately trying to sell. It's just like, we get it, these are the killer's self shot tapes. Get over the VFX! Also the early "news" segments were presented in the same manner as the later, even though they were supposed to be decades apart. Same camera quality, same graphic treatment, this was a pretty big oversight. I guess the VFX team were too busy overdoing the tapes effects to notice! That said, kudos for doing something different.

As a 34 year old who has never seen this film, I decided it was time to take Kubrick's masterclass. I haven't read the book... The film was for the most part, excellent. I believe the quality of the film absolutely lived up to the hype, it is a beautifully crafted piece of cinema. I felt such a sense of impending doom and suspense throughout basically the entire film, right from the opening helicopter scenes. I believe it is judged a little harshly as a "horror" film - psychological thriller I think would be a better fit. That said though, I do think the storytelling lacked some very needed ties. There were lots of great elements in the film but nothing really brought them together, maybe I just didn't get it? Many things felt totally unexplained. They weren't even attempted to be explained. Cue out of nowhere a teddy bear costume giving a bj to a random character... It had no purpose to the story whatsoever, was just odd.

The ending was also confusing.

The murders happened in the 70's, but the photograph was from the 20's.

That didn't make any sense to me. Why?

Great piece of film, wonderfully engaging but the plot was missing valuable, and in my opinion essential elements to bring it all together.

Scripting, direction and acting you would expect from a high school short film project. This feels like an inside joke from Netflix. Seriously, the characters are as relatable as a wooden post. Avoid it if you value your time even in the very slightest.