My 1st review for iMDB b/c I was so struck by this show.
This show takes some common character archetypes but gives them surprising twists: a rich family of people with superpowers, but instead of running wild with using their superpowers for happiness, each is profoundly tortured and broken by them; a scheming gold-digging con-artist who is paralyzed by her real affection for her victim; the predator is actually a past victim. Nothing is as it seems because each character is used to show us the touching, human side of each character.
Similarly, each plot twist is not what is expected, and the viewer is constantly surprised by each successive beautiful facet of each character that is slowly revealed as the show progresses.
I must admit I wasn't sure I'd continue the show after the first episode. However, with each episode, the viewer gets pulled deeper into the twists and turns that have you rooting for every character, even the villains.
I won't give any spoilers because each twist and turn, each layer of the onion that is peeled away reveals a beautiful humanness that is such a pleasure to watch, and I don't want to rob the viewer of the joy each episode brings.
Even when I expected the last episode to be a cliché wrap up of the show that simply ties up all the loose ends in a boring, pro forma conclusion, the show keeps turning out new twists that make even the end a surprise,
A warm-hearted show that made me sad that it ended because it was so good.
This show takes some common character archetypes but gives them surprising twists: a rich family of people with superpowers, but instead of running wild with using their superpowers for happiness, each is profoundly tortured and broken by them; a scheming gold-digging con-artist who is paralyzed by her real affection for her victim; the predator is actually a past victim. Nothing is as it seems because each character is used to show us the touching, human side of each character.
Similarly, each plot twist is not what is expected, and the viewer is constantly surprised by each successive beautiful facet of each character that is slowly revealed as the show progresses.
I must admit I wasn't sure I'd continue the show after the first episode. However, with each episode, the viewer gets pulled deeper into the twists and turns that have you rooting for every character, even the villains.
I won't give any spoilers because each twist and turn, each layer of the onion that is peeled away reveals a beautiful humanness that is such a pleasure to watch, and I don't want to rob the viewer of the joy each episode brings.
Even when I expected the last episode to be a cliché wrap up of the show that simply ties up all the loose ends in a boring, pro forma conclusion, the show keeps turning out new twists that make even the end a surprise,
A warm-hearted show that made me sad that it ended because it was so good.
