Post by movieliker on May 5, 2023 18:45:18 GMT
I thought technically everything was good in this mini series. The acting, the cinematography, and especially the music. Both the background music and the songs they chose.
But I wasn't particularly attracted to any of the main characters. Elliot not only kept breaking the law with her lab experiments. She was a sex and drug addict who murdered a homeless woman, and severely injured a pregnant woman who was giving birth to quadruplets. She may have killed her if the father hadn't pulled her away.
Beverly had no sales knowledge or ability, exemplified by how she couldn't sell her idea to an investor. You would expect a doctor with her education and expertise would have a little sales understanding.
Both were extremely rude and disrespectful to their parents. And obsessively and unhealthily codependent on each other.
Tom the lab assistant was completely incorrect when he accused Beverly of abandoning Elliot. Elliot was a grown woman who like Beverly, needed to be independent, and who was completely responsible for her own mistakes, sins and crimes.
I understand this is the point of the movie. But the result is two extremely unattractive, uninteresting characters that I couldn't care about. I only watched because my sister raved about it. It was done well. And I kept hoping things would turn around. (It's only six episodes. Still, it took me about four sittings to complete.)
And --- what about Beverly's dead body in the lab? How do they explain that? Obviously Beverly was pregnant. And Elliot was not. And although identical twins have the same DNA, they don't have the same fingerprints. Does anybody really think Elliot killed herself by cutting her own pregnant belly open, when she wasn't even pregnant to begin with?
I found the first three episodes difficult to stick with. Slow and tedious. Things picked up after that. But still these characters were sick and weird.
5 out of 10 for me.
Have you seen it?
What do you think?
