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The Hollow Anonymous 06/08/18 (Fri) 23:35:39 No.1000972

I was bored and had nothing better to do, so I watched all of this and now I want to share my misery with you. I know, I know. Netflix. Wasn't my account. I don't pay for this shit.

>group of kids wake up in a bunker with amnesia

>they solve a puzzle and get out into a forest, escaping mysterious green gas

>turns out they have some super powers

>sets itself up as a kid-friendly version of lost and tries to sell you on the vague implications that something else is going on here

>just as they are about to be attacked by monster dogs, a weird purple guy shows up and has them beg for help, then teleports them away

>they encounter minotaurs, witches, the four horsemen of the apocalypse, a talking tree, demon monks, a random carnival, some spider people, and some other dumb shit

>They encounter another trio of kids who also have super powers, but run off

>they meet those kids again later and they turn out to be dicks

>some shit happens and it turns out the whole thing is a video game

>they have to get the magic stick and beat a dragon to get out

>the twist within a twist is that it's a gameshow where teams of 3 pick special powers, get amnesia, and have to work together to get out of the game

>also, the final 5 minutes of the show are filmed in live action

>for some reason, the other team knows this and has a full understanding that they are competing to win, but it's never explained why

>the twist within a twits within a twist is that the girl from other team displays some video gamey glitch effect in one of her eyes. Not explained.

>the end

Don't waste your fucking time watching this. They do the bare minimum to make you think something interesting will happen, but it doesn't. It's just a lot of really awful character writing smashed against a lot of really awful worldbuilding and mystery. Clearly, the mystery aspect was intentional, because it's even less worth watching without the subtle implications of strange experiments and possible post-apocalyptic themes.

Anonymous 06/08/18 (Fri) 23:42:39 No.1000974

>>1000972

I'm not sure I can explain the disappointment I just felt from you describing The Hollow, and I didn't even know the damn show existed up until now. They had all this interesting shit, and then they just ruin it with the fucking twists.

Anonymous 06/08/18 (Fri) 23:57:42 No.1000976

>>1000974

I'm a fucking sucker for a worldbuilding centric mystery. I watched Lost while it was airing just because I enjoyed the mystery of it. This show does a little of that, but it never stops to ask enough questions, which is probably because it would oversell the mystery and make the triple twist ending fall apart… But that same fucking ending makes it all more confusing. In the first episode, one kid is shown to be super strong and acrobatic, the girl can seemingly understand animals, and the other guy touches an electric fence but doesn't get burned or hurt… Later, that same guy displays a genius level understanding of technology and machinery and even repairs a fucking spaceship and does some other insane technological shit. Turns out his power is controlling and shooting fire. The girl's power is underwater breathing and super swimming. The super strong kid is also a super good fighter too. It's never explained why they have these other powers when the other team of kids only have one power each.

So you go through half the series and you're asking yourself over and over "why all these things?" because there's some weird shit in there like the purple guy being friends with Death himself, and witches that disguise themselves as 50s housewives living in caves, which have been fashioned to look like 50s kitchens… and then there's an episode where a talking tree tells them to get her magic branch back, and that's suddenly the whole story. They stop asking "what the fuck is going on?" and the whole plot is "WE HAVE TO GET THE STICK." and then later, "WE HAVE TO GET THE STICK TO WIN THE GAME!"

It's fucking awful.

Anonymous 06/09/18 (Sat) 04:04:19 No.1001111

That's a shame, I was thinking of checking it out because the art looked like a little effort was put into it.

Anonymous 06/09/18 (Sat) 04:26:33 No.1001119

>>1001111

The animation is incredibly lazy and stiff, actually. Some of the monster designs are passable, but it's pretty generic in style and not all that pleasant in motion.

Anonymous 06/09/18 (Sat) 06:27:42 No.1001174

>>1000972

>made by leafs