Review of Re: Mind

Re: Mind (2017–2018)
2/10
No: Mind
18 February 2018
Warning: Spoilers
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD There were so many things wrong with this series that I don't think I can cover them all, but I'll try to cover the major stuff at least. 12 girls are kidnapped and held in a room. They were all taken on their way home from school independently by people speaking a foreign language.

The logistics of taking 12 people from 12 different locations at the same time in daylight and not getting caught would be pretty much impossible, so you just have to accept that if you want to move on. You'll also have to accept that none of their families called the police and had them track their cel phones to the final location where they went offline. Then you'll need to suspend belief that the girls magically got a wifi connection to a network they had never configured that only appeared long enough for them to receive only a single twitter message and none of the other stuff that would have come through in their twitter feed (like worried messages from their parents).

Then you'll have to believe that when a suit of armor falls over with a spear in one hand, they don't use it to pry up the floorboards of the room they are in to help escape the locks that are holding their feet in place. They instead choose to have 10 episodes worth of drawn out conversation that should have been covered in about 4 episodes of flashbacks instead so the viewer wasn't subjected to so much yapping and talking heads.

The largest flaw by far was the way each of them disappeared from their seats. It is revealed that this was all done to them by one of their group so their is no magic or mysticism here. When they disappear, it happens when the lights are out, yet somehow the bank of 15 CANDLES on the wall doesn't illuminate the room during this time!!!!

There is also no noise while they disappear (presumably through the floor) and the locks on their feet cages remain locked even after they are gone. This would require them to have been dropped through the floor chair and all, and because it all happens in less than 5 seconds their chair and lock would have to be replaced with an empty copy of their chair and lock. Except it isn't because water stains remain from the water that comes through before they go away. Since presumably every space in the room is rigged with drop floors (due to the teacher dropping through too when he tries to destroy a camera), this would require an extensive mechanism that would definitely make some noise. There would also be some screaming from the girls as they suddenly felt themselves falling because the whole swap happens rapidly in less than 5 seconds. There is no mechanism I am aware of that could do that without a lot of mechanical noise.

This brainless 'thriller' has so many plot holes it makes Swiss Cheese look solid by comparison.
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