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Carol & The End of the World (2023)
Whatever this show is trying to be, it's failling at it
It's not funny, it's not clever, it's not endearing, it's not motivational. It's not deep nor intriguing nor thought-provoking.
It's not an anthology of stories of how different people go about the end of the world, it's not a good study on character development (Carol doesn't care about anyone, not even herself for the first few episodes, then suddenly she cares about her coworkers and a random little kid), it's not social critique, it's not even just a silly show to turn your mind off of things.
The only thing it manages to be is unecessarily boring, because I know the creator could have done something with this premise, but for some reason, like Carol, they chose to do nothing.
Make My Day (2023)
Should have been a 90 minute movie
I don't get why they made this into an 8 episode series. There will be no season 2, there's A LOT of filler, even in the short 20-minute episodes, and whatever air of "mistery" there is at the beginning it's gone by the third episode.
From then on it's basically a survival video game sprinkled with lots of useless, nonsensical dialogue. Half the characters are basically plot devices and mostly everthing they say is exposition.
The pacing is really, really bad. Characters stoping to have long discussions about every little thing undermines all the sense of urgency and chaos of the events going on around them. After a while you just don't care anymore, as there are no consequences from any of this.
The premise is interesting, but it gets smothered in such bad writing it's a shame.