Good show, although it didn't quite hold onto me

cherold

score 7/10

This is a very well written, well-acted show, and Donald Glover is absolutely phenomenal as its lead. It's a show with many great moments.

It's not, however, a series I plan to keep watching. In part, it's because there's too much quality television nowadays, making me insanely choosy. In part, it's because as I age I become increasingly mindless and more and more spend my times watching action shows like The Strain over intelligent dramas like Rectify. In part, it's because it falls somewhere in between shows which reflect my experience and shows that are so far outside my experience that I find them intriguingly alien, so that it's neither familiar nor unfamiliar enough to hit that sweet spot.

If I watched more, I could probably really get into this, but as I say, there's a lot of competition for my limited viewing time. But I'd say everyone should take a look at this one.

cherold 29 September 2016

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