• blunder [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    12 days ago

    Man I tried to watch that show but I couldn’t get into it bc I thought the pacing was all wrong. Watched maybe the first two episodes and I felt like I was being thrust into these extreme scenes with characters where I was like “idc if they live or die I don’t know anything about them yet”. Is it good? Should I give it another try?

    • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      11 days ago

      I enjoyed it with a couple of caveats.

      • Gotta watch with original audio, eng subs. I immediately clocked that it had dubs before there was even onscreen dialogue, just from the initial voiceover. Something about their dubbing turned me off. I’ve also had other people that I recommended the show and weren’t into it until I had them turn off english dubs.
      • It loses some of the revolutionary edge that was in the first couple seasons once Netflix gets ahold of it.
      • You can’t take it too seriously. It’s just a fun heist, fuck the system type show. The later seasons are worthy of saying they jumped the shark, but I still found them to be fun action slop. I watched the behind the scenes shows and they’re aware of how over the top it is and they’re just having fun with it.

      It might not be for you, but I found it to be pretty fun slop and it even inspired some real life bank robberies, which I’m all for. hahaha