#Spectros Ep 1.07 cont'd.
Do I recommend?
Very much so. First 5 eps are very fine genre TV. The last 2 despite Netflix management interference, based on my experience, mostly stay on track. A S2 wasn't required and fortunately didn't happen.
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#Spectros Ep 1.07 cont'd.
Zeca's character never landed so killing him off (sloppily) was a cop out. Zeca's ship with Karla was even more pointless. She wasn't bi so why was it even a thing?
Having two finales, in the church and then the graveyard, was writers unable to choose their better idea.
#Spectros TV ep 1.06 "Block Party" (20-Feb-20).
Ignoring the very pointless S2 baiting that every Netflix series does (did?) the finale was just ok. It didn't wreck what went before but wasn't especially good.
Why did popcorn guy help Leo disguise himself as a corpse? He didn't know Leo can do so.
#Spectros Ep 1.06 cont'd.
The show #Ares became a failure in its final ep when the Dutch historical abuse of POC overtook the story to the extent it became embarrassing revenge porn. Hopefully this very good show so far doesn't follow suit in its last ep.
#Spectros Ep 1.06 cont'd.
It's pretty much the team learning to fight back against popcorn guy and his dead father. Again parents and offspring is a theme.
I liked that we learn of the Brazilian internment and torture of Asians in WW2 which seemingly is formally denied even to this day.
#Spectros TV ep 1.06 "Heal Thyself" (20-Feb-20).
Ever since I saw the Brazil table tennis team at the #Olympics I've been curious about Japanese-Brazilian heritage and this show leans into that history. 3 of the 6 Brazil players were Sao Paulo born with Japanese heritage.
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#Spectros TV ep #1.05 "The Dead Have Risen" (20-Feb-20).
A more introspective ep. We get Zeca's motivation albeit I'd like to have gotten an actual backstory. Twists are the mom is dead and popcorn guy is the necromancer. I'd have waited till the end for the mom reveal if it's not plot relevant.
#Spectros Ep 1.04 cont'd.
The punk with the van needs a backstory as it's unclear what he and Leo were doing each night. Were they ghost hunting or doing crime together? That needs sorting.
I'd prefer if the Necromancer could only jump into the deceased not the living as the show is about ghosts.
#Spectros TV ep #1.04 "Come to Mamma" (20-Feb-20).
What's remarkable is that we thought the gang knew nothing about what's going on at the start of ep #1.01 but actually they knew exactly what they needed to protect.
Mila's dad kicking the booze was a nice scene.
Will Karla's mum have a redemption?
#Spectros Ep 1.03 cont'd.
The guy who has helped them twice has a touch of #Neverwhere's Marquis de Cabaras to him. The shortcut to Pardal's alley was also almost straight of "Neverwhere".
Are the two police officer's dead? So why show them driving to that corpse?
Presumably popcorn guy is dead?
#Spectros TV ep #1.03 "My Temple Will Be My Grave" (20-Feb-20).
I am just quietly loving how perfect this is as a ghost story. It's like nothing else but excellently made. There is a touch of #Neverwhere to it but here it's the disappeared dead rather than the homeless who are being championed.
#Spectros TV ep #1.02 "The World is Different for Us" (20-Feb-20).
Plot twists! Mila causing Karla's mental issues and the centre of whatever's happening was a shock. Likewise that Pardal's kid brother already running with a criminal.
I'm unsure yet what the show is saying about ghosts or society.
#Spectros Ep 1.01 cont'd.
It's far more urban and gritty than #CitadeInvisível, more standard horror fare than folk myth. The three teens are all engaging though as yet we haven't seen Karla's family background. Pardal's younger brother is a right little dude. I like that we never saw the witch.
#Spectros TV ep #1.01 "The Porcelain Doll" (20-Feb-20).
Haven't seen this many Japanese Brazilians since I watched their table tennis team*.
Love the urban Sao Paolo feel. Apparently the Liberdade sector has a large Japanese diaspora.
*I checked and the Takahashi sisters are indeed from Sao Paolo!
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Seems to have an Asian feel in the posters even though it is Brazilian. So please don't be a mid-Pacific mismanaged mess.
