I decided to check this series out, not knowing anything about it. I get the impression that the majority of reviews on this site were written by people who saw the series when they were young, and also saw it when it was first broadcast, when the production values would not have seemed as poor(the production values look pretty much like those of a '70s soap opera, but I think the standard in England was lower than in the U.S., so for a British show of the period this may have looked fine).
When I saw the show, it was 2012 and I was in my 50s. I am way past the impressionable age, and even British sitcoms look slicker now than S&S.
Influenced by the rave reviews on this site, which portrays it as spooky and intelligent and one of the greatest series ever made, I started watching the first story. To me it seemed very static, with, as I say, soap opera production values, but with far less emotion, the leads being stiff and the show being mainly conversation that I found uninteresting).
After the first couple of episodes of the first story I did not feel like continuing, but since I saw reviews saying the first episode was one of the weakest, and the finale was one of the strongest, I jumped ahead.
But the finale, like the first episode, is stilted and talky. And while it might well seem spooky to a ten year old, it is not spooky by adult standards. I did stick with the final story, and I would say the second half of it was more interesting than the first, but it was still slow and flat. And in the end I felt the show was too purposely obscure to make much sense.
But if you were a ten year old kid living in the '70s, this may well have been awesome.
When I saw the show, it was 2012 and I was in my 50s. I am way past the impressionable age, and even British sitcoms look slicker now than S&S.
Influenced by the rave reviews on this site, which portrays it as spooky and intelligent and one of the greatest series ever made, I started watching the first story. To me it seemed very static, with, as I say, soap opera production values, but with far less emotion, the leads being stiff and the show being mainly conversation that I found uninteresting).
After the first couple of episodes of the first story I did not feel like continuing, but since I saw reviews saying the first episode was one of the weakest, and the finale was one of the strongest, I jumped ahead.
But the finale, like the first episode, is stilted and talky. And while it might well seem spooky to a ten year old, it is not spooky by adult standards. I did stick with the final story, and I would say the second half of it was more interesting than the first, but it was still slow and flat. And in the end I felt the show was too purposely obscure to make much sense.
But if you were a ten year old kid living in the '70s, this may well have been awesome.