I was expecting another Vampire Diaries, Twilight nonsense but I was delightfully surprised. It ended feeling like more of a low budget American Horror story knock-off but still better than the aforementioned debacles. It started off pretty well with it's mysterious atmosphere which left you wondering what new element or ghoul or secret this show will throw at you next . Because it had werewolves, some weird hunter lady, some succubus-like character played by Jean Grey! And just a general curiosity inspiring feel that makes you feel like "what the heck is going on in this town"
As the show progressing though it became very obvious that the writers even didn't know where they were going with this and what aspects they wanted to focus on like either the werewolf dude main character and his bromance with the creepy boy or maybe the big building with its creepy secrets or any other number of things. It was juggling around too many things and didn't have the appropriate talent to handle this task. This included the acting. The two main characters were very poorly played along with a handful of others. It became rather eyeballing and pretty unbearable at points. I was rather disappointed by that Bill boy who plays IT in the movie IT but I'll chop that up to writing
The setting is intriguing and the goriness is fantastical not to mention some pretty great practical effects (like when the werewolf transformation happens). This is a nice detour from the typical high budget Hollywood blah blah blahs and a good fix for those fans of campy horror flicks just close your eyes once the emotional depth is attempting to be dug up. 4.7/10.
Review of Hemlock Grove
