This show doesn't have anything to do with the comics.
I envy those of us who don't read, and in doing so may be prone to like this one.
In my personal opinion, and in my experience of reading Inhumans, with a passion, this show is garbage.
Marvel can't go lower than this. But I said the same about Iron Fist, so.
Meh, the weakest Marvel show to date, the writing seems either lazy or rushed, makes me think that I could have written the script( and that's not a compliment). The only positives I can see are the actors and SFX for the dog, at least they tried.
"The Gifted" had a better premiere.
Watch the first episode and cant even finish and quit halfway. The plot just doesnt work and weird. Just plain horrible
I saw the first two episodes of this new MARVEL series set to air September 29 at the IMAX theatre yesterday. I'm on the fence as to whether this will be a good series or not. It has a good cast: Iwan Rhoen has been cast to focus the evil (less psychopathic than his GAME OF THRONES character, but definitely treacherous). The stand out for me was Anson Mount who must carry his character entirely through non-verbal communication - he was the only character that drew me in. The first episodes spends most of it's time establishing it's world and the situation from which the season will unfold. What this series will need, to pull me in will be relate-able characters that make us care about what is happening to them, so we can share their drama. So, I'm starting it as a 5 (waiting) out of 10. *I've finished the 1st season (I'll be surprised if there is a 2nd). This series is fatally flawed: the story telling is slow and sparse, there is an absence of character development, the dialogue is poor, the CGI is inadequate, the superheros are stripped of real power, the production design is stark to non-existent (Hawaii is, however, beautiful). I leave this series with a 3 (bad) out of 10.
The writing and acting is garbage, feels like a soapy YA show. I'm also particularly embarrassed for Ken Leung, easily the worst performance in this hunk of junk.
Originally planned as a feature film than rearranged to be a limited series with it's first two hours getting an exclusive premiere. If the plan was to make this series feel like it was a cheesy Marvel show produced during the 1970s by a Glen A. Larson wannabe then they succeeded. It is also extremly annoying that they "sold" it as a limited series as the ending clearly hopes that this could have been extended into a full series, but after seeing these episodes there was no hope. It was a lousy written show with stupid dialogue and heroes, the Inhumans, coming across as arrogant, selfish racists - and while the villain is unlikable as hell at least he looked the part and has some good reasons as hero leader Black Bolt seem to wanna fart at every second and Medusa had such a stupid superpower that the creators decided to shave off her hair (she could manipulate it!). The rest of the heroes are even less interesting. The effects are also weak with the most "impressive one" being a lousy CGI dog that can transport characters to other areas. Since the budget was so low every scene was filmed at an island in Hawaii or at a stage with background set-design that was made at kindergarten. Weakest Marvel live show by far. Forgotten by everyone.
People warned me that this is terrible. I wanted to see for myself to be able to form my own opinion.. Now that I have seen it, I definitely agree! It is terrible!
It is so bad that I laughed a lot! I had a lot of fun watching and ranting about it. I can not believe that this is what happens if someone wants to create a cool show. How?
A few examples:
(1) The guy who can play through a fight in his mind to see his mistakes and then fight the fight at the same moment and win. He falls off a mountain on his own and injures himself badly.
(2) The princess who sends her entire family to earth, with the teleport dog, asks where her family is when she is arrested.
(3) Gorgon walks off the beach with his hooves/legs into the water and almost drowns. 2 surfers save him. The beach is 30 meters behind him. The surfers say "your legs are not made for swimming".
(4) King Blackbolt doesn't know or doesn't want to pay for his new clothes in a store. Injures the security and 3 policemen. Is arrested, gets rid of his handcuffs in the police station. Again, around 10 police officers stand around him with their guns drawn. He is then told he will be photographed and locked up. He nods and stands in front of the photo wall. The policeman says "get the photographer" and they all put their weapons away and leave him standing in the middle of the room alone ... ALONE!
(5) Even the guys who did post didn't feel like it?! In one episode, 2 minutes before the end, the commercial break clip "Marvel's Inhumans is about to continue" came on.
I'm probably rating this higher than what I would have but since I know absolutely nothing about the comics universe, I'm always a fairly easy watcher of all things DC and Marvel. I thought this one was okay, definitely entertaining. I was disappointed that it ended in a season. People seemed fairly reasonnable in their motives and actions, the whole thing was properly edited. A good show to watch if you're not looking for anything too complicated and if you haven't read the comics. Don't look for more, it's cheesy and has a lot of heartfelt monologues.So if that's right up your alley, go for it.
The first two episodes set such a low bar that I genuinely wondered how the test audience let it fly under the radar... then I remembered the existence of Iron Fist. The premise of Inhumans is fine, but the plot and action is dull and slow, presumably to allow for character development... unfortunately the characters are unlikeable, as all the 'good guys' are simultaneously arrogant and naive, making them unsympathetic. Iwan Rheon's character is a rare exception, but I suspect my misplaced affection for Misfits may muddle my judgement there.
TL;DR If I didn't know better I'd think it was a second-rate mockbuster, but given The Defenders... maybe I need to resign myself to the new Marvel/Netflix reality.
Just saw it on IMAX. The first two episodes were impressive to the point I forgot it was a TV Show and not a movie.
Great development to start with and I'm loving Bolt, no words said but his facial expressions are great. Can't wait to see this show swing into full season. And I already hate the bad guy Maximus.
Finally the question if a TV-show can be horrible up to a point that it physically hurts to watch more than 20 minutes of it, can be answered : it can.. Not to pimp Netflix, but I totally love any show with Marvel in the title they created with their partners.. great writing.. superb cast.. awesome acting and great storyline.. the two shows I tried with Marvel in the title, I expected a lot from, but this tvshow isn't even a let down.. it's probably one of the worst pilots I partly saw... It looks cheap and fake, horrible acting by some who can definately do better,.. but the writing, directing.. omg... I'm not even gonna rage more.. it doesn't deserve my time.
Anyone else has a hard time watching this? after the 3rd episode it was getting really worse
Took me the total of two episodes to decide to pull out. Just because it has Marvel written in front does not make this a good show. Scripts are shallow, dialogue is bad, acting is mediocre - I really don´t have anything positive to say about this. And most of it has been written anyway.
Are they doing a season two? It wasn’t as bad as everyone is saying. Get past the first two episodes and it gets better.
I'm genuinely done with Marvel because it feels like I'm getting too old for this stuff. Or maybe this stuff is getting too old for me! Marvel used to be great, until Iron Fist when things started to deteriorate. Defenders was 'meh' and written hastily. And now this... good special effects maybe but I don't know guys. It's turned into a soulless, spiritless industry. Marvel is not Marvel anymore. This series demonstrates that pretty darn well. HOWEVER. If I was like 14 years old I would probably still totally dig this stuff. So for kids it might be a great show! I don't know... I'm not a kid. But one can imagine.
I really don't understand the fuzz. I watched this and The Gifted on the same day and even when I think that The Gifted is not (yet) on par with the other Netflixed Marvel shows, it's still worlds better than this, but this appears to be the price of being an ABC or CBS show. I can see that some actors really try to do their best but something is clearly missing.
Iwan Rheon obviously takes a certain liking for strange roles. First that sociopath Ramsay Bolton in Game of Thrones, now the equally likeable asscrack Maximus. He'd better never visit a fan convention of either franchise …
Some of us are newbies with this software and the. So certain users need to take that into account when slinging names around. Instead of being so judicial why not offer advice to help us along so we learn to make fewer mistake in a faster time. We all have to start somewhere !!
@HanMan
I agree with you my friend... I can't understand why would someone vote on a unreleased TV Show... WTF
Another spin-off of Agents of SHIELD, Inhumans is a lackluster X-Men rip-off. When the prince of Attilan (a colony of genetic mutants on the Moon) orchestrates a coup, the royal family escapes to Earth and attempts to marshal their forces and gain allies to help them get back to Attilan and retake the throne. Unfortunately the show never really gives the audience a reason to care about this power struggle. And, most of the Inhumans’ powers are pretty unimaginative and aren’t used to much effect. Also, the sets look cheap and reveal the limitations of the budget. There are no connects to the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe, which only further reinforces how unimportant this show is. Still, there are some exciting action scenes and the cast is pretty good. Inhumans had potential but no purpose, and was cancelled by ABC after eight short episodes.
The overall plot, acting, and production are fine. But omg is the writing and directing terrible at times. It's easily the worst thing in the MCU up to 2017.
I never expected much from the Eternals since the trailers reminded me of this show. Which isn’t a good thing. I wasn’t far off, except even the Eternals is much better.
And I thought cloak and dagger was bad. I'm happy there aren't many episodes. Oh and I fully am on Maximus' side btw. Forcing people to work in mines doesn't make for characters I'm cheering for.
This show is so bad it felt like a parody most of the time
Are they doing a season two? It wasn’t as bad as everyone is saying. Get past the first two episodes and it gets better.
Are they doing a season two? It wasn’t as bad as everyone is saying. Get past the first two episodes and it gets better.
is it ended or there's gonna be a second season?
I love the MCU and was hoping that Inhumans would live up to the Marvel hype. For me, something was missing. In the first few episodes I think the pacing was off and things dragged. The last two episodes were much better and enjoyable.
Loved the show ,don't now why the reviews is negative ,the caracters is great.I hope we get more seasons .I can see the start of a great serise.
So is episode 2 the same as episode 1? and why?
It seems the rating average is being pushed down by idiots who just hate the Hero / Mutant genre.
Listen folks: I don't go over to shows from genres I hate and just start crapping all over them - what's the point in that? Would I be a better person if I go and "1" vote a whole bunch of RomCom's? No. I'd be a douche that enjoys trying to piss in other peoples cereal. I freaking hate crime / murder / detective dramas, but am I over there leaving turds everywhere?
So cut it out y'all.
Look, this show isn't going to get an Emmy (well, maybe one for special effects), but it's none the less quite good. Solid acting, engaging and usually good script (though it gets off the rails at times, like the Hawaiian solders who out of the blue were ready to sacrifice themselves for strangers they just met. That was weak...)
Regardless, I very quickly have gotten into the plot and am genuinely curious to learn where it's all going to go.
Great show! This is addictive fast paced show.
Great show can't wait for the next episodes
Certainly isn't Marvel's greatest work, but still very entertaining. Isabelle Cornish's acting leaves more to be desired though.
I hate politics in any form. So the series got 5
PS. Game of Thrones is very similar to this show.
Shout by HanManBlockedParent2017-04-04T04:51:54Z
The 10 people who already voted this series which has yet to be released as of today 4/3/2017, are idiots. Suddenly all these moron's are fortune tellers.