ibcdd
Seasons 1and 2 are very good. After the 3rd episode of season 3, I can not bare to waste anymore of my time. I have zero intetest in waiting another 3 hours to find redemption. If the first episode of the next season is this bad, I will not be back.
tatagraves
I've seen the first season, second season, and what is out of the third season. The first season started off interesting but quickly morphed into a wooden supernatural cop drama, which I might have enjoyed if the acting wasn't so wooden. I found myself wanting to care about the plot and characters but just couldn't.
The second season was SO good. I was impressed with the phenomenal acting from the entire cast but particularly from John Caroll Lynch. The thing that really made me return every episode was the character studies unfolding. By the end of the season I felt like I knew and deeply cared about most of the characters. It was creepy, the plot was terrifying, and the psychological aspects were haunting. It delves into grief and regret in such an original way. I Recommend it highly.
The third season so far, which is only an episode in (trying not to judge it too soon) is fine but the acting from a few characters is genuinely awful. If you can get past bad acting then I guess I'd give it a watch. Overall I'd say the show is mediocre except for it's one shining star. I'm hoping it will give another.
Crystal_Dive
-watched till Episode 4- Do you remember those creepy episodes of Courage the Cowardly Dog and even some of those Tom & Jerry episodes? Candy Cove is no where close to being even remotely spooky. It looks and sounds like some children's school Pirate themed project filmed in class. The dialog is not menacing. The figures are not disturbing.The lack of content to fill 6 episodes really show whenever you get scenes which shows a protagonist just walking through a building for 3 minutes with no atmosphere and simple camera pans, it gets really tedious to watch. Repeat that with 20 seconds here of people just sitting around and 20 seconds of lingering shots every scene change, this becomes unwatchable.It is also plagued by clichés of characters unwilling to talk and discuss with each other, thus wasting episodes with no progress, filled with conversations so devoid of content that a 5 minutes long palaver can be edited to 1 minute or less.And being billed as horror, the creatures look identical to grade school home made Halloween costumes. How is that suppose to create tension? All in all, the producers should really had made this into hour long stand-alone episodes, like a true horror anthology. Unbelievable that this had been picked up for 4 seasons. Guess SyFy is really desperate to fill up the time slots.
Dorveille
The original "Candle Cove" story by Kris Straub was short, written in the style of a discussion taking place on an online forum, and had a great twist at the end.What "Channel Zero" has tried to do is take Straub's story and add to it, filling it out to a six episode series. The problem is that in so doing it has lost what make many of the creepy pasta stories so effective.Although the series is somewhat effective at building a creepy atmosphere, none of the new material which has been added really works. The characters are not very well developed, the narrative is muddled and as a viewer I was more often confused than scared.It is such a shame. When I first heard about this series I had high expectations, and the trailers for it were great. It would have been far better to make this an anthology, with each episode being based on a single story, that way you may have ended up with something closer to what made the original stories so memorable.
AD
