Mr. Pickles is described as being absolutely sick, twisted and hardcore. While these things are true, it disappoints me as an avid fan of the psychological thriller genre to see so many people highly praise a series for being so senselessly vulgar.
I, personally, have never found myself cringe at the visuals within Mr. Pickles more than I did at the thoughtless presentation of the vulgarity. Mr. Pickles tries way too hard with shock humor and ends up being neither shocking nor humorous. With hardly ever any punchline or respite in sight, Mr. Pickles seems like its gory for the sake of being gory, and this seems to be enough to attract people who think edginess is cool -- but without a punchline or respite, the shock humor ends up becoming predictable, falling flat on its face, being more failed shock and loses the right to be considered a joke at all instead of a joke that failed.
I normally go on to do longer reviews than this, but honestly, that paragraph describes all there is to describe when it comes to Mr. Pickles. I would not recommend this show to anybody -- even those who like gore and shock value would do better to go find somewhere else with more interesting context and a better plot to go along with it.
I, personally, have never found myself cringe at the visuals within Mr. Pickles more than I did at the thoughtless presentation of the vulgarity. Mr. Pickles tries way too hard with shock humor and ends up being neither shocking nor humorous. With hardly ever any punchline or respite in sight, Mr. Pickles seems like its gory for the sake of being gory, and this seems to be enough to attract people who think edginess is cool -- but without a punchline or respite, the shock humor ends up becoming predictable, falling flat on its face, being more failed shock and loses the right to be considered a joke at all instead of a joke that failed.
I normally go on to do longer reviews than this, but honestly, that paragraph describes all there is to describe when it comes to Mr. Pickles. I would not recommend this show to anybody -- even those who like gore and shock value would do better to go find somewhere else with more interesting context and a better plot to go along with it.