Curfew (2019)
5/10
Didn't live up to expectations
8 April 2019
The trailer looked promising but the series never really lived up to my expectations. Visually, it was pretty good, but poor dialogue combined with unimpressive, sometimes poor, acting let's it down a lot (though the actors were never given much to work with by way of script there were still opportunities to make the best of it and shine but these were never taken). The story and background was poorly fleshed out and never seemed to me to be real. It was never terrible, but I was always conscious that I was watching a fictional drama in which actors were acting and so I could never get lost in the events and never really felt any emotional connection to them or the characters. I was just left feeling nothing, which is not good for an action-horror series. It could have been a lot more. Perhaps it can be with better writers.

I thought towards the end things were improving. One episode I quite enjoyed above the others and thought maybe it just needed some time to get up to speed (pardon the driving pun). Some said give it a chance. I did. Perhaps it did improve a little in that one episode but the ending/final episode itself was the worst of them all. It was a very anticlimactic finish. The script, acting and dialogue became so unrealistic to the point of ridiculous. The writers had a good, but poorly fleshed out, idea for a show (perhaps after watching an episode of Top Gear) but had no idea how to finish it and lacked the skill to write a good ending.
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