I have to say I watched the entire series but I didn't read the novel. The series have some good and some bad sides. It's fun to watch, and it looks pretty polished and expensive. Acting is mediocre and crime cases are not that interesting to be stretched over so many episodes. Characters are also not far from two-dimensional clichés, without many challenges and more story depth for each one of them.
It's kind of fun to watch, but not very good as crime thriller or high-school series. Actors are all over 20 years old but they are playing children, which is not good since they are mostly highly sexualized, not as much as in Euphoria but also not appropriate for underage children. It's easy to miss this because actors are clearly adults, but when you focus on the fact that this all is happening in school, and that they are children, in series, it gets seriously uncomfortable to watch how they are presented, with accent on how "good looking" they all are. I honestly hate that cliché, would you stop presenting children as "attractive" and sexualized in obviously adult series? Why was it so hard to put the whole story in college, for example?
I think the series is fun, too stretched and with mediocre acting and script, and with lots of usual Hollywood clichés, but watchable. What I don't like is presentation of characters who are literal children, masked with the fact that the actors are adults. High school kids do not look like that! And they should not be presented as "hot" or "sexy" (ugh, I hate even writing this!).
Other than that, mediocre, but fun tv series.
It's kind of fun to watch, but not very good as crime thriller or high-school series. Actors are all over 20 years old but they are playing children, which is not good since they are mostly highly sexualized, not as much as in Euphoria but also not appropriate for underage children. It's easy to miss this because actors are clearly adults, but when you focus on the fact that this all is happening in school, and that they are children, in series, it gets seriously uncomfortable to watch how they are presented, with accent on how "good looking" they all are. I honestly hate that cliché, would you stop presenting children as "attractive" and sexualized in obviously adult series? Why was it so hard to put the whole story in college, for example?
I think the series is fun, too stretched and with mediocre acting and script, and with lots of usual Hollywood clichés, but watchable. What I don't like is presentation of characters who are literal children, masked with the fact that the actors are adults. High school kids do not look like that! And they should not be presented as "hot" or "sexy" (ugh, I hate even writing this!).
Other than that, mediocre, but fun tv series.