This show would be so much better if they'd just done each story separately instead of cutting between them. And also just not done Red Riding Hood's story. But mainly doing each story separately, because then they wouldn't feel so slow. Because each one only gets an average of 15 minutes a week there's just not time for much to happen. The stories aren't even connected. It's basically just three shows cut up and mixed together.
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| It's really hard to have any sympathy for him when his problem is entirely of his own making. |
Red Riding Hood's story is suffering the most from the format because it's the weakest. There's three elements to it: she's sleeping with her teacher; her creepy new friend is trying to blackmail her; her father and grandmother are treating her like a child even though she's 17 and clearly used to doing whatever she wants. Not that she's not behaving childishly - she is a teenager, after all - but she's a few months from being legally an adult and able to ignore them and do whatever she wants anyway. They're just being dumb and that's annoying.
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The teacher is just an idiot who shouldn't be sleeping with a student and basically deserves whatever happens to him, so there's no real drama there. The creepy "friend" is potentially more interesting but so far is only a threat because Red keeps hanging around him even though she obviously shouldn't. It's not like there's even a reason for her to. She only met him a few days ago, so it's not like this is an old friend she'd have conflicted feelings about. He's been an arsehole from day one.
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| This guy has apparently never seen a cop show in his life. |
The Three Pigs' story is better, but is also moving very slowly. In this episode, the Wolf took the mask he stole from Little Pig to the police, who told him they couldn't do anything with it because of course they can't. So he goes back to the nightclub and confronts Little Pig's girlfriend to ask her to recant the alibi she provided. She acts like she's going to and asks him to meet her later, but obviously she just tells Little Pig and he shows up to beat up the wolf.
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| It's not safe to talk in this crowded nightclub, we must meet later in a deserted alleyway. For safety. |
Hansel and Gretel borrow a car from Gretel's ex-military friend - and it turns out I was wrong; it's him, the friend, not Gretel who's lost a leg. Anyway, Gretel wants to go see a friend of hers she thinks can help them, but the friend's not answering his phone, so Hansel wants to go somewhere else instead. They deliberately hide who this is from the audience, but it turns out to be their mother. It's weird, because she seems to be rich and happy to see them, so why they were both living in poverty is a mystery.
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| If your mother lives here, why did you have to join the army to (not even) pay your dad's medical bills? |
The Hansel and Gretel story is definitely the one I'm most curious about, but it's also the one I'm expecting to have the least satisfying ending. I just can't see how they're going to bring all the disparate elements together. Especially now that they've left the state and the criminals who were after them probably have no idea where they've gone. And I still have no idea how they got any of this from the fairy tales.
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| Who could possibly have seen this coming? |
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