Tell Me a Story: Forgiveness

Well, that was anticlimactic. All three stories ended in about the least interesting way possible. And the connections between them never actually became relevant. Like, big pig is the cop who's investigating teacher wolf and red's father's girlfriend is Hansel and Gretel's witch, but none of the characters even seem to be aware of these connections. They certainly don't have any effect on each other's stories.

Tell Me a Story: Deception

This, the penultimate episode, basically just moves all the pieces into place for the climax. Put everyone in a position where a violent confrontation is the only possible resolution and then somehow get them all into the same location. Yes, all three stories are going to be "connected" by coincidentally resolving at the same place and time. OK, there are other connections, but they're really not important at all. And I still think it would have worked better to tell each story separately, even with these connections, because that would have given us the opportunity to put the pieces together as we watched the second and third stories.

Tell Me a Story: Truth

They're actually starting to show the connections between the stories now, although the Red Riding Hood one is pretty tenuous. And despite it still being very slow, I am enjoying this show, even if the fairy tale gimmick doesn't really add anything.

Tell Me a Story: Betrayal

After a very slow start, things are actually moving at a decent pace now. But I'm still not sure what direction they're going. The fairy tale links remain as tenuous as ever and we're still left frustratingly in the dark about a lot of things. Some of that is because the protagonists are equally confused, which is fine, but they've also started concealing things from the audience that the characters we're watching do know, and that's annoying.

Tell Me a Story: Guilt

The pace is definitely picking up now (except in Red Riding Hood's story which is still the weakest of the three by far) but mixing the three together still makes them feel pretty slow. Like, a decent amount of stuff happened in this episode but because it was in three unconnected stories it doesn't feel like very much.

Tell Me a Story: Madness

A bunch of stuff happened this time, and I'm sort of starting to see where the fairy tale influences come in. It's pretty tenuous and I'm still not sure what the point of it is though. There's definitely not enough there to say that they're based on the fairy tales. And it still makes no sense to have all three stories going on at once.

Tell Me a Story: Rage

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.

Tell Me a Story: Greed

This show isn't actually bad. It's not particularly good, but it's better than some of the shit I watch. It just isn't what it's supposedly meant to be. The stories and characters just have absolutely nothing to do with the fairy tales they're apparently based on. It's also kind of slow - not boring, just not a lot happens in each episode.

Tell Me a Story: Loss

This show is slooooow. Barely anything actually happened in this episode. There's sort of some escalating tension but it's at a pretty low level. I think a big part of the problem is that we don't know any of the characters well enough to care about them. I'm not even sure who we're supposed to be siding with in the three pigs story. You'd think it would be the guy whose girlfriend was just killed (the wolf?), but the show seems to want us to care at least as much about the criminals (the pigs). And the three stories still seem completely separate, so it's not clear why they're all being told together.

Tell Me a Story: Hope

"The world's most beloved fairy tales re-imagined as a dark and twisted psychological thriller. Set in modern day New York City, the first season of this serialised drama interweaves The Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, and Hansel and Gretel into an epic and subversive tale of love, loss, greed, revenge and murder." - TV Calendar.

I assumed, based on the description, that I was in for some kind of teen supernatural action romance. Something like Lost Girl or Wynonna Earp. Probably everyone would look like normal humans most of the time because of budget and there'd be a lot of love triangles and misunderstandings. This show is not that at all. I'm not sure what it is.