Season 1 – Grotesquerie

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Raviteja S @0btseprcsr4 Jan 25 Absolute garbage of a show. See more Alessia M @goose.bmps Oct 15 Possible spoilers! This series had enormous potential: the opening is effective and the brutality of the murders immediately grabs your attention. The figure of the serial killer, intertwined with the theme of religiosity, was a clever and promising idea. The problem is that from mid-season onwards, the plot spirals into chaos. It shifts to forced extremization, with plot holes as deep as canyons and creative choices that are, to say the least, questionable. The trailer sells the product as a psychological thriller with horror and almost splatter elements, but —spoiler— halfway through it drastically changes direction, to the point of feeling like misleading advertising. And then the ending is a disaster: wiping out everything that happened with the coma twist feels like a punch in the stomach for the viewer —a downright mockery. As if that weren’t enough, they randomly throw in every currently trending social issue, creating a pretentious mishmash that tries to pass itself off as auteur art without having the substance. See more prawnda s @RT72497680 Oct 5 it doesnt matter if you try to make a decent piece of film. ryan murphy will always be there to stop you. See more Georgina W @RT81512343 Sep 10 You have to get through the first half which seems a bit odd, but then it all comes together. I thought it was great. Original and very dark. See more grace b @RT09333089 06/27/2025 thought it was great😅 See more Sam D @RT22342419 05/26/2025 This series is best for academics and film students. It is Art on life support. One can have an appreciation for the fact that just like in contemporary fine art, a person has to have a certain amount of exposure and education to really understand the nuances within work. However, one cannot deny that contemporary Art, and this series alike, fail to evolve to the point where it's form fails to reach contemporary audiences. It's functionality might be sound but what good is it if no one wants to look? Personally it felt like someone was using a literal textbook to create this series. The average public, without art education in general or some connection to studies specialized in the artistic development of television and film, will be left to their own devices to try desperately to follow what the hell is happening. That could have been really powerful but it tries so hard it just loses it. I have a master's degree in art and I found myself skipping through scenes to get to the point. Visually for the most part it's quite incredible. The performances individually are incredible but it's because they come off as individual the whole thing doesn't really hold together that well. I read through the critics reviews and I snorted at one point because you could see them all trying so hard to sound like they're smart enough to understand what the hell is happening. And in some cases it really becomes the emperor's new clothes. In some cases I think trying to look clever and artistic is the only Point that's happening in what should be an important scene in the story. I mean several episodes in you still don't have any idea what the hell is going on with this weird ass relationship with the woman in charge of caring for the detective husband. It starts to feel like it's on the verge of a dada-esque play. The main character clearly is intended to appear smart and strong and she appears to be neither. She's a terrible one-dimensional drunk and there's not enough connections to her insights to make it seem like they're actually brilliant insights. The actress playing the part deserves an award but not because the character is that good it's because she did so well with so little. The whole thing is just weird. And I'm one who has a deep love for dada and the bizarre. So honestly, it feels to me like the people making this either word part of the cool crowd in school or were just trying so hard to make everyone believe they're brilliant. It's awful. For the average individual trying to watch the TV series this is awful. I haven't completed watching it and I'm assuming at some point some of these things will tie together because they don't right now it's like the plot has descended into a raging boil of chicken soup noodles flailing around in the pot randomly. There's not enough stitching it together throughout the thing. And the priest? Don't even get me started on that priest or that weird nun. No seasoned detective in the world would suddenly take a young crime obsessed none into their confidence at any point during a horrendous series of murders like this. And I think the creators have become enamored with romanticizing previous films about serial killers. It's clear that they watched Silence of the Lambs over and over and over until they could quote every line by heart. A bit of Salvador Dali a dash of Columbo. It's just awful. My suggestion strongly is to just not start watching it. If you are like me you want to see what the actual answer is and I'm now skipping over huge chunks of the show because it's just not bearable. Now if you can walk away from a question unanswered then by all means have a look and see what you think but it's not worth your time unless you're studying how self-absorption can ruin a series See more Read all reviews

Grotesquerie — Season 1

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