[...] Holy mother of iPads, the acting by Spiridakos is awful, and her limitations as a performer have only grown more apparent every week.
[SPOILER zur vierten Episode von "Revolution"] In the Oct. 8 episode, after Maggie grimly declared that she was bleeding out, the reaction on Charlie's face actually made me laugh out loud. That's how clumsy and unsubtle it was.
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"Revolution" makes the assumption that so many shows make: If there aren't a lot of pretty young people on the show, no one under the age of 25 will watch. Whether or not that's true, let's assume for the sake of argument that that's the case. What I still don't understand is why so many young/teen characters have to be annoying, whiny, stupid and generally drag scenes and storylines down. [...]
If Spiridakos has any strengths as an actress (and that's not at all apparent), the show's writers haven't learned to write to them, and every week, despite "Revolution's" general efficiency and the skills of its other cast members, there's a clunky Charlie moment that makes me want to delete the show's Season Pass from my DVR. There's room on the television landscape for a genre show that isn't necessarily atmospheric or ambitious and that just wants to tell an efficient adventure story. It's just my luck that a successful show like that finally arrives on the network that most needs a hit, and I end up spending half of most episodes hoping its wide-eyed, whiny lead character -- Not-Katniss, as I call her -- will be eaten by a pack of cougars. [...]
An der Stelle aus der vierten Episode, die Ryan beschreibt, musste ich übrigens auch lachen. Betrachtet man die Serie als Comedy, hat sie also durchaus einen gewissen Unterhaltungswert.
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