Mari

A truly engaging series, considering its obvious low budget. In the first three episodes, the action is rather slow-paced, but in the second half the plot really picks up. Obviously, it’s hardly possible to explore a multi-layered story in depth in just six episodes, so I wasn’t even expecting that.

And yet, I was pleasantly surprised! It’s easy to warm to the female lead, the male lead is absolutely hilarious, and the antagonist certainly looks better than he does in the book 😆😭 (I haven’t read the book, but I know how he’s portrayed there 😅).

Above all, I really liked the ‘Halloween’ atmosphere of the story (I watched the series at just the right time of year 👻) and, in fact, the original aspect of this story – namely, the combination of the world of the living with the place where the dead and those on the border between life and death end up.

I wasn’t really surprised by the plot developments – I’d more or less seen the biggest ’plot twists’ coming – but I still enjoyed watching it. There were a few plot holes, but they weren’t significant enough to bother me. As is often the case with Netflix series that won’t be getting a sequel, the ending is open-ended, to say the least, and the story definitely deserves to be developed further (but we all know how it goes 💸💸💸)