556. Web-series Reviews – 253

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Untamed – Came in 2025. A character driven mystery thriller that follows Kyle Turner, a special agent for the National Parks Service who works to enforce human law in nature's vast wilderness. The investigation of a brutal death sends Turner on a collision course with the dark secrets within the park, and in his own past.

A review from IMDB...

I was hooked right away and binge watched the 6 episodes without a single break, literally! I didn't realize I'd barely moved until I was done! My knees made me acutely aware though upon standing up!

Seriously though, gripping slow burn plus the landscape and cinematography is amazing of course. The mixed reviews on here so far just tells me that you will either love it or maybe not.

After watching I thought that the feeling or pull was very similar to the first season of Pickett on Prime. If you've seen that show's first season and liked it then Untamed is for you. To all readers though, I suggest watching the first episode and I guarantee you'll know whether or not it's for you by the end.

I would like to add that yes of course there are some things, just like in every show or movie, that the viewer thinks could have been better. But this was one of the best shows I've seen in a while.

(...That being expected of course with Netflix's production budget that has taken TV Shows to another atmosphere! So thanks for putting our subs to good use Netflix!)

My Take – Worth a watch!

 

Keeping Faith – Ran from 2017 to 2021. 3 seasons. Faith, a small-town Welsh lawyer, is forced to cut short her extended maternity leave when her husband and business partner, Evan, goes missing. As the truth of his actions surface, Faith must fight to protect her family and her sanity.

A review from iMDB...

This is a well-plotted thriller about a vanished spouse, with the twist that the main character has to try to figure out what happened to her missing husband while caring for three small children, one of them an infant. It does get a bit preposterous toward the end when her parental rights are challenged, but by that point the story is full of melodramatic baddies and other fun if unrealistic elements and I was all in. I stayed up late to see what happened.

As several reviewers have pointed out, the main actress has some difficulty with the part. Her performance is so exaggerated that for all her stomping and hair-swishing and outbursts, it's not always easy to figure out what Faith is really thinking. She overacts, and as a result, there is no proportion to Faith's display of emotions. Is she frightened or impatient or furious or what? All of her feelings, even the trivial ones, are turned up to 11 and so you never know what the stakes really are for her, whether she is seriously considering abandoning her loyalty to her husband or on the verge of a nervous breakdown or just in a snit.

Lastly, the music really is horrible and maudlin, with same very bad singer-songwriter tune played over and over again so that I actually began muting it until it was over. The regular, more ambient music, on the soundtrack was intrusive as well. Overall, the series is just trying too hard to amp up the emotions of dramatic situations that should be able (and I think are able) to generate those emotions organically.

My Take – An ok series. Watched only the first season.

 

Trainwreck: Storm Area 51 – Came in 2025. This is the story of the greatest sh*tpost ever made. When 20-year old Matty Roberts creates a Facebook event inviting people to storm the classified Air Force facility Area 51 in the Nevada desert, the post quickly goes viral, with hundreds and then thousands saying they'll join the event that stated "They can't stop all of us". This prompts the US Air Force, FBI officials and the Federal Aviation Administration to strongly advise against anyone illegally trying to access the base, and the Military warns that they stand ready to protect America and its assets with deadly force. The meme continues to go viral and spread to other social media apps and soon millions have signed up to attend... Some joke, "If we Naruto run we can move faster than their bullets" but will a crazy party in the desert turn into a deadly confrontation? Featuring an epic ensemble cast of meme lords, military commanders, UFO hunters, sexy aliens and YouTubers, this is the ultimate story of the internet bursting into the real world.

A review from IMDB...

Far more interesting than recent Trainwreck episode "Real Project X" (in which many kids showed up to a birthday party and, for some reason, we know about it), this story involves a better variety of testimonies, with higher stakes considering the location, and a fairly intricate backstory where half-baked internet ideas go head-to-head with reality.

Social media dwellers are a parody of themselves at this point, and anyone with a couple decades will immediately roll their eyes at the immature elements of this doc, but it's still a fun study of people with lives that permit ideas like "let's storm a government base because aliens and party" before facing humility.

Not exactly something you do if you have priorities, but still hilarious to watch, like seeing Johnny Knoxville and pals invent idiotic stunts for your amusement. The silliness is balanced out by interviews with town locals, military, and other grown-ups who live in reality. When all the parts mix in the end, not much happens besides some partying, but thankfully it didn't go the other way resulting in tragedy.

I'm not sure it had to be split into 2 episodes. Yet I didn't feel like much time was wasted if viewed as a single film. It's ultimately a familiar lesson: reality wins against absurdist notions from the internet. But rarely do we see it done so uniquely, and at least a few people got a dance party out of it.

My Take – An ok watch!

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