Hi all. I’m Mark Robyn, and I’m a young adult science fiction author as well as a screenwriter, and this is my review of Sweet Home, a new series on Netflix. I hope you enjoy my review and are interested enough to make some comments at the end. Warning: spoilers ahead.
From the very first moment of the first episode of Sweet
Ride, the characters engage you. And right from the start, strange things start
to happen that pique the interest and make the series tense and exciting right
from the start. The fact that they are all meaningful and yet subtle enough
that you can gain interest in them but not feel the full impact of their
meaning is a testament to great story telling and direction.
The main character is a young boy who has just moved into an
apartment building by himself, and we can already see he is a boy with issues.
He even contemplates suicide, which draws us into his world and makes us care
about him. Soon we are meeting his fellow apartment dwellers, and they are all
very interesting and well developed. They are all odd in some way as well, a
little out of the ordinary to the point of being a little scary themselves. All
these characters draw us into this strange, somehow sinister microcosm which is
the apartment.
And then the monsters come. Sweet Home keeps you on the edge
of our seat the whole time, and the storytelling is so well done that you feel
the horror creeping up on you like a slow-moving zombie.
I must say I am thrilled to find such an entertaining series
to enjoy, and look forward to seeing what happens next. I wholly recommend this
series not only as entertainment, but an opportunity to learn some pointers
about good story telling. I give it an A+
Thanks for reading. Let me know what you think below.
Mark
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