October Faction
There is so much wrong with this Netflix show, you could literally fill a book. It was one of those rare occasions that I watched something to the end because it was so bad I was in shock.
*** SPOILER ALERT ***
The initial premise is good, every October monsters emerge and a husband and wife hunt and kill them. I thought, hey its like Buffy, fun!
Why October? Well that is one of many teases that never go anywhere. Beyond the first episode it is never mentioned again, despite it being the name of the show. I have read that the majority of the show has nothing to do with the comics it is based on…
There is a lot going on. It is like the writers came up with 50 ideas, and instead of choosing which would work best, they threw them all in. In some cases in seems they were setting things up for the next series, which demonstrates how delusional they are.
The show has:
- afterlife
- resurrection
- soldiers
- conspiracies
- rape
- suicide
- returning home to your past life
- infidelity
- sexuality
- family dramas
- inter-species teamwork
- hundreds of expendable soldiers
- telepathy
- a seance
- seeing the future
- psycho-kinetic powers
- police sleuthing
- hacking
- a house with AI
- secret rooms
- a cyborg who has been hiding in the woods for a year
- college football
- teen party while the parents are away
Pointless high school situations about sexuality and friendship.
The son is obnoxiously cocky.
We have zero hints at why the monsters exist, but they seem to have formed an alliance, using a language that is not native to anyone of them, like they all learned Esperanto for fun.
The “tech” is laughable. The husband and wife have wristwatches that let them track down any monster, but doesn’t alert them when one is nearby.
Characters have powers that they use sometimes, but forget about when they could be useful.
The police are Dukes of Hazzard level stupid.
The Presidio are at the same time studying monsters and wiping them all out.
There is so much going on, but they still find time for boring scenes with inane dialogue that serve no point.
The husband and wife adopted warlocks even though they are on a mission to destroy all warlocks.
Virtually every character dies or almost dies or wasn’t dead after all. I think two main characters were both in hospital bleeding to death at the same time, but we forget about one of them.
Relationships that have multiple arcs in one episode. The gay son gets a boyfriend, they break up, they get back together and they break up, in a single afternoon.
Dead warlocks are resurrected in teenage hosts, only to go, yeah nah, I think I’ll be dead again.
Half the scenes are in the same woods, even when they are in different towns or even states. It reeks of low-budget.
The key monsters are called Warlocks, which makes no sense. A random name would be better than a name associated with a terrible movie.
Very uninteresting characters with bad acting.
The kids spend the first two episodes speaking Japanese, and then never again.
The warlock who is on a life or death mission to get her kids back, in the end decides it doesn’t matter any more.
A cliffhanger of a monster growling in the dark – tune in to see what it is!
Everyone betrays someone else
Very basic things like continuity are ignored. Middle of the day becomes night in real time in 5 minutes.
The Mum gets told she needs to get her car registered or she will be arrested. She is filthy rich. But, it is a cool car, so she doesn’t bother, that’s how bad-ass she is. No, stupid she is.
Every episode starts a story arc that we never see again.
I think the worst thing is tone. They could have played it for laughs, or made it dark and moody. But it switches tone from one scene to the next. The poor actors are almost shrugging their shoulders, guessing how to play their characters. Like nobody is in charge.
My words cannot do justice to how bad this TV series is. So check it out!