TV Shows: "Shadowhunters" Post #2: Midseason Review

Disclaimer: My thoughts are everywhere in this post, I transition between ideas so fast I didn't even know what my point was sometimes. Also, I know that the show couldn't have been exactly like books, but honestly, I think it was within the creators' budget to have made it better than it is...just sayin'.

I'm in conflict with myself over this show.

I don't like it, but I keep watching, wanting more. I guess it's because there are some elements I king of enjoy like Clary, Simon and Malec, and others that I loathe, like Jace, Isabelle, and Chernobyl. I'm going to closely critique each episode and mention the things I like and the ones I didn't enjoy so much.

Episode 1- The Mortal Cup

This was the episode that sort of set the stage for how the rest of the season is going to be like. The opening scene was pretty good (maybe it was the song that appealed to me, regardless), I was deceived. One of the things that bothered me the most was the cheesiness of it all. If I were in a large room, and the cheesiness was substituted for real cheddar cheese, I would've drowned in the cheddar. That's how suffocatingly cheesy it was. I remember there was this scene in Pandemonium (a place I'll criticize later) when a few "Circle" members recognized Clary as Jocelyn (what the hell are Circle members doing in Pandemonium anyway?), they were so incredibly weird and awkward, it killed me. They (as does most of the cast) recite their lines like they're rehearsed. I felt like they didn't really get into character as much as they just spoke in monotone. It was super frust

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