3) They really haven’t given us much time or space to actually care about the characters is the problem. Which is an issue of writing but also the fact that it’s only a 10 episode summer series that has to tell a complete story of the mystery of Camp Stillwater.I don’t really get it. There are horror films that manage to make you care about characters in a 90-120 minutes runtime so a 10-episode series should be able to do it.
I guess. I see your point though there are some other factor like a horror movie has a certain atmosphere that a teen slasher show can’t convey; horror movies are viewed in one sitting and not spread out with different characters getting a focus each week. Also, horror movies tend to be actually scary. Dead of Summer isn’t in any way scary, though people have died already. It’s rather predictable to the point that even if the characters are in real danger and the stakes are high, you see the danger coming a mile away and already know it’ll be rather mild and watered down.
Maybe if the characters on the show were more nuanced we’d be more able to sympathize with them quickly. Like Cricket, center of this week’s episode….I have a lot in common with her in broad strokes but if she had died last night, I’d shrug and say “well, that’s what you get for jumping into a car with a total stranger who reeks of bad news.” Or Blair, for instance. His leading characteristic so far is that he’s flamboyantly gay and there’s nothing wrong with that but the writers, thus far, act like it’s all that defines him, there’s nothing else about him except his sexuality. Which is why I am *seriously* worried about what they do with Drew next week.
On another note, I still find Elizabeth Lail to be pretty dang annoying. There’s this presence to her on screen in this show that is so simpering and demure and meek. The guilt trip with the cookies she gave to Jessie was the first time she had any sort of personality.