It'll probably get bogged down by the melodrama. I know there are a lot of people who don't like the "woke" aspect of the CW shows but for me, what kills most of their shows is the unnecessary, forced drama & laughable conflicts
Most time, their shows honestly feel like soap operas. It's genuinely cringe inducing.
Which is a shame really. They've got some really good IPs.
I gave up on network TV a long time ago. All the good shows are on cable or streaming.
shareSame. I RARELY watch Network tv nowadays. There's the odd one here & there but with each passing year, that number keeps on going down
I can honestly count on one hand the number of Network shows I still try to keep up with.
Also, gave up on any show with 20+ episodes a season. Just started to feel like a chore trying to keep up with those. The whole thing started to feel stale after a while.
Plus, They can barely make a single story stay interesting for 20-24 episodes anymore. I honestly don't know why Network tv hasn't abandoned that format yet
Agreed
It's a shame too because this sounded really good but then I heard 'network' and figured it would be lame
I think I'm automatically out on pretty much any CW show. They are just so amateurish.
shareHonestly, I started to feel like I "outgrew them". I just turned 30 last August & honestly, I started to notice all the cringe dialogue & forced drama. I started to notice a few years ago but I didn't completely give up until like 2019. I was like, enough is enough. lol
Even as a HUGE DC fan, I had to give up on the Arrowverse shows. Cause they honestly started to feel like CW shows & not ComicBook shows. You know what I mean?
Who's the target audience for the CW shows? Like genuinely asking. The dialogue & writing make me think it's teens. And the shows legit feel like teen melodramas
I'm not gonna say people over 30 don't want, because I know some do, but they do feel like "young adult" novels or something from Twilight. I think they're made for people who don't normally watch sci fi, comic stuff, vampire stuff, etc. They have that less serious and more campy/melodramatic presentation.
shareMy little sister watches freeform & honestly, from what I've seen, they & The CW are pretty darn interchangeable.
And Freeform's target audience is basically the young adult demographic
I thought the start of the trailer was promising, but it got very CW very fast.
shareSince nobody here has bothered to actually watch the show, I will say that it's pretty darn good, and it's basically like a coming-of-age story, where a young woman reconnects with her family and her community, using her newfound powers and gifts to help protect them from enemies without and within. It's not campy at all, it has both young and old characters in it, and it's unique in that it's completely run by, and written by Asian Americans---which gives it a unique look and feel from other CW shows. Since the finale for its 3rd season came on tonight, hopefully it'll be renewed for a fourth season---that's how much I've come to like it.
shareAs a fan of the Carradine series, this one was too modern and glitzy. There wasn't any mysticism or anything to tie it back to the original. Of course what they do now is just tag something with a previously popular brand and then do their own thing with it. I don't think that helps their cause.
The characters were boring as were the story lines. The forced Wokeness, the family bunkering down in their restaurant during BLM riots, I would kind of think they would be more about being pissed off that their business is being threatened by these idiots. Not being supportive of them.