Just wild and crazy and gutsy and admirable and yeah. That’s a fair criticism but easily overcome, and it’s nuts that this TV show exists.
DARK CRYSTAL SHOW SERIES
There’s a lot of world building that needs to be established, but it all sets up an enormous payoff.Īs a prequel to Jim Henson’s cult-beloved The Dark Crystal (1982), the series is so intricately constructed that some viewers will call it complicated.
It’s well-paced and doesn’t invest time with extra garbage, but viewers have to stay “present” to absorb all of the set-up. These days, we’re so used to padded, overly long seasons of streaming TV that waste time meandering through useless, redundant happenings. This series is remarkable from the beginning, yet it just happens to be so layered that one really needs some warm-up time, or viewers might feel overwhelmed. That’s a terrible way to start this review, right? No one wants to be told that a TV series “gets better” if you just stick it out, but that’s not what I”m getting at. That ease, though, demands some patience - and I apologize for pulling this card - and doesn’t arrive until you’re a few initial episodes in. It’s a rare and beautiful beast that’s definitively an epic TV series, as well as feeling very easy to surrender to and bury oneself between luxuriously rich storytelling and gloriously beautiful pops of color. Netflix’s The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance is ridiculously ambitious, for (overwhelmingly) better and (occasionally) worse.
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