{"id":77639,"date":"2015-07-14T12:27:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T11:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=77639"},"modified":"2015-07-14T12:27:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T11:27:47","slug":"between-review-the-worlds-most-boring-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/between-review-the-worlds-most-boring-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Between review: The world&#8217;s most boring apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Between<\/strong><\/em>\u2019s concept is intriguing: a mysterious virus wreaks havoc on small town Pretty Lake, killing everyone aged 22 and over. With the town\u2019s population of adults all dead, it\u2019s up to the teenagers to take a stand and find out what the hell is going on.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s strange. The synopsis makes it seem like a <em><strong>Walking Dead<\/strong><\/em> version of <em><strong>The Muppet Babies<\/strong><\/em> (which sounds kind of awesome) but it\u2019s really not. To start with, there are no zombies or horror aspect of any kind. When people die, they stay dead and nothing more is said about it. It\u2019s got sci-fi in its core (we still don\u2019t know why anything is happening) but it feels like a weighty drama, what with all the death, upturned family dynamics and teenage relationship angst. It\u2019s well structured and the six-episode per season format means that every scene counts. But the bottom line is that it\u2019s just boring.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t have <em><strong>The Walking Dead<\/strong><\/em>\u2019s excitement factor, and it could be the fact that it\u2019s almost entirely led by a cast of teenage characters; teen conflicts usually just aren\u2019t as interesting as adult ones. The teen conflicts in <em><strong>Between<\/strong><\/em> do often involve guns, but they are petty and childish rather than awesome and morally questionable, like you would want from a dystopian future shootout.<\/p>\n<p>Except for perhaps two or three, the characters are pretty two-dimensional. It\u2019s difficult to care about them \u2013 especially as a lot of them look, sound and act the same \u2013 which makes the whole thing seem a bit pointless. When a kid gets killed (which happens surprisingly frequently), sympathy becomes hard to come by and you start to think that it\u2019s their own damn fault for acting so irresponsibly.<\/p>\n<p>While most of the plot is dull, some of it is utterly ridiculous (there\u2019s an escaped tiger storyline that you will either love or hate) and some is actually pretty climatic. Like most dystopian series, <em><strong>Between<\/strong><\/em> waits for the finale to give out a splurge of tasty information and, though the rest of the episodes might, the final one doesn\u2019t disappoint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does the YA dystopian sci-fi make a dent in Netflix&#8217;s hall of fame?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":77641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[8,207],"tags":[4469],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/between_day41_106_0140r.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}