FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.
Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.
manhesr A little bit slow and not really clear ending.
Acting is good and I really like the characters
kitellis-98121 Most of the seven stars I've given this are for the excellent period detail, cinematography, and production design, which helped keep me watching when the endless scenes of sewing started to become wearisome.This piece is slow-moving. That isn't necessarily a bad thing, if the dialogue is top-notch and the directing assured. Here, unfortunately, we are treated to scene after scene of two people sitting in a room while one talks (and sews, and sews, and sews) and the other listens. This gives way to a voice-over which narrates the central storyline in the form of flashbacks - an uninspired device which also tests ones patience after a while.If the story was gripping, or at least told with more inspired directing, it would be a rewarding experience, as it is certainly very well made. Unfortunately, each flashback lasts just long enough to begin to arouse one's interest before lurching awkwardly back to the talking and the sewing - effectively destroying any build-up of tension.Sadly, one thing that seriously challenged my ability to become immersed was the casting of Anna Paquin, whose facial gurning and increasing resemblance to Val Kilmer (as both their faces grow ever wider) was distracting, and her ill-fitting presence made the whole thing feel consciously like a TV show. Overall it's worth a watch, but could be so much better with more inspired writing and directing.
nickmorgenstern I am somewhat sate of all these flashy trailers that leave me breathing air through my mouth and then i realize i've fallen for the same old marketing trick.Like many others that probably watched this show, i myself have not read the book, nor do i intend to because it just leaves me questioning so many different aspects of this book/show that i never thought i would be questioning. What i expected was a psychologically disturbed pathological liar that got away with killing and manipulating more than five people in her favor, what i got was a bible study of the feminist mind and her hot 50 year old master. He is hot, stop denying it.The last two episodes should or could have been so much more but they never culminated for me it just went up, up and then down down and flatlined.I have the feeling we are probably missing a lot of backstory. Nevertheless i think the show was good...maybe. Let's leave it to god shall we?
mmlund2 The first episode has a great hook in it, and will peak your interest with mystery and murder in a historical setting. However, as the episodes progress, it becomes apparent that this series is a hard core bleak feminist view of the world, with all men depicted as cruel, abusive, foul, deceitful sexual predators. The series is ripe with the supremacist propaganda that females are the superior gender and the false premise that men have never been nor can they ever be respectful of women. One can remember the feminist outrage of how women have been historically portrayed in Hollywood as silly and dependent on strong superior men. Well, with movies like this one, the reverse is true, that all men are depicted as evil and women are morally superior in every way. The irony is that feminists that produce this tripe have become the bigoted monsters that they so hatefully despise.
