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| Little Red Riding Hood Well that was an unsettling reverse situation. Didn't get all the Sci-Fi elements though |
| I feel like in every story we’re going to see a character with pink-ish hair, green eyes and a green gemstone like Charlotte: in episode 1 we had the doll and this episode there was the old lady. I wonder if they are just some sort of cameo or if it’s going to be relevant by the end |
Kamira00Apr 17, 9:21 AM
| I dont know bout yall but i would let her sit on me like she did to the guy. I wonder if every ep will feature a female showing that she can do things just like other men, lol. |
"Perfection is perception. For me, humanity's imperfections is what makes it perfect"  |
| wtf this is actually surprisingly good. red riding hood really flipped the switch on the big bad wolf. hot scenes ftw. |
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I love anthology series. Neat blade runner stuff this episode too.  |
ShenheApr 18, 12:23 AM
| Very gore-ish episode. Not my cup of tea. While the 1st episode was really awesome, and quite twisted, here most of the things didn't really make much sense. I hope the next episodes will be better than that. |
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| It's a nice episode, but it could have been better executed - especially in terms of story and concept If there was one really good thing about this one: Scarlet (the "Little Red Riding Hood" of this story) |
LAboy456Apr 18, 5:19 AM
Reply to Mimeiko
Very gore-ish episode. Not my cup of tea. While the 1st episode was really awesome, and quite twisted, here most of the things didn't really make much sense. I hope the next episodes will be better than that.
| @Mimeiko What parts didn't make sense to you? not doubting just curious |
| Yikes, I definitely preferred the first episode. I found this one hard to watch. All the tech/futurism stuff was just flavor but they spent so much time on it. The characters were really superficial. At its core it's just a fairly straightforward subversion of the original with fluff tacked on, nothing too interesting going on. Totally fell flat for me. |
| From the trailer I knew this show has an unique take on the fairy tales. Ep1 was alredy weird with psycho Cindirella. This episode there was not a single normal person holly was not expecting that. Loved it |
sezbian lex |
| Ok I thought Cinderella was a little confusing, but Little Red Riding Hood is that on crack. I don't think I understood what I just watched, so if anyone can clear it up it would greatly be appreciated. I have a lot of questions: @Shenhe lol How does the "Real" actually work (is it like Ready Player One rules?)? It was very confusing to tell what was IRL and what was AR, I think that was the point but still. How does it work you take the eyedrops and your reality shifts? How do you know where you end up? Where's the police or security? How does immortality work if it's just AR, you are still aging IRL? Who is our MC (the only thing I know is he supposed to be the wolf) ? Is he a person of power? If not why does he have a secretary what does he do? Where is the Huntsman btw? And why does the Wolf Gang even exist? Who is Mr. Brown is this legalized killing I don't get it? Population control it's never explained Why does Grandma act as a broker for killers, like what is going on... is this the Blackmarket? Anyways I don't know how to review this episode if I did not understand 80% of what happened. Like it was cool that Little Red Riding Hood tricks the Wolf and kills him but I can't appreciate her wits/trickery if I don't know how the world works. Again like Cinderella the flashback reveal is very surface level. Like aha bet you didn't see my plan coming. I will admit the beginning was a cool set up until the secretary scene (so the first 12 mins). The animation and osts were amazing as always because its WIT. The gore was fun, nice nod to Higurashi (I see what you did there). Hopefully episode 3 is better. I will finish the series. Cinderella is my favorite so far. I rate this episode a 3/10 (unless someone wants to change my mind and explain to me what just happened lol). |
TheSunLifeApr 20, 11:13 PM
| "Bro, if you set your mind to it. You can jack off to anything." ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| People who find the series confuising should just turn the brain on and pay attention. The plotsa so far are not that hard to follow. And they are not written to be deliberatelly confusing like recent Metallic Rouge for example. Seriously reading the comments that makes me confused? People, are you sheltered 14-year olds from some rural US south? You cannot follow the plot, you are afraid of fictional blood and gore and you rate it low just because you do not get it? |
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| Bloody second episode with an alternative version of Little Red Riding Hood!!! Cool the mixed of genre, future and blood and the change of characters was better!!! 7/10 for this second story! kekeke |
| I've only seen 4 episodes so far, but this was easily the worst imo. There really wasn't much of a "twist" at all, as the spin on the story was so easy to see coming so early in the show. The entire time I was expecting Little Red Riding Hood to hunt him, so when I saw him take a drink of what she poured him, I was instantly disappointed I was correct. Even an idiot would know better than to trust a random alcoholic drink from a stranger, especially one in some crummy dystopian future where so much terrible stuff happens. Even worse, neither character had much depth of any kind to them. I didn't have any interest in them. I only kept watching in hopes of some cool take on the story, but no. |
| “No, you can’t have a show where everybody’s Krillin!” – Shinpachi |
| I'm glad Grey received exactly what he dished out by Scarlet. But I wonder if Scarlet was looking for cruel murderers like Grey or if that didn't matter at all. This episode was good! |
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Reply to moonjar
I didn't understand this episode :/
| So, now we have a peculiar mix of Dexter, Matrix, Black Mirror and typical stories about how the hunter himself becomes the prey. Still unexpected and intriguing, although not as impressive as the first episode. Let's see what will happen next. @moonjar The man lured and brutally killed girls, serving as a kind of metaphor for the gray wolf. But one of his victims turned out to be too smart and calculating, brutally killing him herself as a metaphor for Little Red Riding Hood. It's quite simple and practically stares the viewer in the face. |
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| pretty sure people understand what they saw, don't stop the plot from being absolute wreck, what the hell with the computer immortality but you can kill people, still no idea what the simili drug is but whatever |
| seemed like "upper city" had ways to essentially way to transfer mind into virtual reality thus giving immortality. Whilst rest of town parts had some really advanced portions of augmented reality essentially. So I'm guessing those transferred to AR were given temporal bodies. Whilst those augmented with AR still have their real bodies thus still can live and do stuff in reality and thus die as well. Anyhow... something along the lines. Typical cyberpunk thematic of peeps too washed up with mixed reality getting perverted need for extreme touch of reality in twisted way. Here we got characters with need for lust of murder, torture essentially. Main guy got what he deserved... but eh. Cyerpunky worlds are always depressingly twised and fucked up. No saving those worlds..ever and they are simply way too convoluted and twisted. But ey.. thats where mankind heads anyways. |
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| I have to say, I thought this one was rather more on the dull side. I didn't think the first episode was any kind of masterpiece, but definitely more engrossing in terms of the execution and anticipation of the characters' moves and reactions to each other. There was also a little more of an aura and atmosphere of mystique and ambiguity with mysteries like the exact nature of "Cinderella's" mental state, the living doll, etc. This is mostly just a torture porn-fest, which, if you're a horror person and have seen stuff like Saw, The Human Centipede, Hunger, A Serbian Film, Wolf Creek, Hostel, etc., it's nothing you haven't seen many a time before in an even more grisly fashion. Other than the torture and dismemberment, given what's going on it was surprisingly bland overall, which sounds like an odd way to describe a murder and torture spree, but when you're long since desensitized to this stuff and nothing new is done with it, that's the honest reaction and feeling. Maybe it's a jaded, burned out view, ironically like one of the residents of the "Reality" cyberspace community from the episode, longing to see and feel something more "real" and not feeling like it was gotten from this episode. I wouldn't mind though if the episode was a lot longer, more like a feature film, or if other episodes were done based on the setting depicted here, and it was much more explored and fleshed out. Always down for transhumanism and dystopia dives. It was also kind of kept at the surface level or just a polish here. My favorite part of the episode was actually probably just the short segment in the beginning with the Grimm brothers observing and commenting on their younger sister Charlotte. That also sounds kind of odd and sad to say, given that I usually love horror fantasy (and horror Sci-Fi, since that's probably a more accurate designation for this episode) and instead here I just ended up preferring the most normal and "vanilla" part. Even though short, I'm glad that they provide those introductory segments though as it's a nice connecting continuous throughline and gives us some grounding, also reminding us that these are indeed stories being told and of the literary flavor of their inspiration from these real life historic personalities (even if they're effectively beautified and anime-fied, basically unrecognizable from that older grizzled German set of siblings I know and love from pictures). I also hope that the remaining episodes aren't just reiterations of the "Main character of the story who is known as the hero or the innocent victim is actually the villain instead and just a psychopath or sadist" twist telegraphed many miles away. There's nothing inherently wrong with it in theory or principle, but that wouldn't be very fun to just rehash and rely upon in every episode. Hänsel und Gretel is next and it's one of my favorite of the classic fairy tales, so we'll see. |
WatchTillTandavaJun 1, 12:28 PM
| I appreciate the dystopian setting reminiscent of Blade Runner (there's even a reference to it within the episode), but tbh the episode is weaker than the previous one, it could have been staged better, and the ending felt mid. |
Satoshi17Jun 20, 3:38 PM
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