Mar 18, 2024
My main problem with this show is that it has a chronic problem with its identity. I found S1 painfully average but saw some potential. And I wanted to give S2 the chance to let it land, and so far its getting worse.
It has no idea what it wants to be and because of this it doesn't do anything well. It's trying to juggle so many elements within the plot that it ends up bouncing from uninteresting character to uninteresting character. For me, the only character I found remotely interesting (that actually got more than 5 mins of screen time mind you) was Leo.
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He got most of episode 5 dedicated to him, and they even messed that up. Episode 5 perfectly represented everything wrong with this show - Poor. Execution.
Another reviewer for S1 thought that High Card was advertised to be a mix of Kingsman and Bungou Stray Dogs and that's what I thought too. But it isn't either of them. It isn't anything. It doesn't deliver anything comedic and wacky. The way the characters use the Cards is laughably incompetent. The plot is very weak mainly due to the worldbuilding and characters being so flat and devoid of any substance or care.
The best way I can describe this show is that its a really bad Power Rangers adaptation that takes itself too seriously. Ultimately, I really wanted to like this show. It has great potential. But if only did it focus more on its narrative structure then it would have delivered on what it actually wanted to be.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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