P: the placeholder is a show that put too many eggs in one basket and wasn’t able to properly handle it. The show has two plot lines with one being a mystery police procedural and the second falling more in the line of urban fantasy and both being interconnected by the antagonistic group. The plot isn’t bad per se as it tries to keep the viewers on its toes with its many plot twists and having insignificant plot points being more than it seems. The problem is that the characters are underwhelming. Everyone just comes of as underdeveloped, even the side characters who really don’t need that much development or depth in the first place. This also affects the way the plot twists are handled because they really don’t have that much weight to them to a show that heavily relies on them. The only character that is in any sort of way compelling is Lily and that’s many due to her personality and not by her depth or complexity. They all just come off as plot devices, placeholders that someone forgot to properly write in. this is also a “netflix original series” and the production value is really good, but not much else.
I wish i would have written more, but i just don’t care much about this show emotionally to go on further. There’s a sequel to this and i wished i wrote this ahead of time so i would have jokingly called the second season M: the middle and the third E: the ending.
