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It starts like a normal reality show, perhaps playing some things up, and gradually begins its unparalleled descent into such hopeless darkness that beggars belief, all while remaining acerbically, scathingly funny and quite creative plot-wise. But enough about "Sex House", let's talk about "Dead Set".
I admit stealing the intro joke format from Yahtzee Croshaw, but seriously, one way "Dead Set" upsets me is by making me realise that "Sex House"'s idea had been done before, albeit in a different way. Another upsetting thing is how difficult the show is to find. What I'd seen of "Dead Set" felt much below "Sex House" to me, mostly by the virtue of being a contrived and illogical zombie flick with pretty annoying characters (yeah, I get that they're such on purpose, but still) and bad camerawork/editing (much ill has been said of the camerawork, but it's just legitimately bad - "The Thick of it" also had a shaky-cam, but managed to keep characters in shot and some layout of rooms trackable even in very frenetic scenes).
I don't really like the zombie genre, to which "Dead Set" brings no improvement or novelty (weeeell, OK, zombies endlessly slapping palms against closed doors and being hypnotised by TVs and mirrors are novel-ish concepts, but the dead's being arbitrary in when they kill and when they get occupied with eating kind of compensates for that). I could be persuaded to watch a satire of reality TV (as dead as this horse is), but "Sex House" has done it better, clearer and more imaginatively (I'm not sure when I'll get around to rating it, but I suspect it'd score highly on my scale). So what is there for me in "Dead Set"? Outside of some easy on the eyes characters (ex. Pippa), the only thing that I liked in the series was the character of Kel. She's a fairly interesting flawed and/or conflicted character to start off with (although her doubting the reality of the show or whatever is too on the nose, and crying while being barricaded didn't feel convincing); but then she also develops into a complete badass very very quickly. She's pretty awesome, and a minor saving grace.
I admit stealing the intro joke format from Yahtzee Croshaw, but seriously, one way "Dead Set" upsets me is by making me realise that "Sex House"'s idea had been done before, albeit in a different way. Another upsetting thing is how difficult the show is to find. What I'd seen of "Dead Set" felt much below "Sex House" to me, mostly by the virtue of being a contrived and illogical zombie flick with pretty annoying characters (yeah, I get that they're such on purpose, but still) and bad camerawork/editing (much ill has been said of the camerawork, but it's just legitimately bad - "The Thick of it" also had a shaky-cam, but managed to keep characters in shot and some layout of rooms trackable even in very frenetic scenes).
I don't really like the zombie genre, to which "Dead Set" brings no improvement or novelty (weeeell, OK, zombies endlessly slapping palms against closed doors and being hypnotised by TVs and mirrors are novel-ish concepts, but the dead's being arbitrary in when they kill and when they get occupied with eating kind of compensates for that). I could be persuaded to watch a satire of reality TV (as dead as this horse is), but "Sex House" has done it better, clearer and more imaginatively (I'm not sure when I'll get around to rating it, but I suspect it'd score highly on my scale). So what is there for me in "Dead Set"? Outside of some easy on the eyes characters (ex. Pippa), the only thing that I liked in the series was the character of Kel. She's a fairly interesting flawed and/or conflicted character to start off with (although her doubting the reality of the show or whatever is too on the nose, and crying while being barricaded didn't feel convincing); but then she also develops into a complete badass very very quickly. She's pretty awesome, and a minor saving grace.
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- 3 set 2021
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