Anyone But Me

Moderately presented conversation on the still-not-so-popular topic of defending opinions and sexuality within one's own family and circle of new friends sounds like a great idea. But that's where the idea ends to some extent. The first series doesn't address anything at all, and only in the second series did I get more reasonable dialogues and at least some narrative build-up (the finale with the theater rehearsal offers exactly the emotions that I expected in the previous twenty webisodes). The third one sympathetically tries to change narrative techniques, but everything is ruined by a rushed and literally several-second finish. It's almost not worth mentioning the last episode because instead of the promised "twenty-minute closure of all fates", I got empty chatter about one letter. There is no substance to why Vivian and Aster stayed together when their previous relationship was strained over every other sentence, no resolution to the relationship between the father and Aunt Jodie, and, most importantly, no conclusion to my favorite character Sophie, who has been almost written as the third main character so far. What kills all my effort even more is Vivian's actress Rachael Hip-Flores. I don't believe a single smile, a single speech, a single kiss with Aster. And if I can't believe the narrator, can I believe the series? As you can see from my review, I can't. (06.11.2012)