Ladies and gents while the rest of the entertainment industry has been shut down Netflix has been everyone's sole way of entertainment and well they are back with yet another new show. This time based around the legend of King Arthur and while the first teaser for the show didn't do anything for me it was the official trailer that made me mark the release date in my calendar and so here are my first impressions of "Cursed" enjoy.
The plot of the episode is a teenager with a mysterious gift is has something tragic happen to her and so sets out to find the wizard Merlin and give him a very familiar sword. Now I know that I made this episode seem boring and dull but that's because I want to you to check out the episode for yourselves , since I do believe that the episode is worth watching just for the story because it's that good and it does a good job of setting up the rest of the show.
Starring in this episode and thus the rest of the series are Katherine Langford as Nimue and Devon Terrell as Arthur. Also starring in this episode and the series is Gustaf Skarsgård as Merlin , Lily Newmark as Pym , Sebastian Armesto as King Uther , Catherine Walker as Lenore and Billy Jenkins as Squirrel. Since there is no complete cast list for this episode I have to assume that some of the people i've credited appear in this episode but I cannot say for sure.
In terms of what I thought about the acting in the episode it was honestly alot better then what I expected it to be. In that I was straight up expecting the acting in this series to be really freaking and so to see the first episode have actual good acting for me at least is a good thing and it helps that some of the cast members in this episode have some great chemistry with each other which makes me want to see more scenes with them together.
Now then in a strange twist the source material for this show was the 2019 book also called Cursed with both the book and this show being developed at the exact same time. This actually makes the series the quickest adaptation of any book which for me adapting this book so soon is a bold thing because it's not a proven hit and so there was no guarentee that the show would be a hit either and it means that there would need to be a sequel book published within the next few years in order to make sure that the book stays ahead of the show but it does help that the creators behind the book comic book legend Frank Miller and writer Tom Wheeler are also working on this show as both executive producers and show runner (Tom Wheeler) respectively.
Like alot of you i've not only never heard of the book but have also never read the book in fact the only thing I know about the book is that it features drawings by Frank Miller and that's it. As such I cannot say for sure if this episode is true representation of the early chapters of the book and neither can I cay which is better as such I can only judge this episode as it's own thing which while it does have it's flaws which I will be getting into it can be really entertaining to watch which is a good thing.
One of the things that I didn't like about the episode is the fact that it's nearly an hour long with the running time being around fifty five minuets. Which in my opinion is bit long for this episode since it doesn't have alot of story to fit that running time as such we do get alot of scenes with the main character that go nowhere and don't play a part in the overall plot of the episode as such I feel that this episode could have been around forty to forty five minuets in length and you'd loose nothing of importance.
This episode was also alot more violent then what I thought it was going to be which i'm not going to lie I loved that. Simply because if the types of things that we see happen in this episode happened in real life they would be violent and I really do hope that alot of the violent as hell stuff that we see in this episode has a lasting effect on either the series or the main characters just because it would make the show alot more interesting to watch in my opinion.
Let's take a second to talk about the main character of not only this episode but also the show as a whole that being Nimue as played by the stunning Katherine Langford. I actually like the character in this episode to me she's someone who is angry at the world because she wants to be "normal" or what she perceives to be normal and since her whole village knows that she's not that makes her want to last out and anyone over anything which honestly makes her fun to watch and it gives her alot of character which is something alot of YA novels don't do and yes this is based of a YA novel.
I'm not going to say who Nimue becomes in terms of the legend of King Arthur but they do kind of give it away in the opening minuets of this episode. Which is something that I didn't like simply because it now means that you know that something tragic will happen to this character and what there fate is and so I feel if they didn't tell us who this character becomes then it would make the stakes alt more higher in my opinion.
In my opinion this episode is alot better then the premier episode of Warrior Nun simply due to the fact that this episode didn't put me to sleep. On top of the fact that it has good acting and good writing both of which the Warrior Nun premier episode didn't have and as such I would very easily recommend this show over Warrior Nun to anyone because here you'll at least be entertained and you'd get to see characters that you actually like and want to see more of.
Overall this was a very good episode that did alot of the things that all good debut episodes should do in my opinion. That being setting up the characters journey for the rest of the show as well as the story of the show , that being said there are some bad things in this episode some of which i've covered in this review but i'm sure that if you guys see the episode you'll see somethings that I missed and as such this episode gets a solid 7.5 out of 10 from me.
All of the images used in this review were gathered from either the official Netflix fandom wiki page , Google Images or the official Cursed fandom wiki page. I have to say that I honestly wasn't expecting to find as many high definition images for this show as a found and so if you like this show and want to see HD images from the show then id highly recommend using the Cursed fandom wiki page and yes I know that not all images used were from this episode but it was the best that I could do.
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