Marvel fans I told you yesterday that i'd back with a review of perhaps the worst pilot that i've ever seen and well as you can see by the title of this review I really did mean it. Before you all say anything no I will not be reviewing the second episode of this two art premier because this episode is bad enough I don't need to see the next one just to confirm how bad it is and so here is my review of the pilot episode to the Inhumans TV series "Behold…The Inhumans!" enjoy the review.
The plot of the episode is Trigon an Inhuman is sent to earth to rescue more people with powers and while there he is shot and killed and so his cousin Gorgon goes to earth to find out what happened meanwhile something shocking happens that will change the royal family forever. Yeah that was honestly the best that I could do because there is so little actual plot in this episode that it's unreal honestly the plot at best is weak as all hell and at worst just straight up isn't there which for any story regardless of what medium it's is always a bad thing and hell there's not even enough story to cover one episode let alone two episodes which was sadly the case for this episode.
Starring in the episode is Anson Mount as Black Bolt , Serinda Swan as Medusa and Ken Leung as Karnak. Also starring in the episode is Eme Ikwuakor as Gorgon , Isabelle Cornish as Crystal , Ellen Woglom as Louise Fisher , Iwan Rheon as Maximus , Mike Moh as Triton , Sonya Balmores as Auran , Marco Rodríguez as Kitang , Tom Wright as George Ashland , Nicola Peltz as Jane , Michael Buie as King Agon , Tanya Clarke as Queen Rynda , Ari Dalbert as Bronaja , Aaron Hendry as Loyolis , Stephanie Anne Lewis as Paripan and Andra Nechita as Iridia.
Out of all the things that are wrong with this episode hell this series the acting is the least bad thing with both the series and this episode. Since the actors are clearly trying to put in a good performance and to make the script work the problem the script gives the actors nothing to work with and at times it feels like they were given bad direction and so it feels like the actors are just lost which is a shame because as we know from other projects these actors can turn in solid performances and yet here there just given nothing to work with and are given very little to no direction.
Doing the CGI for this episode is Alchemy Studios and DNegTV don't worry if you haven't heard of either I honestly haven't and given what i'm about to say that's a good thing. Since yeah the CGI in this episode is honestly pretty bad I can't say that it's out right bad because honestly it's not but the CGI you see in this episode is the kind of CGI that would be seen in a mid Playstation 3 game's cutscene which is something that should never be the case.
I give the effects team a little less hate here just because they were tasked with creating a fully CGI dog and creating good or even passable fur in CGI is always hard. On top of that it's clear to anyone with eyeballs that this show was made for as cheaply as possible and so that means that the effects houses working on this episode wouldn't have had alot to work with and I do believe that the effects houses involved with both this episode and the show in general did the best that they could.
One of the many mistakes that this series makes is that they decide to rid Medusa of her powers by giving her a hair cut. That is just so wrong the idea is solid but for the idea to work your show needs to be good this show isn't good and Medusa is one of the best characters in this show and so when you rob her of her powers your also robbing your show of the chance to entertaining at least and the reason why they did it is pretty freaking obvious it was so they could save money and CGI which is also why Lockjaw in later episodes is either injured or tired and so he's of screen.
These characters should have been in a movie because the movie would have had the budget to make the effects as good as they need to be. Which for something like Inhumans which by nature is an effects heavy property is something that you really do need in this case and while they could work as TV show characters on a TV show budget they ended up in the hands Ike Perlmutter who is the chairman of Marvel and is known for being cheap and so this show was doomed to fail because it wasn't given the budget that it really needed.
This show honestly could have been good hell it could have been great if they took a different approach with it. What if it was a Game Of Thrones type of show full of politics , backstabbing and intrigue but with super powers that to me would have made the show alot better and it would have forced the writers to come up with some good stuff but they didn't instead they came up with a plot line that's been done to death a million times over and so what could have been a good show instead ends up being just another bad show.
I wouldn't blame anyone if they forgot that this show was even thing simply because it didn't even last ten episodes. This show only lasted eight episodes and was cancelled not long after it's first and only season ended and this show was given a pretty huge push as well with the first two episodes being edited together and released as a feature film about about a month before the episodes aired on ABC and so the fact that this show despite getting a huge push still drew low ratings and was cancelled just goes to tell you how bad the show was.
Now then boys and girls since this is an action show and there is some action in this episode that does mean I have to talk about the action in this episode. I honestly feel that the action in the episode is at best OK and that's only when it's compared to anything else in this episode because the action is honestly pretty freaking dull alot of the time since it's all stuff that we've seen before but done worse and that doesn't make it fun to watch if anything it makes it boring to watch.
Overall do I really need to say how trash this episode and this show even is like I said it didn't even last one full twenty two episode season it was cancelled after eight episodes. Yes there are some good things in this episode I will not deney that however there are alot more bad things in the episode and those bad things are things that could have very easily have been fixed for the most part and yet the people in charge of making the show chose not to fix them as such this episode gets a 4.5 out of 10 from me thank god I have a better Marvel show to do a review of an episode of coming soon.
All of the images that I used in this review were taken from the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page , the official Game Of Thrones Season 1 fandom wiki page and Google Images. Yeah just like with yesterday I have to recommend that you use the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page for images from any of the films or shows set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and for images from either this show or this episode not like you'll be needing images for either this show or this episode no one talks about this show it left that little of an impact of people i'd honestly not be surprised if people who didn't see the show commented that they had never of the show it's that little known.