Ladies and gentlemen we are in a time where there are alot of comic book adaptations be they happening on film or TV. Well now there's a new comic book adaptation on the loose and since there are no new comic book adaptations coming out until at least next year you just no that I had to take a look at this one just because it's new content and in a year where new content is hard to come across we have to take it where we can and so here are my first impressions of the Helstrom TV seires which is also called "Helstrom" enjoy this post everyone.
Now here is where I would normally tell you the plot of the episdoe as well as give you my thoughts on it. Which for me at least is a hige red flag since even debut episodes need to have some sort of story and yet this one doesn't bother to even have that which now makes me wonder if the same is going to true for the rest of this shows first season since if the debut episode doesn't have a story then what's to say that the rest of the episodes don't have a story as well.
Starring in this episode and the rest of the series is Tom Austen as Daimon Helstrom and Sydney Lemmon as Ana Helstrom. Also starring in this episode and thus the rest of the series is Elizabeth Marvel as Victoria Helstrom , Robert Wisdom as Caretaker , Ariana Guerra as Gabriella Rosetti , June Carryl as Louise Hastings and Alain Uy as Chris Yen. With some of this episodes gues stars being Jesse James Baldwin as Archer Cavallo , Daniel Cudmore as Keith Spivey , Sandy Robson as Alex Tilden and Eric Gustaffson as Edward Tate.
As for what I thought about the acting in this episode it was honestly alot better then what I was expecting it to be. Which to be fair I wasn't expecting the acting to be that good and so to see acting that's actually above passable is for me a good thing and it does give me hope that the acting in this series is at least good but given that the acting in most Marvel TV shows ranges from OK to bad I don't hold up much hope.
For those that don't know this show isn't based on any one particular comic book but is instead based on the characters of Daimon and Satana Hellstrom. I honestly have no idea what books these characters have appeared in nor do I want to find out what the books that these characters have appeared are like just because I want this show to standout on it's own since it's rare as hell to find a comic book show that isn't based of a comic book series.
This was the last show to be made by Marvel Television who produced every single live action Marvel TV show upuntil this point. Since from Wandavision onwards each TV show will now be produced by Marvel Studios and thus each of those live action TV shows will officialy be canon in the realm of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and it also means that each of these shows are going to have big budgets since cheap Ike Puearlmutter won't be controlling any of those shows thank freaking goodness.
This is as far as I can tell the first TV show (be it live action or animated) that Marvel have produced however I could be wrong when I say that. I will say that it was brave of Marvel to take on the world of horror since horror fans are the most obssesive fans I can think of and i'm saying that as a horror fan as such I do feel that it would have been very easy for Marvel not to lean on the horror aspect of this show to much.
Now then boys and girls since there is a horror element to this show that does mean that I have to talk about the scares in this episode. I honestly feel that the scares were pretty decent at best which was honestly alot better then what I was expecting them to be to be honest since i was going into this episode expecting the scares to be the typical supernatural jump scares which yeah there are some of those scares but then there are some really cool deaths and gore as well which for me makes all the difference.
I'll be honest another red flag for me is that I found this episode to be pretty freaking boring at times which is not a good thing. Part of what makes it boring is the fact that the episode has no plot to speak of and so all your left doing is counting down the minuets until something happens which really doesn't help things because very little actually happens in this episode and so your just waiting for something that's never going to happen.
This episode was fifty five minuets long which for me at least was a bit of an issue for the exact same reason as to why I found the episode boring. To me there was no need to make the episodes for this show an hour long esoically since your debut episode doesn't have a plot and so I honstly feel that this episode should have been at least twenty minuets if not thirty minuets since at least then the episode would be over pretty quickly and the episode wouldn't drag for large amounts of time because that also happens and it happens alot in this episode.
Overall in terms of debut episodes this one was really freaking since it only fails to do all of things that a debut episdoe should do in my opinion. It also fails to be entertaining and while it does have a few good things in this episode episode which i've covered in this post it also has alot more bad things in the episdoe which just like the good things i've covered in this post and since this is only my first impressions of the show I won't give the episode or show a rating just because the show could get better in later episodes and it wouldn't be fair of me to judge an entire show just of the first episode alone and i'll only watch the rest of the series if I hear enough good thing about the show.
All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page or Google Images. It honestly doesn't matter where you get the images for this episode from since there are both the same in terms of quality but I will give an ever so slight edge to Google Images just because they have more images from the episode and the show as a whole where as the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page doesn't have that many or at least from I found the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page doesn't have that many images from either this episode or the Helstrom TV show as a whole.