Hellbound (2021)

[cranefly]

Hellbound (2021)

One of those ever-so-subtle ideas...

[Greg]

Starting the the thread although there is a trailer over in Movie Trailers. It releases Nov 19th

[Greg]

Or I could use my awesome moderator powers.......

[Drunk Monk]

Or I could use my awesome moderator powers.......

[Drunk Monk]

Hellbound (2021)

One of those ever-so-subtle ideas...

This is a series, not a movie. It's six eps, each under an hour.

And don't sell it short by that trailer. Ep1 was pretty damn good. That teaser trailer is the very first sequence and it takes off from there. There's a cop with a tragic past. There's a religious cult, as well as an underground revolutionary group. There's comments on social media and fake news. It's very K-drama, complex, fresh and engaging. 

I'm in so far.    

[cranefly]

Yeah, I ought to know better than to sell a South Korean movie series short.  Too much talent roiling up over there.

[Drunk Monk]

E2: a little slower, a little darker, but ends in such a cliffhanger that I could not resist rolling over into the next Ep.

Still engaging. Still charging into new bold new visions. K-horror or whatever you’d call this - it’s fire.

[Drunk Monk]

E3: Holy cats! Remember E6 of Squid Game? E3 is Hellbound's E6. Damn. What a game changer. What is it with K-dramas? That was so feckin harsh, and yet brilliantly executed. 

I'm so tempted to binge more but I have a lot on my plate tomorrow. Too much perhaps. Tomorrow is a full day.

[cranefly]

Dammit.
There was no way I was going to touch this series.

Now I'll likely double-team Money Heist s2 and Hellbound.

[Drunk Monk]

E4: Major gear shift because the last ep left everything in pieces. E4 is almost like a second season with new story arcs and characters. Still grappling with the same issues - prophecies and those demons - but now from a new perspective. The stylized opening had me confused at first, so much so I checked my Netflix settings, thinking I'd clicked the wrong button.

[Drunk Monk]

E5: This is a bit of a spoiler but there was 4 years between ep3 & 4. E5 pulls it together - brutally with a decent jiggly cam pseudo one-er fight scene - and ends in another edgy cliffhanger. 

The show juggles fanaticism, religion, god, judgement and social media commentary with solid story telling and sanguinosity. Totally working for me. 

E6 is the season finale. I have no idea where this is going next but I hope it’s not another cliffhanger.

[Drunk Monk]

S1 finals: Well, that was a bit of alright. Most of the story arcs wrapped up except for the main wtf is going on with all this then? But that doesn’t really matter because the final scene opens a whole new door for S2.

One of the major mcguffins I considered early on but forgot about. At its core e1-3 is part 1 and e4-6 is 2. At about 6 hours total, there are worse things to binge. D00M recommended.

And I’m all in for S2

[Drunk Monk]

Afterthought - there were tentacles. So there’s that.

[cranefly]

Finished this.  A grim tale of religious (or anti-religious) persecution that gave me heebie-jeebie flashbacks of my years growing up in Indiana.
It did have a strong message, but in what I thought was a simple format once you set aside the fantastical part of it; I'm thinking it might have lost its nerve in the final act.  Then again, maybe I'm not seeing the whole picture -- one that requires multiple seasons to grasp.

But speaking of that additional, almost epilogic, Hail Mary, it sure felt tacked on to suggest the series has much more to tell.   Maybe it does.  But it sure felt like an outlandish teaser hoping to garner interest -- and funds -- for a second season.

Time will tell.  If I'm wrong, may I be condemned to hell.

What was that distant boom?

[Drunk Monk]

But speaking of that additional, almost epilogic, Hail Mary, it sure felt tacked on to suggest the series has much more to tell.   Maybe it does.  But it sure felt like an outlandish teaser hoping to garner interest -- and funds -- for a second season.

Perhaps. They never do resolve what is up with it all tho. I liked the take off fanaticism.