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- Netflix
- Apr 26, 2019
- Netflix
- Apr 26, 2019
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
48
25% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
50% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
25% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
48
25% Positive
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
50% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
25% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
This is a stylish, spooky piece of work, with some original twists that give it a little more punch than your average flick.
The ambition is admirable. Episodes will jump forward and backward in time, teasing out elements of story in ways not often seen on television, and helping to keep the endless J.J. Abrams-style mystery-box tactics of the show from getting overly tiresome.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 17 User Ratings
5.5
41% Positive
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
24% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
35% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 17 User Ratings
5.5
41% Positive
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
24% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
35% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
While much of the teen supporting cast, including Kyanna Simone Simpson as best pal Yvonne and Sarah Mezzanotte as mean girl Marnie, are just right, Rose is flat through most of her scenes. The scares, at least in the opening episodes, rise from jump cuts or dreams. Ten episodes just seems too long for any heart to suffer this story.
As things stand, it’s a derivative, badly paced, supernatural slog that substitutes jump-cuts for actual shocks, and Sasha’s extensive nail art for character development and delivers little in the way of surprise – or frankly, even expected – twists. There will be no harm done when this one gives up the ghost.
After a fitfully frightening start, the series falls into a kind of narrative catatonia benefiting none of the actors, even pros like Goldwyn and Thurman. ... The show’s sluggish pace often dilutes its sense of dread. The ingredients are there for a loopy body-horror freakout, but this series’ pulse stays damnably faint, even when it should be sending yours through the roof.
Watching “Chambers,” you can see various better shows it might have been--an entertaining supernatural murder mystery with Sasha as an intrepid Native American Nancy Drew, or a trippy, surrealist comedy (which would have made more use of Sasha’s uncle’s business, an exotic-fish store in the desert called Wet Pets). It’s too bad no one ordered a screenplay transplant.
Chambers ... doesn’t have much going for it — it’s a grody, nasty piece of work, a story that would at least be endurable if it were the under-ninety-minute movie it seems to want to be.
I am huge and I mean huge fan for horror anything. Weather it is b rated movie for Syfy or an A rated program for the big screen. This is one of my favorite concepts a scary tv series. Even though this series idea is good it quickly falls flat on its face with its WAY too slow pacing and boring writing. It had a strong idea but it clearly had no idea how to execute it. I am not a fan of how this series is kind of a spit on natural horror. It is getting more and more painful to see either a remake or a very bad original not being used to its full potential. Netflix is know for not pulling back punches but this show was knocked out of the room. I couldn't even finished it I got so bored. This show is why horror is being weeded out these days.
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