SummaryWynonna (Melanie Scrofano), the great granddaughter of Wyatt Earp, returns home to tackle demons and other supernatural with the help of Doc Holliday (Tim Rozon) and Agent Dolls (Shamier Anderson) in the the adaptation of the comic series created by Beau Smith.
SummaryWynonna (Melanie Scrofano), the great granddaughter of Wyatt Earp, returns home to tackle demons and other supernatural with the help of Doc Holliday (Tim Rozon) and Agent Dolls (Shamier Anderson) in the the adaptation of the comic series created by Beau Smith.
The premiere episode jumps into the action and atmosphere immediately, though it takes a little while for the show settle in to what is a very fast-paced story. But by the second episode, it’s already found its rhythm.
Wynonna Earp is a great show with something in it for everyone. The cast is fantastic! The characters are written and played with a lot of depth. The storylines are surprising and keep your attention. You wont regret it!
The more I watch this show, the more I like it. It's now in my top 5 current shows, along with Doctor Who and Orphan Black. The writing holds up to multiple re-watches. The characters are both mythic and relatable.
If it all sounds a little by-the-numbers, it is. But part of the fun of both Westerns and pulp revenge stories is setting up the tropes to play with them later, so Wynonna Earp could just be getting a few things out of the way before the shenanigans really get started.
With the important caveat that Wynonna Earp, premiering on Syfy on Friday (April 1), isn't as sharp, funny, thematically rich and consistently well-cast as Buffy was even in its bumpy opening season, there are enough elements in common to justify a tenuous comparison and enough small pleasures to encourage continued viewing.
Being a big Sci Fi fan, I truly enjoyed this series. I went in to it knowing it probably won't be an Emmy award winning show, it will probably be campy as heck and it will probably be fun. It was, all of those things and I am a-ok with that. It's very reminiscent of Buffy The Vampire Slayer- but for adults this time around. I adored Buffy, so it makes sense that I liked this show. It also reminds me a bit of Jessica Jones- the unwilling anti-hero with the snarky attitude steps up. Highly entertaining and irreverent at times, which I also enjoy. I hope it is renewed for a second season.
15 minutes is perhaps not much to go on, but that is how long it lasted. Though twenties girl with unruly history returns home to nowhere to confront demons literally and figuratively. The name of the place is purgatory, go figure. She is the descendant of the famous gunslinger Earp, which gives her the burden of having to kill demons that abide in the forebode to heaven and hell.. I couldn't care less. Kanye West is the guy from the shady government agency that knows everything about the demons but despite the US having an army that could beat all the armies of all other nations put together(well more or less) it just sends one guy. I am not specifically a West lover, but his presence at least uplifts the movie.
So let's do some demon killing but as is consistent with shows like these that is just afterthought. Though chick series are a dozen in a dime, nowadays: Van Helsing, Bounty Hunters, Z-Nation, Jessica Jones. This series is not about killing demons of course. It is a drama series in which a though chick, now wised up, finds her place among the living while she fights her hormones that tell her to bang Kanye West.
The demons are therefor poorly done. They are simple people with red eyes being taped with fast movie effects. Cheap? Yep, cheaper that zombies and vampires even. It is possible.
Drama people. If you like that. Have fun.
The show finally hit Netflix and I figured it would be worth checking out. I had read reviews comparing the show to a worse version of Buffy the Vampire slayer. They got the worse part correct. I made it through two episodes before I gave up. The writing is terrible, I mean terrible. Stuff that is supposed to be funny just hit me as flat and trying to hard. This is on top of the fact that the production value of the show is abysmal. The CGI, the sets, the camera work. It is all bottom basement sort of stuff.
This show basically is in existence because the lead is a female character and there is a lesbian relationship. "Strong female" leads and **** characters basically buy the show extra positive reviews and a free pass no matter how terrible it actually is.