True to its title, this show tries to capture burnout not as some big dramatic collapse but as this slow, draining exhaustion that quietly eats away at relationships and how you see yourself, and honestly it makes the characters feel really real. The pace is slow on purpose, and everyone here is flawed and full of contradictions, nobody's simple. It uses this messed up boss and employee dynamic to sneak in some pretty smart commentary on society. The story digs into toxic work culture, mental health struggles, and how money ends up running our lives whether we like it or not. And yeah, there's a love triangle thrown in too, because of course there is. This one runs ten episodes, each around 45-55 minutes. Jira's twenty eight, broke, and struggling to make it as a painter. Nothing's going right for him, his art isn't selling, he's got no steady job, and he's basically on the edge of falling apart. His best friend Ing does what she can, finding him odd jobs an...
This indie college campus sex thriller, in my opinion, was desperately trying to be the 'I know what You did Last Summer' genre, but in the process fails badly. The makers had a good story on hand, but below average and wooden acting and clear lack of motivations make it hard to keep your focus on what unfolds in front of you, because there is a whole lot of fluff and so less of actual story movement.
Brian is a college freshman who has just moved in to his dorm. While settling in, he finds a thumb drive, which has a hidden folder with multiple videos of a webcam model with multiple different kinds of clients, with one including something that looks like the murder of the model. Brian becomes obsessed with trying to uncover the mystery and in this his brother/friend who also lives close to university helps me. We also meet Jeremy, Brian's dorm mate, who has a girlfriend but is secretly struggling with his sexuality. Jeremy and Brian end up sleeping together one night and now Brian has only two things on his mind, discover secret of thumb drive and Jeremy. The mysterious disappearance of the webcam model ends up with their lives being manipulated and blackmailed. Slowly layer by layer, secrets are revealed where we find somehow Jeremy is involved in these things and is hiding a secret. With some gruesome murders that follow and a gay rate story, the final secret is eventually revealed. A year passes, everyone has moved on, but none of it that happened might b real. The identity of the real culprit is revealed to a shocking truth.
There is so much that happens in last two minutes of the film and is so important that I wonder that the makers should have tried to incorporate that better in their film. I think the film would have received more attention in that case. But then he should also have replaced some/all of the actors. The plot is already thin, the acting is below average at best, with Brian being the worst. He just has no expressions at all. Jeremy was still better and the girls were ok. Why do these random college kids have to try and act so smart. Why not, be practical, go to the cops. The police just doesn't exist in this world. I also wasn't very lear about the webcam model. Did he really disappear or was he alive? What was the actual purpose of the iller, who gets revealed at the end? Was it just to get the girl? Also were the two instances really separate with two different people involved? The mystery doesn’t entirely play fair, not that it’s interesting enough to entice one into sticking with this. The acting is pretty bad, and there’s a general unpleasantness to the proceedings. You can feel that the director is trying to make a noir thriller with some really bad actors probably targeting at the gay audience. Bad. (2/10)
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