This series has a tremendous pacing problem. It took its entire six episode run time to to get nowhere. It should have been eight episodes with the current six condensed into four.
RT is a joke bit particularly the tomatometer. IIRC a 51/100 is considered a positive review for the tomatometer. So, a hundred of 51/100 reviews will give it a 100% tomatometer score. Of course this doesn’t happen a lot but you get the point.
Now, Supacell. Damn, it sucks big time. I like watching southern London and black people culture on TV, but the value of a TV show like that must rely on the narrative, and the narrative of this show is just amateur.
It’s rated at 7.4 / 10 by critics, it’s just that no one (out of 7) rated it Rotten
Relax my dude, these ratings don’t really mean much. It’s effectively a large binary aggregation of more nuanced ratings. Also, TV in general gets much higher RT scores because the smaller shows don’t get a lot of coverage so you have (like this show) 12 reviewers who thought the show was at least fine, a 3/5 if you will, which when you look at the detailed rating aggregate, it got a 7.1/10
This is why rotten tomatoes has the certified fresh indicator, meaning it met the minimum 50 reviewers and has a 60 or above average. 100% with certified. Then it’s actually a masterpiece. Anything else is too small a sample size.
I do agree, the pacing is very bad.
Personally, I have to start giving-up earlier on those series where the first couple of episodes don’t go anywhere. But I always keep hoping it improves.
Same.
