Red Rose
2022
🎯 Verdict
✍️ Full Review
13 Reasons AI. Sorry! It's right there. Had to grab that. But, in all seriousness, If The Capture wasn't scary enough for you, Red Rose will surely cover the remainder of the ground. It's in essence the episodes- Hated In the Nation, Bette Noir and Playthings from Black Mirror wrapped inside the humor, settings and character dynamics of Lisa McGee's both works, Derry Girls and How To Get To Heaven from Belfast. At first, I thought that's it, a horror out of teenage angst, friendships and romantic drama? It's most probably gonna be one of those shows. Gee, I was wrong. A genuinely scary approach of technological horror-thriller where a series of codes aren't just terrifying due to their abilities of manifestation, rather like bits of termites they can exploit individual vulnerable points, turn everybody against each other and any shred of trustworthiness gets hollowed out from underneath. The success for it, then in the truest sense, in the end of it all, would look like an advanced stage of malignancy to what's going on now, every single human being achieves one hundred percent solitary existence, nobody available to lean on to. Now, I don't even know if that scenario would be a dystopia or post-apocalypse.Terror induced in an unconventional way. It's still in the teenage category. But, that's intended and created deliberately by design, given all the other hazardous products in the market that could physically and mentally damage us are age-restricted. Yet, phones, gadgets, apps, social media and messaging services are not. And who else would be more susceptible to this drug than the creatures in their teen high on hormones that are swirling inside their not-yet-fully-developed-brains. With all the materials available on computers bringing forth the doomsday, this one particularly scared me to my bones. Millions of teenagers worldwide with their hands on potential apocalypse machines. If not for the last couple of hamfisted hands-on episode formula, it might have been a really great show. The last two episodes specifically seemed really exaggerated to a point of fault. The calculating strategies turned more and more to brute muscles and outrageous tangents. There were also a couple of non-answers and loose endings but I guess like many other shows, the showrunners had no idea this would get also cancelled.