End of the F***ing World: Season One- Review

I'm going to get to the point immediately, I see this show as nothing more than a directionless and slow-moving eight episode piece of shite. I heard a lot of positive reviews about this one, with many people praising the performances and storyline but I am not one of those people who posses such a review.

Set in England, two teenagers who are equally as damaged as each other cross paths for the first time. They discover that their lives are bleak, miserable and boring and together, decide to disembark their sleepy town for a life of self destruction and excitement.

Firstly, I want to talk about the characters. Straight up, I hated the characterisation and the characters in general. James (played by Alex Lawther) is a 17 year old boy that believes he is a psychopath and is emotionally distant. Alyssa (played by Jessica Barden) has a rebellious streak, chucks public tantrums and has a permanent bad attitude. Both performances were shocking. I felt zero connection with either one of them, saw no character progression and found plenty to nitpick about them individually. What shits me off the most about James is the contradictory views on psychopathy While they haven't properly diagnosed him in the show, he just isn't a psychopath. Does he have psychopathic traits? Yes. But only approximately 3 out of the extensive list of traits. If he was a full blown psychopath, this show might have actually been interesting.

As for Alyssa, her constant whining and complaining really just killed it for me. I don't care if that was meant to be her in her character description, it was annoying and just made me want to quit the show long before it really got somewhere close to slightly interesting.

Some parts of this show proved to be interesting, like when the actual adventure and sketchy activity began. It would get fairly interesting and then a character would ruin it by doing or saying something stupid. After the initial action took place, the show continued like that pretty much until the end.

I did not have high expectations for this show at all, particularly when I first watched the trailer and listened to the opening line, "I'm James, I'm 17 and I'm pretty sure I'm a psychopath." It's completely generic.

So basically, it's an uneventful show with ridiculous characters trying to portray the essence of youth and child-like rebellion in a mediocre and distasteful way.

Score: 3.5/10.