Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

subhdeep-07439 It's better than average. I would ideally give it 6.5 out of 10. Concept was good but still it could have been a bit better.

Tastentier I initially gave this show six stars because even though it's abysmally bad, I loved so much about it. I loved the diversity. I loved the comic books that inspired it. I loved how well the TV characters matched the look of their comic book counterparts. I loved the... did I already mention the diversity? Oh. Ok then. Let's move on to the things that I hated, which was essentially everything else.The acting ranged from sub-par to passable. The plot was a boring and utterly forgettable mess. I watched it a few months ago and have already forgotten most of it. What I do remember is that the writers seemed to check off a list of comic book plot points and filled the time in between these checkmarks with irrelevant tripe. Ironically, said tripe was likely supposed to make the show feel more relevant. I vaguely remember Alex playing a World of Warcraft-type MMO. But the comics were published in this century, not in the 1980s, and have lost nothing of their relevance. There was absolutely no reason to inflate the first five-ish comic book issues, which can easily be read within half an hour, into eight (!!!) boring hours of soapy fluff and blather.The reason I'm writing this review months after sitting through this show is that I've noticed a pattern in my own behavior, as well as the behavior of TV and movie critics. We reward what we would like to see more of, which is diversity in this case. Black, Hispanic, and even an Asian lead character? Awesome! An LGBT character? Great! (An attractive lesbian character, the safest possible choice, but still). Diverse body types? This show has it all! Even now, I despise myself for having to tear down this awesome show for such petty reasons as the fact that I found it terrible and hated every minute of it. But we really need to start being more honest and demanding because Hulu and Netflix aren't free and eight or more wasted hours are a lot of lost time.Let's talk about capitalism for a second. In a capitalistic market, producers create a new product, find out which ingredients appeal the most to the consumer majority, and maximize those ingredients while lowering the overall product quality in an attempt to minimize production costs. Over time, the quality drops rapidly, until the only thing that keeps selling this cheaply made crap are a few desirable ingredients that have us all hooked. This is what's happening to Marvel's superhero TV shows right now. Daredevil was the perfect product. Jessica Jones and Luke Cage lowered the production value while adding ingredients that are loved by critics and audiences alike. Their second seasons were boring slogs with thinly stretched plots and sparsely used special effects. But they have female and black lead characters, respectively, touch important social issues, and give black and female writers and directors a chance, which of course affects the rating. And it absolutely should. Just not to the point where we start to hate sitting through these shows and don't dare being honest about it because it kind of feels like misogyny or racism. Alas, that's exactly what's happening. I caught myself doing this one too many times, and it stops now.Runaways shows just how low the quality can drop without being reflected by an equal drop in audience and critical ratings. This needs to stop. Our money and time are too valuable to buy into another mess like this, suffer through it out of loss aversion, and even give it a favorable rating because it feels like our civic duty to reward certain traits of these shows. We're neither doing ourselves nor the social issues and minority groups we care about any favors. We need to demand better than this. Netflix has shown us just how high TV consumers and superhero fans can set the bar. Let's not be content with a lesser product.

John Citizen I watched the first season, and it kept me watching because I thought it would improve. It has potential, but eventually I realised this really can only appeal to young teenagers, mainly if you are a girl.

Kira Kent Okay, so I'm a big fan of Marvel, have been for years. I heard of this show on facebook and because hey James Marsters was going to be in it and thought "Awesome!" and I watched the preview and I thought this was going to be so cool, and I thought wrong. I only watched half of the premiere because honestly it was tiring, depressing, boring, nothing happening whatsoever. An hour in, when something finally did happen, it was the scene I had already seen in the preview so it was no big shocker. I get it's supposed to be a drama, but for the love of God, would it kill someone to crack a joke? Say anything to make me enjoy the grieving yawn fest? We enter the show into these characters lives where they're all dealing with some kind of issue that's not really explained, we see moping and absolutely nothing happening. There's a little hint of mystery, but not enough to make me stick around... and just man, it's so darn serious, smile already. It really doesn't make a good first impression and probably, judging by the amount of iffy reviews on here, doesn't make a good last impression either. I'd say don't waste your time, it's not what it appears to be and it feels very poorly made too.And to quote my favourite director with some advice they should take, "Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke." -Joss Whedon