Hello Geeks
Netflix is like a treasure cove of content to watch. Movies, web series, dramas, documentaries etc. You name it, and they have a vast library to satisfy you with the content of your choice. It is extremely easy for one to get lost for hours in that treasure and fail to decide on what to watch and what to skip.
Making a choice is indeed exceedingly difficult with the Netflix adding content on a weekly basis to that already existing treasure. It is difficult to choose but if you have chosen to watch Chosen then I must give you a warning, because I cannot imagine someone going through the same pain that I had to endure for almost two hours.
The background
Chosen is a Sci-fi mystery drama series from Denmark. The basic plot is set in a small town named Middlebo which was hit by a meteor 17 years ago. That one incident turns Middlebo into a tourist destination and brings fortunes for the residents who were present near the crash site. 17 years later we are introduced to Emma, a 17-year-old teenager struggling at her jobs after learning a hidden fact about the meteor story.
She is soon approached by a bunch of similar aged youngsters who are confident that there is more to the meteor crash story than meets the eye. Together they decide to investigate the truth as we watch a spaceship crash in the nearby forests.
The Story
Chosen is a Sci-fi mystery drama series from Denmark. The basic plot is set in a small town named Middlebo which was hit by a meteor 17 years ago. That one incident turns Middlebo into a tourist destination and brings fortunes for the residents who were present near the crash site.
17 years later we are introduced to Emma, a 17-year-old teenager struggling at her jobs after learning a hidden fact about the meteor story. She is soon approached by a bunch of similar aged youngsters who are confident that there is more to the meteor crash story than meets the eye. Together they decide to investigate the truth as we watch a spaceship crash in the nearby forests.
The problem
The plot does look interesting, but it is the treatment of the story that makes it unbearable to watch. After a slow episode one, one may expect the show to pick up pace but the episode two is as powerful as a sedative, the only difference being that this sleep comes bundled with a splitting headache. The dialogues are extremely lethargic, and some sequences make no practical sense.
In episode 2 a scene shows our lead protagonist Emma visit her biology teacher. As the biology teacher takes a call, she practically takes a tour of entire house with the teacher so engrossed in that call that he completely fails to notice that.
The episode ends on an even sillier note with a Danish Flash attacking teacher and instead of getting scared by that, our lead ends up attacking the teacher. I agree the teacher had scared her but there is a strange man in front of you who is running faster than you can blink, so who will you attack?
That was the exact moment I decided to call it an end and chose to sleep.
Acting
On the acting front, none of the actors has done any exceptional work. It is only regular fare, but I will not blame the actors as the extremely sluggish direction and equally languid script had probably induced forty winks in all of them.
The final word
There is something about the Scandinavian cinema that I simply do not get. I have given a lot of tries trying to watch their kind of entertainment but after watching The Rain, and Katla, I do not think I have enough strength to watch anything else from that part of the world. I hope others find it engaging.
