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Netflix’s Seven Seconds is Predictable from Beginning to End

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Let’s get this out of the way first, Netflix is the leader in high quality VOD programming. The past two or three years it has pioneered the landscape making Oscar worthy entertainment and binge worthy shows of all kinds. Their new series, Seven Seconds, isn’t one of those shows.

A limited series attempts to highlight the racial tensions between Caucasian cops and African American citizens when an off-duty officer accidentally mows down a child on an isolated road. This might be fascinating if the show played in shades of grey but the heroes and villains are pretty well laid out within the first half hour of the first episode.

The cops all sound like bargain basement versions of Turtle in Entourage and most have the same fashion sense. Even the lead character, who didn’t intend to hurt the child, is still such a slime ball that any sympathy you may have had for him is gone the moment he really starts showing his true self. With no one to really root for the journey becomes boring. Even the supposed heroes of the story, a group of church going African Americans, feels like a trope done one too many times before on better shows.

The show seems to have its heart in the right place but it’s copying someone else’s template instead of breaking new ground. Put Homicide: Life on the Street, The Wire and Law and Order in a blender for 10 episodes and you basically get Seven Seconds. It’s a shame too because there’s some real potential with a fairly talented cast.

The biggest waste comes from Regina King who seems to be on autopilot as a mother fighting for her son. But rather than make her a layered character the show turns her, and pretty much everyone else, into one note clichés. Michael Mosley, who plays the aptly named Fish, gets the worst of it though. From his very first line he becomes an exposition machine spouting out random bits of information in the least believable way possible. Again, he’s a good actor but the script gives him nothing to bring to the screen.

Still, the directing just barely saves it. By placing the show in New Jersey during the winter the tone of the series is immediately dark and dreary and that only works in its favor. Honestly had it taken place almost anywhere else and in any other season the cheeriness of the surroundings would totally clash with the tone of the story.

Netflix has had such a great run for so many years with their original content that a few faults along the way are to be expected, it’s the law of averages at work. I’m sure this show will find an audience, just don’t expect it to break any new ground.

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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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