Alex Rider TV Thread

[Gemma]

Anyone watched this yet? Any good? Not that it's anything to go by but it's IMDB score seems to be dropping daily.

 

[David76]

Anyone watched this yet? Any good? Not that it's anything to go by but it's IMDB score seems to be dropping daily.

I have watched the first couple of episodes it is "fine" solid 6/10. Good cast (bar the American woman who worked for his uncle, awful) but kind of falls between two stools not really sure what age group they are aiming at.

 

[Franco Pinion]

Anyone watched this yet? Any good? Not that it's anything to go by but it's IMDB score seems to be dropping daily.

Well I'm watching it along with my 11 and 16-year-old sons and we all love it. I think it's got good pacing, great music, some well-acted characters, doesn't dumb down for the kids but no bad language or sex scenes that are going to embarrass anyone if they're watching it with their dad!

My kids loved the books but this doesn't slavishly follow them in sequencing or events.

You could be hypercritical and say it's based on tired tropes, cardboard cut out characters and an old fashioned and non-nuanced "goodies vs baddies" but then you would be just being hypercritical ?