Okay, this is a generally well regarded show so I'm going to get some angry "not helpful" votes here I bet.

The show looks stunning. The effects especially are world class and look very convincing and expensive. Once you get on with the first season you'll notice one character especially that is so well done I had to smile a bit each time they entered the screen. All the special effects look gorgeous as well.

The tone of the show is great. On paper it should be extremely entertaining and appeal to me personally.

The show has this very playful way of presenting things and a generally cool way of writing scenes and dialogue alike. You'll get what I mean once you start watching the show. It should feel very entertaining to watch with the fast pace and very well integrated musical bits, but somehow it fails to immerse me.

The first episode is great. By the second episode things start to feel a little bit shallow and as you go on you start to notice how the show seems to lack substance in the little things. The characters end up being very one-dimensional and you don't really get to see any nuance or sides to any of them outside of the two particular members of the sibling group: the seventh sibling, and the one sibling that does all the hard lifting with this show alone: the fifth sibling.

You get a lot of attempts at emotional moments but somehow they always feel lacking since you don't get the chance to care about any of the characters other than the two mentioned previously. The pace in the show is simply too fast to build the characters in any meaningful way.

The initial villain in the first season (who, by the way, ends up being almost completely irrelevant and is dealt with just so -- they are a very one-sided and obvious bad guy from day one and gets written off eventually with no gravitas to speak of) is lackluster in all ways possible. There's no depth to them, even though the show attempts to give them depth by showing a short flashback to their childhood. Technically it was a good idea but it just felt like a caricature and it didn't feel real enough to make you care about the character at all.

The "real" villain -- though it's hard to gauge if they really are a villain or just a cog in a machine trying to keep things "sane" -- is interesting at first but the arc they have with sibling number five just ends up being chaotic and silly. They just feel like a meaningless caricature the same as most non-main characters.

I soldiered through the first season and I have to admit, it was generally entertaining enough to keep me going but didn't feel very great otherwise. By the end of season one, the only two characters worth remembering had *awesome* arcs and that almost made it worth it, but when comparing this show and the impact it had on me to other very well written and executed shows, this just pales in comparison. If they made a show about sibling number five alone, his arc, I bet it would be way more compelling than the fast-and-shallow bundle of action this is.

I thought 2nd season could give the show and the characters more depth and nuance so I moved on, partly excited.

The beginning of season 2 is... like a cinematic trailer to an action movie. A lot is going on and in a fast pace and I have to admit, it all seemed very promising.

The problem is, the premise for the season seems to be the very same as in season one: The group has a singular same event to prevent in effort to save the humankind. The group has the very same dynamic I thought we already resolved in season one: Only sibling number 5 sees the goal and everyone else is distracted by their own minute problems and clashing with each other and then eventually warming up to each other and... it all just seems like a replay of season one with some 60's clothing and themes sprinkled over it.

Even the "real" villain seems to be the same. By this point they have survived a total of two absolutely guaranteed death moments but they just keep coming back like a pimple in a teenager's face.

Admittedly, I didn't get past episode 4 of season 2. The framing of this "real" villain points towards a surprise twist that they are, after all, not a villain at all. I'm not sure where the show wants to go and I am mildly interested in this character's arc but it's just not enough to float this whole show for me.

The show looks amazing and acting is great. The cast does a great job portraying the characters -- so much so that I feel bad that the characters aren't written better. Especially sibling number one is a huge shame in my books: the actor does a fantastic job portraying them and there are moments that should make the character feel more deep and meaningful, but it's just written too shallowly to realize all that.

I have a looming feeling that season 2 is about to get great after the rough episodes 2 and 3, but I just can't keep living on hope alone when there are a great variety of better shows to discover.

I think this will suit people who generally like a fast-paced, action-packed superhero-themed show. I would suggest everyone to give it a go -- the show does look fantastic and the effects are top-notch, music is used in a creative way and the quirky, playful way the show is framed will probably make a lot of people very excited.

This just isn't for people like me, so I thought it fair to share my point of view.