What/if - What the hell were they thinking?

This is one of those situations where I’m not sure what to say in a review of this show. The show is… not good. Sure, Renée Zellweger (recently in Only murders in the Building) helps (a lot), but she isn’t enough to pull the show through its mediocrity. When she isn’t on the screen, we aren’t left with much at all, unfortunately.

The Good is also Bad

It’s a lot of fun to see her trying to impersonate a femme fatale, with zero ethics or moral principles, but it’s a little too stereotyped for my personal taste. Yet, it’s definitely the best part of the entire show.

That alone speaks volumes.

Shallow

The story is primarily about secrets, and all the characters are, in some way, emotionally broken. Some of them don’t even make a whole lot of sense, and while watching, you’re commonly asking yourself why they’re even here, to begin with. It looks like they don’t belong.

They are connected by bonds of blood or friendship, but everything seems a bit too shallow. I felt as though these were a bunch of random stories that someone desperately tried to connect.

We Wanted to Be Bad...

I read some critics saying that it’s supposed to be bad, and the What/if team knows exactly what they’re doing. As a matter of fact, there are so many absurdities that I’m kind of tempted to believe that theory.

Everything in this show is just too much. Too many secrets, too much drama, too many plot twists, most of them predictable, and all around too much nonsense. However, you probably won’t stop watching it to see what comes out of it all.

That’s the tricky part that you don’t see coming… In the end, it’s so bad that it’s almost good.

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