This is the first producing effort from The Duffer Brothers since “Stranger Things.” Sadly, this series brings little imaginative or special to the genre. Camila Morrone and Adam DiMarco are engaged to get married, so they travel to his family’s outpost for the ceremony. Things immediately start to get weird and they continue without any suspense or even anything horrible. The warning is for “gore and violence” and I kept waiting for it to happen. What does happen is lots of boring, repetitive dialogue with a mild sense of foreboding. In the middle of Episode 7, I started to fast forward because nothing of note still hadn’t happened. When I finally got to the big bloodbath, it was just that…a lot of blood and not much else. This is the first directorial effort from writer Haket Z. Boston and her script drags on without much real action and her mastery of suspense doesn’t exist. The main thing “bad” is the series itself. (8 one-hour eps) 1.0 out of 5.0 stars
