#11.1.19

The Promised Neverland’s first episode was good! I was prepared for the edge going in, but I wasn’t prepared for already finding all the characters cute and endearing only 8 minutes into the episode, which sure made the expected twist hurt a bit more. This show didn’t exactly take its time with its edge necessarily, introducing the horror elements in the first episode, though in fairness all the spooky shit happened much later into the episode, and though the first half was largely fun and games there was definitely a creepy atmosphere to the whole thing. In other words, the edge definitely felt earned. And I’m glad they didn’t shy away from showing the child corpse either - I hate when horror feels the need to hold back. Just show the kid’s corpse and be done with it, damn it. I mostly like the visuals but idk sometimes the mouths and eyes felt a bit too close together and it looked kinda weird. Great first episode though - I’ll be happy to keep watching this one.