NOS4A2
Year of release : 2019
Run time : 39 m - 56 min / 10 episodes
Genre : Supernatural Thriller / Horror / Mini Series
Cast : Zachary Quinto
The mini series are based on the Joe Hill 2013 novel of the same name.
The series open with Charlie Manx ,an energetic vampire who drives a Rolls Royce Wraith,who feeds off the energy of children who feel abandoned by their parents.
Starting as an old man,Manx gets younger and younger while driving the car with the kid he manages to whisk away from his parents' house, in the backseat,to ChristmasLand.
Vic is an artist,she makes beautiful drawings. She doesn't like her mother much,as she has a negative attitude,and wants her to stay with her and clean people's houses, and loves her father,whom she finds out hits her mother when drunk,which is a lot. Not to mention,he cheats on her mother,and moves in with his fling. Vic still chooses her father.
One day ,on a rage trip on her dirt bike,she crosses over this bridge,and finds a lost thing.
Talking about it to her parents,she finds out the bridge was demolished 15 years before.
Going back to the bridge,she discovers she has the ability to find lost things.
Maggie has this bag of scrabble tiles which tells her what's what,and is convinced she can find the missing kid. Her path intersects with Vic's ,as Vic is visiting her through her inscape. They talk,and decide to work together to catch Manx and release the kids. But maybe the kids are too far gone.
Vic gets Manx's attention and arises his interest ,as he thinks her untouched,and wants her as a mother for his children. The children he kidnapped and turned,of course!
NOS4A2 is the car plate of Manx's 1938 car, which is connected to him,so much so,that if the car is damaged,Manx suffers the consequences.
This was the 2nd time I watched these series, and apparently the first time I didn’t like it as much. This time I didn’t see the things which bothered me the first time. This time I liked how each character is his own, they each have their own personality like for example, Vic likes to ride her dirt bike (this is how she escapes her worries, her parents fighting), and doesn’t quite like her mother who is realistic, and tells her things she doesn’t want to hear, and no matter what her father does, she always takes his side, because he doesn’t crush her dreams like her mother does. Vic loves and chooses her father no matter what he does and what she finds out about him, and that's messed up. Her mother doesn't seem to be good enough,although it's obvious she doesn't want her to make the same mistakes she did,and that is her way to protect her.
Her mother is afraid of being alone, this being one of the reasons she wants Vic to stay with her, and help her with cleaning people’s houses, instead of going to college to make something out of herself.
Her father is a drunk, and it seems his new fling has a negative influence on him, as there’s a scene in which they’re doing more than drinking (dr@gs). He’s no angel, as he h1ts Vic’s mother when he gets drunk, and he didn’t bother going to see Vic while she was institutionalized.
Bing is Vic’s friend, as they exchange comics, but he is also Manx’s henchman, as he wants to enter ChristmasLand, and kidnaps kids to take them to Manx, while hurting their mothers (SPOILERS he k1lled his parents (as his father was bullying him, while his mother pretended it didn’t happen), and probably did more to his mother, as he has mother issues). Bing thinks himself good, and the mothers he hurts, bad, and is easily manipulated by Manx.
Charlie Manx seems to be having a Peter Pan complex, as he only wants a woman who is “untouched and pure” to take care of the kids he takes to ChristmasLand. He doesn’t see women as a love interest, and hates parents, as he thinks them bad, just for having s3x!
Maggie is an orphan who was thrown out by her religious parents due to the fact she is gay, has a scrabble bag who tells her what’s going to happen, and used to be addicted to pills. She relapses after the sheriff who took her in after Manx’s car ran her over, is kidnapped by Manx.
Craig is Vic’s best friend, who turns out to be something more, and to me, seems like a bad influence on her, as he always has dr@gs lying around in his bedroom. Whenever Vic goes to his place they do different kind of dr@gs.
SPOILERS The kids who’s energy makes Manx young, are turned into vampires who eat people,and are also evil now. END OF SPOILERS
It seemed to have been very cold when they filmed, as their breaths linger in the air in long patches, but they are always in skimpy outfits, especially Maggie.
I hated Charlie's and Vic’s hair.
The visual effects were good; there are certain scenes in which Manx ages within seconds, going from a young man to an old man. The old man make-up Zachary Quinto is in, is great, he really looks old.
The soundtrack was good, they had quite a few Christmas songs, as Manx sees himself as Father Christmas, taking kids to his inscape, ChristmasLand.
The actors were amazing.
Zachary Quinto was the best,I loved the way he portrayed Manx,especially when he was in the old man make-up,how he changed his voice to sound like an old man's and his whole body posture.
The series received positive reviews.
The series have two seasons but I won't be watching the 2nd as I wasn't impressed by the 1st one.
Viewer discretion is advised, as the series depict drug and alcohol abuse.
Rating : Worth a watch !