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Deadly Class - Season 1 (2019)
Rick Remender adapts his ongoing comic of the same name for this Syfy channel series. Teenage homeless orphan is enrolled in an exclusive high school where elite criminals send their kids to learn the skills necessary to succeed in the underworld. Classes include martial arts, poisons, psychopathy, and dark arts. It's mainly focused on the typical high school clique conflicts but with an added dose of extremely dangerous classmates. The show is pretty good but it has a lot of pacing issues. It seemed like nearly every episode reached it's natural conclusion, but then there was still 10-15 minutes of extra plot to cover. For my tastes, it spent too much time focusing on interpersonal conflicts between the students, and not enough time on exploring how crazy the classes would be in this type of school. Also, the show kept things very dark and serious: there wasn't nearly enough humor. The soundtrack rights must have been very expensive to acquire and off the top of my head had songs by The Cure, The Smiths, The Sisters of Mercy, Joy Division, and a ton of punk songs. The show was cancelled after this single season (in typical Syfy fashion).
Rick Remender adapts his ongoing comic of the same name for this Syfy channel series. Teenage homeless orphan is enrolled in an exclusive high school where elite criminals send their kids to learn the skills necessary to succeed in the underworld. Classes include martial arts, poisons, psychopathy, and dark arts. It's mainly focused on the typical high school clique conflicts but with an added dose of extremely dangerous classmates. The show is pretty good but it has a lot of pacing issues. It seemed like nearly every episode reached it's natural conclusion, but then there was still 10-15 minutes of extra plot to cover. For my tastes, it spent too much time focusing on interpersonal conflicts between the students, and not enough time on exploring how crazy the classes would be in this type of school. Also, the show kept things very dark and serious: there wasn't nearly enough humor. The soundtrack rights must have been very expensive to acquire and off the top of my head had songs by The Cure, The Smiths, The Sisters of Mercy, Joy Division, and a ton of punk songs. The show was cancelled after this single season (in typical Syfy fashion).