Devil in Ohio (2022)
3/10
It's mildly entertaining and incredibly frustrating
4 September 2022
Warning: Spoilers
If an actual girl is found on the road side and injured with cult scars on her back and tie scars around her wrists and is obviously traumatized...doctors, the police and psychiatrists in 'real life' would take the case extremely seriously. But that's the problem, no one in the show seems to take the situation seriously. First, they would have not kicked her out of the hospital so soon and been so annoyed and careless with trying to find her a home. Nothing feels credible - the acting, the way people respond to things, etc.

Suzanne should obviously know she's being stalked by an evil cult, especially after finding the note in her mailbox...but no, she just brushes it off.

The sisters and their friends are fake and the acting is atrocious. Nothing makes sense. No one is acting how they would be acting if this were a real life scenario. It's extremely frustrating to watch people just be so ignorant and dumb.

But is it entertaining to watch? I mean, I guess.

But does it make it good? No.

It's actually really awful and I hate to see Bones (Emily Deschanel) in a role where she just acts like a spaced-out dimwit. Everyone is completely apathetic and are delusional idiots. Why is everyone so clueless, unaware and/or mean? Why is the best friend of Jules so jealous and rude when it comes to a poor traumatized and victimized girl? Why is her older sister such an entitled brat that also has zero concerns for a traumatized human being?

Why do people just not seem concerned? Suzanne, the mother, seems to care but then completely plays ditzy and dumb 80% of the time.

And the dad/husband is just in his own selfish little world without a single ounce of empathy for the scarred traumatized girl living in his home.

There just aren't any real human reactions and emotions in the show so it feels incredibly hokey and fake.
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