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I'm from Belgium, so I know Matthias Schoonaerts is a very good actor. However, in this series his acting limits itself to raising his head very slowly while desperately trying to look like a bad ass and making short grunts and growls which I hope weren't in the script.

I'm focussing at Schoonaerts because he played Django, but the other characters in this series perform on the same level. They can do better. I know they can. I recognise most of them from other programs where they did a fine job!

It's not just the acting though. The whole cinematography is a bit off. The footage is either too dark or even a bit too shakey. At first I didn't know what it was I didn't like about it. It's that subtle.

And last but not least: the story. It's just not strong enough to play in the same league as the Django westerns the producers are aiming for.

Pity.

Despite its promising premise and impressive production values, Django (2023) falls short due to the lackluster performances of its cast. While the series boasts a talented ensemble, their delivery is wooden and uninspired, failing to bring life to their characters or engage the audience. Despite the best efforts of the writers and directors, the subpar acting ultimately undermines the series' potential, making it difficult to recommend to viewers specially fans of the original movies. Just count the times that the actors rais their heads slowly to express the scene it was hinching and irritating.

Sure there were some elements of previous versions but It's nothing compared to the original Django movies (Between 1966 and 2012). Where Django had a sad and impenetrable face.

This cowboy was invisible.

Not sure reviews focusing on the mishmash of accents really the point as I imagine accents would have been mongrel mix of immigrant ones back then. Not sure personal comments re Noomi Rapace were necessary either. I was unaware of previous versions so had no expectations but after 2 episodes felt this was trying too hard to have gravitas. The acting stilted with lots of pregnant pauses, knowing stares and as ever liberal use of flashbacks with most of the action in darkness presumably to avoid continuity issues and the need to dress sets.

So it passes the time while playing video games, as a bit too tedious to give full attention to. Hardly the searing new drama the ads proclaim.

Unbelievably this series is actually getting worse as it goes on, 2 episodes in and it's pretty awful, the accents are all over the place, no 2 people have the same accent, some are so very bad can't even distinguish what they are saying, the plot line is all over the place, just rubbish.there is no Franco Nero Django in this one, this Django can barely act, and there are 10 episodes of this, not entirely sure where it can go really do, unless the 3rd episode is absolutely spectacular im afraid I won't be watching the rest of it. I want to see a remake of the Franco Nero version, nothing fancy no flashing lights, no metaphorical bull just a gritty grimy plot with Django ripping up his machine gun in a coffin. Done. Overall a poor effort. Well 3 episode and god damn man it's just getting more boring, WHERE THE HELL IS THE STORY LINE. Just flicking between scenes and moments in time with no context or continuity, Django is supposed to be this hard core cowboy, he's not even aloud to have his own gun, it's just boring pointless dialogue with no direction, seems to me this is 9 episodes longer than it should have been.

Actually, I awarded this series a total of eight stars but I chose to use white ones for the last six as an homage to art.

If world famous paintings like "Black Cat at Midnight in a Coal Bin" tickles your fancy then you'll not want to miss a riveting second of this attempt at art. For me, however, I don't think I should have to sit in a completely dark room and strain my eyes to watch a made for TV series.

Once again the choice to record in visible light (because, well, we can now) was chosen over allowing the audience the opportunity to actually be able to follow the story instead of needing to guess who that shadow actually is and what is he (or she) doing. I threw in the towel after, roughly, fifteen minutes of this and moved on to something else.

It's hard to take this show seriously, especially when the character Elizabeth speaks...I finally realised - she sounds like Moira from Schitts Creek when she does her weird accent trying to buy a car. It unintentionally turns the show into a comedy. At least a laugh is a welcome break from the tedious plot. A carefully curated slow moving show can be riveting, this is...well, boring. Churning out a lot of yawn worthy and trivial tropes, between more odd accents and attempting to draw out "secrets" that are unsurprising and lazy. More than one accent in the show changes within a sentence, creating a sense of disorientation in terms of where the story is meant to be set or where the hell anyone is from.

Obviously the expectation for celebrities to remain youthful looking is unreasonable and sad. I apologise to the actress, as I don't mean to be picking on her, but again, Noomi Rapace, who plays Elizabeth, has clearly overdone the cheek filler to the point that it is obviously misshapen in the first episode. Getting filler to the point of deformity and a very unnatural shape is sad to see.

The best part about the show is the surprise (to me) appearance of Abigail Thorn, of Philosophy Tube renown. Abigail shines in her role and breaks up the otherwise lacklustre performances.

I am struggling through episode 3 and really finding it hard to continue to see it out.

Noomi rapace actually does suck in her role, what was she thinking?, absolute terrible 'accent', could she really not know this?, is she really this vacuous?, I guess!, many others have said the scenes are too dark, very true, in the dark scenes some of the cast cannot be seen, ?, the writer and the director are terrible, it's just not worthy of watching, kind of a fever dream, funny, the names of those involved in writing and directing seem to be Italian, is this a satire of the old spaghetti westerns?, is that it?, I just gave up in the middle of episode two, skip this disaster of a dumb show.

For some reason this TV series is copping too much hate with too many one star reviews. I say too much because if you've seen a 1/10 movie of tv series it sure is not this one. This series might not be the best but it's far from the worst. I'm only three episodes in, but the fact that I've made it to three is far better than about 60% of other series I start, so it says that it's not too bad at all. There are some good experienced actors in this series, it may not be their best work but the acting is not the worst. There is a darkness to the cinematography, not overly dark, enough to give emphasis to an era and place that is a bit dark and moody. The plot does not move very eloquently, but it still moves and is engaging. Watch some of it for yourself to decide. I'm not sure how I will feel about it if I watch to the end but it's sure not 1 or 2 stars. Something is a bit questionable about those reviews, not legit.

But it's not.

Assuming you have HDR on your TV and you can see what is happening...

The story is convoluted and the flashbacks not handled very well.

The acting is very variable, even by the recognised names.

While the photography is good, it does not make up for the bad acting. Characters performances vary between wooden to manic.

And the accents. Very poor, especially Ms Rapace, most distracting.

The Django character has appeared in several spaghetti westerns over the last fifty years. This series does follow in the established genre but has sacrificed clarity for pretentiousness.

If they make a remake, remember to turn the lights on.

Django is an Italian-French co-production. It is inspired by Django (1966), but with a whole new approach. I really like the way they approached the Western genre. More dynamic characters, strong personalities and more depth of content.

A cowboy who is desperatly looking for his lost daughter after his family was murdered and wrestling with his emotions, a femal antagonist who is the fiercest defender of the patriarchal order. This all filmed in beautiful setting. But with the shoot-outs and stare downs that are so recognizable for a western.

If you expect a series like Django unchained, you will be dissapointed.

I barely watched more than half of the first episode for one very simple reason, that being, I couldn't see what was going on. The grading, brightness and contrast is so dark, even in sequences that are supposed to be under bright sunshine, you can't see what's going on. You can't see faces to tell what expression they have. You can't see buildings or their surroundings. You can't see anything. I'm watching on a 65" OLED and it's just a dark smear across the screen with a vague flickering of candlelight. It could be the greatest series ever filmed, but not being able to see what's actually going on in the scenes spoils any chance of enjoyment. Hard pass from me as a result.

Normally, I'd post a review against the last episode of the season unless I was sure that it's not going to be renewed, but I'm going to post this here as, even if "Django" is brought back for another run - which doesn't look likely - I don't think I'm going to be around for anymore if it. Not everything has to be sunshine and rainbows, but this is too long and too dour to recommend.

Having left his homestead to fight for the South in the Civil war, Django (Matthais Schoenaerts) returns home to find most of his family dead, he believes though that his daughter survived and begins to search for her. 8 years later he locates Sarah (Lisa Vicari), living with John Ellis (Nicholas Pinnock) who has founded a free city, New Babylon, on land gifted to him. However, Elizabeth Thurman (Noomi Rapace) wants the land returned to her family, and as a devoutly religious person, to see New Babylon wiped from the map.

So, I quite liked the look for the show, though for an Italian production they generally stayed away from the classic Spaghetti Western style heading to Romania for a grittier, muddier look. New Babylon is clearly filmed in an old mine. I didn't think performances were that bad, Rapace has rather a wayward accent, but we're still in the period of mass migration so it could perhaps be excused on those grounds.

It wasn't a fun watch though. I've never seen the film it's based on (Franco Nero does appear in this series) but the plot is very different from what I read on Wikipedia. This story was too long, it might have worked better as a 90-minute film but at ten hours there were too many half-done storylines and repeated plot points to keep me from drifting away every time I watched it. It's pretty grim stuff too, not that explicit, but with a prevailing sadness particularly if, like me, you guess a pivotal plot point before it comes to the fore.

Again, it's for this reason that I don't think I'd settle in for another series.

Naomi Rapace is one of my favourite actors as she often brings an intensity to her performance I rarely see these days. However her acting seems to have taken the day off for Django.

Maybe thats unsurprising as none of the acting in this show is good.

There isn't a strong storyline here, or maybe I'm missing something but anyone coming to watch this expecting Django is going to be sorely disappointed. I'm at episode 4 and simply cannot understand why this production has been hyped so much.

Aside from the poor acting and confusing things going on, it's also impossible to watch unless you are in a very dark room. The daytime scenes are bad enough but anything filmed at night is only partially visible! Then there's the dialog, I've been watching with subtitles because I can't understand what they're saying half the time.

I've decided to stop watching because even if the last few episodes bring some kind of meaning, I'm bored. I have no investment or interest in any of these characters.

Each episode got more boring as time went on. I see why in episode 3 they needed to toss in some Broke Back Mountain to move the story along and hit on all the P's and Q's.

Character development was lousy and the, quote unquote, action was extremely dull. Contained a few angles and the "dramatic" scenes were unconvincing. The striking of oil was a little interesting but then it lead into the next scene of robbing the loan officer?? Not sure how that made sense. The oil would've provided for the town.

With the amount of Black actors, you would think they would've corrected the lighting of the film. I had to turn out the lights and block out the sun to see it. Extremely poorly done.

First of all anyone who knows the landscape and climate of Texas can clearly tell from the first shot the set is NOT in Texas. Too many mountain ranges and the climate is way too wet for Texas. They actually filmed this show in Romania. Secondly, the majority of the characters are European with audacious American accents. It's just not believable. Thirdly, the story is so disjointed, it was hard to follow. The writer and director's attempts to modernize a Western failed because the characters just weren't likeable. Because of that the theme of the evils of religious extremism and racism falls flat. Sorry, I only made it to episode 3 and called it quits.

Between the choppy story, the poor acting and the horrendous accents (seriously, why are we having people use these obviously TERRIBLE "Southern" accents?!) I'm not sure how to critique it...maybe Netflix just needs to stop trying to make shows like this?

They can't simply tell a story, they have to try to make everything with an arthouse feel, which takes away any chance at actually enjoying the show.

If you watch it on YouTube and playit at 2x speed it might help the dragging pace, but you might miss one of the many pointless jumps/cutaways that abound...but then again you might miss one of the jumps/cutaways that abound.🙃

When reading the previous reviews about a dark screen, strange accents, and a boring plot, I was naturally hesitant to jump in, but thank goodness I went for it.

There's no problem with the darkness... iPhone 14 and Sony smart TV were fine, the accents can surely be excused by the fact it was an age of mass migration and its obvious homage to the spaghetti western genre. Finally, about the plot being pedestrian... rubbish. It was well paced and had me clicking next after most episodes.

A fantastic addition to anyone's weekly viewing. Please listen and get it watched!!!

I hope there's a second season with a new incarnation of Django.

This started out with good possibilities for a series..the first few shows weren't too bad but all of a sudden it became so stupid and kept getting worse. The little girl with short hair, Sarah appears to be the savior and rescuer of an Entire community...but for what reason? None. Also, it's another show that seems to want to place a "white savior" of an entire race as the hero. It's So stupid and insulting. I kept questioning just how they tried to make simple things work in this show...they just didn't add up and it was a waste of time. Don't waste your time and energy on this one! I wasted too much time and then was curious if it was just me or did others find it ridiculous- nope not just me!

This series had one or two good moments but it dragged on somewhat & action scenes appeared to have been taken from the '70's school of stunts & pyrotechnics.

Set in the American south after the American civil war, the story follows the life of a farmer after being forced to fight in order to provide for his family. The potential in the story was there, but jwas just not delivered.

I found myself only watching the series to the end because I had committed time to each of the earlier episodes hoping that it would improve.

Definitely will not be watching a second series, if one is ever produced.

Plot - weak Acting - ok Overall - mediocre at best.

Look, I'm a huge Western fan. Been watching them for my entire 50+ years. This is by far the worst things I have ever encountered. I mean, Noomi??? WTF were you thinking getting involved with this project? Holy Clint Southward 👎. There's several good actors in this show, so I am going to point at the lousy production crew or Netflix for not fessing up enough money to actually capture something meaningful. I am just completely lost in what is happening. I certainly hope this isn't the treatment you're allowing for Three Body Problem. If you guys wreck that show, like you did this one. You are gonna lose Lot of people. {{{Facepalm}}}

One particular reviewer noted that it was darkly lit. It is high contrast, similar to the old B&W pictures. Taking advantage of natural light is a gift. For someone to write a series off as a 2 star because it doesn't like the lighting leaves me one word to call someone.

Getting into the meat of the series, it isn't particularly new or unexpected. It is fairly predictable. The acting is good for the most part... until people start trying to emulate a southern accent.

All in all, it is a fair show. I give it 50%. It is good enough to put on when there isn't anything else on. I don't love it. The lead does his best to emulate Cullen Buchanan in Hell on Wheels except Common isn't around. There are plenty of good other shows to watch.

I won't comment much about the storyline, the acting, or the production. While the plot was a bit confusing (too many flashbacks), it kept my attention, I wanted to understand the relationship between John, Sarah, and Django. The acting was okay, despite the accents being a little out of place. I could live with the low light filming. In the Civil War flashbacks, I cringed at seeing both Union and Confederate soldiers (particularly Black Union infantry) carrying Springfield repeating rifles, as opposed to the widely used Enfield single shot muskets. But what I couldn't tolerate was the soundtrack. Throughout the episodes were scenes featured Scott Joplin rags; the series is set right after the Civil War (c. 1870s), but Scott Joplin's rags weren't written or published until the mid- to late 1890s (the "Maple Leaf Rag," his breakout, wasn't published until 1896). This technical flaw resulted in at least a 3-star reduction in my rating.

Django is very good! Such a great story-telling show, it's a slow burn at first then it picks up and it really picks up. Oil is what we fighting for and land of course. The acting is phenomenal and the cinematography is visually stunning. The fields, the mountains and of course the horse riding keeps me so engaged. The fire burning and wind chimes also play a great part also. This isn't your Django we expected from previous times. Emotionally driven with dramatic acting and well casted from all angles, no comedy at all. I haven't been able to stop watching Django, it just keep me guessing and wanting more.