 Thank you for checking out this show review video. This is for a shudder original Show called Dead Wax and Dead Wax is all one word that's a 2018 release and it was done by written dirt and directed by Graham Resnick, which I didn't really know much that he's done before but Yeah, so I'm gonna get into this first of all the difference between I know there's some people out there Who have some confusion when it says shudder original versus shudder exclusive? Exclusive means the film was made and then they kind of shopped it around and shudder ended up purchasing it So it was exclusive to shudder Original means that shudder actually put money into the making of the film So this is an original one of the things right off the bat I want to say that I really like about what they did with this film our film this show it is film But it's a show is that sorry for the cat in the background. She's acting up She wasn't a fan of the show but it It did this thing and I preach about this all the time when you're doing a TV show That's on a streaming service, especially if it's made for the streaming service you don't need to have a certain number of episodes that are a certain length each and They they stuck with what I like to say in this It's you know make make it however many episodes you feel is needed for the story and make it however long for each Episode and that's how it was is eight episodes and each episode is I think between 10 minutes and 16 minutes Like literally at the higher end I think it was a 16 minute episode and at the lower end was like a 10 minute episode So I like that I'm all about that so you can kind of like sit down get a little bit here get a little bit there you know, it's not a huge commitment to just do like one quick episode and The the negative on this unfortunately is that even though it was structured that way It still felt like it was a little too much and they should have maybe cut something It did drag at times, but I think a lot of the dragging actually had to do with How the acting was which is not very good overall. There's a little bit of good acting here and there but overall it's Not that good, which you know just has a tendency to make it feel like oh my god. Here we go. Oh my god Can we get somewhere? So I think it's a great concept for the show. It's it's very much focused on auditory stuff. Dead Wax has to do with Records and it's kind of like this killer record. You learn that like right up front so But there's actually a lot more to it. So it's a cool story in theory It's just how it was executed could have been done a lot better I would like to see some tighter writing maybe a lot more passes made at the script, but Yeah, I mean good concept. It's just it wasn't there on my opinion and so I went I don't know if you really had interest in seeing the show I would say go ahead and do it and especially because it's not a huge time commitment or at least watch like the first episode Or two to get an idea I think it starts really well and they have some really good practical effects in the beginning And then it just kind of seems to peter off a little bit after that So let me go back to my notes because I know I already covered some of the stuff, but yeah The main actress in this film is terrible. I'm talking all full Atrocious and that's one of the biggest problems I feel like you could have made this film a lot more interesting Especially with the with the concept they were going with if you have a lead actress who can really act The issue with the the main actress is no emotion Every line is just delivered as wooden as possible. There's no inflection pretty much whatsoever She doesn't emote with her face either. I was watching this the whole time is just being like she's like Richard gear I don't I've said it on one of my other reviews But if you don't know I hate Richard gear because when he acts he never emotes with his face No matter what he's doing with his with his voice his face is the same. He's like an Irish setter It's just like always like Well, I mean that that's an Irish setter mainly Richard gears more like That but this actress is that way like no emotion on her face at any point But it's also she has no inflection in her voice either and it's terrible on the other hand on the other side of things Is Ted Raimi Ted Raimi shows up in the show and he is awesome He actually choose the scenery every time he's on he steals the show in my opinion And I just wanted more of him because he was great in this and I don't know if it's because He did a particularly good job or if it was because everyone else around him was so bad Especially the main actress that it made you like whoa, but I think he at least did a good job I found him very enjoyable. So he's the best part of this show. I just wanted more of them You needed more of them to actually make the show more interesting Yeah, the scenes are really slow the dialogue doesn't really keep your interest There are some cool concepts in the dialogue and there's a lot of kind of like technical jargon, which supposedly I was reading somewhere that or no, it was on a podcast actually Graham Resnick was being interviewed I think it was on the Mick Garris's post Mortem podcast and he was talking about like working with auditory stuff which is really cool and There is some real technical terminology in the film, which is accurate And that's a cool aspect of it. So it goes back to like it's a cool concept and they did play with some auditory stuff in it Like sounds and everything like that, which is also a really cool interesting thing. So but I just It can't stand on its own the story has to be there too and the acting has to be there too and The camera work has to be there too because another big issue with this is that there was some really horrible shaky camera Portions when it you could tell it wasn't supposed to be it wasn't supposed to be like a found footage type thing or anything like that It's just you're watching it. You're just like dude stop. Have you heard of a tripod? They exist. That's how you get a clean shot where there's none of this going on with with the camera My gosh, so yeah, there's some bad choices like not using a tripod is a very prime example of bad choices So I would say that overall like the first maybe two Episodes are quite interesting and then after that it just starts to really become a slog But I will say like the very The last episode in particular gets pretty good and that's interesting and I think part of it is There's well, I'm not gonna say the one thing about it because this is no spoilers So but it starts really well and there's a cool cool idea in the final one And there's more interest than the rest of it So even though it is relatively short it does seem like they kind of waste some time which is really rough It means that there wasn't much of a script in my opinion. So it's kind of like So anyway, but yeah, I would have liked to see this do a lot better. I really really would I was very interested in it Like I said, it's a very cool concept I've heard that there could be a possibility for a season 2 So if that does happen, I think I probably would give it a shot Maybe at least the first few episodes of season 2 just to see how things develop because maybe they get more money Maybe they're just more experienced with it. They have a better idea of where they want to go with the story I mean, I would give it a shot, but Yeah, so just not a fan of it at the moment So I would say on my five-star rating scale with half stars in play That I'm gonna give it a two-star rating and I would have given it a one and a half Except Ted Ramey in this show he gets at that extra half star to take it up to a two. So Graham Riznick, you owe it to Ted Ramey that you got that extra half But anyway, hopefully this was helpful. Please hit the subscribe if you like any of my videos Put some comments down there. Did you see dead wax? I would actually be very interested in getting some comments from some people who really enjoyed dead wax and just kind of give me An idea why like I said, there are some good things in there But I just felt like it just didn't didn't come together at least not for me and obviously these are all just very personal opinions I'm sure there are people out there who love that show and that's good so yeah, put some comments down about that if you want to do a like do that and Thank you very much for checking this out. So until next time keep it brutal