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Truly Dreadful Film

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Pig heads, blood, screaming, dirty teeth, a failed romance, big doe eyes, hangings...Basically as much gore and boob as they could fit in to 60 minutes. Not going any further with this, it's total rubbish & does not address/attempt to address any of the interesting themes around these real-life events - just makes them ridiculous.

OK let me start off by saying that I love to look at different shows, movies, stories, etc. from different time periods in history. Now going into the review of the show. It is not historically accurate, and never claimed to be. It does however have SOME characters that were historically present at the time of the Salem Witch Trials. It is dark toned because let's face it if you lived out in those times the only lighting you had was fire in candles or fire pits. I have read a lot of other reviews and some I agree with and some I don't. It is a dark show with a lot of different mature elements: blood, gore, sex, dark magic, and horror elements. Now I will say that this show plays on the Puritan beliefs at the time of what witches were. It also played the "what if" game that "what if the Puritan beliefs were real?" And made a very interesting and complex TV series that isn't for the faint of heart but definitely ​makes for an interesting view. Everything from the cast, set up and outcome is very well thought out and planned. Now I don't particularly agree of perpetuating the stereotype of witches and making them all followers of Satan, but it was still an awesome show if you can get past that and the lack of historical accuracy. Worth the watch if you love horror and darker shows and movies.

This show was my favorite from the begging, cast and everything was just fine, but i am disappointed after the finale. Now i did not suggest to watch this show at all and waste your time. In particular story is too drown-out, low dynamics. Main characters are too underdeveloped, i was expecting much more from Mary Sibley and John Olden. last season was just nightmare, nothing went as it should. No actions, just stagnation, there was no highlights and if there raised such situations, it was suppressed immediately, nothing left to worry or guess. So feel free to not watch it. To my mind it does not matter to watch the show, which has no idea in it, and finishes as it is going to be another season, but no there is not going to be anything. you also would not be able to understand what happened to Cotton Mather. only good thin is Marilyn Manson's "cupid carries a gun".

What an interesting topic and series on a paper at least! However, after a couple of first episodes the show gets quickly all more boring and tedious every single minute. Someone wrote on IMDb that the dialogue is spoken with colloquial words all the time. That is true! The same problem was with the Deadwood series. It was so boring and dull with the long dialogues and tedious characters that I fell asleep too often.Another annoying thing with Salem is the poor actors and dull atmosphere. Most of the scenes are full with black and brown shades or are filmed in the dark. *Yawn* One of the most annoying things was also the use of special fx, namely, nearly every scene is full of CGI and other plastic crap. Why is it so hard to create a good series with a lesser use of CGI? Luckily, there are other series and movies to watch than this. I'm disappointed.In my opinion, if a new series is not able to get my full attention and interest in the, let's say, 1-3 first episodes, then it's definitely not a good sign, there has to be some kind of drive in the very beginning. If there's not, well, I just move on to something more interesting, it's so easy. Why wait if it gets better? It won't. I have seen that all too many times.