This series tries to be a relatively serious picture about the everyday life of online gamers, but it turns out that this is a rather superficial look at this category of hikimori geeks. Of course, this is not a masterpiece or even a semblance of it, because it is just a one-view comedy. These are just disparate sketches from the life of gamers.
When I watched ‘Broken Pixels’, I often wanted to just close the player window to get rid of the unpleasant feeling that I was constantly being pricked. But still watched the series to see at least some conclusion, some happy ending. But he didn't.
Sophisticated English humor? There's not even a normal toilet, so, hints at it. Probably because of the ubiquitous tolerance.
Heroes are frankly cardboard, situations are delusional, the plot ... and what is the plot here? Each episode of the series is not closely related to the others. And it is good that each series lasts only about 20 minutes, as it is quickly boring.
Is this some kind of mockery of gamers or ... on the contrary, encouraging such antisocial behavior? I didn't understand.
The actors are good and, in general, everything in the series on the subject of addiction to games, but everything is kind of unfinished, or too protruding.
And most importantly, it is unclear for whom this series was shot.
For teenagers who can swallow this slurred plot porridge? For the old-timers who sometimes remember their turbulent gaming youth? So they will not be interested in this series.
You could write your own foo-oh, put a negative rating, but something about this series is good, albeit crumpled.
It’s hard to say how ‘Broken Pixels’ are perceived by those who really spend a lot of time in game worlds. But from the outside, this series looks both wretched and fascinating.
It’s sad because the heroes of this project look really miserable. Young people without much interest realize themselves in real life, all their free time sitting locked in their rooms and devoting themselves to fantastic missions in a fantastic world. They themselves understand that the game exhausts them, deprives them of strength and completely eats up their time. But nothing can be done, because the game has no end.
It’s fascinating because Broken Pixels takes viewers into a new world where online friendship means a lot. In which you can find loyal friends and do something that is really exciting and fun. Watching this series, at some point you begin to perceive the characters and their game avatars as something unified and inseparable. And when computer characters go to battle, you empathize with them no less than if the characters themselves went there in real life.
Broken Pixels is a pretty static series. Not much happens in him. But his high ratings are the merit of one of the best showrunners in the UK - Jesse Eisenberg and John Brown (who created the Heirs, Peep Show, Fresh Meat, etc.), - who enriched the series with bright dialogue and unusual, but realistic, characters.
7 out of 10
Are you used to the fact that foreign TV shows with a rating of 7 / 10 and above are normal? Not always that way.
We have a series in which:
1) Online game. In which there are no details, everything looks as ridiculous as possible, simplified, deliberately ugly.
(We take screenshots of once popular Mmorpgs like Aion, AA, BnS and see detailed worlds with their own story, as if someone took a good book in the genre of fiction and portrayed the world with the care of a team of Korean artists.) And now just compare with a cheap banter parody from the series, what a nightmare.
2) The most lopsided characters.
Yes, as the plot goes, they become two-sided, but this is a trind. It’s a nightmare, someone decided to add a grotesque, and in the end you just feel sorry for the actors who had to play it, and believe in this most cardboard world. This is a direct look at the gamer from Ren-TV and other state channels.
(3) Director. He has his own point of view, he already figured out in advance that the main character should get out of his “gaming addiction”, another character will be a bad father “so that we can look at ourselves from the outside.” Dear Director, go to the address you know. What's the point of closing in on morality if you can't figure out what the world is like when you're trying to make a show. Who is this series for? People who have played games will be hurt by the terrible quality of the performance. Shoot a movie about players online games, and boil the main target audience. Bravo.
(4) Laundry humor. Platitudes that sound very kringe, some sudden attempts of the main character to prove that she is certainly a terrible gamer to people who did not ask her anything.
There is no adequate character or any honest or at least just pleasant character.
Even the neighbor of the main characters is not a beacon of reason, as she babysits these psychos.
Subtle English humor pro ' shit in the bucket' and ' unwashed shit at EOT' is a separate icing on the cake.
The problem of character motivations - their actions are so inconsistent that there is a feeling of bipolar disorder in the writers.
This is confirmed by the introduction of characters that do not carry any plot load. What would have changed if the Swiss boy in the first series had been absent? Nothing.
Justifications ' it's the same comedy you want from it' not accepted, as there are quality sitcoms, the same ' Big Bang Theory'.
Gamers are shown some kind of garbage, any real mm-player would have to be outraged by such characters.
But they do, and it's sad.
What is lacking in gamers these days? Adequate series, which would show understandable for all gamers problems, normal playing and displaying that the passion for games is normal?
Of course not, the authors of this series show gamers as they are seen on our Russian federal channels. Inadequate, not attached to life and ready to do everything to please the game.
Gamers do not part with games even at work, gamers after the news of a bad cast in their favorite game say that they would arrange mass-shooting on the street or kill a person (of course it is very funny), gamers score on their children for the sake of the game, just great. That's right, let's confirm stereotypes.
And in general, I don’t see in these characters any of what there is in people who like to play computer games, in them I see only the girl who in the first series meets Meg at a stop. Possessors who unsuccessfully try to play back what they do not understand.
Oh yes, do not forget that in order to attract the audience to the voiceover took very ' Popular' Nowadays bloggers! Zanuda (hello 2010!) and Stas Davydov, of course This is Good (hello all the same 2010), just feel that the authors and local distributors squeak for the topic.
Such a series, yes to our propagandists on the central channels to show, would be perfect.
I do not recommend this series to watch.
The series 'Dead Pixels' (2019) can still be found under the title 'Broken Pixels'. The format of the series is only twenty-three minutes. But in these twenty-three minutes there are interesting episodes with selective humor. And although the theme of the comedy series would seem to be an amateur, but viewing brought great pleasure.
The series was directed by British director Al Campbell. In the center of the plot are gamers who cannot imagine their lives without the game 'Kingdom Scrolls' They play it both at home and at work, all problems arise in the virtual space, drag into everyday life and vice versa. The screenwriter and director turned out to be a kind of bane on people-gamblers, and we need to say the characters are a little out of themselves, even though you can not say that.
All the characters are matched just to the point perfectly, they are characteristic and interesting, different types, temperaments, and almost all have one goal in common - to protect your castle in ' Kingdom Scrolls' and become immortal. Almost all - because there is a character here who watches all this ' obscurantism' from the outside.
There are conversations on adult topics in the series, a little vulgar, but they very naturally fit into the overall picture, usually this is a kind of complexion of characters or sexual dissatisfaction that can be shared with friends from the virtual world. So the minus here is one - not enough episodes, only six, hopefully there will be a second season. It is interesting that the picture was shot for gamblers, but the humor in it will be understandable to those people who watch this 'caste' goblins, ghosts and stalkers from the outside at work, in transport and at home.
10 out of 10
I came across “Broken Pixels” quite by accident. This is a relatively new BBC comedy series that has been coming out since 2019. The story tells about gamers who constantly play the MMORPG “Kingdom Scrolls”. Despite the simplicity of the concept, the topic of gaming is almost not studied in TV series and movies. Maybe the Guild, but I only found out about this series during the preparation of the article. In the six small episodes of the first season, we introduce Meg, her neighbor Nicky and their mutual friend Usman. Stands apart Alison, indifferent to games friend Meg.
The authors chose an unpopular direction to show avid players from the outside, without assessments and judgment. All the jokes in the series, even when they are about gamers, do not try to offend or offend. On the contrary, through humor, the inner world of the characters, their feelings and experiences are revealed. As a result, it turns out that the real world is not much different from the virtual, and serious passions can boil without personal communication. These aren’t predictions of the future like in Black Mirror, they’re what’s in our world today.
The title of the series very well conveys its main idea. Humans are the pixels that make up our reality, but there are those that are different from the rest of us. Each of the characters solves their own problems in the game or escapes them. Megan can't communicate live and is obsessed with sex. It is logical that one directly interferes with the other. Nicky is full of complexes and psychological trauma. Usman escapes responsibility for his family and shows clear signs of addiction. At the same time, games that should primarily entertain, for them, have long ceased to be just a hobby. “Everything for the game,” Meg says. This is especially well shown through acquaintance with Russell, a beginner who asks the characters why they play, if it is not fun. Real life has almost no impact on Megan and her friends, but they are very much concerned about gaming problems. By the end of the season, each character is evolving and changing. Not drastically, but noticeable. Meg is increasingly thinking about a new hobby, and Usman decides to retire from the game. The authors offer viewers to evaluate what happens to the characters, without giving direct hints how the story will develop further.
Of the disadvantages of the series, you can distinguish a small timekeeping and a high entry threshold. The series is only six and each lasts about twenty minutes. Little familiar with the world of gaming, viewers will sometimes find it difficult to evaluate all specific jokes or understand terms. There is Alison in the series especially for them. She is friends with Nicky and Megan and also hosts their apartment. Alison doesn’t play at all, and often asks questions you’d hear from older parents: “Why watch streaming?” It is through the development of the relationship between Megan and Alison that the authors show how communication is built when one of you is a gamer. In addition, in dialogues with Alison, various game concepts are often explained.
The first season leaves a pleasant impression. The characters are expressive, everyone has their own personal story that evolves. Great humor will be clear to both gamers and “accidental” people. For the Russian audience, such a show will be especially useful. There are too many people who still consider games to be children’s entertainment. I hope the second season, which will soon be released on the HD Movie Search, will not be the last.
'Broken pixels' - a series about the life and life of avid players of the fictional MMORPG, the series is not bad, the actors as a whole play well, the most important thing is that the atmosphere is well served ' nerds'.
The subject of the series is very close to me, because I was also a hardcore MMORPG player. On that below.
I remember 2007, I was hooked on World of Warcraft, who doesn’t know it’s one of the oldest and largest MMORPGs to date, I was a third-year student of VT and software, I was studying in absentia, and I had already worked as a system administrator for a couple of years. In general, my day as a player in WOW went like this, I woke up at 7 going to work, in the afternoon I read the news about WOW, taught & #39; strata' (strategy) to kill this or that dungeon boss, and then ran home to RT (Raid time the time of the beginning of the raid) to have time to farm chemicals (prepare ingredients for potions of enhancing the character) without which the raid was not taken, somewhere from 11 pm to 2 a night there was a raid, we tried to kill the dungeon bosses, and then went to bed, I slept only 5 hours. I didn’t go out on the weekend and just played.
We also communicated by voice, and we had family people like Usman in the show who were having problems with their family because of the game. There were cheerful 'nubs' like Russell, there were girls like Megan and serious ' nerds' players like Nikki, actually I was like Nikki. I remember an incident during the division of the loot from the boss, one player argued that the thing should be given to him, since his wife is now giving birth, and he did not go to childbirth, but went for this thing in a raid on the boss. Now it sounds terrible, at the same time we all thought that there was nothing more important than the game.
The series is really not bad, I just didn’t like the vulgar humor in places, all this thinking of Meghan about her bud and how she wants sex, all this went and is not inherent in gamers, we usually had nothing like this.
Is it worth watching? Of course, it is worth it, the series is not bad, and only 6 episodes, but of course it is not as funny as the series The Guild, here' Guild' must be viewed.
7 out of 10