Stagnation on Elm Street The film franchise "Nightmare on Elm Street" would hardly have found its success without Freddy Krueger in it. The maniac with a burnt face became so popular that in 1988 a series with his participation was released. “Freddie’s Nightmares”, in which a familiar villain character tells about terrible cases in the town of Springwood, lasted only two years on television. Why not?
Three reasons. The first step is to throw a couple of stones into the format itself. The fact is that the eighties (as well as the nineties) are an era that was very different from those times when Game of Thrones came out, and a lot of things in the Freddy Nightmare series give them cheapness. These are not so much actors, many of whom were prisoners of TV, as scenery. They look like they were taken from the set of some sitcoms. Even the boiler room in which Freddie hangs out looks too sham. The only thing that does not cause disappointment is the makeup of Inglund. It's as good as the movies.
The second oddity that discourages the desire to watch the series in its entirety is the age-old attempts to combine two different stories into one series. Around the middle of the story, the first story ends, and after a short break with Freddie, the second story begins. Often, the relationship between the beginning and end of a series is very arbitrary. The question arises: was it not easier to divide one forty-minute series into two twenty-minutes? There would have been less of a crowd.
But the main drawback is too little involvement of Freddie himself. He spends ninety-five percent of his time behind-the-scenes and only occasionally interacts directly with the characters. Every scene has a wow! effect, and the show is called Freddie's Nightmares! In addition to the series “No More Mr. Nice Guy” and “Sister’s Keeper”, which are directly related to the first part of the series, the series tells about those who simply go crazy, and not always the cause of their suffering is Freddie. For example, in the series "Heartbreak Hotel" (Heartbreak Hotel), the main character becomes a victim of his own illiteracy, and in "Prisoner of Love" characters are ruined by jealousy and greed. By the way, in this series you can see a funny blunder: in a frank scene on the actress, a bra is noticeable when she is shown from the front in a candid scene.
Freddy’s Nightmares is supposed to appeal mainly to fans of the movie franchise, but in fact they will be disappointed because... well, it’s not Nightmares on Elm Street. I can personally note the presence in the last episode of Raymond Cruz and strip skating in Saturday Night Special. I have never seen more extreme dressing anywhere.
5 out of 10