Tales from the Void

This is a 6 episode anthology series based on short stories posted to a subreddit. Sounds like a terrible idea already. Given there's only
6 episodes I'll do a short review of each one.

Episode #1--4 woke 0 overall -There is no reason for this to exist. There's no story here. It's a half baked idea with no substance, no explanation of anything and no ending. On top of that it clearly had no budget and looks like it was filmed in the backyard of someone's apartment complex. Then there's the blatant racism. DEI good black characters. Black characters are smart and non aggressive. White characters are authoritarian, dumb, violent and aggressive.

Episode #2--2 woke 3 overall--Appears to take place in the late 80's early 90's given the clothes and décor on the inside of the houses but there are modern cars everywhere indicating lazy filmmaking or general lack of budget. If budget is the issue than why not just make it modern. It's a basic slasher type story, nothing new but serviceable. Some decent gore FX as well. Woke consists of DEI casting choices. Lead is a Spanish male with 2 friends consisting of another Spanish male and 1 white male. Guess which one is the aggressive nasty bully.

Episode #3--0 woke 2 overall--A play on gen z social media obsession and fame. It feels like I've seen something very similar before but can't
recall where. The acting is not great and the story is very predictable. It's packed full of unlikable annoying characters and I would hardly call this horror. There's nothing woke but it's average at best.

Episode #4--5 woke-0 overall--A seemingly very conservative religious couple gets pregnant and he asks her if she wants a boy or a girl and she says I don't care as long as 'they're' healthy. A normal person would say as long as it's healthy not they. This is clearly meant to show what appears to be Christians as crazy. The wife when told the baby will not survive birth immediately wants to schedule an abortion. This would never happen so easily for what's supposed to be a very religious person like this. The husband is shown to be an irrational, aggressive, crazy religious nut while the logical wife is the hero who easily questions and rejects her religion. The acting is pretty poor the ending makes no sense and the FX if you want to call them that are laughably bad.

Episode #5--1 woke-1 overall. Some really bad acting in this one and another no budget episode that's half an idea with no ending. Once the 'surprise' at the end is revealed the entire story falls apart and previous scenes make no sense or seem completely impossible. Little girls only friend is Asian. The drugged out mom is violent and aggressive and the boyfriend? is a total beta loser.

Episode #6--0 woke 2 overall--I believe this takes place in the 90's but not sure. The acting is decent but the writing again is not great. The two leads are said to be in middle school that would put them in the 11-13 range but look more like high schoolers. The story is pretty basic but if you have the headphones on the wall for a reason why wouldn't they be standard use when you go to bed and not wait until something happens. Bad lazy writing. At least the creature looks decent.

Final thoughts--Overall I don't really see any reason to watch this. Episode 2 is the best of the lot but even that is barely worth it. There is a definite overall woke aspect to most episodes and they obviously had no real budget. I would skip this entire thing.