I initially gave this show six stars because even though it's abysmally bad, I loved so much about it. I loved the diversity. I loved the comic books that inspired it. I loved how well the TV characters matched the look of their comic book counterparts. I loved the... did I already mention the diversity? Oh. Ok then. Let's move on to the things that I hated, which was essentially everything else.The acting ranged from sub-par to passable. The plot was a boring and utterly forgettable mess. I watched it a few months ago and have already forgotten most of it. What I do remember is that the writers seemed to check off a list of comic book plot points and filled the time in between these checkmarks with irrelevant tripe. Ironically, said tripe was likely supposed to make the show feel more relevant. I vaguely remember Alex playing a World of Warcraft-type MMO. But the comics were published in this century, not in the 1980s, and have lost nothing of their relevance. There was absolutely no reason to inflate the first five-ish comic book issues, which can easily be read within half an hour, into eight (!!!) boring hours of soapy fluff and blather.The reason I'm writing this review months after sitting through this show is that I've noticed a pattern in my own behavior, as well as the behavior of TV and movie critics. We reward what we would like to see more of, which is diversity in this case. Black, Hispanic, and even an Asian lead character? Awesome! An LGBT character? Great! (An attractive lesbian character, the safest possible choice, but still). Diverse body types? This show has it all! Even now, I despise myself for having to tear down this awesome show for such petty reasons as the fact that I found it terrible and hated every minute of it. But we really need to start being more honest and demanding because Hulu and Netflix aren't free and eight or more wasted hours are a lot of lost time.Let's talk about capitalism for a second. In a capitalistic market, producers create a new product, find out which ingredients appeal the most to the consumer majority, and maximize those ingredients while lowering the overall product quality in an attempt to minimize production costs. Over time, the quality drops rapidly, until the only thing that keeps selling this cheaply made crap are a few desirable ingredients that have us all hooked. This is what's happening to Marvel's superhero TV shows right now. Daredevil was the perfect product. Jessica Jones and Luke Cage lowered the production value while adding ingredients that are loved by critics and audiences alike. Their second seasons were boring slogs with thinly stretched plots and sparsely used special effects. But they have female and black lead characters, respectively, touch important social issues, and give black and female writers and directors a chance, which of course affects the rating. And it absolutely should. Just not to the point where we start to hate sitting through these shows and don't dare being honest about it because it kind of feels like misogyny or racism. Alas, that's exactly what's happening. I caught myself doing this one too many times, and it stops now.Runaways shows just how low the quality can drop without being reflected by an equal drop in audience and critical ratings. This needs to stop. Our money and time are too valuable to buy into another mess like this, suffer through it out of loss aversion, and even give it a favorable rating because it feels like our civic duty to reward certain traits of these shows. We're neither doing ourselves nor the social issues and minority groups we care about any favors. We need to demand better than this. Netflix has shown us just how high TV consumers and superhero fans can set the bar. Let's not be content with a lesser product.

So, I'm closing up having watched all of series one, and yet... I still don't really get what is going on.let me preface this review by stating that I've loved other marvel TV series, Jones, Daredevil, SHIELD and Cage have all been VERY enjoyable. However...The story-lines (and I'm sure there is at least one somewhere...) are so poorly introduced, or have such little in the way of explanation in the 'viewers eyes' that frankly I just gave up actually paying attention.Then a dinosaur showed up, then there'e like, some tony stark dude, then there's a VERY poorly CGI's rainbow-girl, and something about a church and BLAH BLAH BLAH {insert white noise here}None of it meshed together, the acting was, if I'm to be complimentary, certainly better than a high-school stage play.The directing was apparently done by one of those inflatable wavey-armed mascots and a bag of frozen peas, because there is no way a sentient human saw that on the cutting room floor and said, "yes, this is how a story should be told"While I'm certain there are some 'interesting' characters, or perhaps some biting plot details, it's all washed into an amalgam of quite dreadfully dull cheesy acting and overblown mediocrity.I honestly can state I have not enjoyed this series, and personally I'm willing to forget it ever happened and ignore any future instalments.

It's so poor utterly unconvincing and boy so boring.

I could not past the poor production quality. The production design was fine, but the camera depart felt like it was made of 20 years olds with smart phones. It is shot like someone is recording a birthday party. I do not know if they used cheap gear or if they wanted to make it look like found footage. I could not keep watching it. If they were going to keep me engaged, then they needed to wow in the first 2 minutes. After Iron Fist and the Inhumans, Marvel Studio's new TV programming is not looking good.