Ill try to keep this as short and sweet as possible and thus will not go into every single reason I dont think this show holds up. The show has a good 13 episodes in the beginning before it falls apart. It suffers from I did not explain anything during the shows launching season and thus nothing makes sense without a second season syndrome. You are left with far more questions unanswered than answered by the end of S1 despite it positioning itself as though it has wrapped everything in a nice tidy bow at the end of the last episode. You should reasonably be able to watch any show with a villain and know exactly what their motivations are by the end of the first season. You should be able to know what the actual motivations of your protagonists are before the end of a season as well. With HC you dont get either answered with certainty. You could argue that it draws you to an additional season however there are several moments in the show that break the moment and make it difficult to get immersed once more. It moves with a fast pace which some shows can do well without losing the impact however you end up losing far more than you gain as a viewer because of it. Moments that should have more time more emotion more suspense do not get the luxury. We instead get drawn out scenes that in the end do not make a difference to the season as a whole. HC is like a poorlystitched patchwork quilt the episodes that the creators chose to make do not fit together nicely nor do they make sense on their own. I will give the show that the voice acting is pretty okay. However the animation is absurd in moments that it needs to not be. Example: The characters as shown to us in S1 were as bland as saltines without salt. It was painful to watch. I do not recommend watching this show past the 3rd episode and I more than likely will not be watching S2 least not expecting to like it should I actually do so. TLDR: The show breaks the moment for the viewer on multiple occasions. It gave a support character a background episode instead of a main character it is woefully predicable regarding its twists because its hard to immerse yourself again once the story pulls you out of focus and the story as it sits at the end of S1 does NOT fit together cohesively.
21 /100
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