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Lord of the Files offers a disorienting immersion at first, almost unsettling due to its stylistic choices and lack of conventional visual anchors. But very quickly, the series establishes a raw and gripping atmosphere, drawing us into the gradual descent of the children into a disturbing yet fascinating savagery. A striking and deeply immersive experience.

Just 1 episode in and its quite emotional, cant remember reading the book in school so its nice to see this from a fresh perspective. Edit: Binged the rest of it over the weekend. Really well made and shot and acted. No complaints with any of that. Amazing production BUT in the original book these boys were white upper class students in 1950's England who turned on each other. In the TV adaption made for "modern audiences" they clearly had some sort of agenda when it came to who the main protagonist was and his color and who all the other antagonists were. I accept that Piggy was a white Northern Irish kid too but there is probably some underling agenda there too. Maybe I am wrong but the creator of this also did the show "Adolescense" and that was also REALLY well made but clearly ran an agenda too targeting a certain ethnicity. For the most part these shows are high quality film-making but be aware of the subversive undertones or not, interpret it however you like!

Those who remember reading Golding’s book in high school will find some adjustments in this new version (purportedly to allow more emotional connections). This group of British boys is stranded on a deserted tropical island, where they gradually deteriorate into anarchy and worse. Jack Thorne, who was the creator of “Adolescence” along with Stephen Graham, has extracted astounding performances from every member of this young cast. Each of the four eps focuses primarily on one member of the group with flashbacks for perspective. However, the decision to add artsy montages and static profile images take the project aesthetically overboard. If all that had been scrapped, this could have been a riveting series (at 3 eps). As it stands, these interruptions, along with a slow pace, undermine its effect. Music should amplify the emotions, but this score is often front and center, distracting and downright weird. Thorne’s efforts to amp this up and make it more than needed result in a show that is cluttered with too many unrelated distractions. (Four one-hour eps)

Leider nicht so meins Finde es sehr gewöhnungsbedürftig Serie ist sehr mit Musik überladen Hab dann in der zweiten Episode abgebrochen, weil's nichts für mich war

I absolutely loved the book of this. I could not get past the 2nd episode of this TV adaptation. It's just boring. It's ridiculously padded for length. Go watch the 1990 movie instead, or better yet, read the book. How such a strong property could be given to such inept film makers is a travesty.