Raising
Dion DNF/10
Full
disclosure, I stopped watching towards the end of episode two when I
said out loud “Oh, stop being so stupid!” Raising Dion is about a single
mother named Nicole Reese whose son Dion starts developing powers.
Like, all the powers. I first heard about this years ago when I
randomly saw a trailer years ago and it just went away. I didn't even
know a comic book was involved. Last year I heard that a series was
being made and suddenly it was on Netflix right around the time I got
rid of it. I have it again and decided to check this series out and
was almost immediately annoyed. In case you don't know I can not
stand most kid actors. To me there are two types. Amazing and
terrible. There is no in between. When there is a child on screen
that I don't mind it makes me so happy which is why a movie like
Shazam was so shocking. None of the kids in it bugged me. But this
one kid alone was too much for me to deal with.
I
wanted to read how this ends but even the Wiki page just list the
episode titles. In the first two episodes he has developed the
ability to levitate objects, move objects at a long distance,
seemingly change the weather, skateboard well, fly, bring ghosts
back, and teleport. It is too much and as someone who writes
superhero characters that could easily border on too much (like
Johnny Panic) I know the limit. His mother loves her son but seems
like she doesn't know how to talk to him even though it appears her
husband has been dead a few years. There is some mystery surrounding
the father that I honestly don't care about.
The
father is said to have drowned saving a lady's life but the mom
discovers in one of his jackets a handwritten piece of paper with her
name and number on it. Right. The dad had a bestfriend named Pat and
he seems like a good dude that only cares about Dion so I am pretty
sure he is gonna end up being a bad guy because plot. You can't have
dudes running around being nice for the sake of being nice. And in
case you're wondering I just checked and it turns out that he does
end up being evil. Stop making me right!
So
yeah. Not gonna finish watching this. The acting was all over the
place meaning the mom was acting like she was on one show while her
sister was on another and the son was not acting at all. He was just
reacting to what he was being told was happening. “There is a bowl
of cereal floating in front of you! Action!” I wanted this to be a cool
show and not just because Black people are involved. Read reviews for
shows with Black folk and chances are you will hear a lot of
apologizing for bad production, acting, writing, and directing. No. Be better! This silly shit does not get a pass. Oh, and the scene
that made me tap out was when they were leaving the cabin and Dion
left a note for his dead ghost dad with their name and address on it
and the mother saw this and left it. What kinda stupid shit is that?!
Alisha
Wainwright as Nicole Reese
Ja'Siah
Young as Dion Warren
Jazmyn
Simon as Kat Neese
Sammi
Haney as Esperanza Jimenez
Jason
Ritter as Pat Rollins
Michael
B. Jordan as Mark Warren
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