But it's also a frustrating, infuriating picture; one whose world view rarely reaches beyond the theatrical classes of the Upper East Side, one where entire strands are botched or barely even started, and one where bold tonal lurches and
odd editing choices glare out, like someone did a shit in the middle of that tapestry you'd been working on for a while.
Aside from a few
odd editing choices, Scott directs this wordy script competently, in a very English way of just pretending not to notice how ludicrous it is and focusing instead on the kind of swanky visuals that might be found in a Bacardi Rum commercial.
Also, this series seems to release super slow, too bad as it jars with the extreme fast pass of the story, its not a good thing, but the story and art and all that, pretty good, the concept alone is interesting, and the characters and concepts as presented are good, but, these volumes are
edited to a degree, which is
odd, this is a teen series, so, why cut the swearing, why change the names, why doctor the art when there's nothing mature to cover up in the first place... not good
choices on the part of the American release staff, though this volume doesn't have those things to such a degree so, maybe those comments should be for a earlier volume.