Deadly Class (2019)

There’s certainly a spark from time to time. But for now, Deadly Class is failing to live up to its potential. It’s messy and hollow.

Occasionally the dialogue lays into this a bit too thickly, via character soliloquies resembling anti-corporate rants from the “Repo Man” school of screenwriting. Viewers turned off by that won’t be impressed by the cynicism winding through the opening episodes, either. But the central cast, led by Wadsworth and Condor, wins you over eventually--or, I should say, the most fleshed out characters featured within the first four episodes do this.

The pilot, which also introduces the animated flashback sequences that represent easily the series' best element, presents enough potential plot avenues and appropriately satirized '80s targets to offer hope that Deadly Class would turn out to be more than a bloody high-school goof with the profundity of a freshman's depressive diary scribblings. It mostly does not, though I wholly expect that to be more than enough for some viewers.

As sardonic and irreverent as it aims to be, I love that Deadly Class never shortchanges the anxiety and fears of being a teen, and the cast really nails their performances of those feelings. This sometimes results in lengthy narration that I could live without. But it also pays off with stories like Billy’s, or the unmistakable spark between Marcus and Saya.

Deadly Class also misfires at times with this tale of disaffected, dysfunctional young outlaws being trained to lethally rage against the machine. But the first four episodes also vividly embed themselves with their blend of fierce action, relatable characters, striking visuals and a pounding, dynamic soundtrack that offsets some of the ham-fisted spoken words.

You'll like Deadly Class from the beginning, but it takes a beat for you to actually fall in love. There is one exception to that statement. Lana Condor, who became an internet sensation last summer as Lara-Jean Covey in Netflix's To All the Boys I've Loved Before, is an immediate stand-out from this remarkable cast.

Deadly Class takes a beloved genre and offers a new take. With touches of humor, layered characters and creativity to spare, this is a series that resonates.

It’s a frustrating run of intoxicating highs and off-putting lows, at least in the early going. ... As it stands, uncertainly, at the starting gate, it’s poised somewhere between pass and fail.

Aggressively unpleasant and unrepentantly nihilistic, Syfy’s Deadly Classis likely to have limited appeal.

Oh bordel, encore une daube !… je m’y attendais un petit peu quand même… je le subodorais, le supposais et l’envisageais, oui tout en même temps. Et même… je l’ai senti, oui, ce soubresaut dans la force de la Daube. Oui, cette daube est puissante… et d’ailleurs dès le début, on a vite compris… c’est bel et bien une méga daube !! Une daubasse plutôt bien emballée quand même… mais avec déjà, rapidement, le truc qui fâche considérablement : la musique de merde omniprésente (des années 80) : la série est-elle une série ou un juke-box du Top 50 ? des chansons à 99% très cons et au volume trop élevé, comme dans une pub de merde (pléonasme). Ensuite, oui ensuite… c’est-à-dire tout le reste a été boulotté par un chat qui a pété. Oui, on a simulé des scénaristes complètement cons qui écrivent n’importe quoi et devinez quoi : c’est un succès ! tellement réaliste ce sous-niveau de l’écriture qui ne se relit jamais et qui raconte que de la merde ! il est décidément incroyable, ce chat. Cette pseudo école de jeunes cons assassins est donc à la masse, pas crédible deux secondes, pleine d’incohérences et de contradictions aberrantes. On se croirait la plupart du temps dans une mauvaise bouffonnerie de très mauvais goût, à la limite de la sitcom de base où l’on suit des demeurés d’étudiants à la mords-moi-le-noeud. C’est bête, même pas drôle, lent et très bavard… tu parles d’une bande de « tueurs » de pacotille de la foire à farfouille, des foutus peigne-culs !

Somehow, this show with cheesy name had no right to be as good as it actually is. Casting is inexplicably good, screenplay works, the show is fun to watch and there's just so much potential. It's unbelievable that the show was dropped by Syfy. Season 1 is quality television and definitely better than most of the current production.

everything is to obvius and they try to make a cool Guy vibe over the school but failed hard

Insert almost grown-ups from different backgrounds like the mexican cartel, Yakuza, gangsters, some kid from the streets, ****, emo's, the KGB and nasa in one class and you have what they call a "Deadly Class". Except for that they are not so "Deadly". Most episodes are actually not in "Class" either. You follow these individuals as their backgrounds become clear; all of them have had things happen to them that are not so pleasant. Which should be a given due to their backgrounds. The story feels inconclusive because it gives little hints of where the story wants to go but then it takes 2 or 3 episodes to get there, doing this with many filler scenes that besides showing and explaining the characters pasts have really no other purpose to the main story which makes these scenes feel pointless and distracting. The effect it has on the main story as well is that it makes the main plot points feel less important. Because of this reason I do not advise to binge watch this series but instead watch one and the other a couple of days later and so on.

Deadly class is a JEWEL of the television, the script, the performances (Especially that of Maria Gabriela de Faria), the photograph EVERYTHING is absolutely perfect, chapter five is the best of all, although the final chapter could be much better