B’s Review (No. 2)
Most people I know probably won’t be staying at home tonight because my college basketball team is rocking the world! Everyone and their mother is watching the game, but provided your not, I have something to recommend.
It’s fairly short and very fast to get through, but this week’s edition of "How To Fix Your Blues" is dedicated to a YouTube web original called "Trenches." The premise is promising enough; the world of the future is locked in this brutal war over a rather desolate planet. When one side gets stranded from their rescue ship on the battle field, they are forced to pool their resources to survive. But their enemies are also on the planet and it becomes a competition as to whom will gain power, gain the upper hand and get off the planet. Mix in the fact that they only have a few hours to call a ship back, the main character is the only pilot who can fly the ship that comes to rescue them, and that there is something far worse than each other and you have a compelling war saga that keeps you on the edge of your seat. It might be just another testosterone-filled shooting sequence at the beginning but the story gets much better by the end.
I’m not sure whether or not whoever has filmed the series so far will continue, but I think the story leaves you on an interesting note even if they don’t. Questions will arise with no answers, but that’s the fun of it: imagining what is really going on and finding events much more complicated than they really are. I suggest you start with the first episode, but I will also say that there is a lot of violence (being war, that’s a given) and the beginning can be disorienting. But it’s worth it. Trust me.
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