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CRITICS OF "When The Streetlights Go On - Season 1"
Thrillist
The cast, including It's Chosen Jacobs, is strong, and it's got a compelling or lurid cliffhanger. Sometimes you just... wish you were watching a movie, though.
The slow-burn unfolding mystery is intriguing but the voiceover from the protagonist's older self has yet to prove why it's necessary beyond exposition.
The series is more attractive for its form than for the content, with a fabulous photograph, a soundtrack that gets us fully into its era, and a good casting. [Full Review in Spanish]
Its Zodiac meets This Is Us procedural melodrama has the prospect of setting up an intriguing mystery, as long as they cool it with the rad '90s pop culture references.
For being a murder mystery, the show never relies on excessive twists or dramatic turns to keep viewers invested. Instead, it focuses on the trauma of a small community.
It offers a sense of nostalgia for the oft-ignored 90s, but more than that it's interested in exploring the darkness within each of us - something we might tie to a time and place from our past but which is ultimately unbound and beyond our control.
A combination of several successful, appealing formulas - a murder mystery surrounded by high school drama set against a backdrop of comforting nostalgia. But it doesn't handle any of those elements particularly well.
Sure, "Streetlights" traffics in some of the clichés that are found in any teen drama or mystery story... but the mood is evocative and Jacobs makes for a compelling lead,.