Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities

Kinda mid overall, but the standout episode The Autopsy pulls my score up all by itself.

S01: I hoped for more. Almost all the episodes have a lot of potential but, frustratingly, don't stick the landing. Some end abruptly just when things get interesting (s01e02,05,07) probably because they ran out of ideas. Others rush the ending and force character development and plot points to happen too fast (s01e01,04,05), probably because of runtime constraint. The only episodes that felt fully developed are ep. 3 and 8. The others seem more like a waste of good ideas. Still, a fun watch.

Every episode is stretched out as long as it possibly could have been. Some are okay, most are insufferable. Don't waste your time with this one.

Del Toro's anthology starts decently with the Tim Blake Nelson episode, and Babadook director Kent reteaming with Eddie Davis closes the season on a high note. Except for David Prior's entry (episode 3: "The Audition") the rest are skippable - and I did, actually, opt to skip two of them... And while I was a bit disappointed with David S. Goyer's script for "The Audition", the Finchery craftmanship from Prior is once again promising and the first half of his episode is best of the year material.

More anthologies please.

Very big disappointment. These stories feel dated, redundant, lifeless, stale, lacking in true horror and like true 'truth', aka emotional truth. I'm mostly disappointed in Ana Lily Amirpour's episode. The Autopsy kinda worked. Some of the episodes I could call 'blandly competent', I guess. How sad! Did we really need 2 Lovecraft episodes involving paintings and witches?!

boring but good concept could use better writing

I liked the atmosphere and stories.

Watched over several months. These are all period pieces with amazing set direction, each with a different tone, theme, quality, and, frankly, a level of gore. As an anthology, it does its job of potentially exposing you to new creators and ideas. My appreciation of horror as a genre is more in the abstract, so I am not sure what is merely interesting in this set, but there are a few pieces that are either fun or give you something to chew over.

DNF. So bored.