Mythology is the most profound subject matter, yet somehow Netflix was able to dumb it down like a wine cooler.
At first I sort of liked it, I mean I really appreciate the effort.
I think the actors are all fantastic. There is just so much wrong with the roles and plot, and it's just like how Santa was depicted in the Polar Express movie. I don't see the afterlife as a big bossy beurocracy. If you do then you'll probably like the series.
I hate the way they portrayed Medusa and Neptune. She's a big bossy bitch and he's a Mafia thug who panders to Zeus.
I don't see her that way. I don't see Santa Claus and his Elves as corporate workers so maybe it's just me.
Neptune/Poseidon and Medusa share a complex relationship like Luke and Laura from General Hospital. She was supposed to be a nun to Athena. Why is she serving time in Hades in this show and basically a government worker in hell?
Medusa is a saint. Poseidon is the personification of subconscious emotion. Kaos depicts them as flawed humans serving an unjust ruler- Zeus. They don't even talk about an Almighty God.
I think the gods are way more intelligent than humans or else they wouldn't be gods. What a god actually is, is a human who completed many life cycles and turns into a Boddisatva or Enlightened Master, Angel, Saint, ect.,
From my neurodiverse perspective, I see them as aliens.
Zeus is the ruler, soon to retire after we get a new North Star. Athena was born from Zeus and his first wife who ascended higher than our galaxy. Medusa serves Athena, not Zeus. Yet, Athena is no where in the first three episodes.
Zeus, in the show, does not want to let go of power so is grasping at straws like a desperate turant trying to get people to worship him again by starting plagues and wars to kill half of us and wake up the rest from being so “convivial”.
Played by Jeff Goldblum (who is very awesome in this part and dryly funny) Zeus is a great depiction of the archetype of corruption.
It would be more fair to depict Zeus as a just ruler who punishes those who abuse power, rather than abuse power himself and show how the gods/aliens follow a Supreme God who doesn't favor the arrogant.
Kaos is told from a human arrogance perspective.
Dionysus, god of wine and psychosis, is a partier, who is depicted in a little better light as humanity’s new savior by allowing Morpheus to enter the underworld to defeat death.
Could have been more interesting to portray him being more complex ,more as a destroyer of egos who is m leprechaun-like.
Dionysus is the father of Pan and all forest spirits that represent our wild nature as well as all living things and they despise human arrogance even more than Zeus who can be persuaded to show mercy when his wife or daughters request it. Hermes also is able to change his mind about humans.
Morpheus is one of those arrogant humans being initiated but in Kaos hes only one dimensional, portrayed as a boy scout/rock star who has lost his muse but only wants her back because he loves her and is pining away for that rather than missing the talent that she bestowed.
Hera comes off as a fatal attraction wife who has nothing going on except for her obsession with Zeus.
Maybe it will get better after the third episode?
Let me know because I'm not wasting anymore time watching it.