I found it mediocre at best.
It's a very interesting concept for sure. When you start you're not quite sure what's happening. A man is cut in pieces but is alive and well in a space that reminds you of Monument Valley.
He goes around exploring this weird metaphysical space and then finds a dead body and tries to solve a murder.
Then you find out he's being guided by a team that looks like it came straight out of Fate Grand Order, using technology that creates mental worlds out of a killers urge to kill.
It is nothing if not fascinating.
The characters are also not half bad. The main character is Sakaido, detective who they hint early on and reveal to be an incarcerated killer.
Then you have Hondomachi, who I still feel is the highlight of the show. She's not an oversexualized bimbo but is a cute and capable detective.
And it discusses psychological themes and basically creates murder mystery whodunit you solve in the sense of figuring out the psychology behind it rather than figuring out the killer.
Sounds great right?
In practice the show isn't a riveting page turner and doesn't keep you glued to the screen.
The way I judge whether a show is good or bad, is how much it managed to make me binge watch it. Is it the kind of show that kept me wanting to watch more? Was it a show I binged in 4 hours because it was that engaging?
Or was it interesting, checked all the tick boxes for a great show, but while watching I felt like doing something else instead of playing the next episode?
Ultimately that's the true litmus test for a great series and nothing else.
Id Invaded failed that test spectacularly. I thought I would love this series but I never managed to binge watch it. I watched the first episode when it first aired and thought it was interesting. Then I waited for it to finish then I downloaded the rest to binge watch it.
The very fact that I was able to wait for it to finish was a red flag. If I really like a series I don't wait for it to finish if I already watched the first episode. I wait for it with bated breath every week. Back Arrow is like that.
Id Invaded I was able to put off my desire to watch it until it finished. After it finished I tried binging it, but I lose interest after an episode and find myself watching something else. Meanwhile I watch a trash-sounding show like Tonikawa or Our Last Crusade and end up binging it from start to finish without taking a break.
For whatever reason it's not that compelling. It looks great on paper but ultimately was just a mediocre series.
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