Quick Final Thoughts – Caligula

I don’t understand, I really don’t.

I mean that in all sorts of ways, primarily the fact that the cast seem to frequently forget that the story is happening. I don’t understand how we go from trying to escape brainwashed imprisonment to “let’s go to a theme park opening” in the span of a single episode. I don’t understand how a show with this opening features exactly one action scene in the first five episodes, and it’s right at the beginning.

And I don’t understand how this came from the mind behind Persona 1 and 2.

This might actually be a more inept video game adaptation than Persona 5, because that might at least be interesting and make sense if you haven’t played the game, Caligula is a tonal disaster that sets up an interesting idea and then gets bored of itself.

It also still looks terrible, up to and including the boring, generic character designs. This show has absolutely no sense of consistent style.

I honestly hoped this would go somewhere cool, and it led to me watching more of it than I needed to.

3/10, dropped after five episodes.