One exception to this was Jeremias Amoore who plays Bear Stelzer. ![]() The acting from the leads was flat, but honestly, I can’t blame them too much because the script they were working with was also painfully dull and boring. It was underwhelming and honestly, not a great message to send to the pre-teens that this show is aimed at. ![]() They gave Anton a redemption arc without making him do any of the actual work to earn it. All that is seemingly forgiven though, when Anton agrees to let Ava play for his team. He constantly prioritizes hockey over raising her and, when she tells him that she wants to play too, he laughs in her face and she reveals that he hasn’t hugged her since she was a child. In short, he’s a jerk, especially to his daughter. Honestly, Ava is kind of a sweet character and she’s one of the few in the show with realistic motivations for her actions. There are several episodes about Ava Hammarström, Anton’s daughter, a figure skater whose secret desire is to play hockey for her father’s team. That’s not the only baffling subplot, in fact, this entire show is just confusing subplots held together with shoelaces. There’s a plot twist that the show thinks is absolutely brilliant, but actually ends up being kind of underwhelming and also, for whatever reason, involves cancer. There are a couple episodes that Kayla spends trying to find the mystery skater’s identity so she can convince them to be her new skating partner. She sees someone on the ice, clad head to toe in hockey gear, but who appears to be going through the motions of a figure skating routing. On one of the nights, Jacob ghosts her and so Kayla decides to skate on her own. It’s kind of sweet, until you remember how entirely ridiculous it is that this family moved to England in the first place. Kayla spends her nights sneaking into the rink where her brother plays hockey so that she can facetime Jacob and skate ‘with’ him. She was a competitive figure skater and her pairs skating partner Jacob Schimmer now lives across the Atlantic Ocean. When the family decided to leave Canada, Kayla was forced to leave a very big part of her life behind. Kayla’s arc centres around adjusting to life in England and fighting with her brother. But the story was also bad.Īlmost all of the characters were incredibly one dimensional and their arcs were either left unresolved or were resolved in a totally unsatisfying way. There were a couple shots that I’m pretty sure had palm trees in the background and it was almost always sunny.īut, I decided that I could move on and forgive the show for its location-based sins and just focus on the story. Also worth pointing out is that at no point did I ever believe that this show was set in England. I found myself immediately wondering why someone who wants to get better at hockey would leave Canada of all places, to go to a country where approximately five people own hockey skates. The MacBently family has decided to move away from their home in Canada (we’re never told what part of Canada, just ‘Canada’) all the way to England so that their son Mac, can be coached by Anton Hammarström, a renowned former NHLer-turned hockey school founder. The show starts off on an utterly incomprehensible note. I had incredibly low expectations and yet Zero Chill got down onto the floor and army-crawled underneath of them. I want to be clear, I wasn’t expecting high cinema or artistry from this 10-episode family sports comedy on Netflix. ![]() But Zero Chill was not fun bad, it wasn’t even car crash bad, it was bad bad. Listen, I know I said I watched this show because I knew it was going to be bad, but I was hoping for fun bad, or a car crash that I couldn’t quite look away from. It’s a family show, centered around the character of Kayla MacBentley, who has to leave everything behind in Canada when her family decides to follow her twin brother Mac, to a hockey school run in England by an ex-NHL legend. Zero Chill is a 10-episode Netflix show that I watched specifically because I knew it was going to be bad.
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