Trese Netflix Review: 9 Ups & 2 Downs

11. Down: The Pacing

Netflix's original anime offerings have had an overarching problem of not giving their stories enough episodes to breathe, and Trese falls to that issue, though not quite as badly as certain other series.

The pacing is excellent throughout most of the season, but its conclusion feels like it needs to explain too much all at once, which makes it feel a little bogged down in comparison. Mysteries that were laid out meticulously throughout the first five episodes are revealed in quick succession, with much of what happens in episode six feeling like it could have benefited from at least one more episode, if not two.

The fact that animated series generally come to 23 to 30 minute time frames means that trying to tell a complete story in six episodes is an even bigger challenge for animation than it is for live action.

It isn't quite as bad as the four-episode pilot season of Castlevania, which itself was more a prologue than a full season, nor the strange stumbling conclusion of the Yasuke anime, but one hopes that Trese gets at least eight or ten episodes in the second season it teases after its climax.