I started and finished Devil in Ohio (2022) in one sitting today. Some spoilers below probably.
I found that Dani and Helen were useless side characters so I sped up their scenes by 1.5x and just continued watching the whole thing at that speed. Also skipped every scene with these two in it so it was easy to finish it quickly.
Overall, I liked it I guess. I generally struggle to watch American/Western stuff because of how hard it is to relate to their school/teen/adult/family/social lives/cultures/setups, and the same was true here but I tried to just skim through anything that did not contribute to the main story. I wish they had more exciting stuff about the cult in question rather than the high school scenes.
The show started off rather slow and didn't get into the juicy cult stuff as quickly. Even when it did, it did so sparingly. But there was always something going on to sustain interest.
I also realise that people on here are all for Mae and sympathising with her not knowing about normal life and criticising the family for being weird with her but I disagree. Mae was weird and it would have been stupid and unrealistic if everyone just accepted everything. Suzanna got everyone into the mess and it was her job to fix it regardless of what her own childhood was like and how much of it she was projecting onto Mae. Idk, this may sound harsh, but the family was fine imo.
What I don't get is why Suzanne continued living separately from her family with Mae...that's so unrealistic and weird. Did it have to do with therapy or healing or whatever? Sometimes I find that these newer, recent shows have unrealistic dialogue and storylines that sound like woke social media posts but really don't make sense. Such instances often make it hard to hard to take a character seriously.
I did like how the series was thrilling and interesting enough without being disturbing and unsettling. I also liked the ending. At first, it seemed like they were gonna end it with the whole ooh poor girl saved from bad cult sweet ending but it's nice to know that Mae wasn't all that great afterall. I sympathise with her to the extent of having been subject to the shit from the cult but not like people on here fully gushing about because oh she was brainwashed or victim or whatever and everyone should accept her and be kind to her. Idk it's confusing, woke social media wants everyone to think a certain way and just...no. The family didn't have to go out of their way to do anything for Mae and I'm glad they didn't or the show would've been even more unrealistic and annoying.
I liked watching the series though, not sure why I wrote such a long post critiquing it. It wasn't ultra amazing but good enough to spend 3.5ish hours on a Saturday night. It was also fun to binge something after a long while.