Netflix's Supacell does not deserve its 100% RT score. 80% tops
This series has a tremendous pacing problem. It took its entire six episode run time to to get nowhere. It should have been eight episodes with the current six condensed into four.
It's rated at 7.4 / 10 by critics, it's just that no one (out of 7) rated it Rotten
Relax my dude, these ratings don't really mean much. It's effectively a large binary aggregation of more nuanced ratings. Also, TV in general gets much higher RT scores because the smaller shows don't get a lot of coverage so you have (like this show) 12 reviewers who thought the show was at least fine, a 3/5 if you will, which when you look at the detailed rating aggregate, it got a 7.1/10
This is why rotten tomatoes has the certified fresh indicator, meaning it met the minimum 50 reviewers and has a 60 or above average. 100% with certified. Then it's actually a masterpiece. Anything else is too small a sample size.
I do agree, the pacing is very bad.
Personally, I have to start giving-up earlier on those series where the first couple of episodes don't go anywhere. But I always keep hoping it improves.
Same.
RT is a joke but particularly the tomatometer. IIRC a 51/100 is considered a positive review for the tomatometer. So, a hundred of 51/100 reviews will give it a 100% tomatometer score. Of course this doesn't happen a lot but you get the point.
Now, Supacell. Damn, it sucks big time. I like watching southern London and black people culture on TV, but the value of a TV show like that must rely on the narrative, and the narrative of this show is just amateur.