Believe is cliché-filled schmaltz—but it isn’t hopeless
After the thrill ride that was Gravity, the pilot episode for Believe, directed and co-created by Alfonso Cuarón, was a disappointment. It’s a sentimental piece of television, one that is more interested in building visual sequences than connect us to its characters. From the very first minutes of Believe, we get a sense of black-and-white…