@alexnader you raise a lot of valid questions but I am enjoying the show regardless.
Re: the shallowness of the stories, I suppose to some extent what you've got going on with the debris-of-the-week stories is the investigation of the exposure of random individuals to bits of debris and how it effects or corrupts them. This obviously makes their stories more small scale because it's happened due to (bad) luck rather than some proverbial master plan. The deeper story is obviously the two competing intelligence agencies and Finola's back-from-the-dead father.
I definitely agree about the lack of recurring powers. These pieces ought to be used in subsequent episodes otherwise it makes each piece of debris discovered kind of irrelevant, reducing it to mere alien junk.
Review by alexnaderBlockedParent2021-04-13T15:00:05Z
Ugh, I wanna like this show so bad, but again these stories are all so god damn dull. So, the uncle killed his brother, because he was trying to escape ... the uncle's mind control plan ... and then kept his niece hostage to collect more of the debris ... all so he could fulfill his Grand Master Plan of ... killing a bunch of random Army generals ... That's why he destroyed his family ? it's all just so shallow.
On top of that there's just a million questions left unanswered, and not in a good way, where it's up to the audience to decide ... Nope just: "Wait, what, I'm lost. Why did that just happen ?".
Like: Why was the debris only attracted to the girl ? Why not just scrape the bottom of the lake ? Why did it not affect her ? Why did the one brother try to run away with the debris, and how did the other one find him, then control him to commit suicide from so far away ? Is this debris supposed to have unlimited range ? What made people remember what they had been controller about ? I'll admit I might have missed this part, but what exactly was the issue with the debris ? Did it "spoil" after being used, or did he just need more to be more powerful ? edit: I just remembered this one, but ... didn't the niece just straight up murder her uncle then ? She couldn't, you know, force him to surrender ? No, no. Better to force him to slam his head against a shard of metal
Also, I feel like one of the biggest missed opportunities are the lack of reoccurring powers: every episode we're introduced to a new piece of Debris, and 45 minutes later the thing is whisked away and shelved, never to be seen again. Could the agents not be using all this fancy new tech to become more bad-ass super-agents ?
This whole show has just become:
"Hi, I'm Bryan ..." gives a broody look, off into the distance
"I'm Finola ..." poses with piercing eyes, and pursed lips
"and we're ... the Metal Detectorists !"