Oh boy, that was depressing. And boring. I have a feeling The Path was made for everyone who likes to watch Aaron Paul cry...
when it started i felt like im watching lost again
After finishing 'bloodline' series season 1, i decided to watch this series. Because seasons have around 10 episodes and episodes are longer than 40 minutes.
Also, i needed some drama.
I will edit here after watching some episodes and i will copy this to episode 1 review.
I hope i can enjoy.
Edit after episode:
It was a nice intro. Different type of series. Eddie saw something and now he suspects. He questions.
I watched this episode around on 27321. . And today i rewatched some parts to remember to able to write something here. I did not notice at first watch cal came to mary's bed. "Lets make better". He meant sex, i am not sure. Then he went to her father to beat him.
The speec was nice. With lights coming to the place.
Twenty minutes in and the dramatic shots of Hugh Dancy and Aaron Paul every ~2 minutes are so incredibly distracting.
As user ds1 says in the comments, the writers try to introduce conflict before their characters, leaving you no reason to care about the protagonist's problems. Also the flashbacks/rewinds to just a couple minutes prior is practically insulting and more specifically entirely redundant.
The ending to this episode was only slightly selling, but--and maybe this comes from a particularly atheistic standpoint--only out of the sake of irony; I'm personally on Eddie's side of doubt, both in the story's plot and also the execution of said plot.
Review by ds1BlockedParent2016-04-02T22:50:54Z
That was weird. Not the good kind of weird, though.
I was genuinely bored. I find the whole build up in this episode and presented story incredibly lacking, uninteresting and simply off.
Acting is overall great with Aaron Paul and Hugh Dancy in important roles, but that's basically it.
The whole episode tries to lure you in with its mystery aspects to keep you watching this show but, somehow, I don't find any of them in any way interesting at all. Reason for this is not that I didn't give it the benefit of the doubt being a new show and all but the lack of establishment of the characters you see and their world they live in. You've got no idea who they are, no explanations and only guess work on what is happening and that is not sufficient for what the episode tries to do in the first place. You don't get the time to care for the people this episode follows whatsoever and so you simply get no reason to. So, why should I care about any mysteries these characters struggle with and feel like they make no sense to me anyway?
In some ways it does feel like Aquarius meets Hulu.
Having a disguised scientology cult being the center of this is fine and all, but I am not going to bother with this, personally it's from the start not worth giving it even a single more episode of time. Something I rarely do.
But seems like a lot of people like it. Is it because of Aaron Paul? It's probably because of Aaron Paul.