A series that made chess feel exciting. I mean let's be real, I like and enjoy chess at times, but chess is admittedly not something I would have expected to be as intense as depicted here. Made me curious how accurate and truly powerful Beth's chess game was and what real competitive chess players thought of this (I Googled, and I wasn't disappointed).
Anya Taylor-Joy was so good! She takes us on a 7-episode trip of Beth's life highlighted by her triumphs and lows, her relationships and losses. At one point, I was pretty sure we weren't going to get e 'happy ending' after everything we've seen, but I'm glad to have been proven wrong. I loved that in the end, Beth learned to accept help and love and family where she can.
I only wish it was less procedural. I enjoyed the first few episodes, but I'm starting to lose interest.
Had no interest in watching when I first heard about this before it came out, but after seeing bits and pieces, I was intrigued enough to check it out. I caught up in a day and am now hooked! Very fun, and the characters are somehow relatable and lovable. Thank the gods it got renewed for a third season. Here's to hoping the Season 2B leaks won't affect that. I can definitely see this show going for at least two to three more seasons before the writers run out of good enough story lines and they start to **** it up.
First few seasons were great.
Every week I tell myself that I am done with this show.. and every week or 2, here I am again. There's just something so alluring (and unfortunately annoying) about it.
Don't get me wrong, I loved Season 1, which is basically why I still hang around, waiting to see what happens next.. then come the second season. When we lost the feel of normalcy, which is the characters' Storybrooke personas, things sort of went awry for me. Nonetheless, I still watch (though I can wait episodes out for weeks, unlike other shows that stir me up so much that I can't wait for the next episode), and every once in a while, I do find myself quite satisfied. Seems that the 3rd season is going pretty well, though, compared to the second, which I found myself strongly disliking halfway through.
Took me a year to get past the first two episodes. Third episode, after nine months since the last one I watched, and I finally got into it and started to understand all the hype about it.
Pretty good, really.. just some cheesy lines and angsty moments here and there that ruin it for me at times.. and sometimes, the acting.. :P
