At the final episode, I kept getting back to the title just to make sure I was really watching episode ten and not one. Yeah. Clever way to knock out who's watching and thought the show was confuse during the previous episode, right? Not when you realize the whole ep is going to be episode one all over again--literally. I was hoping that, at some point, even in the last ten minutes (when I was starting to freak out that it would be the same thing), episode one's ghost would go away and there would be brand new scenes, a exclusive cliffhanger coming right after the ending given to us on episode one, damn it I was hoping even for just 59 seconds of new scene at that ending, but... it was literally episode one again man and that was frustrating. I've been watching this series for three days, very confuse with the non-linear narrative and starting to lose all my hopes it was on purpose since there were some flaws here and there, but I kept watching, looking forward for a big revelation in the end and even a post-credit scene! But no. There's no cliffhanger at all. It would be really annoying if there was a cliffhanger in the last seconds after 45 minutes of the same old material but at that point I was so desperate it would be the same thing that I wished for it so badly, but "Home Before Dark" ends just like its opening; going nowhere, walking in circles, confuse. Probably in hope of making the viewer starts bite their nails, in a positive frenzy for a possible season two. But I don't think so. It didn't had this effect on me, at least. I believe a second season just to re-re-reaffirm that Richie Fife was alive (for it was emphasized not once, but TWICE in just one since) will not have the same impact that it would if we got just a little sneak peak into Richie's current whereabout at the very final seconds of the first season. I can't see myself watching its second season (it was hard enough to get through the first already). I am kinda disappointed not just with the show but with the streaming because it was my first shot to it and I didn't think it was a very nice welcome offered by a new streaming. But I am not giving up on Apple TV + just yet. I just hope I can say the other shows are at least good.
