A decent first season and there's enough to enjoy, but the quality of the show is out of balance. Acting performances go from great to really bad and for every good episode there's a dissapointing one. The story is interesting, but feels rushed at times. Best performances this first season in my opinion go to Bendedict Wong, Alex Sharp and Jess Hong. All three of them act really natural and subtle. Unfortunately this can't be said for Eiza González and Saamer Usmani. Usmani's acting is so fabricated and fake that it makes me question if it's on purpose and he's actually an alien.
Looking forward to a second season and hope they can improve on the first.
From a somewhat interesting start this show really turned into a shitshow with absolutely ludicrous story, total absence of actual science and populated with drama queens, selfish morons and pacifists.
And the probe? Humanity's survival is at stake and they create something that breaks apart from shoddy manufacturing?
Did they get some DEI hire from Boeing to put it together?
Ye Wenjie's graveyard chat with Saul is the most mind boggling change from the books. Seriously, what does that dry joke have to do with the dark forest hypothesis?
I don't know if it's the actress, the character, or both, but "Auggy" is the most obnoxious and irritating character I've seen in quite a while. Tiresome af, tarnishes any scene she's in.
I like this show, but after 6 episodes I must come to the conclusion that I really dislike Eiza González acting and her character Auggie. Compared to the rest of the cast her performance just feels off and falls short. She looks like she's duck facing half of the time and is more concerned with looking beautiful then delivering a believable en convincing performance. Saamer Usmani's acting is a bit better, but also very flat and artificial in my opinion.
Picking up the thread of the conversation two years after the first season is not easy. The plot of this series is quite intricate, and the messes that all the characters have don't make it easy. This first episode of the second season is excessively and needlessly too existentialist. Let's see how it goes on.
I hope “our” Jason and Amanda are in another (third) universe, because it would be hard to explain why the box connects only two specific universes.
Jules - :heart:x7
This was a very sweet, heartwarming story. It was quite simple and moving with bits of humor sprinkled in. Definitely worth watching.
How I rate:
1-3 :heart: = seriously! don't waste your time
4-6 :heart: = you may or may not enjoy this
7-8 :heart: = I expect you will like this too
9-10 :heart: = movies and TV shows I really love!
We're just watching high school theater plays with a big budget...
OMG! A major WOKE hit in this episode. Will they ever wise up?
What the fuck is this?
For a series premier, this was not a good episode. For a doctor who episode, it wasn't a good episode. The CGI on the babies mouths was horrific.
This sucked. The rest of the season better be better.... I love Ncuti. And have been super excited even after the dismal Ruby Road troll thing. But this was both disgusting and too childish. Maybe Disney involvement is ruining the messaging that Whovians are accustomed to. This came off as made for children rather than the fan base. I hope it gets better.
Better than the second episode, and again some of the changes in the adaptation make sense, but overall it feels a bit dumber than the book. The book has its own issues, but I had hoped those could be remedied without giving up on the strong ideas. They're still there, but watered down.
ranjit's actor's monologue about the war was incredible tbh
The guy rated 9 obviously was paid to write this review. In VN, no-one talks like that in real life.
If you have decided to wait till the Finale to watch this show, & stream it back to back, then I suggest to strap yourself in, cause you're in for one of the great Masterpieces on either TV or Streaming right now
If this isn't nominated for an Emmy(s) then there's a problem
Want to keep seeing more masterpieces of shows like this, keep em coming
A beautiful conclusion to this limited series. A work of fantastic storytelling that I'm sure people will be talking about for a long time. Captivating from start to finish made this adaptation worthwhile.
Sad this is over - we really have had such a treat of talent coming together to tell a fantastic story.
A perfect finale, I'll admit I thought maybe we'd get a big battle to end things off (which would've been cool of course) but I love that this finale just stays in line with what the rest of the show has been, incredible dialogue, outstanding character moments and a score that brings out the emotions at the perfect time. That final scene was so touching too, seeing where Blackthrone started with that village / Toranaga and where he ended up with both of those things, beautiful
A befitting finale. I was hoping this episode would be an all out war episode , but as I finished watching it , I came to the realisation that an all out war would be contradicting the season so far. So happy how they ended it .
If last week's penultimate episode was the show's dramatic peak, this finale is an elegiac send-off, with Mariko's loss really felt by all (and which Jarvis beautifully conveys that throughout). Sanada and (especially) Asano are really in top form throughout, especially during that cliff's climatic conversation. Great series.
"Why tell a deadman the future?"
I couldn't have asked for a more fitting finale for this "piece of an art" mini-series. The bar was set high. It could've been either like the GoT finale or Breaking Bad finale. So glad they stayed consistent from start to finish. Undoubtedly, this ranks among the greatest miniseries ever produced.
Many people may be dissatisfied with the finale if they expected to watch an all-out war, which contradicts the entire idea of the show.
Iris is a breath of fresh air! I hope she's not immediately killed for no reason (but who are we kidding...)
Great episode but I do wish it was a little more balanced instead of ‘America’ all the time. The British were caricatured in this and the voiceover fails to point out that night raids were a necessity due to fighting alone for 4 years and losing aircraft early on. By the time the US came in precision bombing was possible because of numbers and the technological development. The vast majority of British pilots were kids just like the Americans, not members of the gentry like portrayed.
The bravery of the men stands on its own in my opinion, not sure the narrative needs to try and layer perceptions instead of facts over this.
I have no words after watching this.
If I did, they'd be nothing but positive.
What a show.
All the tension, all the emotions... One of the greatest hours of tv ever.
I've never before rated a single episode on Trakt, but this one was so tremendously good that I had to.
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