Well, after 5 seasons it’s finally over. The last 25 minutes was totally unnecessary filler. To sit for 25 minutes watching Burnham’s irritating grin, and listening to her whispery dramatic voice was paramount to torture. I sat there just to see where it was finally leading to….nowhere. They should have just cut it off at Suru’s wedding, if they even needed to drag it out that long.
I’ll can now look forward to the next series of Strange New Worlds, if there is one. I’ll also sit in hope that The Orville is finally renewed for another series, although I’m beginning to doubt that will ever happen.
Goodbye Dicovery, you won’t be missed. Not by me anyway.
If this is the best the scriptwriters can come up with, maybe it’s time to call time on the series.
From Dorothy being determined to get Leanne back into the house, to Leanne being determined to stay now Dorothy has decided she has to go, the tale has taken a complete turn.
In an earlier series, Leanne was seen watching a video of one of Dorothy's old news reports. This showed Leanne in the crowd as a youngster. With her determination to look after Dorothy, shown by her willingness to "remove" anybody who tries to harm her, I have started to wonder if maybe Leanne could actually be Dorothy's daughter.
Could it be possible that Dorothy had a child in her teenage years and gave her away for adoption? This could also go some way into explaining her mental frailties and unwillingness to accept the Jericho actually died. Has anybody any thoughts on this possibility?
Thank goodness there’s only two episodes left if this. The only reason I’m still watching is to see how it links in with the other parts of the franchise.
They have a shootout at the service station, and nobody thinks to shoot Troy first? The constant switching between English & German is unnecessary as well. The only reason I keep watching is for completion. I'll be glad when it's finally over.
Probably one of the poorer episodes up to now. I can’t claim to have enjoyed this episode. I just hope this isn’t the start of a long downward slide.
I can’t make my mind up about this. One minute it appears really interesting, and the next it looks like a CW drama. I like the idea of it, and the way it delves into the effects of cults, but sometimes it’s just like any other show aimed at a teenage audience.
I find it hard to believe that every time Jamie needs advice, he goes running to Beth, even though she openly admits she’s going to ruin him.
I like the series, but I wish they would find a way to get rid of Burnham permanently. Her constant switching to loud whispering to try and make herself sound exciting is irritating. It also seemed strange that when Saru asked to become Burnham’s first officer, nothing was mentioned of how Tilly felt about suddenly losing the position.
There’s been a few good seasons of this, but it’s now getting boring. Even Victor is just becoming annoying rather than interesting. If they’re not careful it will become as bad as World Beyond.
The one thing that confused me is, after finally finding the box in the snow storm by hitting the top of it with the sticks, how they managed to dig out all the snow from around it to allow themselves to get back inside? Surely, with so much snow, even the inside would have been full seeing as they left the door open?
I can’t believe I actually watched this. The rest of the series has been poor, but just about watchable, but this episode dropped about as low as it could. The script was terrible, the majority of the acting was terrible, and the special effects were like something out of a b-rated movie. Hopefully this will be scrapped before somebody decides to authorise a second season. This was dire, even by CW standards.
Stick to the original 2004 series. It was a much higher quality at all levels.
I’m a bit mixed in my thoughts about this series, but I must admit that this is the best out of the 8 episodes. I’m can’t decide what age group this is supposedly aimed at. You have the Last Men who are a military/police force, then you have their general who looks like a typical comic book villain. Not the greatest series I’ve seen, but watchable all the same.
The only thing that keeps this series watchable is Rachel Skarsten’s portrayal of Alice. She is the one jewel in a series that is dropping lower every episode.
That was poor. Liz is determined to kill Reddington and then, all of a sudden, she’s talking to him like a little girl getting all excited as though she’s just met someone new and interesting. Just get the series over with, it’s well past it’s sell by date.
This series just keeps going from bad to worse. I keep watching, hoping that it will start to improve...... It doesn’t. The script is terrible. The acting is terrible and there’s not one character that’s actually likeable. If ever a series deserved to be scrapped part way through the first season, this is it.
It was ok to start with, until a pair of augmented reality glasses suddenly appeared at his bedside, with nobody to actually put them there. He could then even feel her, which isn’t a feature of AR. AR does not create actual physical items.
He then got up the next morning to find his breakfast prepared for him. Who put it on the table, and who also moved Daphne to the other end of the table? A good idea to start with, but totally unbelievable by the end.
Beth’s character is now getting boring. It’s the same thing all the time. Jamie, for all his supposed intelligence and knowledge of the law, just stands in fear like a little child whenever John or Beth speak to him.
Both characters are getting past their sell by date.
Definitely the poorest season of the 4 up to now.
A good first episode. An interesting storyline with solid performances from the cast. Not the fastest moving of shows, but not all programmes have to be shot at a blistering pace. The steady pace give you a chance to get to know the characters a bit better as the story unfolds. I’m looking forward to watching the next episode.
I’m not sure where they are actually going with this. It doesn’t really make much headway from one episode to the next.
In an earlier series, it showed a video clip with a young Leanne stood watching Dorothy, yet nothing appears to have grown from that since.
It makes me wonder if the scriptwriters are just making it up as they go along, or if they have an actual goal to the series.
Isn’t it strange how all 3 bigots up to now have been white males? I suppose stereotypes don’t apply when it comes to male Caucasian. :thinking: The main proportion of characters in the show are black, with a good number of LBQT characters thrown in, but it could do with more effort being made for a true representation of the few white characters they include. Not all white males are racist bigots
It’s a shame they’re having to use the exact same story lines as the UK version, apart from the Halloween episode. Not really sure why this had to be remade. Surely, with all the English actors is US programmes, the American viewers can now understand the accents?
Quite a few errors in this one, but the biggest one being when he went back to save Julie on her 24th birthday.
The first time she didn’t get chance to tell him she was pregnant, although she tried. When he returned to his altered life 12 months later, there was no baby. Why?
I also couldn’t figure out why throwing a glass of wine over Bristol got him the vice president role instead. Very poor sequel that hadn’t had enough thought given to the plot.
I'm enjoying this, and it's different enough from Orphan Black to avoid just being a clone (pun intended). I do wonder though, how much older than Kira is Felix supposed to be? I know there's only been around 6 years between series, and the new one is set over 30 years after the first, but he manages to look younger than Kira now.
I'm looking forward to the last 2 episodes though, and I hope it gets given the thumbs up for a second season.
I'm not a big fan of Krysten Ritter, but I loved the original Orphan Black series, so I thought I would give it a go. I'm not too impressed with the first episode, but I'll give it a few more before writing it off. I did like the link to one of Tatiana's many characters, and hopefully she'll make a guest appearance before the end of the series.
What's the modern obsession with using subtitles in near enough every programme these days? Fear the Walking Dead, Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, Citadel and many others. Is it really necessary. If I want to do so much reading, I can just buy a book.
I'll keep watching for now though. It does have the potential for plenty of improvement.
Great to see the Orville back for a 3rd, long awaited, season. Now moved from Fox to Hulu but with no loss of quality.
I loved this first episode. Just the right balance of humour and drama to put this among the best Star Trek type series. This is more like a cross between Star Trek & Space Quest. For all those who don’t remember Space Quest, it was a series of comedy games by Sierra that were strongly influenced by Star Trek. Hopefully the series will continue strongly and carry on with the great writing and characters. Definitely on my must watch list for all future episodes (and hopefully seasons).
As a fan of the book and, in most parts, the original film, I was really looking forward to this remake. What a disappointment.
The use of a John Carpenter score, and the name De Laurentis on the production, it was obviously attempting to have an 80s vibe.
The addition of Charlie’s extra abilities and Andy’s need to crick his neck to show he was going in for a ‘push’, just seemed like unnecessary additions to veer away from Stephen King’s original story.
The script was poor and it seemed like an attempt to merge elements of Carrie with Firestarter to ruin a decent story. Charlie being called ‘weird’ by the other school kids, the constant rantings from Andy about how her ability was bad and her walking through the ‘shop’ burning everything in her path didn’t add anything interesting to the film and just made it more like Carrie.
Very poor and definitely not one I’d watch again.
Well what a boring episode that was. That’s what you call dragging out an episode. It was obvious they weren’t going to do the reveal of Reddington’s real identity, although I worked it out quite a few seasons back anyway. What’s the point of continuing with yet another series? Reddington only gave himself up originally on condition he dealt directly with Keane. Now she’s gone, there’s no reason for him to continue. Just close the programme down and concentrate on something new. There are decent programmes like Treadstone, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, The Crossing, The Whispers etc, that get cancelled after just one series and this is being dragged out to a ninth. Even Castle Rock only lasted two series and that had a lot of potential for future storylines.
I’m not sure whether I’m going to get into this, but I’ll give it another episode or two. Didn’t take long to bring the race card into it with the comment about none white. Not keen on the rap music either, and what’s the obsession these days with adding another language so that subtitles are necessary? It seems to be every series I switch on these days.
After persevering for this long, I’m finally going to bale out on this one. I started watching it after it being recommended to me, but I just don’t find it funny, apart from the odd comment here and there.
If a so called genius of comedy has to resort to continuous foul language just to appear funny, then he needs to find another vocation. I don’t mind watching programmes where language is justified, but this just appears to be all this one’s about.
I understand the concept of it being about someone who has lost his wife, but it is just depressing, and most of the characters have nothing appealing about them. Apart from the nurse and the lady at the cemetery, this series has nothing going for it. Definitely one of the worst ‘comedies’ released, in my opinion.
