The Indian stuff feels like a pointless side story only serving to fill some time. I hope I'm wrong and that it somehow becomes relevant later.
not a great time to be Holden in this episode.. everyone was wayyy to harsh on him imo. pedophile or not, that teacher was creepy. parents asked him to stop tickling and giving money to their children and he should have respected that and stopped, he has no excuse.
i know i keep siding with Holden but i don’t think he was in the wrong for using that kind of vocabulary with a Serial Killer... it did get him to talk after all. i do think he shouldn’t have tried to cover it up though.
a bit disappointed by Wendy for stabbing them in the back like that although i get where she comes from. but the whole thing could have jeopardized their research or have Holden fired..
Gregg however can burn in hell.
really good episode - felt nice to have one more Holt-centric and it fit really well with the theme and Manson interwiew.. speaking of the devil, he might have been the highlight of the episode - but to me the best parts were Gregg getting constantly kicked out of important discussions haha
also the dude at the party who wouldn’t let Wendy alone gave me major Mr.Collins vibes...
Overhyped episode. Nothing new was said. This is like one of those reality reunion episode. I'm not a fan of the format.
In Episode 1, they just pretty much skipped Ye Wenjie's backstory before Red Coast. They crammed everything into 5 minutes. Episode 2 is called 'Red Coast' but we barely pass any time at Red Coast base. Most of the episode is just present day characters talking and playing the VR game. In fact, we barely spent any time inside Red Coast itself. It doesn't even feel like a secret base/project. Besides the death of Ye Wenjie's dad - which wasn't adapted for censorship reasons -, nothing in this adaptation is honestly better than the Chinese version. I knew from the get go that 8 episodes, each with less than 60 minutes, would not be enough, but they are rushing. There's no way her character and motives will come across as understandable. This whole story is based on her past actions.
the way this show thrives on making random characters sympathetic in the most mawkish way before brutally killing them off is actually sick!
Easily the best episode of TV I've seen in years. Phenomenal.
It's all coming together, with what I think we're the best two episodes of the show. That was some ridiculously good writing and acting.
I hope this is the last season its so dsmn corny now ughh Im only watching cause Im already invested and I loovveee the AI guy
Yikes. Seems like I'm solidly in the minority here. I have not read the book, but the show is not great, not as good as I was expecting.
I have problems with a few choices:
All the Light We Cannot is too over the top, saccharine, cheesy, and cringy. Feels like a WW2 show made for 12 year old girls. It has 0 subtlety.
Character build up is so not smooth. Like I'm expected to believe in seconds that Werner is this intelligent, warm and sensitive kid who's just stuck in the war. Not to mention the kiss in the last episode, it was unnecessary and unbelievable. Especially when Marie instigated it, she'd only known him for like 5 minutes.
Common tropes and clichés everywhere. Werner is only one to survive the bombing of the hotel and just waltzes out of the rummage barely hurt at all. I cannot believe Marie is walking barefoot around a bombed out house, let alone a bombed out city. I am wondering if those scenes were accurate to the book.
It's so jarring to see foreign stories staring Anglos. I don't understand why they use these strange accents, that are neither really French or English, or whatever they were supposed to be. Mark Ruffalo's was particularly awful.
American storytelling needs to stop making Nazism cartoonish, it is bad writing. The gem obsessed Nazi was the worst. I don't know if it was the actor, or if he just got terrible directions.
Why are 30 year olds playing teenagers? The lead guy playing an early teen in the boarding school was simply absurd. Also young Marie and adult Marie are different races? Like we get it, Hollywood needs more diversity but you can't change the race of someone mid story in a historical fiction that’s based on actual events where race was a huge factor.
Absolute painful watch at times - the plot holes were a many. Imagine going to apprehend an arms dealer ALONE, for starters. S1 way better.
Fish could win an Emmy, but Forks is a better episode, a journey off the chaos, not into it
Definitely expected a bigger finish to the first season but I really loved watching this series and happy for the season two set up!
Ugh that really pisses me off, the way Calvin was treated!!!! Don't even get me started on that priest :angry:
Kurt Russell to the rescue! As I hoped for, he managed to get things interesting when there's no MUTO around. And I really hope we get to see more of those darn things in the next episodes, they always save them for just a few seconds at the end of the episode, it's getting annoying.
Oh boy, this was freaky af! It felt a bit awkward, amateurish and b-movie-ish, in places, but the overall ambience was eerie enough, sometimes creepy and even downright disturbing at the very end. Hope this turns out to be a solid horror series, since there's a severe lack of those, these days.
Yeah, this is absolute gold
Wow, so unoriginal !!! So soon you figure out the killer, not twist no nothing, dragging season, nothing fresh except from Selina. It is time to cancel it. This does not need anything more. The season was mediocre at best with a very very underwahlimg finale.
Unfortunately, there is no tension here in the first episode and not the desire for a sequel with me.
I think I’ll give the series another episode to convince me, although unfortunately that will be a bit difficult.
These are the worst henchmen and criminals on the face of the earth. I can't believe a major plot point is a bunch of Guyanese dudes not being able to tell 2 white kids apart. Same hoodie, same bike, sure but gotdamn.
I’m enjoying the show so far, I like this genre of criss crossing crime dramas, but I have to say the female cop Harmony is the most annoying character! She could say pass the salt and make it a verbal assault. She's just annoying and poorly acted. The phone conversation with her superior for example. It's just cartoonish, as is her entire performance so far. Her entire personality and behavior ruins any immersion.
The story doesn’t seem to flow well either but that being said I’m still interested in seeing how everything plays out. I’ll definitely keep watching but something feels off with this show.
what a strong episode, awesome!
WHATTTTTTTTTTTTT IS GOING ON :rotating_light:
It's been a week after having watched this, and I've just now noticed that this was the season(series?) finale. Probably not a great sign.
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That 'Dear Friend' stuff was a spit in the face. I'd have rathered they just never included it.
10 minutes into the first episode, and the thing that strikes me most is just how off the tone of this show is compared to the source material. It has been a while since I saw season 2, but it feels like the tone is veering further and further into the YA sort of genre with every season. Even the action feels off to me. All the weird slow-motion effects and style to it... it just doesn't feel like I think The Witcher should feel. It seems entertaining enough, I guess, but it's just so frustrating and depressing to think how good this stuff could have been if they just kept the vision of the books rather than putting so many distant filters over it.
I'm also really struggling with Yen at the moment. I knew Anya was kind of too young already and not an imposing enough presence in previous seasons. But this is even more apparent as she's spending time with Ciri and trying to teach her magic. She simply isn't Geralt's equivalent in any way in this show. Henry has such gravitas and presence on screen, but Anya is just kinda... there. She looks like Ciri's sister, and it's not at all believable that she could ever be a mother figure to her. She's supposed to be a big presence - someone who Ciri looks up to and respects, not some young girl who is basically on her level. This isn't a knock against Anya (I think she's a great actress), it's just maybe a bit of a miscast. It probably wouldn't be bad if Ciri was younger and more accurate to how old she should look at this point. But as of now, Ciri looks the same age, if not older than she should at the end of the final Witcher book. Quite concerning considering how early on in the story we are.
Dijkstra and Philippa are kinda weird, and I definitely wouldn't say they were true to the source. But I don't actually mind them. I'll reserve judgement until I see more of them.
The scene in the maze missed the mark entirely for me. I'm really not enjoying any of the action thus far. I feel like the action peaked in the very first episode of season 1, and it has been all downhill ever since.
Although the music in the show has always been mostly pretty good, I think they use way too much of it. Every scene, every piece of action, everything just seems to be undercut with sudden dramatic music.
The Jaskier/Radovid stuff is truly abhorrent. Feels so wrong and out of place. It makes no sense.
Almost everything that comes out of anyone other than Geralt's mouth just sounds so generic, bland, and badly written. Ciri's speech at Sheaerrawedd felt so out of place, and the fight right after wasn't good. All the Rience stuff just makes me cringe. None of it even makes any sense. It's like they keep trying to have these big dramatic moments, but they just don't work because they haven't been earned. We're just jumping from big moment to big moment with subpar and rushed setups in between them. This would be less of an issue if they had actually just stuck to the books last season rather than having 95% of it be literal fanfiction. Instead, they've spent this entire first episode condensing all the big moments from Blood of Elves into 60 minutes. They literally had 8 episodes last season to fit this stuff in, but instead, the showrunner kept giving interviews about how "Blood of Elves doesn't have much content to adapt." Yeah, okay. If that's the case, why are you rushing and struggling to do it well or coherently in a single episode at the start of the next season? It's so frustrating.
Overall, this episode wasn't good. As an adaption of the source material? It'd be lucky to get a 2 or 3 out of 10. As a standalone episode of TV that is unrelated to The Witcher IP? A 5/10 is probably more than generous.
God, this was not an easy watch. Not recommended for already sensitive Sunday nights.
I feel like i'm totally addicted to this series, can't stop watching ever single episode. I hope they'll give us a second season, i hope, cmon, stoodisss.
That scene with the social worker hurts so much. It will be carved inside you. Donald Glover did it again.
Yep! Glad I was right again: What an unnecessary season, guys!
Ok. The season finale wasn't that great but the end had me ROLLING lmao I'm excited for what is coming next.
