At the start of the episode, my faith in the show had completely evaporated.
After most of the episode, with how epic and tension filled it was, it won me back entirely.
After the end of the episode, i am now back to season 1 levels, where my faith is wavering.
What a stupid move by the detective at the end. Just when i gained a lot of respect for him by being part of the assault team, now most of that respect is gone.
For example, if Earth eventually gets invaded and lost, and if we had the data and we maybe could have won, then he'd be responsible for the extinction of our entire race because of this stupid move.
It's also murder of an unarmed surrendered man who was willing to help. And minutes before, the detective was so against the others being reckless and killing people, and he was trying to save the unarmed scientists.
There's a lot of small stupid moments in the show, but this is a big one.
They constructed the show around a reporter 'sleeping with sources' instead of the doctor. Timeline bounces and deals with romance more than it does the health. This season should have been called bad romance, not doctor death.
Wow. The fact that (at the time of writing) there are NO COMMENTS in the season two section perfectly illustrates what I came here to post. The first season was absolutely brilliant. Original. Rollicking. Hilarious. The second season felt like watching the cast party after the season one wrap, sure it was still funny, but it wasn’t necessary to film it and put it out onto the world. I hope it doesn’t undermine the genius of season one.
I'm not a fan of Austin Butler's performance. It's very self conscious. He's trying to come off as cool. Like a James Dean imitation.
Love how they pulled a perfect bullet out of him at the end lmao.
That ending scene was ridiculous, bordering on absurd.
Just an ordinary space-ship-crew-alien sci-fi thriller. Nothing special here and no reason you'd ever wanted to watch it again. It's still the same. They find Alien, they feed him, observe him, it escapes, it kills them. That's the plot. There are too many stupidities I'm tired of :( It's still the same in every movie of that kind. Why the hell anybody would want to use some plastic gloves to touch something totally strange and unknown? Isn't it safer to use robotic hands? If you are going to study something you know nothing about wouldn't you do it in some secure lab? And why the hell is it needed to close ventilation shaft one by one instead of pressing one button? I know, because alien has to escape somehow. As I said, many stupidities, many bad things in this one and to be honest It was a waste of time.
Mediocre, boring episode.
Question: how often will prisoners escape from captivity in this show?
I'll echo another reviewer here - we need proper grown up films and I don't want to criticise one that is just that.
But for me, as a whole entity. Meh.
Murphy's acting was fine, not outstanding. Emily Blunt didn't hit the mark. RDJ was solid. The rest did well with what they had I suppose.
I didn't like the pacing and I wasn't a fan of how it sought to tell us it knew more than the viewer does.
Let me paraphrase that... Nolan works best when he nods at perhaps knowing more about characters than we do (does Bruce Wayne survive? Does the spinning top keep spinning?) and fails when he underestimates the viewer and preaches that he is superior (tenet, oppenheimer).
3 hours for all this. Not worth it.
Arguably the finest hour in the Peep Show pantheon - there’s so much comedy gold crammed into 25 mins, it’s awesome.
Apart from the more direct comedic routes like the tsunami of bodily fluids, the inventive wordplay (“piss-kidney”), allegory (Miss Haversham) and Mark’s surreal thought processes provide laughs from different directions.
The teenager in me still giggles when Jeremy profanes the church floorboards - I cant help it.
Oscar-winner Olivia Coleman is brilliant as the bemused and broken Sophie - the promise of things to come ..
I hate Vince... Horrible character, bad actor, and now it's assumed that we even care what happens to him. Well I don't. I think Drama is hilarious, Turtle is a good guy, E has the best-looking woman in the whole series, and Ari/Lloyd is a phenomenally funny pairing. But Vince has and always will be a tool who stinks up the show.
The overall characteristics of the show doesn't seem to be well thought.
The romance really brings this show down, such a shame
This show is borderlining on too cringy ever since MTV took over (season 4 and onwards)..
Has this show become all about Beth! I am sick of her to be honest. Played out....
God I can't take much more of this retarded girlboss shit. Kill off Beth, let the whole ranch burn. Cunts.
Really disappointed with the writers of this show, if this is what they think a "strong" woman looks and behaves like. Beth is a sociopath, period. Stop trying to romanticize or justify this kind of demented behaviour, for god's sake. I can't stomach these stereotypes anymore, it's lazy misogynistic writing. Also, that ridiculous scene at the end - they're not going to war, they're just going to brand some cattle - WTF is with the stupid writing? This show is getting worse and worse.
Yes! Send that bitch down!! Life with no parole!!
Elsa is ruining this show for me. And it's a good show. Admittedly Westerns aren't my thing, and I probably won't watch the companion series. But the Elsa character is stepping into unbearable territory. Able to do anything and everything, including dealing with Comanche's and then berating everyone else.
After "When Nelson Met Lisa" this is another low.
Much better than the first episode. Mostly because David Mitchell carries it though.
Static filler borefest packed with bad dialogue. Should've at least spiced the pace up by alternating the generic teenage trash with present-set sequences in which Ellie clashes with infected and cannibals trying to get supplies for Joel, just as they did with the game.
Basically just a boring filler episode. There was only ~3 minutes of content actually worth watching, and it was all at the end.
The episode is boring, and flash back would have been better for a simple duration of 15 minutes to 20 minutes only, without going into many details that take up the episode time, which we have been waiting for a whole week.
I can't rate the episode more than 3/10
Going downhill fast. Stuff happening just because the writers want to make a clumsy point, so characters act out of character to get there.
Because the show can often be brutally unsentimental, per David Simon, that gorgeously elegiac ending to the tune of "The Sidewalks of New York" hits you full on like an emotional freight train, with Vincent remembering people from the old days as when he first met them, not as what they had actually become. And after last episode's end, seeing the hauntingly forlorn look on that person's face among his memory lane nearly broke me. Transcendent cap-off to a wonderful series.
Underwhelming and anticlimactic ending to an otherwise great show.
