Really f-in’ good start. Love the cast. Love the erie cold desolate gritty setting. It’s hard to nail down exactly why it is but this show is just better than the rest. I guess it’s all of it. It’s just good without being pretentious or calling too much attention to itself,
It pains me because I love this show… but this was just not good. Nothing happened, we didn’t learn anything new that we couldn’t have been told in the first 5 minutes, and there was no real overarching plot for this episode.
I haven’t lost hope for the season, I think it set up a lot of plot it can hopefully pay off in fun ways, but this episode was a miss for me.
This is a significant downgrade to the previous seasons. The production quality is perfect. A bit childish, but good. But this first episode lost it's touch from what it did so well in the first 2 seasons.
The reviews on this episode are depressing.
"It was too political" says the people that try to bring politics into everything
"It wasn't sci-fi enough" says the people that watching it on that level
"There weren't enough twists" says the people who watch this show on a superficial level.
"It was brokeback mountain for tv" said the homophobic people
"They've covered some of this stuff before" says the people that think that every story has to not resemble any other story in any way.
"They wrapped it up too quickly" says the people who value the destination more than the journey (shoot me now)
I don't know what more people want from this series. The series is meant to discuss the human condition in our quickly-changing world. It is meant to provoke thought and conversation and make us think about where we are going and the challenges we will face. In that regard it very much reminded me of San Junipero - probably my favorite episode of the entire series. While not being as uplifting as that episode (which is irrelevant as I don't watch media to be uplifted) it was actually interesting that the leads in the show had actually found what seemed to be a balance where they could co-exist.
There were so many layers and things to think about - I can't believe that others didn't see it the same way. While so many of their episodes are cautionary tales I thought this did a fantastic job portraying the complexities that we are now starting to do deal with in our relationships.
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This one is completely successful. I was never bored, never sure what exactly was going on, or what was going to happen next.
Continuously interesting.
This is the only one so far that you could watch a second or third time and potentially get more out of it than the first.
This episode has my toddler running around screaming "Make him a man! Make him a man!" now.
Episode was realy slow and don't see the point, waste of time. I expected more ,I hope there is some tie into it later.
