called it. this show was a mess, adult astronauts, of whom advanced education and cognitive ability are a prerequisite, spend 90% of the seasons runtime continuously unable to put 2 and 2 together, lol. the scale and production of this show with it's A tier cast deserved so much better writing than it got.
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I'm just fed up with the quantum quantum parallel universe BS. Dark Matter looks a little bit more enjoyable at the moment, but definitely in precarious balance.
Apple TV+ have some pretty solid Sci Fi shows, but I've been disappointed more than once lately. I have a lot of hope for season 2 of Severance, and a fair amount of apprehension TBH.
PS: Did you watch Sugar? That thing was totally unexpected, but I'm not quite sure if it was in a good way, or a bad way, or a meh way.
I'm just fed up with the quantum quantum parallel universe BS. Dark Matter looks a little bit more enjoyable at the moment, but definitely in precarious balance
I like the premise of parallel universes (the road not taken), but the pacing of Dark Matter is why I gave up on it. Its just slow to get to the point, no filler just padding the moments to get the episode to a 45-50 min runtime.
agreed, i mean i'm still interested, but you gotta hook me, DM didn't, it was a slog, and I've been through too many of those to invest in an another AU wizard trip unentertained, which is why i made it to 1/2 of ep 2, but will go no further
Yeah, I was appreciating Sugar as some sort of modern edgy “Magnun PI”, and I was looking forward to it, but that twist changes everything. I hope they do it justice, because the show it was heading for would have been good
Can you give more details on the story, please? I don't mind spoilers...
Edit: I mean, I'd like to know what obvious things the characters were missing.
I was still able to enjoy it though, I want more of this vibe.
Can't. Cancelled.
Aww man, since when?!
Since last week.
Someone should post this online, in like an article or something.
You're on to something here...!
Yeah, it was so messy and infantile.
They needed to move the story a but faster and treat it like people understood things faster.
An early synopsis promised me a scifi story with a more serious twist on Buck Rogers and some Gravity mixed in.
What I got was a first episode of scifi and the following half of the season drowned in a repetitive psychological drama... It could not hold my interest beyond episode 4.
Acting and production all was top notch but how the story went made it clear to me it was not a long lasting show.
Sums up why i stopped watching after the middle of the third episode. Don’t make your series seem like a scifi series and then pivot it to a boring psychological thriller.
It reminds me of that Denzel Washington movie in which he safely landed a plane after a serious mechanical failure. The trailers focused on that and I thought the story was going to revolve about being a pilot or the technical investigation.
Nope. It was a drama about alcoholism.
It was good overall, but I expected something totally different.
Interestingly, this is what I liked about it. Sure, I was expecting more Sci-Fi, but I was pleasantly surprised to enjoy the psychological drama. They dragged it on too long and stumbled mid season, but I was there for it.
As I saw it, it was about grief and loss, and that's something not everyone is interested in watching all the time. So it was probably hard to market (unfortunately a lot of great things are just niche and hard to market). But the combination of a sci-fi idea and a drama about loss that they pulled off was for me rather wonderful.
The idea of that liminal cabin and how they wander in and intersect there at various times was beautiful to me. Episode 6, personally, was one of the most touching pieces of TV I'd seen in a long time.