Weekly What are you watching thread #31

(spoilers ahead)

First season

Pretty good. All the characters feel like distinct characters and the plot is fairly hard to predict. The IT guy as mayor awkwardly giving that funeral speech and then Juliette as sheriff, both out of place in their new professions while trying to get stuff done which is usually an interesting plot.

I thought they might be laying on the mystery a bit too much. Doing a Lost thing where you invent mysteries before you can think of resolutions.

I couldn't guess where they were going with the plot and who was going to live or die which is refreshing.

Second season

So now there's a war between the mayor and the people at the bottom. ...oh nooo they're going to do the cheesy YA story about a band of misfits vs the uptight authoritarians aren't they. It must be hard for writers to resist doing that plot with this kind of setup. Easy to write and people tend to watch it, but it's cliche, predictable and unrealistic. Everything suddenly gets soap opera-like and every scene can be predicted from the first second you see the placements of the actors. And there are some stupid cheesy moments.

Suspension of disbelief gets harder too. Why all the secrecy? Just send out a rabbit or something every year and check if it dies on the big monitor. Why does everyone have 80s equipment too and why do the IT guys have scifi flatscreen AI stuff? And how do they manage to keep it all operational with only 10,000 people? I'm pretty sure they don't have a microchip manufacturing floor. I lold a bit how pumps were suddenly a thing too. I guess the writers realised oh there'd be water I didn't think about that better write about some pumps to explain it.

Solo was a stupid character and they showed too much of him. I've noticed you tell some actors to act childish and they don't really know what to do so go into some OO AA IM A BIG BOY r-slurred exaggeration. So we got to see that for half of every episode.

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