The show starts well. A girl who grew up in a morgue, investigates cold cases and manages to solve them. She is also computer savvy as she uses computer hacks she finds online and also gets online help from people to assist her with her investigations. There are also flashbacks that shed light to her character. All very cool.
Until we get to Iceland and a murder happens. The setting and premise is neat, but there plot holes.
- She can talk and interview everyone in the room and she doesn't.
- She follows a masked guy into the snow and she never thinks to check who leaves and the enters the building.
- Everything is monitored by Ai and there is even a 24/7 3D scanning of the building and they use it too late or not at all. In other words, when it's convenient.
- The murderer is omniscient as he knows everything, from hacking to security systems, and yes, that's convenient. But he could fool the system only once at 11:59 due to the systems reset. And yet the murderer steals drugs, enters on people's rooms and so on, at any time, and nobody checks the 3D building scan anymore? Or nobody asks the Ai to see who was where and when?
- Rohan died in the middle of a hall, just when we was about to spill the truth. Why they didn't investigate and interview who was the first to find him or who was with who at the time of his death? Nobody stops to make a timeline of events or view the building scanning or even swap info. Sure, the heroine is the investigator, but nobody else cares? Even in the game Among Us, where the players are average people have solved mysteries harder than this!
- Why the astronaut woman just died? She was just tired of living? She had nothing important to say before dying? Even her car crash was stupid... she didn't have to drive this fast. Also her helmet should come off during Manual. That's what Manual means. Manual should be irrelevant to hacking.
- The big question is who wanted Bill, Rohan and the astronaut woman dead? It's hard to know as the secondary characters don't have much screen time. And when they do, nobody asks them the right questions! It's more like "you can't ask them, go to you room", which is frustrating. If you want answers, let people talk! But apparently the screenwriters don't want that to force tension.
Don't these people want answers? Why they just don't meet up and share info! You know, like in Among Us? Instead they are separated and isolated to their own rooms. Which is the stupidest thing you can do in a situation like this! Group them into 2 or 3 at a time you idiots! And stop pretending you are geniuses! Don't tell me that they are clever, show me!
If everything is monitored, then the killed should have been found even without the input of the detective heroine. Also, why everyone has to know each other?
Darby admires Lee. Darby dates Bill. Bill dates Lee (How? Why?). Rohan loves Bill but Darby has never heard of Rohan. Andy married Lee. Andy invites Darby. Lee invites Bill. I don't even know who invited Rohan or why. In short, Darby, Bill, Rohan are nobodies who coincidentally end up in a meeting with Lee and Andy and the best minds of the world. Are you kidding me?
I'm in the middle of ep5 and I can only conclude the Lee is the murderer. Everyone else we actually know is dead. Lee is a hacker and knows everyone involved. If its someone else, like the waiter or the security guy... well they didn't have enough screen time and nobody asked them the right questions. Or checked the 3D building scan or the Ai where they were during the time of the murders or if they left their rooms and if they ever went to the medical bay to mess up with morphine and the pace maker. So who knows. I'm sure I won't get any satisfying answers, because the director seems to avoid giving any, until it's the right time. Which takes me out of the whole experience.
Why everyone is a hacker and also knows Morse code? Why Darby is stupid enough to go alone in the pool and dive in it after receiving an anonymous message, when a killer is on the loose? She went there to find some info so why she doesn't ask for that info after she is saved??
Although the ending's twist was a surprising one, it didn't make much sense. Who killed the astronaut woman? Coincidence, because someone hacked the system to send a message. Who was the master mind who overdosed Bill during camera reboot time? Coincidence because a stupid kid did it. Why the camera didnt see who the culprit was? Coincidence because he was short. Who prepared the overdose? I was just a normal shot. Who attacked Darby? Some irrelevant guy. When they all ended up talking to solve the mystery? In the last episode! I was expecting to see a smart series of events and everything was based on luck and coincidences! How this was revealed? Darby coincidentally wore a VR helmet!
Darby was shy and introvert during the entire plot and at the very end she is smirking in a cocky way as she explains what is happening, which is a bit out of character. I wanted her to be like this since the first murder, so in ep.7 it's too little too late, and too annoying. She even smiles while taking Andy down, but even his crimes were an accident, not his fault really, so why are you so smug Darby? Darby may be righteous, but her methods are unethical and her morals misplaced. She tricks the Ai to spill private thoughts between a patient and a psychologist (of sorts). Clever as it is, it would be inadmissible in court. In the end, it wasn't Andy's fault, it was faulty programming. So stop smirking, Darby. This is a tragedy for everyone, not a win for you.
At least this does pose an interesting question... should your smart-house Ai also be your psychologist Ai? It is nice to have everything in one place, in one app, but that can have unexpected results.
The last stupid thing is Lee getting away with her son. The police is just outside and she leaves footprints in the snow. Is it so hard to find her? She is also walking blindly for many miles to find a small boat in hopes that someone will pick her up as she sails with food in the cold sea? That's not a plan, that's suicide!
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