I read up on this series a bit before deciding to watch, as I do with most material these days. I've just watched the first episode and it definitely.has potential, however
The doom & gloom and overall depressing atmosphere, doesn't really draw me in. It actually gives me anxiety. If this whole thing is going to.be like this, they could have at least made it a dark comedy.
Kate Winslet is great and the rest of the cast here (and those still to come) were a big part od why O decided to tune in.
I'm hoping that there is more to the story than "we live in some backwater town and life sucks". The clichès afoot, i'm okay with, so long as it goes somewhere. Maybe if it took place in the 90's (and spare us checking off the boxes which, guaranteed in this town, would not apply!!! Utterly unrealistic)
But despite the overwhelmingly forced narrative, which could have settled in naturally, we got a self-served depiction, and a lot of what could have been.
A lot to dislike about the story so far, but the parts are acted well. But when you're dealing with youth of today, you have to expect a lot of dumbass rhetoric. So who wrote this garbage?
A guy is letting his baby moms get beat down by his new girl? Where's the baby at? And then little miss fill-in-the-box has the dead givaway haircut, but no baby. As I assume it was the dead son's baby. And I am merely guessing as I have absolutely no idea if she even had a son (but i'm gonna guess i'm 100% right)
Despite all the flaws, the many flaws, I see what they were trying to do here. The solid performances all around save the episode, but it wont be enough to save the series if the rest of it is as ludicrous and ridiculously uneasy and far-fetched as this episode was.
Entertainment Value 7.5/10 Overall Rating 7.5(7)/10
I had originally intended to give this episode an 8/10, but the ending was confusing and quite frankly, poor writing. The convenience of driving the plot was just another poorly timed clichèd moment.
Unless of course episode 2 starts off with a total anti-cliffhanger moment. Lets find out.
The doom & gloom and overall depressing atmosphere, doesn't really draw me in. It actually gives me anxiety. If this whole thing is going to.be like this, they could have at least made it a dark comedy.
Kate Winslet is great and the rest of the cast here (and those still to come) were a big part od why O decided to tune in.
I'm hoping that there is more to the story than "we live in some backwater town and life sucks". The clichès afoot, i'm okay with, so long as it goes somewhere. Maybe if it took place in the 90's (and spare us checking off the boxes which, guaranteed in this town, would not apply!!! Utterly unrealistic)
But despite the overwhelmingly forced narrative, which could have settled in naturally, we got a self-served depiction, and a lot of what could have been.
A lot to dislike about the story so far, but the parts are acted well. But when you're dealing with youth of today, you have to expect a lot of dumbass rhetoric. So who wrote this garbage?
A guy is letting his baby moms get beat down by his new girl? Where's the baby at? And then little miss fill-in-the-box has the dead givaway haircut, but no baby. As I assume it was the dead son's baby. And I am merely guessing as I have absolutely no idea if she even had a son (but i'm gonna guess i'm 100% right)
Despite all the flaws, the many flaws, I see what they were trying to do here. The solid performances all around save the episode, but it wont be enough to save the series if the rest of it is as ludicrous and ridiculously uneasy and far-fetched as this episode was.
Entertainment Value 7.5/10 Overall Rating 7.5(7)/10
I had originally intended to give this episode an 8/10, but the ending was confusing and quite frankly, poor writing. The convenience of driving the plot was just another poorly timed clichèd moment.
Unless of course episode 2 starts off with a total anti-cliffhanger moment. Lets find out.