The I-Land (TV Mini Series) Many Goodly Creatures (2019) User Reviews

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[nataraj · 7/10 · 14 September 2019]

The cinematography is as lush and sun drenched as in the episodes before, but now there is an added edge to everything: whom to trust. Nothing is to be taken for granted. And it is not a game.

Strangers appear and claim to be in the puppetmasters' pay. But none of the group except Chase believes them, until ... well, let's just say justice is served.

The group splits up into singles and pairs to look for a better place, and we finally get to know the characters better. What they did, or what events led up to those deeds.

Who will be successful and get their lives back? Just one? Or all of them? Would we even want for some of them to succeed?

The film does indeed ask interesting questions. No wonder the scientists in the lab had kept arguing.

Definitely a TV show to watch with friends and talk about it over a glass of wine.

7/10

OK, so...

[joenegan · 7/10 · 29 September 2019]

It's a simulation. Although I think most everyone guessed this from the beginning. So that means anything goes from now on... plot-holes and all... I'm now expecting lazy writing. For example, if this was real, than Chase would have shot Bonnie and Clyde 100% of the time...

Potentially a nice idea .. but what a disaster as result

[vinmar-enzo · 5/10 · 18 November 2019]

Nice idea half way between Lost and Matrix. Implementation ruins all. Script, directing, some acting, music are very poor.

Argh

[bsimpson189 · 4/10 · 17 September 2019]

Holy smokes, can Chase just please shut up. She didn't believe it was a simulation either until she saw everyone. So now she expects everyone to just believe her.

NOT SO GOODLY CREATURES

[andrew-1698 · 2/10 · 19 October 2019]

Chase wakes up from her knock out blow from KC & tells the other islanders that the i-land is a sim, a jail & a test.

Two strangers show up on the beach called Bonnie & Clyde who threaten the group & kill Hayden (who has killed in real life & killed Brody). Chase is then ostracised & is separated from the group by the newcomers.

The remainder of the group split into two teams. KC, Cooper & Moses go off in search of The Village on the other beach, whilst the others decide to remain on the original beach.

A few flashback scenes shows us Mason in soldier uniform, & another with KC in a car by a rainy beach. Blair has a memory of a patient in a hospital where the Do Not Resuscitate paperwork goes missing,

Meanwhile Chase seems to arrive at a deserted tropical style hotel & has a vision of a woman who claims to be the mother she killed, but is it a flashback or a simulation test?

Long story short - we learn little snippets of the groups past (which might have been more interesting in earlier episodes), get two new menacing characters & we're halfway to the end of the season... possibly the entire series. I still don't know if I care about any of them enough for a second series.