georgegates

One of the first pixels you see in this show is text saying "made by Apple TV", which is surely intentional and sets the bias for a lot of things here.

Because Apple can never be wrong, after all it is God.

I have never seen a show with so little storyline over one hour, and found myself fastforwarding more and more until I gave up entirely somewhere in episode 6.

The show is original and rooted in the pandemic and the answer to the question of what work in big sterile corporations actually means today.

I think there cannot be enough food for thought on this subject. However when it comes to entertainment, this show is not it.

There are literally half an hour of silent footage crammed into the first season of just people walking around the endless maze of hallways. If you take into account scenes of hallways with dialogue it is about one hour. That is not an exaggeration!

The rest of the cinematography and footage falls in line with the endless hallways. This is not for people who like fast plot turns and twisting storylines.

This shows is for the artsy fartsy folks that see comical meaning and a cynical interpretation in every cloud and raindrop.

It feels like LOST writers had a talk with M. Night Shyamalan. You will encounter a lot of similar psychological horror. The show is very scary.

It is character driven. Many of the negative complaints here, seem like lashed out anger and frustration.

But there are valid points:

• 10 episodes in, the show explained little. LOST had 25 ep , 1st season.

• 1ep/week.

• Tight budget, written into the show. Yet there's a 99% chance for 3 seasons if they haven't shot it already. Just by economies of scale I'd say it's around 3x -10x cheaper per episode than LOST (which varied a lot in budget/episode)

• Same PACE as LOST in an era of 6-10 episode per year is hard to accept

Yet if you like LOST, and can accept a scarier version, what competition is there in 2022?

Knowing myself, I don't know if I'll stick around. Even so I don't want to belittle how great this show actually is, if you can look beyond the complaints or happen to watch all seasons in the future all at once.