The Changeling

This book was incredible and it is amazing to see it come to life in this way. This show is so good. Very loyal to the source material which I love. I am guessing most did not read the book that are rating this below what it deserves. LaKeith's acting is amazing too. We need a second season for the answers and to bring us to the end of the book!!

This show is so good. Very loyal to the source material which I love. I am guessing most did not read the book that are rating this below what it deserves. LaKeith's acting is amazing too. We need a second season for the answers and to bring us to the end of the book!!

I've read the book so I think I know where this is going.

What I can't understand, 7 episodes in, is how they managed to get the pacing so badly wrong The first three episodes are pretty good. They actually go faster than the book (which has it's own problems with pace and genre hopping transitions) and set out the stall of magic realism/folk horror from the start, but they've stretched the middle part if the story beyond breaking point, adding in backstory which was not in the books and which killed the pace completely.

I will watch the denouement but my fear is that having wasted two episodes (6 & 7) telling us nothing we needed to know, the ending will be rushed, confused or worse still delayed until a second season.

I really wanted to like this show . Because i like what Apple usually produces and also because of the cast. Dina is amazing and Lakeith is a special talent. But honestly 5 episodes in out of 8 episodes and the viewer has absolutely no idea what he/she is watching, a lot of flashbacks which i totally understand if they somehow bring the story forward and reveal new elements but nope it's like watching an anime/manga 20 flashback in one episode just to repeatedly tell you what you already know. What's the point of this show ?

Is it a Drama or an Horror/Fantasy!? .. At this point there is no compelling story or compelling character to keep you hooked. I may give it one more try because i still hope that the next episode will bring us something new .. For now it's just an over the head mess.

The story starts out with an interesting premise. It plants seeds of intrigue. Yet, it meanders so much that I am having a hard time finding a reason to keep watching.

Rather than letting the acting and dialog tell the story, there is an overwhelming amount of narration makes the show BORING. For example try suffering through Episode 7, it is horrible.

In general, the story is ALL OVER THE PLACE. Just when you think you found the storyline and can engage - they jump to another storyline - filled with more monologue and narration.

This would have been better suited as a podcast rather than a TV show.

... because you will find the characters likable and become invested in what happens to them.

But this turns out to be a terrible investment to make. You will at no point in the last several episodes be glad that you subjected yourself to this show. But it will be too late for you because you watched the first episode and became invested.

If you disregard this advice and watch the first episode, know this: Nothing that you want from the rest of this series will be given to you. Nothing. Fill in the blank: "I want to watch more episodes to at least ________." Whatever you filled in that blank will not be given to you whether you watch the rest or not. You cannot have that. And the situation that you now want it could have been avoided if you had listened to my advice.