Not great, but not deserving of the hate
Binged this when bored with a fever on a weekday afternoon, and it kept me entertained.
The concept is intriguing, the acting is solid, the production values are more like Saturday night British TV than peak Hollywood but still not bad.
It's sometimes slow, sometimes preachy, and sometimes silly. Sometimes apparently smart characters do things that don't make sense. Sometimes plot points are forced through without regard for reality. Sometimes whole segments of drama would be solved if two people would just talk to each other. But these are all problems that you'll find in many other B-level dramas.
I probably won't remember this show after next week, but as a fan of end-of-the-world shows and political dramas, this was an ok diversion from a bad cold and I didn't regret investing my time into the 5 episodes.
Nice to see Matthew Fox again too. I liked him in Lost and he shows a new maturity here that I hope we get to see more of in better projects.
The concept is intriguing, the acting is solid, the production values are more like Saturday night British TV than peak Hollywood but still not bad.
It's sometimes slow, sometimes preachy, and sometimes silly. Sometimes apparently smart characters do things that don't make sense. Sometimes plot points are forced through without regard for reality. Sometimes whole segments of drama would be solved if two people would just talk to each other. But these are all problems that you'll find in many other B-level dramas.
I probably won't remember this show after next week, but as a fan of end-of-the-world shows and political dramas, this was an ok diversion from a bad cold and I didn't regret investing my time into the 5 episodes.
Nice to see Matthew Fox again too. I liked him in Lost and he shows a new maturity here that I hope we get to see more of in better projects.
- jamie-50817
- Oct 17, 2023