Last Light

Same predictable turn of events as dozens of other global emergency shows. They followed the time-tested algorithm for this, with nothing new.

Matthew Fox is past his prime and a weak actor. Like countless movies from the 90s and before, they put a 56 year old man married to a 42 year old woman. They should have found a hot guy in his 40s. Would have been more interesting. The rest of the cast was pretty good.

It felt like propaganda for the electric car industry. I think it's meant to scare us into buying Teslas lol

Still, I binged it while sick. I don't feel good about it, but it passed the time! Don't watch it during the day, though. Too much glare. Most of the show is set in very dark rooms or night. I could barely make out what was happening in a number of scenes.

When you find yourself skipping all scenes with the mother and child, you know something has gone wrong.

They are also padding out a thin story using slow pacing, music and extended, boring, conversations.

It is not very good. The actors are, bar a couple, meh, unable to deliver lines convincingly. The 'authority' spook lacks any kind of presence for the role. The responses to external events are contrived, with stupid decisions driving the plot, rather than any kind of smart writing.

They finally spell out the core of the plot in episode 4, and it is as thin and dumb as it appeared to be when revealed in a single quick image in the first episode.

Another dystopian story line, but this time no zombies! Based around in issue with fuel and the usual societal breakdown, this is a thriller on which the budget seems to have been spent on locations, but sadly not on acting or a decent continuity manager. The storyline could be pretty compelling, but when you try to weave in too many statements about global issues and add too many well worn tropes, it doesn't really hit the heights to which it could have achieved. If you've run out of other things to watch, then it passes the time, But trying to be too many things to too many people means it feels a little like drinking a bottle of Corona when you really wanted a shot of tequila!

I like dystopian tv series and movies so I was looking forward to this even though the ratings weren't so great, but unlike most apocalyptic series that focus on the world created after this is more of what happened just prior and during the event that lead to the collapse of society itself concurrently. Unfortunately it's not a story you haven't heard and despite seemingly being well produced with a decent cast to go with it, the story just wasn't enough to make this something special. It could have been better.

The family is quite insufferable to watch especially the daughter, but it was quite alright when following the political angle that felt more interesting. And the finale, the end of the season finale felt rushed like they skipped through time and was unrealistically optimistic. I thought after the world order was shattered it'd end with a cliff hanger for another season where we see how society endured but it skips straight to the good part and the time jump isn't even large enough to justify it. Quite underwhelming and anticlimactic. The story also lacked detail in general and the antagonist in the end, despite supposedly being so smart had really naive logic. It's the equivalent of people who say 'just print more money' to solve economic problems (i.e. Giving people money to combat inflation), except this time it's climate change and oil. Solutions that only make sense if you don't think about it, or are just callow and gullible.

It's a miniseries but I feel like if they cut off the ending and hired better writers with focus on the chaos and events that proceeded the collapse for a second season it'd have been better, maybe trite but better.

It's pretty well made. I don't think it's as horrid as reviews with 2 star ratings give it, it's just nothing impressive and you won't be missing out on much if you skip it, but if you've nothing to do and just looking to pass time it's not a terrible option.

Unfortunately this series is only moderately entertaining with few surprises. The ads on TV promised a lot more than what is delivered.

I found myself drifting off, as the story just doesn't take off.

A pretty good cast is underutilized, and unfortunately often resort to woefully melodramatic over-acting.

The UAE star as a thinly vailed fictional Arabic country and we were easily identifying landmarks, buildings and even street corners.

If you are after a great "power grid failure doomsday scenario " series, try to find the Austrian/German series "The Blackout. Tomorrow is too late". That one delivers.

I'm pretty sure that It is available in English as well...........