Choosing Day

Good so far, but... this is probably the point where I bail on this show.

TV keeps trying to replicate Lost. This is Lost x The Walking Dead x Twilight Zone. Good premiere, but it's already starting to grate. They don't have the charismatic characters. There's no Sawyer, no Locke, no Shane. When the action invariably wanes, those are the characters who keep you watching.

Instead we get a boring white bread family, a nice guy sheriff with uninteresting issues with his grown son and a pack of irritating hippies All feels so tired. There are a few good characters - Donna (the blustery lady who runs the Colony) and the oddly-named Jade (jerky tech bro type who at least is entertaining to watch). But not enough.

By far the most intriguing plotline is the weird old guy who is measuring the trees, because he at least is doing something proactive to figure a way out of their predicament. Has everyone else just given up?

The priest is badly and unconvincingly written. Maybe he'll be revealed to be some kind of bad guy posing as a priest? Or it's just bad writing.

Finally getting around to watching this. Started off with a great premise. I love a good scifi/horror mystery box type show, but I'm already seeing tell tale signs that the writers have no idea where they are going with this and are creating contrived drama to prolong things while never actually addressing the premise of the show.

This reminds me of a lot of the shows that popped up in the wake of Lost, most only lasting a season or two. It feels like a show from that era, and the drama is the same cliche type stuff you would have expected. Basically, like many modern scifi shows, it starts with a great hook, but because they want to drag it out for 5+ years, the episodes just devolve into useless filler and interpersonal drama without ever explaining the central mystery. So big answers will come in season premiers and finales and everything in between will be the same kind of contrived drama you could find on just about any show. Getting strong Under the Dome vibes

I will keep watching for now, but if cracks are showing already after 3 episodes I have little hope of this getting better. I hope it starts moving. With the mountain of content coming out it's still rare to find a good show like this.

I'm enjoying the show so far for its fun horror premise and nice building of tension and suspense. The acting varies from good to mediocre, but there is enough variety in characters and interpersonal situations to keep me watching. Looking forward to seeing if there's going to be something creepy about Colony House.

Gotta say, though, The Box is just ridiculous. There's a threat over everyone in town to make them do the right thing: monsters that eat your face and torture you to death! There's just absolutely no need for The Box.

Hope we get more character intrigue and learn more about the zombie-like monsters, the random talismans, and the chickens and cows.

The episode was good. I just wish whoever wrote Julie Matthews character spared us the teenage drama. Julie did not need to be such a shallow caricature of a teenager. And her attitude completely ruins the flow of the show. I don't think the actress is to blame here, just whoever wrote her character and her script. Her "mother" Tabitha is equally annoying. They're both the kind of stereotypical, non-human character that runs back into a dangerous place to get some superficial thing they forgot. They're both the kind of daft character to do something obviously stupid despite being advised against it because it made sense to them. It's so unnecessary. And it is hard to watch. I hope they both grow a little more in Season 2, especially Julie the irrational teenager.

Just a bunch of Americans acting on auto-pilot with cliche dialogue.

Cliche character building. Cliche little boy being stupid and naive, seeing things others don't.

Poorly thought out world building.

How do they shower, being cut off from the world? There isn't even water pressure in such case. How do they get that oatmeal and peaches? Do the monsters carry over that stuff to say "thanks for the blood"? There is no real work done on self-sustainability.

And then the whole talisman thing. A block of wood with inscriptions helping against the monsters. Seriously?

The three episodes could have been told in 5 minutes and we wouldn't have missed anything. Is this one of these shows where it's stretched like a scrotum over a timpani drum?