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6

Very, very funny series. Simple premise, good characters, this is gold.

Mike Flanagan wants to mix a certain social commentary on devouring capitalism, looking askance at the Sackler family and their opioids, with an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's stories that don't feel connected to the boring and cumbersome main plot. One dead son per episode, this Roderick Usher, who also looks askance at Charles Foster Kane, ends up amplifying the tendency to philosophize that Mike Flanagan has in his scripts, but in this case it is a long and redundant digression on his usual themes. But the main problem is that it never ends up effectively conveying Poe's gothic atmosphere, which is the least that could be asked of it.

Repetitive episode structure and poor Poe references stifle good dialogues.

Completely woke from the get-go. It can only get worse from here.
Everyone is either gay or married/dating another race.. or both.
I have absolutely no problem with mixed relationships.. but come on.. EVERYONE?!

The story is mediocre at best and weird too.
Visually it's pretty good... I liked the 'feel' of the show.
I'm sure it may (or may not) make sense at some point, but I'm not interested enough to follow along on the journey.

3.5/10

i feel similarly about fall of the house of usher that i feel about bly manor; there are several aspects that i like a lot but on the whole it really feels flat and lackluster. i guess a big part of it is flanagans trademark lack of subtlety or ambiguity, which i think is the downfall of a lot of his work. i just feel like this show tells me peoples motives and relationships, tells me about capitalism and pharmaceutical companies, tells me exactly where its gonna go from the start, but i never really Feel it, im never invested in it. mike flanagan takes rich gothic source material and often flattens it into straightforward human drama; and i like drama, and i think his hill house series is the best of his adaptations (ironically when not compared to its source material), but the more of them we get the more i am bored by his simple hamfisted themes wearing the mask of gothic literature.

Episode 1 and 2 were actually quite good/interesting.. but then it went completely off the rails.
The mother in episode 3 was over the top and her acting was just as bad. That episode is a clear 0/10.
We fast forwarded through episode 3.5, 4 and 5 before just packing it in.

Too bad because episode 1 and 2 were very much in the vein of Black Mirror.
2/10

The show started so good... And it ended so unsatisfying!

A rom-com with no rom, very little com, and every character is mildly annoying.

[tv+] A basic comedy about friendship and the difficult balance between maturity and holding on to a certain youthful feeling that doesn't quite work in the humorous section. Seth Rogen playing Seth Rogen and Rose Burns reprising her role as the dissatisfied wife don't help either. The relationship is singular and different, but the development is generally bland due to a script that always pushes the characters by virtue of what it needs, which establishes a dynamic that is not really organic.

[HBO Max] Far better portrayed in the miniseries "Candy" (2022), there is an all too obvious attempt to try to establish some empathy with Candy Montgomery, portraying the victim as paranoid. David E. Kelley's tendency towards courts and lawyers does not help, dedicating three episodes to a trial in which the judge is presented as manipulative, especially an unnecessary last episode that seems to be taken from "Lincoln Lawyer" (2021). There's a good performance from Elizabeth Olsen, who manages to keep her balance amid a poor script that fails to deeply explore the motivations of the characters.

Good cinematography, mostly likable cast and well done drama. There’s a “secret police” sub plot that is absolutely bland and takes away from the good plots. Would probably be an 8 from me if that bit didn’t exist.

Made it through the first two episodes and then my hun and I agreed that was enough. Dialogue is terrible, acting is terrible, plot is predictable and moronic. Constant droning background music is supposed to up the stress level but instead it gave us a headache and made us nauseous.

[tv+] It builds on a foundation of characters who are emotionally hurt and trying to find a way to cope with pain, absence or trauma. Somehow, the therapist identifies with his patients in the psychological chaos of someone who has lost his vital balance. But by the end of second episode it's clear that the writers have little interest in delving into the characters and taking their story anywhere other than just plain entertainment. The problem is that it doesn't achieve such a basic objective either, it gets lost in forced comedy situations and in an unbalanced and unstable proposal.

Not funny enough and not serious enough.

The sound effects are eerie and scary. The camera work is excellent. The performance is pure. The show really works for me.

The humor got me right away but I had reservations about the story and if the mystery would hold up all the way through. I'm happy to say that it was even better than I had hoped for.

If there's a second season, as long as Abbie is in it, count me in.

Curious how it will proceed but watching the first episode already required me to suspend my disbelief quite a few times.

The ambiguous wording of "incident" by Idris' character and the flight crew, not squawking 7500 and ATC immediately giving up after they get told the incident is solved is especially heinous. The captain choosing to open the door for no logical reason I'm expecting to be explained but jesus christ
edit: it did not get explained beyond the fact that the captain was having an affair with the flight attendant or some shit lmao. garbage show with garbage writing

If I had to describe this show in one sentence I would call it a terribly bad narcissistic Walter O'Brien ego-trip.

Not a huge fan so far. A bit boring and predictable. There are just too many of these shows around. You can replace this with an other crime show and won’t miss anything.

Started strong but in Ep 5 Im already checked out. The plot just fell apart and I couldn't care less about any of the characters including the Sheriff chick. Silo had a great concept but they don't have the script to support it and it's following an unfortunate trend of contemporary tv series where they launch with high hopes and dissolve into oblivion 5/10

Episode 3's generator event must be one of the most mind numbingly stupid scenes that I have ever seen.

What were the writers writing? Even a child would know, out of instinct, to not do what the main character was doing. It simply breaks the laws of physics and has nothing to do with reality.

Not to mention the engineering aspects of the rest of the design and the so-called fixes and repairs applied, which are just ridiculous.

It's not about suspension of disbelief, it's about sheer stupidity. This episode makes me want to stop watching.

i just don't get why people are loving this. acting is over the top, script is predictable. oh yes lets put a 56kg woman to work the machinery, while mr f**king ripped boss is just watching. 81%? imdb 8.4?

Brilliantly written, directed and acted.
Ben Whishaw and Ambika Mod are astounding.

The series gives you a knot in the stomach at seeing the hospital staff stress and working conditions, but it's also full of empathy and signs of humanity. Humour and breaking the 4th wall give it its final unique touch.
Remarkable 7 episodes, truly positive discovery

This is awful, she cant act and is annoying, the plots are formulaic and boring, the writing is weak and predictable. And just one more thing.....Columbo did it better.

A really great tv show. I really enjoyed it. Exactly the kind of dark comedy I was hoping it would be. Some surprises, not all of it. Obviously ridiculous at the same time.

[Netflix] A tepid thriller based on a Spanish bestseller that loses the most original elements in its adaptation, to focus on the investigation of a kidnapping that, already in the novel, was a predictable and implausible plot. With the usual resource of relating the female characters to the traumas of sexuality or maternity, characteristic of Spanish police novels written by male authors, the proposal shines more when it adopts the point of view of the kidnappers, but neither the actors, not even the too tv staging can save the disaster.

Wow….okay. That was REALLY good. This is classic material. My kids will watch this in class.

nNice, I really did enjoy the show

It's every 'problem of the week' cop show you've ever seen. If that's your thing, then you're lucky, because this is one of the dozens of shows cut from the same exact mold that you will love. I can't stand these shows, but I realize most people love them. A family member loves them, so I've seen a lot of them. Here's another unpopular opinion: The Penelope and Derek thing is cringy and creepy af.

The show ran as long as it had to to build its world and make its point - short and sweet. I still think it's great.