Honestly, this show has really frustrated me, and I'm sure a lot of other fans as well. The characters, the acting has no doubt been excellent , 10/10. But let's get to the story.
This show deserves a 9/10 only if it's considered as a show about a guy battling with mental health disorders. But right from the start we are plunged into a world of hackers, scheming corporates, and a plan to bring down the world's most powerful organization. That is what excited me, and I am sure most viewers.
After 4 seasons of one plot twist after another - with one recurring theme, i.e. Elliott almost always has no idea who he is, what he is up to, what is real, what is not.....after 4 seasons of all this, turns out we don't find out much, except for Elliot's multiple personalities (you thought he was one guy? He's actually 2? Oh no wait, it's actually 3....oh but wait....I mean, are you kidding me? Shocking plot twists in a great story are always welcome, but when it reaches the point that the viewers just Never know what's going on, if what they are watching is a dream, reality, parallel reality....it just becomes a joke.
Die hard fans are going to call my criticisms the actual beauty and whole point of the show....but in the end, the show should be for the fans, for the viewers, and after 4 seasons of watching such a heavy show, practically every plot point seems to have been trivialized, and I am just left highly disappointed and kind of pissed off.
Also, what of Whiterose's machine, the only other massive plot point? We never really get to know what it was. Was it just some delusion of Whiterose? And how was Angela convinced it worked? I guess cuz...she was delusional too??? Basically all the key characters on this show have mental issues of some sort and the entire show has become just about how they deal with them, rather than an actual, "real" plot.....of course this begs the question...what is real? What is not? WHATEVER.
This show deserves a 9/10 only if it's considered as a show about a guy battling with mental health disorders. But right from the start we are plunged into a world of hackers, scheming corporates, and a plan to bring down the world's most powerful organization. That is what excited me, and I am sure most viewers.
After 4 seasons of one plot twist after another - with one recurring theme, i.e. Elliott almost always has no idea who he is, what he is up to, what is real, what is not.....after 4 seasons of all this, turns out we don't find out much, except for Elliot's multiple personalities (you thought he was one guy? He's actually 2? Oh no wait, it's actually 3....oh but wait....I mean, are you kidding me? Shocking plot twists in a great story are always welcome, but when it reaches the point that the viewers just Never know what's going on, if what they are watching is a dream, reality, parallel reality....it just becomes a joke.
Die hard fans are going to call my criticisms the actual beauty and whole point of the show....but in the end, the show should be for the fans, for the viewers, and after 4 seasons of watching such a heavy show, practically every plot point seems to have been trivialized, and I am just left highly disappointed and kind of pissed off.
Also, what of Whiterose's machine, the only other massive plot point? We never really get to know what it was. Was it just some delusion of Whiterose? And how was Angela convinced it worked? I guess cuz...she was delusional too??? Basically all the key characters on this show have mental issues of some sort and the entire show has become just about how they deal with them, rather than an actual, "real" plot.....of course this begs the question...what is real? What is not? WHATEVER.