I've been very disappointed with this series. I haven't seen all the episodes, but of the ones I have seen, only The Autopsy was good. Go watch that one and skip the rest, they aren't good. But this one here, The Viewing, deserves special mention for how awful it is, a complete waste of time.
The story takes place in the early 80s or something (but that has no bearing on the plot whatsoever) and it starts with a few characters being invited to some rich guy's place. They meet in an underground parking lot and get picked up in a van by the rich guy's lackey. Once they get there, they spend the next 30-40 minutes just talking, drinking, and doing drugs and we get some background the invitees; an astrophysicist , a famous musician, a famous author, and a psychic. After slogging through the very boring conversation that just went on and on, the pompous rich guy (played by Robocop) finally reveals why they were invited; to look at some meteor rock thing from space.
See, he's already tried to figure out what it is with the vast resources available to him, but all the usual scientific methods have failed. Why he even cares, who knows, but he's obsessed with it. The astrophysicist makes a couple suggestions, but they've already been tried. At this point, the viewer has to wonder, why on earth does the rich guy invite the musician and author for this? It would be like bringing in Taylor Swift and Stephen King when all the great scientific minds failed. It's completely asinine. In fact the author character, with his non-existent wisdom and experience with meteors, says something like "it's just a rock". Actually, even that comment was pretty dumb, because from the look of it, it was way too symmetrical and patterned to be just a rock.
You almost have to wonder if the show writers just started writing the plot without even knowing where they were going with it, and once they finally finished writing the stupid conversation and got to the next part, they never went back and thought, does the beginning still make sense? The writers were probably high, they sure seem to love showcasing the pointless drug use in the overly long conversation scene.
Anyways, back to the "plot", the musician makes a discovery completely by accident when he smokes a joint right next to it and the smoke he exhales causes a reaction. The thing starts probing them. Two of the guests' heads explode, two escape, and the rich guy turns into some monster and wanders off. And that's it. That's the story.
Possibly for the first time ever after having watched something, I thought to myself that the creators set out to specifically troll the audience with the most pointless garbage ever put on screen.
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