The show bit off more than it can chew and delivered an absolutely blank of a finale. There were so many storylines that made no logical sense nor served any purpose and just as many that were plot devices that barely made sense. Particularly, the scene where Flynne casually strolled into an RI ancillary outpost, discharged 5 peripherals, and with a few taps created a whole new stub prompted this review.
The show was already hanging by a thread then, and that scene just convinced me not to bother with season 2 if there even is one. You're telling me the RI which is so important and so protective of their secrets has a particular room that allows you to literally alter the universe, and all it takes is to disarm a few robots and pick up the key nicely placed on the floor to access the system? The careless writing and shameless deviation to any "realism" and world building in prior episodes just to drive a growingly uninteresting plot is honestly pathetic for a show that advertised "from the creators of Westworld."
Speaking of Jonathan Nolan (and Lisa Joy for the latter two shows), Person of Interest was marvelous and really blossomed at the end, Westworld slowly went downhill after season 2, and now the Peripheral can't even pull off a good season. I came in expecting another Westworld type sci-fi mystery, but instead got another generic Netflix sci-fi show that I could've just binge watched instead of waiting every week for a finale this weak.
The show was already hanging by a thread then, and that scene just convinced me not to bother with season 2 if there even is one. You're telling me the RI which is so important and so protective of their secrets has a particular room that allows you to literally alter the universe, and all it takes is to disarm a few robots and pick up the key nicely placed on the floor to access the system? The careless writing and shameless deviation to any "realism" and world building in prior episodes just to drive a growingly uninteresting plot is honestly pathetic for a show that advertised "from the creators of Westworld."
Speaking of Jonathan Nolan (and Lisa Joy for the latter two shows), Person of Interest was marvelous and really blossomed at the end, Westworld slowly went downhill after season 2, and now the Peripheral can't even pull off a good season. I came in expecting another Westworld type sci-fi mystery, but instead got another generic Netflix sci-fi show that I could've just binge watched instead of waiting every week for a finale this weak.