For everything that gets better in every episode of this show, something else starts dragging it back down for me.
I think Anya Taylor-Joy is starting to feel a lot more comfortable in the role, and the character is certainly less awkward and confusing now, but what was the point of the party scene? What was the point of the flashback at the start?
I like that she is finally shown to have flaws in her strategies, but whose bloody idea was it to have the US chess champion dress like a post-apocalyptic cowboy straight out of the Fallout universe?
And yeah, the mother's dialogue is still weirdly off-putting.
And I still think it's fairly well directed and shot, but I really can't stress enough just how rampantly predictable and cliche I find this whole show up until now. Nothing happens that I didn't expect just from reading the premise, and it sucks because for as great as the acting and production design is, and as...competently directed as it is, I really can't get past how much I don't care about anything going on.
If anyone hasn't assumed this already, I do plan on finishing this, because it's only 7 episodes, so I might as well, but at this point I'd be surprised if it does manage to turn it around.
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