The "captor" here was more annoying than ominous or villainous and that hurt my appreciation for the episode a bit. I feel like it just could have been better.
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Patterson Joseph's guest appearance was electrifying
shivers29 May 2021
Calaca, the episode was a triller giving viewers witness to how the awesome power of multiple storylines and threads began colliding together like atoms inside a nuclear fusion reactor.
The episode's script was littered with tough, analogous contradictions of the real world; many of them delivered by Patterson Joseph as Calaca, whose erudite performance was brilliant and commendable.
This episode was part of a series that was released linearly in weekly succession. However, I rate it as the best episode to-date.
The episode's script was littered with tough, analogous contradictions of the real world; many of them delivered by Patterson Joseph as Calaca, whose erudite performance was brilliant and commendable.
This episode was part of a series that was released linearly in weekly succession. However, I rate it as the best episode to-date.
Now I KNOW It's Doomed
mynewyaa29 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Dear Hollywood Writers:
Maybe you haven't heard: television is a visual medium. But an amorphous heady character like an algorithm - especially one that your own principal character says exists only in his mind - by definition isn't visual. So it doesn't work on television. And relying on your eye-candy actors to do the heavy lifting for you - using a script that's already lazy, sloppy, confused, meandering, and nonsensical to begin with - also doesn't work. If you want to see how to do it right, look to Breaking Bad, where one of the de-facto main characters was chemistry, or to Mr. Robot, where it was hacking. Those shows were nearly flawless, a far cry from the porridge that is your show.
P. S.: The moment you start to make us like an unlikable character such as a CIA agent is the moment we know you plan to off him in the same episode.
Another show that has sealed its own fate and is doomed to be a one-/two-seasoner. What a shame.
Maybe you haven't heard: television is a visual medium. But an amorphous heady character like an algorithm - especially one that your own principal character says exists only in his mind - by definition isn't visual. So it doesn't work on television. And relying on your eye-candy actors to do the heavy lifting for you - using a script that's already lazy, sloppy, confused, meandering, and nonsensical to begin with - also doesn't work. If you want to see how to do it right, look to Breaking Bad, where one of the de-facto main characters was chemistry, or to Mr. Robot, where it was hacking. Those shows were nearly flawless, a far cry from the porridge that is your show.
P. S.: The moment you start to make us like an unlikable character such as a CIA agent is the moment we know you plan to off him in the same episode.
Another show that has sealed its own fate and is doomed to be a one-/two-seasoner. What a shame.
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