Rabbit Hole (TV Series) The Person in Your Ear (2023) User Reviews

VERY Clever!

[JaneU2143 · 9/10 · 19 April 2023]

I love CLEVER shows. This is one. You can't see ANYTHING coming. Just when you think it's going one way, it goes another. So far my mantra is I'm not trusting anyone yet except John and I'm going n Episode 5.

Keifer Sutherland plays John Weir the Leader of a Secret Group trying to save the World.

When the first word out of John Weir's mouth in the very first episode was "Damn It", it was a great Easter Egg to Sutherland's millions of 24 Fans.

The acting and the characters are great.

This is a Show that you MUST pay attention to or you may miss something. There are so many pieces to this giant puzzle. It has the perfect amount of ANXIETY and cliffhangers that I can hardly wait until next Sunday!!!

Can't wait to see WHO DONE IT.

Tupperware has just become chrome

[edblogr · 9/10 · 13 April 2023]

Best episode so far. Intelligently constructed, witty, lucid, unpredictable, unapologetic, tense, emotional, it took an otherwise solid show to at least one class higher. The initial fear that this will turn into just another stupid confection for the masses goes up in smoke after this episode. Bravo. The stakes have obviously been raised, the director (now Jon Cassar instead of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa) and the main writer (now Hunt Baldwin in addition to Glenn Ficarra and John Requa) have been changed, and you can really see and feel that in tone, style, dynamics and humor.

One can say tupperware has just become chrome.

Wizard of Oz

[glovehead1 · 6/10 · 28 April 2023]

A big part of the story telling is hiding what's going on behind the curtain. Frankly, it is frustrating. The acting is good; the cinematography plays well with the script. The problem is we are getting partial glimpses of the total/complete story. What we get is a script that purposely leads the viewing audience off track. The word clever has been used, and the word is not misused. It's like trying to get oriented in a dark room with obstacles while a strobe light is blinking a hundred times a minute.

I want to like this show, and I probably will, but I'm getting tired of the constant misdirection. Episode 4 now, and the story is trying to make Weir a good guy, even though he is operating in the shadows deceiving and stealing. Robin Hood in the modern era. It's a common plot device, so I'm not arguing. But all the misdirection is getting old, and its cleverness is wearing thin. However, Weir morphing into a likable protagonist is important to staying invested in the story.

Ep4 in the books. Deepened the story without misdirection. Clues are coming in and the audience seems to be riding shotgun now and not being thrown around in the tail bed. Writers have got the audience hooked into Weir.

Episode 4

[bobcobb301 · 6/10 · 10 April 2023]

I am starting to lose faith in this show. Other than the obvious absurdities of the most-wanted man in the world running around free and in public, they are just trying to be unnecessarily confusing. It is not edgier or high-brow to confuse the viewers about what is going on, it is just lazy writing masked as unique.

I have seen enough to stick with the show, but it is just not quite getting the job done. Pick a lane and stay with and stop trying to be this combination of Person of Interest and Homeland at the same time.

We'll see if future episodes can get more coherent down the line though.

The Person in Your Ear

[Prismark10 · 5/10 · 28 August 2023]

It seems people are not jumping to their deaths. That wily intern is throwing them off the buildings. Probably under the orders of a rich schemer callerd Crowley.

Meanwhile as John Weir is a wanted man. He needs to train Hailey Winton to do the dirty work on his behalf. She goes undercover with Weir giving her directions, the voice in her ear.

The target is Crowley but things do not go swimmingly. Hailey sees he ex boss who fired her for stealing some cryptocurrency. Dr Ben Wilson steps into help out Hailey but his cover is blown.

For the first time Rabbit Hole, goes down the rabbit hole. There are conspiracy theorists at play. There is a world of mega rich movers and fixers. Crypto, the Metaverse and Wikileaks.

Just for a moment it enters real world concerns of the information age. By doing this some of the paranoia and urgency of the previous episodes is smoothed over.

This episode killed the show for me

[rabbitmoon · 3/10 · 14 April 2023]

The first episode had promise, but sadly this has settled into a narrative masturbation exercise and eschewed any residual emotional honesty it had. At the beginning there was emotion - his relationship to his partner, trauma of what happened to his dad, panic/anxiety/paranoia. By E04 this has all been wringed out - we're left with clunky 90s style social-engineering (any probabilistic psychology presented as certainty isn't fun or witty - it's massive cringe), absurd character contrivances to forward the story. It's gone from vaguely respecting the audiences intelligence to appearing like a show aimed at teenagers. The exposition dump during the safehouse scenes was incredibly lazy in terms of writing. I've given up.