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| Horrordee wrote: | OK I have tried watching S1 a few times now. Both times I couldn't get through the first episode. I am not sure why; I like sci-fi and find the concept generally interesting. I guess the fear is the show is entirely focused on relationships and not really the science fiction part...
There are lots of shows I needed to watch 3-4 of before really getting into; Kin and Top Boy both went from snore fest to some of the best TV i've ever seen; will this too? Or is the first episode pretty representative of what is to come? |
It's more a sci-fi mystery. I recommend giving the 2nd episode also a try as it sets more things in motion. If you don't like that either then the show is probably not for you.
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| Posted: Tue, 28th Jan 2025 23:45 Post subject: |
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Thanks dude, I’ll try the second!!
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| Posted: Wed, 29th Jan 2025 10:11 Post subject: |
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same here, just started watching this yesterday and did quit mid in episode 2.
its like i have seen this already somehow, just boring and the humor seems to forced.
shift deleted it right away
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| Posted: Fri, 31st Jan 2025 04:36 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 31st Jan 2025 20:17 Post subject: |
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Great episode, well directed also.
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| Posted: Fri, 7th Feb 2025 05:46 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 7th Feb 2025 19:19 Post subject: |
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I got 1/2 way through season one, and got up to piss, and just didn't bother with anymore.
I like the premises and the vibe. But it's too...slow? Like the setup the concept, then just linger stalling on progressing it, exchanging tension for lingering on and on.
Im sure its a great show, just not my style/speed. It just feels like an interesting premise, then hours and hours of filler really 'driving home' that premise with sprinkles of actual interesting new bits tossed in too far apart.
And this really made me go "Aight, Im out of here"
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| Posted: Sat, 8th Feb 2025 10:46 Post subject: |
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A bit on the fence about the last episode. The innies being outside on some camping trip kind of.. jumped the shark a bit?
I thought it was more or less established that innies were not allowed to sleep (or dozing off), as their outtie memories could influence their dreams?
The ending was great though, Turturro is brilliant in this.
| Spoiler: | I really hope Irv's not gone forever, he's the best character from the 4. But it felt definite |
There must have been a door there in the wall, when I came in.
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Il_Padrino
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| Posted: Sat, 8th Feb 2025 10:55 Post subject: |
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| SumZero wrote: |
And this really made me go "Aight, Im out of here"
| Spoiler: | The thing of his boss being his neighbor really set the 'of course she is' to me. When me and wife started it and first saw her, I said "I hope they don't make her some kind of friend of his outie because he'd have no idea. She's TOO stern not to be a plot twist" Then YEP, it's that. made it feel too "highschooler writing a plot twist in their first try at a novel" to me |
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It has to do with Mark's wife, this all gets explained by the end of s1.
There must have been a door there in the wall, when I came in.
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| Posted: Sat, 8th Feb 2025 13:49 Post subject: |
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They revealed it already in the second episode, so it really wasn't that much of a deal or even mystery, in my opinion. It's more what it implies: why would she be the neighbor of Mark, why him and not the others, etc.
So far, the show isn't like Lost, with mysteries just for the sake of mysteries and nothing ever getting explained (apart from what exactly they do at Lumen, but that is the main plot of the whole show).
There must have been a door there in the wall, when I came in.
Truly gone fishing.
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| Posted: Mon, 10th Feb 2025 14:39 Post subject: |
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I discovered this last week and already caught up to the latest episode. What a good tv series. There was huge WTF at the beginning, but I like where they are going. And the concept of innies technically being separate beings but not having separate rights is so interesting moral/ethical concept to think about.
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| Posted: Mon, 10th Feb 2025 15:01 Post subject: |
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That episode was something else
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| Posted: Fri, 14th Feb 2025 13:45 Post subject: |
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Episode 5 is out. Another very good episode.
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| Posted: Sun, 2nd Mar 2025 13:13 Post subject: |
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Excellent episode this week. And that's how you make viewers care about a previously undeveloped character and care even more than before about the protagonist.
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| Posted: Mon, 3rd Mar 2025 10:28 Post subject: |
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i dont think this show is anywhere near lost, its pretty straightforward and not something to theorize that much as any normal show. only lindelof can pull this shit so the leftovers and watchmen were in fact very close to lost, probably his future lanterns will be the same which is why im very looking forward to that
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| Posted: Mon, 3rd Mar 2025 12:49 Post subject: |
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The last two episodes were great, pretty dark.
| Spoiler: | For all the meticulous planning and writing, they never so far addressed that such severe trauma on the innie would wreck havoc on hormons and nervous system. So Gemma would be a mess physically |
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2a: a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual
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| Posted: Mon, 3rd Mar 2025 16:18 Post subject: |
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Yes, although there are moments where the trauma seems to seep through. I'm rewatching s01 with a buddy, and there's a moment when his outtie is very depressed, and they give his innie a special treatment with the psychologist ("trust me, he needs it"). He's asked to make a figurine with some plasticine, and he's sculpting the tree where his wife died.
Maybe the same with Irv and the door with the red arrow he sees in his dreams.
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| Posted: Mon, 10th Mar 2025 17:28 Post subject: |
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The Cult, who that 
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| Posted: Mon, 10th Mar 2025 18:34 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Fri, 14th Mar 2025 02:47 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Sat, 15th Mar 2025 16:27 Post subject: |
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way to go to lose all that momentum after ep 6-7, much nonsense and weird, they really must deliver on the finale
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| Posted: Sat, 15th Mar 2025 23:52 Post subject: |
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Episode 8 was weird (though I suspect that also necessary) but this last one was pretty good.
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