There seems to be a lot of hate for this one, whereas to me, it was a decent and gritty little slice of dystopian fiction that came out of nowhere.
I mean, it's not great, but I've seen worse. Way worse.
The story is basically The Man in the High Castle but with strange aliens rather than human invaders. So there's a secret band of insurgents working individually towards an opportunity to fight back. Nothing new there.
Character development also suffers because there are too many players and too little time. This should have been a limited series at best, but to what end, since we've seen it all before and, as mentioned, we already have Philip K. Dick's inspired The Man in the High Castle, for those who are interested in the long game.
Despite all that, I thought the actors did a decent job in their respective roles, and I'm really liking John Goodman's choice in movies this decade.
However, I did not expect the final twist at the end à la a Trojan Horse. That was either very clever or very dumb of me to not see it coming.
Also, the fact that we, the audience, did not get a chance to even catch a glimpse of the so-called Closed Zone, was such a cop-out. How dare they force me to use my imagination when whatever it was they were cooking up in there could've been anything!
The story is basically The Man in the High Castle but with strange aliens rather than human invaders. So there's a secret band of insurgents working individually towards an opportunity to fight back. Nothing new there.
Character development also suffers because there are too many players and too little time. This should have been a limited series at best, but to what end, since we've seen it all before and, as mentioned, we already have Philip K. Dick's inspired The Man in the High Castle, for those who are interested in the long game.
Despite all that, I thought the actors did a decent job in their respective roles, and I'm really liking John Goodman's choice in movies this decade.
However, I did not expect the final twist at the end à la a Trojan Horse. That was either very clever or very dumb of me to not see it coming.
Also, the fact that we, the audience, did not get a chance to even catch a glimpse of the so-called Closed Zone, was such a cop-out. How dare they force me to use my imagination when whatever it was they were cooking up in there could've been anything!