My words are so upsetting that the PR dept have reported my review, 3 times now. interesting.
Make no mistake the current iteration of this program bears no resemblance to the initial episodes that built the franchise in its first few series.
It's turned the show from one you used to wait with baited breath to watch the next installment, to a show that you dread like a trip to the dentist, or merely feel indifferent about. You know it's going to be cheesy, 80% bad, 60% terrible, 50% frustrating, 90% not good watching entertainment, but you remember when it was good and you hope, hope, hope it will come back, even if just by blind luck, but it consistently and sadly doesn't.
Any one of us feels we could write a better show now. The mistakes and plot holes feel so obvious and massive.
This is NOT the best episode ever, this is not a return to form, this is not the compelling show it once was, no one is being fooled by this.
This is a show with serious production issues, struggling and failing to NOT trip over itself. It has some good actors, and yes Cailey Fleming is one of them, but they are given terrible, terrible story lines to wade through. Good opportunities are squandered, over and over again, and things just don't make sense. Yes this episode was less bad, as indicated by 4 stars instead of 3, but the show has sunk so far, we've been sitting with our feet in the gutter for so long that we think the curb is up. Each next episode fills me with dread, not because it is a captivating show any more and I'm terrified and excited for the journey of the characters, but because it's a chore to watch now, I feel I have to give it one more chance, after once more chance to see if someone got fired and someone good got hired who can steer this show back to the captivating world that it should be. Watching this show is like doing something you really don't want to do, like cleaning the garage or scraping the scum out of the guttering. Thankfully we won't have to put up with Samantha Morton's terribly misfire of a character any more. A chore to suffer through her horrible rendering of a potentially scary and interesting character. I can imagine how the whole whisperers story could have played out much much better. Don't show us their camps, don't show us anything about them, keep them like they were when we first met them, a mystery. Then we wouldn't question how they dug a ludicrous tunnel, or how many people they've got to wage a war, or how they manage to front a trained army of archers, but we've seen their camp, and how they live and it's just not possible, we're not stupid enough to believe
It's turned the show from one you used to wait with baited breath to watch the next installment, to a show that you dread like a trip to the dentist, or merely feel indifferent about. You know it's going to be cheesy, 80% bad, 60% terrible, 50% frustrating, 90% not good watching entertainment, but you remember when it was good and you hope, hope, hope it will come back, even if just by blind luck, but it consistently and sadly doesn't.
Any one of us feels we could write a better show now. The mistakes and plot holes feel so obvious and massive.
This is NOT the best episode ever, this is not a return to form, this is not the compelling show it once was, no one is being fooled by this.
This is a show with serious production issues, struggling and failing to NOT trip over itself. It has some good actors, and yes Cailey Fleming is one of them, but they are given terrible, terrible story lines to wade through. Good opportunities are squandered, over and over again, and things just don't make sense. Yes this episode was less bad, as indicated by 4 stars instead of 3, but the show has sunk so far, we've been sitting with our feet in the gutter for so long that we think the curb is up. Each next episode fills me with dread, not because it is a captivating show any more and I'm terrified and excited for the journey of the characters, but because it's a chore to watch now, I feel I have to give it one more chance, after once more chance to see if someone got fired and someone good got hired who can steer this show back to the captivating world that it should be. Watching this show is like doing something you really don't want to do, like cleaning the garage or scraping the scum out of the guttering. Thankfully we won't have to put up with Samantha Morton's terribly misfire of a character any more. A chore to suffer through her horrible rendering of a potentially scary and interesting character. I can imagine how the whole whisperers story could have played out much much better. Don't show us their camps, don't show us anything about them, keep them like they were when we first met them, a mystery. Then we wouldn't question how they dug a ludicrous tunnel, or how many people they've got to wage a war, or how they manage to front a trained army of archers, but we've seen their camp, and how they live and it's just not possible, we're not stupid enough to believe