User Reviews

From the very first episode this show was too predictable and had too many plot hiles. I wanted to give it a chance allowing for the need for some predictability and some plot holes to allow the story to flow. But, these issues are numerous in every episode. It's almost as if the writers just don't care. Trust me, I realize that this is fantasy but even in a fantasy world that's set in the real world, some things just have to be done a certain way. Every TV show and movie will have some unbelievable situations and/or some plot holes. Not every show will have plot holes and unrealistic situations every episode and so many times each episode.

I watched the first season of "La Brea" mostly because someone else in my household wanted to, I thought it looked terrible and was proved to be correct. But, my stupid brain won't allow me to give up on something even if I know that it's both awful and keeping me away from watching something potentially good. So here we are with me having bitterly sat through a second season.

Normally I try and sum up the plot in this second paragraph, but it's all so silly and motivations change constantly so I'm not sure I can. Suffice it to say that the people that managed to get out of 10,000 BC end up coming back, various animals threaten the camp and then virtually every character tries to go to the tower, except for the ones that are never told that it exists. A thousand new portals are created, even though the first season had a plot point that each one was damaging the Earth.

It's really terrible. There's no two ways about it. The performances are bad from all involved but particularly from the Harris family, who remain disappointingly central to the plot. It still doesn't do any of the basics that you'd expect from a show like this - they've not found a way to establish any way of demonstrating time passing and the distance between places remains governed by the plot requirement. The CGI is generally pretty bad. The plot points sometimes don't even last an episode, let alone across the run and way more than just the idea that the portals are having a devastating effect on Earth is abandoned for the next shiny plot point.

It all has no consequence because it doesn't feel real. By which I mean not that I can't parse the high concept of it, but more that nobody seems to be struggling with the lack of running water for example, or getting enough to eat, or really anything, other than the occasional wild animal.

It's bad, if that's not come across in what I've written so far, and I'm both outraged that they get to keep making it, and happy that greenlighting a season of just six episodes has to mean that the show ends then...surely... please!