Reviews

I really want to like this show. The acting is great. The writing is great. I like Will Arnett in the lead role. Like the bro love between the main characters. The trouble I'm having is with the casting of the female leads. Really? 40 something, dead beat guys, with no real jobs, no real purpose and coloured backgrounds are pulling smoking hot 20 something, hipster girls? Really?

Older women in this little serious are treated like accoutrements, x-wives, old mothers. Like somehow as a demographic women over 28 no longer exist except as accessories?

Maybe this is a show for guys and the fantasies they live in? And I am not really the right demographic. I actually found myself feeling insulted, every female character, save for a few, are 20 something, smoking hot, young women, because apparently women just don't exist after a certain age.

If the producers ever read these these kinds of reviews, and they decide to do a second season, seriously think about expanding on female characters, because you are losing an entire demo of watchers for no really good reason.

Lame drama. I can't get past the second episode.

This concept has so much potential to be a puzzling, sci fi, spooky Stephen King drama but is totally lost in manufactured, water downed storytelling and amateur performances. I am confused by all the hype and high score?

There are some talented actors in this show but its not enough to balance out the other obviously amateur ones. For example the actress who plays the "journalist" living in a small, nowhere town running around exclaiming that she is a "Journalist!" She must get the news out there!! Because in a small town like this one it wouldn't be everybody's business already. Super flat performance, no on screen draw. Makes it more annoying than it has to be.

Not to mention, It would seem that the writers gloss over important questions in the first few episodes which are actually very important in the beginning, like how far down does the "dome" go? Or can they dig their way out? Where is the water supply coming from in the first days? Anyone who has ever used a generator knows they don't last that long without fuel. No one is worried about food supply or drinking water? or most importantly to me... the WIND?!?

There are scenes where the trees are almost bending from the wind and characters hair is flying around. Really?! You barely establish in a few second scene that the "dome" is like a sieve when one character can feel traces of water that is being power sprayed onto the dome from the other side. His hand is barely wet and yet its enough of a sieve to allow wind forces strong enough to bend trees and blow style a characters hair like a full on power fan?

I have actually caught myself yelling at the TV on a few occasions during dramatic scenes, because the answer or an alternative to the story line is SO OBVIOUS.

Come on guys you can do better. Make it creepier, more obscure, answer some obvious questions a little better, a lot faster, don't jump to the easy/high drama scenes so quickly, you are forcing the drama, maybe follow the book more, it would probably make it a better show to watch. And please get rid of the journalist... omg ... so lame... "I'M A JOURNALIST!" over and over. Yes we heard you the first time honey and its nowhereville not the Ukraine/Russian border crisis.

I was really enjoying this show until episode 8. They receive the finger prints back from the body in the quarry (the German clone), they match Sarah's and the police detectives realize she looks exactly like Beth... and then go to her Foster Mom's... EXCEPT Sarah has already officially been ID'd and confirmed as dead with the same corner who assisted with the finger prints. If someone was legally dead Sarah's file / ID within the police department would have come up as Deceased. This is such sloppy writing. It weakens the show. This is a pretty big piece and somewhat basic.

The other thing I believe they have done that weakens the show is introduce Matt Frewer! Terrible casting, seriously annoying actor. Not to mention the Neolution movement and body mod following. The show was going in a great direction, interesting story line and relationships, lots to work with, a little edgy and now the direction is limited and feeling all too familiarly Canadian.

Please don't wreck this show!