Well episode two has been watched.

My thoughts on it, in chronological order, were:

• Completely expected that the world is green
• Was surprised that the sheriff still collapsed
• Unbelievable cringe speech from the strong guy to the fighting mob. Calling their part of the silo the “down deep” as opposed to the “mids” or “up top”. Seriously, the silo has fewer levels than many office blocks, there’s no need to resort to Snowpiercer levels of segregation¹. “Here in the down deep we just get. shit. done.” Urghhh that’s already knocked three or four points off of the score
• Lots of shouty swearing
• I can’t stop seeing that mayor as the “bitty” mummy from Little Britain
• Just realised the other sheriff guy is that astronaut-driller from Armageddon
• Is the guy from Spooks name really “Wholesome”?
• Getting pretty sick of hearing about this “rebellion” without being given more info
• Black Panthers? In my silo? It’s more likely than you think
• Not really enjoying watching Rebecca Ferguson shouting, screaming, or moping about all over the place
• The writers are using this old workshop woman to accelerate through Rebecca Ferguson’s character development so fast I’ve got whiplash, terrible writing
• So much exposition dump it is making me want to just turn it off
• Subtle hand touching - show, don’t tell, very good
• “Everyone knows about us” - oh ok, tell, don’t show then, I guess

It was here that the episode took a turn for the better.

• All the scenes with the sheriff and Rebecca Ferguson are good. It doesn’t seem stilted and rushed. The characters have room to breathe and behave naturally
• Liking this spooky tunnel and the big digger, very cool
• But still not liking all this missing information being patched in via mini flashbacks. Please give me some linear progression
• No idea what Juliette’s plan was once she got to the bottom of the rope. Hang around for a bit then drown, I assume

Ok so the first half of this episode was absolutely dire - real 2/10 stuff. However once the sheriff and Juliette started their dialogue and the investigation of the murder began it greatly improved.

I liked the way they described why the sheriff was interested in the murder, as he thought it would help him understand what happened with his wife, rather than him somehow finding all the time in the world to investigate a random crazy lady shouting murder.

This whole “relic” thing is good, I like the way all the old shit from the past is classed as an illegal relic, and I am intrigued as to what the mystery door leads to.

Overall this episode I can only give a 5/10 for. It really is an episode of two distinct halves. The second was really good though, maybe an 8/10. But it really is let down by that terrible first half.

Such a shame.

However, I will be watching episode three.

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4th November 2024