Well then I guess we finally disagree on a TV show!
I thought it was pretty damn good, certainly from a writing perspective. It wasn’t as dark of a show as the premise made it out to be, but also… It was still dark as fark.
It had an absurdist feel to it, and it had quite a few layers to the story that I thought were clever.
Unsatisfying ending though, and it’s not the best ‘netflix original’ even though it wasn’t actually a Netflix original. (How did we leave Stranger Things out of that conversation?)
Yes mark it down! First time ever we have disagreed.
Look it wasn’t terrible, and I totally agree with many of the virtues you describe. For me though, it was just another story of a psycho man murdering women, and I just feel like TV is awash with those stories.
In particular (spoiler) did we need to devote the entire last episode to the girls psychological torture and murder? Was that really necessary?
You realise he was just Elliott with a worse upbringing?
The last episode was disappointing. It had done so well avoiding becoming ‘just another show about a nutcase killing women’ in my opinion, and then it just leaned right into the cliche at the end. I didn’t like that, and he got away far too clean.
Any good? I’m a bit gun shy after the train wreck of season 2.
Even season 1 I think was a bit over rated for what it was. The story wasn’t particularly original and the ending was a bit meh. Brilliant cinematography and great performances from the two leading actors covered over a lot of cracks.
In Season 2 all those cracks were a lot more visible and it had a worse story. I struggled to get to the end of it.
Hanging out for the next ep of Berlin Station. This series has been a bit of a slow burn…Russia trying to cause havoc in Estonia to get them back into the fold.
