The unrelenting gloom and gravitas of every scene was really starting to wear on me. I can't think of another show where nobody cracked a joke for an entire season. I liked it, but the seriousness almost crossed over into silly territory.
shareI agree, that the show could've used a little more humor. There are plenty of bleak shows that still manage to get in some lightness or some twisted humor every now and then...I never found the show grating, but I have a high tolerance for dark entertainment haha. I certainly can understand how it could get tiresome though, if it ran/runs for longer I could see it wearing a viewer down.
Hey, most of them are dead right? So it wouldn't have killed them to include something to laugh at more here and there
It would have been so much better with humor. Really, they should have tried to make it more like every other tv show ever.
shareNah, for me any attempts at humor would have been completely out of place. This show had a very specific atmosphere, not a lot of dialogue, I can't even think of what they could joke about. I think the atmosphere in the show was great but also that it wasn't something that could be dragged out very long. 16 episodes was about right, it never would work as a typical American show of 22 episodes a year.
shareI could handle the lack of humor, that wasn't a sticking point for me. But season 2 seemed like it was just meandering around and stretching out the story with new sub-plots like the creepy cult at the mountain resort, and the army unit that was just there but didn't seem to do much. The resolution, too, lumping the whole returned's situation as a result of the wish of magical little boy Victor seemed like a hurried and not well thought out climax.
If it hadn't been cancelled, I don't think I would have tuned in for a third season.
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stretching out the story with new sub-plots like the creepy cult at the mountain resortYou mean "the creepy cult" that was there from the start of the show? It wasn't a "new sub-plot" at all.
and the army unit that was just there but didn't seem to do muchThey did stretch those scenes out a bit, I agree.
Yeah, "creepy cult" was there in S1, too, and we found out more about it's genesis in season 2, but what did it really do except try and isolate and contain the returned (and mostly fail)? They could have taken this sub-plot in a lot of more interesting directions, but they seemed at a loss for ideas in this regard, so they decided to just finish it by having Pierre give in to the situation when ________ (don't remember his name...the cult's former leader/dad of the serial killer guy) met up with Pierre who had enough and shot himself in the head.
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