The Faux-Finale (Spoilers)
Was obviously rewritten to extend this into a second season.
Originally, this was written as a film but the director deemed it impossible to fit into a 2hr running time so they hawked it around to buyers as a potential TV series.
When they were doing that, Netflix, Amazon etc weren't creating their own original content so they ended up at Sky Atlantic, whose reputation was fairly non-existent.
So they offered to fund it as long as it was padded out to 12 episodes, as the US market expects, and snagged some great actors to star in it to draw our moth-like existence to the flame. And it worked!
Now there's going to be a season 2, which was originally going to be a completely different story, but now will follow on from the faux-finale and feature some of the remaining characters from season 1.
And that's what I truly hate about the faux-finale. So many unanswered questions regarding the characters that we'd been following (with patience and fortitude) from the beginning.
No explanation for:
A) Liam trudging across town to murder Stoddart who he'd never met before.
B) How the larvae were transmitted and why their gestation/infection period varied from person to person (Liam/Shirley/Elena/Ronnie/Jason).
C) Why the doll thing that Henry and the taxidermist created had any effect on Liam.
D) Why there were only a few flies buzzing around in the underground mammoth cave that Juri fell into, since they breed quite quickly, supposedly.
E) Why or how the lab and the doc's body was cleansed of the flies but the young guy only got superficial burns (even his eyelashes were intact!)
F, G, H...) Fill in yourself. Be my guest.
So I'm obviously annoyed that after watching this season then at the end of it we're left with a whole bunch of unanswered questions, and it appears that the writers(s) for the second series have taken the money but aren't running.
Will any of the questions above be answered in season 2?
I doubt it.
If the opposite of Love is indifference, what's the opposite of Hate?