Is it just me, or did the trailer for the show not reflect its actual contents? As far as I could tell, none of the characters of the show would fit the description of a "shut eye" given by the trailer, and the trailer made the show look like it'd be a lot more mysticism-oriented than it actually turned out.
I mean, I'm not saying the show is bad, it's just, it wasn't what I was expecting.
So the fact he is having visions of a psychic nature isnt mystical?
Hard to tell from just first episode.
After his attack he is a shut eye
The entire point is to question whether his new experiences are real or if he is just fooling himself and we are seeing his delusions from his perspective
If you didn't catch that then I have to wonder if you understand what a shut eye means and whether or not you understand that the story can twist your perspective just as much as the injury twisted his
I don't really feel that way; the trailer gave the me sense the show would go in depth with the mystical side of fortune telling and what not, and it ended up being a crime drama starring a guy who might be having visions of the future.
shareWow, I didn't get that from the trailer at all. I guess everyone saw it a bit differently.
shareIt goes into the real mystical sense of fortune telling (ie. how they scam people out of money using mystical speech/gibberish). Even the psychiatrist is full of mystical gibberish -- she thinks she understands quantum physics, but she spouts the same old meaningless mystical crap that many new-agers (such as Deepak Chopra) spout. If you thought that mysticism was anything else, well consider yourself educated. The show illustrates true mysticism. and how people deceive themselves into magical thinking. He's such a good con man that he manages to con himself.
shareI don't know what a shut-eye is...but I agree, I feel like the nuerosurgeon plot line is extremely expendable through the 7 episodes I've seen so far...
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I agree. I thought the trailer was terrible and unappealing and only decided to watch the series because I love Jeffrey Donovan. The trailer doesn't reflect the series at all, really. As someone else said, I didn't get hooked til the second episo
shareI agree, I saw the trailer that described a shut-eye as "a magician who starts to believe his own tricks". But Charlie never believed his own tricks, he began to have visions that did come true but that's not the same.
Also I thought the show would be a lot more phycological about psychics and how they think and how they manipulate and influence it would evolve into him believing he can see the future in his crystals. Instead it was more of a crime gangster show with a hint of magic.