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This whole town needs Prozac.

posted 5 years ago by TylerAArse (2871)
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I've never seen a show where everyone is so miserable all the time. The stories were interesting but it was serious overkill with all the morose demeanors.

So we have a girl who finds her older self, 2 boys who switched bodies, a girl who found a way to stop time, a man who slips through to another dimension, and a boy who comes home really, really late. Yet, no explanation is ever given as to how all of this happens. It must have something to do with the shenanigans in The Loop, but thats just a guess.

An explanation would've been nice, tho.

[–] CheekyMonkey (584) 5 years ago

The first episode was good. The last couple of episodes were good. Some of the middling ones were... well... middling...

Good mood and atsmophere throughout the series, which I liked. Yes, a bit overused in terms of trying to make everything seem meaningfull by making everything seem sad... Could have broken it up a little bit...

Not plot heavy... Which is refreshing for a TV show... I do like the lack of explanation, there is enough to make out the various connections between the episodes and characters, but I think the mystery and lack of explanation makes the loop seem more interesting and keeps our interest...

I think it's an above average show, but I wouldn't watch a second season of this (I don't watch many TV shows)...

[–] jimmyzimms (76) 5 years ago

Yeah they needed to play with the recipe a bit more. A bridge episode with some humor (maybe replacing the episode with the dad and the robot remote control story with a comedy of errors) and needed to push the suspense on the island longer and more in that episode. Breaking it up that way keeps it from being a slog. Otherwise interesting contemplative SciFi.

[–] BourbonKing (5777) 5 years ago

The aching sense of isolation plays too strong in this "community", and the background actors look and act too much like props rather than real people. I think the producers were aiming for a more mature and intellectual version of Stranger Things and ended up with Fargo meets Twin Peaks

[–] Tricklebrook (314) 4 years ago

Fargo meets Twin Peaks. Perfect! If only it added up to a sum larger than its parts.

I tend to like weird stuff like this but some of the episodes are just too long and boring. Like "Control." I do like the way the episodes are loosely connected. I haven't finished the series but I think I will eventually.

[–] BourbonKing (5777) 4 years ago

My breaking point was the overbearing music score which comprises mostly of doll drum strings. Even in the movie Fargo where they used traditional Scandinavian string music it was used to an almost perfect effect that didn't take away or add too much in each scene, but in this series it just blares out constantly.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

What the OP said...

I tried to get into this series but there's an unrelenting dreariness to it... the stories, the characters, the atmosphere.

I left it behind after 3 eps.

[–] maximmm (3336) 4 years ago

Yeah... someone said this was a much better alternative to the twilight zone - I saw the first episode and wasn't all that impressed. Then i skimmed through another episode just to see if this shit gets better - it was about a dude finding another copy of him or something and then i deleted the whole season. I wanted an anthology of sci-fi stories like outer limits, not this crap about some weird town with recurring characters and some unexplained 'loop'.

Given that this whole thing is based on drawings and not a novel/short stories..... I don't think there will ever be an explanation provided for anything. And yeah... the music, the lighting - it's all very dark, depressing and err... kinda boring.

[–] Martindo (58) a year ago

It's all about the emotional interactions and linkages focusing on a central family. If you expect a space opera or simplistic time travel story, then you will be disappointed.