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I also think there's some resemblance to embryos being hatched in "The Matrix," or maybe it's coincidence, but something about the birthing pod and the fluids, etc, made me think of a visual nod to Neo's movie.
I think the key is that Woman said the other humans "found" her, and Mother at the end asked Woman if she remembered her mother (knowing the answer was "no). Woman would be a failure that wasn't cremated but was instead planted in human hands to play out Mother's elaborate plot with Daughter.
Ditto! Netflix finally got it right.
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Well, I would say that despite herself, Mother fell into the same trap that humans did. She had plenty of human flaws, such as lying and having no regret. I would put this into the sci-fi category of "half-crazy, all-powerful computer." But I enjoyed it a lot.
For me the biggest flaw was the breakdown in the humans' reasoning at the end: 1) "We have to leave. We can come back with others"--why didn't Daughter see how stupid that was? They weren't going to open the airlock from outside. 2) "We're taking a baby with us"--yeah, right.
But the rest of the movie was good enough that I'll forgive those flaws.
I kept thinking "Terminator" over and over again. But the movie stood on its own, so it didn't seem like a cheap copy.
I think Mother was the one who failed that ethics test.
I actually found her rather dull acting-wise compared to everyone around her. She only had about 3 facial expressions, and that was it. But she wasn't terrible either.
Agreed, but I'd also say Sissy Spacek and Julia Roberts are past their prime in landing star roles in movies these days anyway. Like Glenn Close turning to TV to do damages--it's the best job they can find in the twilight of their career.
Me too. Some of them could have even been trimmed here and there where there wasn't much going on, or we had guessed it already. (And seeing her job interview at the end was pretty unnecessary for me--the dynamics between her and Colin were clear long before.)
Not the best show ever, but worth watching. Getting to the end was gratifying. More drama than thriller.
I did fast forward through parts of it, especially if it was several minutes of Julia looking mopey for several minutes at a time, which happened quite a bit.
I agree. I think she struck out on this "first date," but she's going to find excuses to stick around town in a romantic-stalker kind of way and keep running into him to rekindle the old flame, if possible.
My main doubt is that in going through therapy with her, they had a lot of personal chats and hence grew close. It wasn't instant romance. He might warm up to her again, or he might view her as an eccentric old lady. Should she show him his own map (which he should remember), or would that scare him away? (But I sure am not waiting a whole extra season to find out, if there is a season 2.)
It seemed to me throughout that she was suppressing her attraction to him since it was unprofessional. Once she was no longer his therapist (& she had her memory back), she drove cross-country to consummate their romance, trying to fulfill that dream they had together at their last meal at Homecoming about living in a small town near Yosemite together.
great explanation
By Episode 9, I liked all the characters, which kinda surprised me. They grew on me, and I saw them all as deeply flawed, more flawed than most, and people I would steer clear of in real life, but still, I enjoyed watching following the zigs and zags in their lives. I think they're the kind of people you can know in real life who are messed up, but you still harbor hope that they'll work out their issues.
"Whose actions are justified?" I guess I'd say Judy, who's trying to fix things, even if she breaks more things along the way. Her heart is in the right place--if only her life skills would catch up.
She re-invented the stalker stereotype, lol: someone who wants to help you instead of kill you.
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With you on that: great acting and humor. [spoiler]I enjoyed it up until Episode 10, where things stopped making sense and got extreme. Though it's also a matter of taste: I was enjoying the humor, the banter, and the tensions between people, enjoying the "comedy" part of "dark comedy." When it got just plain dark, the fun was gone. And some of the later plot points were totally cliche.[/spoiler]
I think as later episodes show, Doron is a total hothead who overreacts in tense situations, usually by killing people.
I was thinking the same thing--is this a soap opera about every character's sex life, or an action/suspense show? A question of balance.
Admittedly confusing, but I *think* the rationale is that 1) Abu Ahmed didn't want the little girl blown up, so he couldn't blow up the Israeli (Boaz) near her, 2) he also wanted revenge on the Israeli prisoner for killing his brother, so for him, it was unacceptable to let him get away entirely.
Then Doron blew up the Palestinian prisoner in the same spot Boaz was blown up for simple revenge. At least, that's how I make sense of it.
I did watch it all the way through. It remains a B-movie. There was some mystery about the two communities she encounters and what's really going on behind facades, and it was entertaining looking for clues. But what was most distracting was that a young woman could be so socially adept and articulate when she'd grown up isolated in a family of 3 in the mountains.