Need a bit of feedback on an old series. Two or three years back, on a whim, I rented The Leftovers, first series. I was intrigued by the premise of it, mainly. I like these crazy ideas.
Now I do understand that they didn't want to simply take the road of “What in the hell happened to the disappeared people?!” That would have been the obvious road to take. Instead, they wanted to study a specific community, from different points of view, in the aftermath of the trauma. I get that. There's a potential to that.
Well, I confess that I had difficulty getting through to the end of the series. I didn't find the acting very good, and the screenplay seemed to me to be all over the place. It seemed like a series that didn't really know in which direction it wanted to go. I was downright bored by certain episodes. I sometimes had to steel myself to turn the thing on. But when I've paid for something, I watch it to the bitter end!
I suppose that there must be fans of it on here. I read just now that the second and third series were considered to be much, much stronger. I thought I might give them a shot, but I'd be interested to hear from someone who had approximately my experience for the first series, and who was then “converted”, as it were. That would carry weight with me.
I notice in general that I very often have the ‘meh’ reaction to the first series of multi-series pieces. Sometimes I change my mind — big time. I was not fully convinced by the first series of Breaking Bad, for instance. Even in the second series, I wasn't fully into it. About halfway through the second series, something clicked, and I never looked back. Same with Better Call Saul. It took me a long time to get into it, but I perservered, and was finally glad that I did.
On the strong recommendation of a friend, I paid for The Last Kingdom. I never even finished the series. It's still in my library, sitting there.
Same with GOT, and The Wire. Saw one whole series of each (the first) and was simply not convinced. Never went back. I know that there are people who will throw up their hands in horror. That's how it was for me.
We enjoyed it ourselves, the 3rd series is due out this month in the US at least, I can't find a release date or channel for the UK annoyingly.Anyone watched 'From'? Two episodes in and not exactly gripping me like i thought it might. Heard really good things about it so that's why i've tried it.
I get that 'The Wire' can feel slow but as a whole the show is incredible. The writing is second to none, probably the best piece of TV I have ever watched. You can't sit and watch it with your phone in and out of your hand though, needs focus.
Kudos for making it to the end of the series, we never made it to the end of episode 2 I think. The fact that it's the same team who made the nonsense that was Lost probably did give us some pre-conceived bias. Perhaps I'll try it again myself.Need a bit of feedback on an old series. Two or three years back, on a whim, I rented The Leftovers, first series. I was intrigued by the premise of it, mainly. I like these crazy ideas.
Now I do understand that they didn't want to simply take the road of “What in the hell happened to the disappeared people?!” That would have been the obvious road to take. Instead, they wanted to study a specific community, from different points of view, in the aftermath of the trauma. I get that. There's a potential to that.
Well, I confess that I had difficulty getting through to the end of the series. I didn't find the acting very good, and the screenplay seemed to me to be all over the place. It seemed like a series that didn't really know in which direction it wanted to go. I was downright bored by certain episodes. I sometimes had to steel myself to turn the thing on. But when I've paid for something, I watch it to the bitter end!
I suppose that there must be fans of it on here. I read just now that the second and third series were considered to be much, much stronger. I thought I might give them a shot, but I'd be interested to hear from someone who had approximately my experience for the first series, and who was then “converted”, as it were. That would carry weight with me.
I notice in general that I very often have the ‘meh’ reaction to the first series of multi-series pieces. Sometimes I change my mind — big time. I was not fully convinced by the first series of Breaking Bad, for instance. Even in the second series, I wasn't fully into it. About halfway through the second series, something clicked, and I never looked back. Same with Better Call Saul. It took me a long time to get into it, but I perservered, and was finally glad that I did.
On the strong recommendation of a friend, I paid for The Last Kingdom. I never even finished the series. It's still in my library, sitting there.
Same with GOT, and The Wire. Saw one whole series of each (the first) and was simply not convinced. Never went back. I know that there are people who will throw up their hands in horror. That's how it was for me.
Kudos for making it to the end of the series, we never made it to the end of episode 2 I think. The fact that it's the same team who made the nonsense that was Lost probably did give us some pre-conceived bias. Perhaps I'll try it again myself.
Anyone knows what platform both this and Good Omens can be found on?
Edit: I found The Leftovers on the Sky Go app and Good Omens on Prime.
managed a couple of episodes and then gave up it was absolute rubbish.The Perfect Couple on Netflix. Glossy whodunnit starring TAFKA Nicole Kidman who has a very odd face (although i'm sure she'd say the same about me). 6 episodes.
3.5/10. Barely watchable soap opera garbage with some odd direction. I watched it just to see whodunnit. I'm not sure i'd recommend others to do the same.
“Alone”Series 11 -Artic Circle.
I loved From. Deffo recommend to stick with it. Waiting patiently for the next seriesAnyone watched 'From'? Two episodes in and not exactly gripping me like i thought it might. Heard really good things about it so that's why i've tried it.
Need a bit of feedback on an old series. Two or three years back, on a whim, I rented The Leftovers, first series. I was intrigued by the premise of it, mainly. I like these crazy ideas.
Now I do understand that they didn't want to simply take the road of “What in the hell happened to the disappeared people?!” That would have been the obvious road to take. Instead, they wanted to study a specific community, from different points of view, in the aftermath of the trauma. I get that. There's a potential to that.
Well, I confess that I had difficulty getting through to the end of the series. I didn't find the acting very good, and the screenplay seemed to me to be all over the place. It seemed like a series that didn't really know in which direction it wanted to go. I was downright bored by certain episodes. I sometimes had to steel myself to turn the thing on. But when I've paid for something, I watch it to the bitter end!
I suppose that there must be fans of it on here. I read just now that the second and third series were considered to be much, much stronger. I thought I might give them a shot, but I'd be interested to hear from someone who had approximately my experience for the first series, and who was then “converted”, as it were. That would carry weight with me.
I notice in general that I very often have the ‘meh’ reaction to the first series of multi-series pieces. Sometimes I change my mind — big time. I was not fully convinced by the first series of Breaking Bad, for instance. Even in the second series, I wasn't fully into it. About halfway through the second series, something clicked, and I never looked back. Same with Better Call Saul. It took me a long time to get into it, but I perservered, and was finally glad that I did.
On the strong recommendation of a friend, I paid for The Last Kingdom. I never even finished the series. It's still in my library, sitting there.
Same with GOT, and The Wire. Saw one whole series of each (the first) and was simply not convinced. Never went back. I know that there are people who will throw up their hands in horror. That's how it was for me.
Where to start…. Its hard to describe it.
It could be one of the best box sets I’ve ever watched.
However, while I was watching it I never really knew what was going on. Like you, while watching I thought, what is this? I wasn’t dying to watch the next episodes like some shows make you do.
It’s not edge of your seat stuff but it’s sort of weirdly intriguing and you just keep going.
Only when I finished it all, I thought, actually that was a really really good show.
The music score all the way through it is brilliant as well. Piano/violin certainly sets the mood.
I’d highly recommend it.
It has great reviews and it went under the radar when it was out.
You do have to watch all 3 seasons to get to fully understand it In my view.