Ok I'm all up to date with it now and I've landed on
It’s such a brilliantly bad show.
Which is about right. Though any use of "brilliant" in relation to it is probably a bit much.
There's so much about it that is genuinely dreadful, the standard of acting to begin with. There's a couple of them doing a decent to good job, a bunch of them that are pretty much NPCs and deliver their lines with the same conviction as Casemiro defending, and the rest that are soap-opera level awful (and there's
a lot of the latter). The writing (the dialogue part, I mean) is pretty poor overall and the amount of inconsistencies and irrational things happening (in terms of how humans, even under stress, would behave) is getting a bit much.
Nevertheless, it's okayish and oddly watchable, though they're really towing the line with the audience's patience and they're getting towards a breaking point where if things don't start to at least get slightly explained, it's just going to be overly frustrating and boring.
Joke of a show, but can’t stop watching. I saw an interview with one of the showrunners a while back, and he admitted they were going in a Lost-y direction, meaning they want it to fundamentally be a drama about human relationships with some supernatural elements sprinkled in. He said we shouldn’t expect too many answers to the mysteries. But we’ve been talking about faraway trees, bottles, symbols, mystery phone calls and monsters of unknown origin for 2,5 seasons now. Give us something concrete (hehe), anything.
I mean, admitting they're going in a Lost-y direction isn't really necessary, it's glaringly obvious and has been since the first episode. The bolded, though, is a massive failure so far, and if they really wanted that, they should have recruited a competent cast and learned how to write decent dialogue between human people.
Makes me long for the brilliance of The Leftovers who achieved exactly that in the best way possible.
