The comic books were fun.

This wasn’t.

And it felt like that was a choice somebody made.

Amazing how the party of “free speech” wants to make sure no one can actually speak about things.

Good GOD—why have you rewatched The Road four times?? Can I call someone for you?

That’s how I felt about it.  I wasn’t put off with the pandemic plotline, I just wasn’t impressed with the plot and the acting.

Yeah, I think Station Eleven tends to disprove that Y was harmed by the pandemic. I think it was harmed by failing to be a good adaption. The core of the comic was the dynamic between the three main characters, one of whom they delayed introducing (and never had her do her great “I’m the father!” introduction), and…

I think it just has more to do with the fact that people didn’t like it. Every time I looked into the discussion section for an episode recap (or looked at the ongoing thread for it on a message board I go to) there weren’t many comments and over half of those were negative.  The mention of audience drop-off kinda…

I was one of the apparently large number of people who watched an episode and a half and then quit. As others have said, it was striking how patently unfunny it had been made to be, coming off a graphic novel series that (whatever you feel about Vaughan’s libertarian/hawkish politics) was always funny.

I am the target audience of this show: a slow/methodically paced show about a plague killing off most of humankind and leaving the world a decaying wasteland is absolutely my jam, even during *waves hands* all this. But man, this show was boring as hell. If they couldn’t make this appeal to me, someone who still…

See, I bailed after Ep. 3, not because of the “plague” thing -- and “all men drop dead” is different enough from COVID to not bother me -- but when it was clearly about to be about “will the Trumpies take over the US government”.

I get that characters have arcs but the two leads were so awful and unrealistic that I just couldn’t after a couple of eps

Which was such a dumb choice because that's not at all what the comic is like. Yea it has dark undertones but it's also funny and never gets too bogged down in the dark implications of the premise.

As someone who enjoyed the comic on a re-read despite some glaring flaws I can say the show didn’t get the vibe right at all. It was dour, slow, trauma obsessed, and unpleasant. The comic works because it maintains the pacing and attitude of it’s ADD fuckup protagonist. It’s a fast paced, road trip action comic with a…

It only seems a bit weird for a show to be cancelled mid-season because we’re used to streaming services at least running the full season. Network shows are known for doing that kind of stuff - axing a show after a pilot episode or several episodes in, kicking the show to a “death slot”, and so forth.

It was so dour and dreary and joyless, it’s no wonder hardly anybody stuck around. Who needs more of that?

Spending an entire episode following the story of Evil Cult Leader lady sapped my interest for the show.  Especially after I’d heard it had already been canceled.

Truth!

Now that’s a savage burn. A second series surprisingly appears and the AV Club just reposts the first season review.

Yeah... yeah okay you make some good points. I’d forgotten all about the fish and saucer. I was just confused I guess from a conventional story telling perspective ( I should know better) , it seemed like those characters were going to come into conflict and important things were going to happen with them. But then…

I also really liked season 3, and especially the performances. Thewlis so often plays these deeply pathetic, shabby characters, and I like how ‘Fargo’ runs with that and says, “Imagine the most drab, nothing little man possible. Now imagine he’s going to eat you.”

I think that whole attitude was something she put on for attention, like pretty much everything she does.