Did we watch the same ending!?

I was genuinely excited for this season, especially for Foster, Hawkes, Eccleston, and Shaw. Saw a couple interviews with Lopez that quelled that a bit but was still cautiously optimistic. I’m glad I waited til today to binge this because this was a sloppy, disjointed mess. The acting was the only good thing about it,…

I feel like because this is a woman showrunner with women lead characters and concerns the indigenous community, reviewers seem to be reluctant to grade this poorly in case they’re seen as not being “progressive” enough. But this is an absolute trainwreck of a show.

For a series that is veering wildly into supernatural/occult territory, the thing I find the most credulity-straining is just how fucking dumb Hank is. I mean, I get that the lovelorn and desperate can do pretty stupid things, but it’s a pretty transparent scam at about the level of those Nigerian prince emails.

Seems like they made an agreement with HBO to never rank it below an A-.  The first two episodes got perfect As, which was ridiculous.

I’m not sure how this rates an A- when you conclude with this:

This show is half-thawed garbage.

Really weird how bad the show apparently expects us to feel for Hank, after all we’ve seen of him so far is being an abusive father and probable racist.

I want to like it but the writing on this show is really awful. The build up and intended payoff is incoherent. The tone is very muddled. What are they going for exactly? Thriller? Family drama? Polemic screed? The whole show is aesthetic and Jodie Foster busting her ass to try and make it all work.

It’s literally green

av club is like:

THIS IS BLACKFACE!! THIS IS BLACKFACE!!

This is the kind of stuff that makes me hope Twitter implodes sooner or later. All these losers have that much time to scrape someone’s internet history, and the reactionaries in the twitter replies just eat it up, unable to critique the claim.

I’m extremely ambivalent of this show. There’s so much talent behind it: Mazin, Pascal, Ramsey, every actor in roles big or small, Druckerman sure.

Really enjoyed the series and appreciate the write-ups. I am a bit confused by something, maybe someone reading this could help me.

It was a really weird (i.e., bad) directorial choice to show Joel’s rampage as a soft-focus montage with dramatic music swelling in the background.

We think David is being gentle and fatherly with Ellie because he’s a man of god and doesn’t want to harm anyone.

Now we’ll never get answers to such burning questions as, “What the hell is going on?” and “Why the fuck should anyone care?”

Some thoughts on this

Um is there not some middle ground between “I own any woman I like” and “the woman I had a substantive relationship with decided to sleep with my brother.” Lol wtf. Lecturing Moody is not feminism.  Pearl did not really like Tripp, and their relationship made no sense.  That does not mean she had to be with Moody.  It…

She didn’t really confront him, she just left him after he more or less confirmed that he was up to no good by his behavior and denial. I was expecting more of a “I know who you are and who you’re working for. Why are you lying to me?”