My initial impression of Falling Water was that it was a low-rent Sense8. Once again, characters are sharing consciousness in some way, only there are less of them, and those connections are less intense.
One of the main differences between the two shows is that Sense8 has a very distinct vision, and if Falling Water has one, it still hasn't made that clear.
Yes, people share dreams, and occasionally see one another in them, but so far that hasn't connected them in any way. It's basically three people dealing with their dream worlds and occasionally running into each other.
I made it through the first 8 episodes, thinking that Falling Water was just taking its time getting somewhere. The early episodes were based almost entirely on showing us peculiar dreams and establishing (quite well) a world in which it's not always clear whether you are dreaming or awake. It was many episodes in before one got some small sense of the mechanics of the world and the goals of its people.
I found the series mildly enjoyable at first, but while Sense8 has a grand vision, Falling Water seems like it just wants to show you a bunch of weird stuff and create a general sense of mystery. It does that well enough, but it never moved beyond that. Stuff happened yet no one seemed to be getting closer to answers.
By that 8th episode, I was just tired of this game of weird stuff taking the viewer nowhere in particular. If the creators are going somewhere, I think it's time they proved it.
One of the main differences between the two shows is that Sense8 has a very distinct vision, and if Falling Water has one, it still hasn't made that clear.
Yes, people share dreams, and occasionally see one another in them, but so far that hasn't connected them in any way. It's basically three people dealing with their dream worlds and occasionally running into each other.
I made it through the first 8 episodes, thinking that Falling Water was just taking its time getting somewhere. The early episodes were based almost entirely on showing us peculiar dreams and establishing (quite well) a world in which it's not always clear whether you are dreaming or awake. It was many episodes in before one got some small sense of the mechanics of the world and the goals of its people.
I found the series mildly enjoyable at first, but while Sense8 has a grand vision, Falling Water seems like it just wants to show you a bunch of weird stuff and create a general sense of mystery. It does that well enough, but it never moved beyond that. Stuff happened yet no one seemed to be getting closer to answers.
By that 8th episode, I was just tired of this game of weird stuff taking the viewer nowhere in particular. If the creators are going somewhere, I think it's time they proved it.