I am watching the first episode as I write this. I am halfway in. It started a bit goofy, but on a high note in a hotel room filled with maimed bodies and a monster. The whole scene took less than a minute and half the time was taking up with the father looking grumpy. The mother then shoots the monster in a goof way: she walks away and shoots it without looking at it. And that was all the action in the first part..
I am still waiting for the quirky parts, but I might have missed those as the episode is buried under so many tropes and cliches that it must be about to collapse into a black hole of boredom. Everything is run-of-the-mill. What is even worse, we are thirty minutes in and nothing has happened yet: it is all exposition and setting up for later: the death of a brother, the death of the grandfather and the arrival of the grandmother who will bring her own troubles with them(she is that snarky,self-assured type; like another clone from Miranda Priestly from the Devil wears Prada.
There was a moment in the episode that caught my attention: the owner of a gas station refuses to help them because of the mother. At that moment I thought it might be because he knew something about her, but apparently it is because she is black. At least I guess it was because that is how the family takes it and the gas guy doesn't explain. God, he doesn't even curse or anything. And he doesn't say anything about the kids, who are also black. So hence my confusion.
The opener is usually 'better' as to draw you in and then it goes downhill. And by Jove I already stopped after fifteen minutes to read what other people though. I then had to force myself to watch another fifteen minutes. But I calling it quits. I hope you get more entertainment out of it.
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I am still waiting for the quirky parts, but I might have missed those as the episode is buried under so many tropes and cliches that it must be about to collapse into a black hole of boredom. Everything is run-of-the-mill. What is even worse, we are thirty minutes in and nothing has happened yet: it is all exposition and setting up for later: the death of a brother, the death of the grandfather and the arrival of the grandmother who will bring her own troubles with them(she is that snarky,self-assured type; like another clone from Miranda Priestly from the Devil wears Prada.
There was a moment in the episode that caught my attention: the owner of a gas station refuses to help them because of the mother. At that moment I thought it might be because he knew something about her, but apparently it is because she is black. At least I guess it was because that is how the family takes it and the gas guy doesn't explain. God, he doesn't even curse or anything. And he doesn't say anything about the kids, who are also black. So hence my confusion.
The opener is usually 'better' as to draw you in and then it goes downhill. And by Jove I already stopped after fifteen minutes to read what other people though. I then had to force myself to watch another fifteen minutes. But I calling it quits. I hope you get more entertainment out of it.
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