I started this series right after I got my AMC+ subscription and immediately felt glad I made the decision. To start, I love Stephen King's Gunslinger series with it's desolation and weird magic. This show had some of that feel initially. There was creepy mystery and a dark feel of preternatural presence through the opening episodes. That hooked me.
The dark mystery of the series begins to fade into confusing time lines and less and less spookiness that evolves into long dramatic conversations and stares into the distance.
There's a feel that the show lost it's way a bit in the middle and then the ending is tied up loosely, clearly intending a second season.
The writing of one of the primary characters is a bit misleading, as well. Marco, for example, starts out the series almost seeming like a bumbling sheriff that is more Michael Scott than Wyatt Earp. Then they sort of throw us for a loop when he turns out to be a supreme bad ass, which is fine... just different.
I hope they return to the dark spooky themes when they return for a second season, if they do.
The dark mystery of the series begins to fade into confusing time lines and less and less spookiness that evolves into long dramatic conversations and stares into the distance.
There's a feel that the show lost it's way a bit in the middle and then the ending is tied up loosely, clearly intending a second season.
The writing of one of the primary characters is a bit misleading, as well. Marco, for example, starts out the series almost seeming like a bumbling sheriff that is more Michael Scott than Wyatt Earp. Then they sort of throw us for a loop when he turns out to be a supreme bad ass, which is fine... just different.
I hope they return to the dark spooky themes when they return for a second season, if they do.