jillybeane16

Had momentum but the ending was a trite cop-out

I binge watched this series this weekend and it's good, BUT (and it's a big but) Scottish accents aren't the easiest to understand. I didn't catch everything and probably missed key plot points. These characters were created by the same author that created the Vera characters and I really like that show. I'd recommend this, but make sure you turn on the subtitles.

Watch this show! IT IS GOOD! It doesn't matter whether you want to watch because you're touched by autism through a loved one or because you've just read a review like this one, watch this show. It's humorous, the soundtrack is amazing, and the acting is really good. It's part typical family drama, part 10 Things I Hate About You, and part Bildungsroman (for more than one character). Seriously, binge watch this show and then tell a friend. I bet you'll Google penguins when you're done.

The trailer and the fact that it was going to air on USA made tuning in worth it. BUT, I'm eight episodes in and I feel like I'm blindly being lead down a path and I don't know my destination. USA has a history of these cryptic shows that turn out to have an asinine origin story. I hope this isn't the case with this show.

I don't know why ITV made this miniseries. It's not wholly bad, but it comes across as an intern's attempt to abridge a novel, but in the missing bits are the necessary connections between the characters. I watched the entire series in a day because I have a week off due to the Thanksgiving holiday and needed a reason to hole up in my room and away from "people." British TV seems to be on a multicultural kick as of late. For example, The Missing takes place in France, Germany, and "Iraq." This show takes place in England and Germany. This isn't a complaint, just an observation. I feel like this review is going off the rails, so I'll leave it with watch or don't, you won't miss out on anything. You can knock out a few levels of Candy Crush Soda.

First, this show will get cancelled during or immediately after its first season. Second, this show would be more interesting if it were real. Let me explain. If there were a real place that helped individuals using new technology and/or experimental medical procedures and was presented in the style of Dateline or 60 Minutes, I'd watch, I'd be interested, invested. This show is too idealistic, too tech-startup-meets-medicine, too happy-ending. Does that make sense? For example, the episode with the blind soldier, who else knew after the first few minutes that the soldier would get his sight back? I've watched the first four episodes and may watch the next four, but I'm not invested because it isn't that good with predictable outcomes.

Such an original concept! I would love to see this brought to America but I don't know which city is the most surveilled. DC? NYC? I haven't watched any of season one, but enjoyed the first three episodes of season two.

This was my high school life, minus the happy ending (getting the guy). Whether you watched this when it originally aired on MTV or are binge watching online now, you can relate, right? Everyone has that person, that person you daydreamed about, lost fifteen minutes to in pre-calc imagining how telephone conversations would go, how run-ins after school or during lunch would go, or how a would-be relationship would make you fart fireworks. I even had a few messed up friends with Rayanne's problems and a couple of guys who I didn't know liked me until school was over. I didn’t have an annoying younger sibling…I was the annoying little sister—spying on my brother and his cute, older friends. I think that's why this show endures, it's relatable even decades later.

I wanted to love this show. It's the kind of show with just enough understandable technobabble to make me feel like I'm not a conformist. I really wanted to love this show, so much so that I didn't want to digest it one episode at a time, painfully waiting week after week. I saved up an entire season because I wanted to gorge on each frame, lapping up each deadpan joke and in-the-background reference. I wanted blueberry pie all over my face as I sat, entranced, feeding, in front of the Great Tri-County Bake Off & Pie Eat banner. I waited...and was disappointed. I can't stand Darlene! She is a typical against the grain, edge of society, I'm better than you because I don't conform, look at me no really LOOK AT ME, big mouth. I don't have a problem with Elliot, but why the morphine? He's a hacker, works indirectly for Evil Corp, lost his dad, abused by his mom, and talks to us...but no, he isn't edgy enough so let's add drugs. Why are drugs a plot device to make a character edgy? Damn, I really wanted to love this show...damn, damn, damn, James. I am curious to see just how crazy Mr. Robot is. We are taken to the perimeter of his crazy, but he never crosses that invisible line, and isn't that what crazy is? I find myself interested in Angela versus Colby and the psychiatrist more than the Tyrell power play or the objectives of FSociety. This was suppose to be my reprieve from summer boredom, alas I'm left salivating until I can find something binge-worthy.