This modern retelling of "Survivors" seems to suffer from lazy writing. Episode after episode expects huge leaps of faith from the viewers over and over again, with our characters behaving unrealistically, and worst of all, truly outlandish and unbelievable coincidences happening far too often.
The writers seem to overlook the true story to tell here, a world where most people have died and which is now slowly crumbling with all the infrastructure gone. Instead they seem more concerned with introducing unnecessary nemesis after unnecessary nemesis for our survivors to overcome... The gem of the series goes to "evil coal mine owner" who captures fellow survivors in order to force them to mine coal. Here we see the true lengths the writers are willing to sink to in order to create yet another villain for the survivors to face. In reality every coal power station, every coal mine and coal depot would have huge mounds of coal, just lying there waiting to be taken, but instead the inept writers decide to ignore this obvious reality, in order to contrive another story.
Contrived plots, littered with outlandish coincidences, happens over and over and over such that it all becomes mushy, unbelievable and ultimately forgettable.
The writers seem to overlook the true story to tell here, a world where most people have died and which is now slowly crumbling with all the infrastructure gone. Instead they seem more concerned with introducing unnecessary nemesis after unnecessary nemesis for our survivors to overcome... The gem of the series goes to "evil coal mine owner" who captures fellow survivors in order to force them to mine coal. Here we see the true lengths the writers are willing to sink to in order to create yet another villain for the survivors to face. In reality every coal power station, every coal mine and coal depot would have huge mounds of coal, just lying there waiting to be taken, but instead the inept writers decide to ignore this obvious reality, in order to contrive another story.
Contrived plots, littered with outlandish coincidences, happens over and over and over such that it all becomes mushy, unbelievable and ultimately forgettable.