I saw all the trailers for this show that made it seem like a kidnapping/serial killer mystery. The first episode completely removes any level of mystery and leaves you with a lot of melodrama. I kept watching to see what happened to the girls. The show is okay I guess for about 7-8 episodes. Then it just devolves into sheer stupidity for what I thought was the last episode. Characters do things that don't make any sense, and there are some truly absurd parts. There's a small-town pastor who drives a Tesla, which doesn't make any sense whatsoever except that it becomes clear the writers NEEDED him to be driving a Tesla so they could put a self-driving car into the story to write themselves out of a corner. Then there's a car chase involving the Tesla in which they realize the car is on autopilot and all they need to do is get in front of it and it will stop. There was a helicopter that had managed to cover a ton of distance and catch up to the car chase, but no one thinks to have the helicopter fly ahead of the Tesla and stop it. No, they decide the two women driving a big truck should try to speed up, pass the Tesla and put on their brakes. But, oh no, just as they pass the Tesla, there JUST HAPPENS to be the front bumper of a car sitting in the middle of the road that causes an accident.
I couldn't help but just sit there and laugh at this idiocy.
And then I realized this wasn't the last episode. Not even close. Despite everything in the commercials and promotions for this show focusing on the missing girls, it turns out the show pivots halfway through the season to a completely different storyline with a subplot that ties back to the first half.
The sociopath character and his mother in this show are laughable cliches, but it gets even worse when you see his "disguise" later in the season. The second half plot involving an old rancher and his sons is much less interesting and just as dumb. There's a minor character who shows up for one episode who uses a bolt pistol as a weapon just like the character in No Country For Old Men.
Even though this series is based on a book series, it really feels like the writers just grabbed bits and pieces of other books and movies and tossed them together to make this unimaginative show that I can't imagine lasting more than a season.
I couldn't help but just sit there and laugh at this idiocy.
And then I realized this wasn't the last episode. Not even close. Despite everything in the commercials and promotions for this show focusing on the missing girls, it turns out the show pivots halfway through the season to a completely different storyline with a subplot that ties back to the first half.
The sociopath character and his mother in this show are laughable cliches, but it gets even worse when you see his "disguise" later in the season. The second half plot involving an old rancher and his sons is much less interesting and just as dumb. There's a minor character who shows up for one episode who uses a bolt pistol as a weapon just like the character in No Country For Old Men.
Even though this series is based on a book series, it really feels like the writers just grabbed bits and pieces of other books and movies and tossed them together to make this unimaginative show that I can't imagine lasting more than a season.