The writing is just so terrible I can't hold my tongue, or thumbs, back at this point. I've let the previous 1,000,069 plot holes in the first 8 episodes go largely untouched, but not anymore.
First off, the town is small enough to have a small sheriffs department and local newspaper boy on a bicycle, so how does no one recognize Ronald from the newspaper image? And how does no one suspect him, homie had mad Norman Bates vibes and the priest was suspicious of it from the start. Then the kid goes missing and no one suggest Find My iPhone? Cassie comes face to face with Ronald, recognizes him, then leaves the house to alert authorities, giving Ronald plenty of time to booby trap the house and escape. Jenny storms the house and picks up a grown dead woman and mistakes it for a 10 year old boy, and doesn't even flinch at it. Forget about her having blue skin... you didn't realize you picked up a frozen avatar? Also she'd been frozen standing up, how long had she been thawed out so she could be in that sitting position? Doesn't, make, sense. And how did Ronald manage to carry the priest back up the stairs? Dude had a horrible time overpowering the 70 year old and barely had the strength to drag and push him down the stairs.
And not only does Ronald have spontaneous hulk like strength, the man, in a half hour a presume, rig up a 3 foot taser extender, solder a circuit board to trip sparks setup throughout the house, rig up a shotgun booby trap, dress his mother in the boys clothes and handcuff her to a post, carry the priest up the stairs and into the backseat of the Tesla, and then reductape the boy and put him in the trunk. Now that ladies and gentlemen, is a jack of all trades.
The Tesla chase scene is just laughable, I've seen better chase scenes between Ketchup, Mustard, and Relish at a minor league baseball game. Cassie and jenny are desperados that are going to perform a pit maneuver on a car with a little boy as a hostage instead of just following it until more backup arrives. The cars are racing at approximately 45 mph and she can't get in front of him, no traffix for miles and she drives on the shoulder and almost wrecks a car she never saw coming on a straight and flat road. Almost wrecks it multiple time, the camera angles switch and all of a sudden a 10 foot gap turns to 50, it switches again and now it's bumper to bumper. Not to mention she puts her foot down on the gas pedal to the floor 10 different times in the chase when the Tesla was in autopilot so it was on cruise control at the same speed this whole time. Sloppy and lazy writing, filming, and editing.
Merilee killing her husband made absolutely no sense and eliminates the storyline of legarsky lying and faking it along with the great foreshadowing and hints that he regained his memory. They set his character arc up for a secondary villain story and then poof, gone.
Last point then im done ranting, Ronald may the dumbest serial killer ever. Luckily for him, the sheriffs department and private detectives chasing after him are even dumber.
Let me be clear, the acting is pretty solid, but the writing is just flat lazy and terrible. No stars out of 10, dumpster fire.
First off, the town is small enough to have a small sheriffs department and local newspaper boy on a bicycle, so how does no one recognize Ronald from the newspaper image? And how does no one suspect him, homie had mad Norman Bates vibes and the priest was suspicious of it from the start. Then the kid goes missing and no one suggest Find My iPhone? Cassie comes face to face with Ronald, recognizes him, then leaves the house to alert authorities, giving Ronald plenty of time to booby trap the house and escape. Jenny storms the house and picks up a grown dead woman and mistakes it for a 10 year old boy, and doesn't even flinch at it. Forget about her having blue skin... you didn't realize you picked up a frozen avatar? Also she'd been frozen standing up, how long had she been thawed out so she could be in that sitting position? Doesn't, make, sense. And how did Ronald manage to carry the priest back up the stairs? Dude had a horrible time overpowering the 70 year old and barely had the strength to drag and push him down the stairs.
And not only does Ronald have spontaneous hulk like strength, the man, in a half hour a presume, rig up a 3 foot taser extender, solder a circuit board to trip sparks setup throughout the house, rig up a shotgun booby trap, dress his mother in the boys clothes and handcuff her to a post, carry the priest up the stairs and into the backseat of the Tesla, and then reductape the boy and put him in the trunk. Now that ladies and gentlemen, is a jack of all trades.
The Tesla chase scene is just laughable, I've seen better chase scenes between Ketchup, Mustard, and Relish at a minor league baseball game. Cassie and jenny are desperados that are going to perform a pit maneuver on a car with a little boy as a hostage instead of just following it until more backup arrives. The cars are racing at approximately 45 mph and she can't get in front of him, no traffix for miles and she drives on the shoulder and almost wrecks a car she never saw coming on a straight and flat road. Almost wrecks it multiple time, the camera angles switch and all of a sudden a 10 foot gap turns to 50, it switches again and now it's bumper to bumper. Not to mention she puts her foot down on the gas pedal to the floor 10 different times in the chase when the Tesla was in autopilot so it was on cruise control at the same speed this whole time. Sloppy and lazy writing, filming, and editing.
Merilee killing her husband made absolutely no sense and eliminates the storyline of legarsky lying and faking it along with the great foreshadowing and hints that he regained his memory. They set his character arc up for a secondary villain story and then poof, gone.
Last point then im done ranting, Ronald may the dumbest serial killer ever. Luckily for him, the sheriffs department and private detectives chasing after him are even dumber.
Let me be clear, the acting is pretty solid, but the writing is just flat lazy and terrible. No stars out of 10, dumpster fire.