On the main page for this show I wrote a review scoring 7/10 which was centred around me trying to make sense of why others reviews and ratings seemed so inexplicable high and positive for an average-ish show. I did a little more reading outside IMDB and now things are starting to make sense. Rotten Tomatoes has this scored at 67%, IGN is 6/10 and Metacritic scores 53%. Seems that there's a particular audience who are way more into this than the collective of professional critics who average a 6/10 rating on this show and I'm struggling to figure who exactly this audience really is.
All we have here is a bunch of cliches, tropes and cardboard cutouts: we've got the Mary Sue lead, the hardened vet supporting role who will do anything to protect their own. We have guns, explosions, a futuristic version of Boss Hog, invisible cars, virtual reality, time travel and yet despite all this amazing tech we don't have a single prosthetic for our one limbed wounded warrior who is at risk of apparently drowning at the bottom of a bottle? (Or maybe two limbed, since he's also our token black guy, I dunno).
Come on people, this isn't an 8+/10 show. This doesn't compete with any other decent sci-fi like Supernatural, the early seasons of The Walking Dead, Fringe, The X-files or anything else that Amazon knocked out if the Park like The Boys or Yellowstone.
This show is at best in the league of American Gods and even that is a bit of a stretch. As much as we want another Westworld or Expanse that doesn't get dull and redundant after a while, this simply isn't it now matter how much this mysterious "audience" may be telling us so.
PS, a meta critic score is usually found to the right of the audience score on IMDB, I wonder why it's not showing up on this shows page yet?
All we have here is a bunch of cliches, tropes and cardboard cutouts: we've got the Mary Sue lead, the hardened vet supporting role who will do anything to protect their own. We have guns, explosions, a futuristic version of Boss Hog, invisible cars, virtual reality, time travel and yet despite all this amazing tech we don't have a single prosthetic for our one limbed wounded warrior who is at risk of apparently drowning at the bottom of a bottle? (Or maybe two limbed, since he's also our token black guy, I dunno).
Come on people, this isn't an 8+/10 show. This doesn't compete with any other decent sci-fi like Supernatural, the early seasons of The Walking Dead, Fringe, The X-files or anything else that Amazon knocked out if the Park like The Boys or Yellowstone.
This show is at best in the league of American Gods and even that is a bit of a stretch. As much as we want another Westworld or Expanse that doesn't get dull and redundant after a while, this simply isn't it now matter how much this mysterious "audience" may be telling us so.
PS, a meta critic score is usually found to the right of the audience score on IMDB, I wonder why it's not showing up on this shows page yet?