"La Brea" Origins (TV Episode 2021) Poster

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6/10
What an episode - the Origins
ravmeltt17 November 2021
This episode blew me away. There is such a twist and a reveal in the ending of the episode that I can't wait for next week.

I can't say anything without giving something away so that's all I'm gonna right, but this show is very exciting. It reminds me of how I felt watching the 4400 when it aired a couple of years ago. Wonderful series, both that and this, La Brea.

This is pronounced La Bray yer, but where I'm from, we have a place with the same name, but it's pronounced La Bray. Just an extra thought for you readers.
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8/10
Lot better than Lost
kowal-3817 November 2021
I hate when really good show like this is so critisised by probably teenagers given 2 or 3 rate . Idea and performance is very entertaining .Waiting for next episodes.
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8/10
ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS SHOW!!!!!
ladyhawke_200618 November 2021
I initially started watching La Brea because of Eoin Macken & Nicholas Gonzales. I've kept watching because each episode keeps me on the edge of my seat!!!! I'm usually able to see the direction a show is headed. But DEFINITELY NOT La Brea!!!!! And this episode in particular gave me a SERIOUS O. M. G moment!!!! I did not see that coming!!!!! I'm SO VERY HAPPY that La Brea has been renewed for a season 2!!!!!!!!!!!! The possibilities are endless!!!!!!
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3/10
That boy is me
crazy_drunk_pedestrian24 November 2021
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I get it, I get it. Magically transported 12,000 years into the past; suspension of disbelief. But please tell me how a blue-eyed child grows into a brown-eyed man.

Massive, surprising reveal? Honestly? How about the last in a long series of ridiculous impossibilities? They cancel good shows for dreck like this why, exactly??
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Seriously
tjxkmsbx28 June 2022
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Seriously, do writers think we're stupid? A blond child with blue eyes does not become a dark-haired man with brown eyes!!!

I can't wait to see how they explain this, if they do.

I like the show even if I find some characters annoying.
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5/10
Excessive ridiculousness
Top_Dawg_Critic17 November 2021
Adding constant excessive ridiculous plot twists does not make for good writing. This is now beyond worse than a day-time soap opera. I mean c'mon writers, if you're running out of ideas, finish off the season and take a mental break to regroup is you're considering a second season. But adding these drama-queen OMG's is an insult to the series' main plot-line. This is one of the worst episodes, so it's a generous 5/10 from me.
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Stop with the mushrooms already.
random-7077818 November 2021
Mushrooms without added fat like butter or vegetable oils are profoundly low calorie food, the lowest there is. 65lbs of mushroom per person per person per day would not be enough calories to live on. And the types of mushroom's they are collecting have low level toxins but enough to kill you if you ate 30lbs of them a day over a few weeks, and to harm your liver seriously even in smaller amounts eaten everyday.

Seems like a small point but it is just one of the scores of idiotic things these people are doing that would have them already dead in the first trod weeks.
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4/10
Please Send Showrunner Down The Sinkhole
wildernessbarbie6 January 2022
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I put this on just to have some braincandy in the background while I assembled some furniture and got so annoyed at the inane prattle by the characters that I almost broke it.

The absolute cringe-worth reenactment of the fist settlers landing here (complete with their generous help being repaid with inevitable betrayal and accusations of savagery) was just... crap. DO BETTER.

Why on earth has nobody outed the violent drug dealer yet? The woman who helped kidnap a child years ago and has been violent and threatening ever since getting there? Uh, yes she SHOULD be handcuffed to the car!

Son who votes his Mom be banished to die in the woods and radiates super creepy predator vibes need to be taken over someone's knee. You just KNOW he'd be slipping something into some girl's drink at a jock party back home. Woe unto his love interest if she loses interest in him. Her body's gonna wind up being stuffed into a cave somewhere.

It's astonishing all the LA people who happened to have warm jackets when they fell through. As a native, that's almost the most unbelievable part!

Speaking of LA... a guy just happens to remember that he saw a huge semi "a few miles that way..." and never thought to mention it till NOW?!!? Not when people were starving? Could have been full of food! Or medical or camping supplies! Of course nah, it's got some costumes that are all still hung up despite falling thousands of feet.

Speaking of which... mushrooms have very little nutritional value. Almost no net calories. People aren't surviving on that. Yet nobody seems concerned about gathering food, hunting, fishing. There's gonna be a lot of plastic surgery scars popping open from scurvy if they don't get some Vitamin C soon.

They VERY obvious attempts to clone Lost in some way (even blatantly mentioning it at one point) are just sad. The attempt at intrigue, plot twists, and cliff hanger endings just seem like a desperate attempt to keep a job. Somehow trying too hard and not hard enough, all at once.
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2/10
I see their lips moving but I can barely make out
terrylarosa17 November 2021
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What they're saying. Not because I'm hard of hearing but because the writing and characters are awful, un involving and not compelling in any way. Just hanging onto seasons end I know not why. Here a taste of the writing. " Hey Lilly it's dangerous out here so you should head back to camp ". And then she sends Lilly back to camp alone where she could have been attacked. Now we know there are bad CGI prehistoric creatures out there even though apparently they ran out of money and we haven't seen one in ages. Speaking of ages the coming Ice Age ( which in real life had already happened ) lasted a whopping 24 hours. Must've been hard to endure such a long one.............characters continuously walk in the woods with not even sharpened sticks to protect them. Apparently walking in twos seems to be enough protection despite a brazen wolf attacked a camp full of 40 people in the first episode. Also Gavin was a blonde boy but is now dark haired? How does that happen? Different tribes live in complete harmony and coexist peacefully? Never in the history of humankind has that ever happened. It's like the writers just write the first nonsensical thing that pops into their very limited intellect. Unless they actually hire real ones for next season I certainly won't be back.
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2/10
"If you don't help us... we won't survive..."
JabezGill17 November 2021
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"If you don't help us... we won't survive..."

"Ok we will help you"

"... thank you ... but why would you help us?"

What kind of NPC dialogue is this?! Haha... you ask for help and then ask them why they would help you when they agree to your request?! Just to fit in the story about the people from the ship?

Good lawd they must just be writing the script on the fly. Such a horribly planned & written show.
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