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Okay, so there are bunch of 'hunters' and our main character is the weakest of them all.

And once during the 'hunting', they come across a new 'dungeon'. Some decide to go in, while some don't. They all vote and only one vote will be required to be the decider. Can you guess who will be that decider? Of course, our weakest-of-them-all protagonist!

And what does he vote for? You guessed it right: to go inside the 'dungeon'.

Then as there are all inside, the door is locked all of a sudden. One person runs for the door but gets 'chopped off' by one of giant statues inside. Now they have to figure out the cryptic rules they had just discovered. And again, guess what? That weakest-of-them-all protagonist has all figured out already lol.

There were other highly skilled 'hunters' too but none of them has any clue what is going on; only our main character does. The plot and storyline couldn't get much lamer than this.

And when the giant statues kills other 'hunters', they get killed right away. Only when they try to kill our 'beloved protagonist', he isn't killed right away. LOL.

What was the hype all about?

"A life without purpose is a waste of it. It took the devil to lay its hands on my shoulders to awaken mine. I would allow it to shallow the flies until this spider is too large to ignore. No longer can it stay cloaked within the faithless. This is God's work. "

The movie started out really well. I did not expect this one to be this good. The ending was bit questionable though -- how did the devil repossess the dead Daniel (seemingly alive) after it possessed Clayton when being shot by Clayton? LOL

But rest aside, I really loved the movie -- the atmosphere, background score, cast and all. In years to come, I think this will be an underrated horror movie like 'The Cursed'.

Rated it 10 because seeing 4.4 felt kinda unjustified.

PS: RIP Tom Sizemore.

The first two season was really nice.

The present being connected to the past and how they are all connected was what made the story so interesting. I remember lost everytime there's a story about a plane and I thought this one would be that epic as well. Manifest tried hard to put things all together but somewhere after the second season they all lost it and realized that only on the second half of the last season -- and by that time, it was already too late.

I would have really loved seeing Al-zajuras story (or whatever he was called) --- he noticing the silver dragon (airplane) in the sky. Man, that story would have been amazing. Manifest fails to put it all together even though there is a happy ending, there's isn't the properly explained ending -- the backstory would have been really helpful.

Rest assured, the acting is phenomenal, some characters can get on the nerves but that's what they are paid to do. I would have loved less off the 'calling' stories and more of the origin ones. And yes, may be another show title.

Some? Fringe has almost every kind of weird/mysterious sci-fi/fantasy elements that you can think of woven together and somewhere down the few episodes, you will wonder if it trying to become 'Jack of all trades'. But that's not the end. Is it also the 'Master of none'?

Well, it started out as any mainstream generic crime show would where each episode has one crime to solve but slowly it built up to something different -- small events throughout the episodes connecting to each other and building a cohesive story.

And when you know there's more to just what shown on the screen, sometimes, the filler episode seems like a drag. Unlike 'Lost', where each episode left you to a cliffhanger that makes you wanna watch another one right away, this show was far from it; may be except final episodes of the last season. The storyline felt similar to '12 Monkeys' -- Father, Mother, Child time travelling and doing things. I felt so probably because I watched it earlier.

But nevertheless, it a good watch. The acting is nice.

For 4 seasons, the main storyline was all about trying to find out what William Bell was upto, dealing with weird 'fringe' events. Then on the final season, all those stories turned out to be just irrevelant. Now the main storyline is about the Observer. So I felt as if whole 4 seasons felt like fillers even though it had as if there was something going on. Like they say 'They had us in the first half.', here it's 'They had us in the first 4 seasons'

The final episodes were not Ozark at all, specially the 8th and the 14th.

It may be just me obsessing over the characters but the death of Ruth was the least I had expected. Wendy saw it coming though.

Anyway, the show ended as if the writer realized that they have no more episodes to work on after filling up previous ones with flashbacks/fillers and didn't want to continue any longer.

Unexpected ending? Yes but a good and satisfying one? Nah.

And that's basically the movie is all about.

I love the cinematography, background score and how witty the movie tries to become at the beginning but that's it.

It's painfully slow and goes no where. If anybody asks what the movie is about, just answer them, "Its about John and the hole. There is not anything except that".