Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

ZinQ It is so unutterably slow! I am losing the will to live.I tuned in because of Kim Coates, but really am struggling to stay with it.It could have been so good.

bigjayce We started watching this show after reading the blurb and thinking 'this is our thing!' For the first 5/6 episodes it was really interesting, the clostrophobic nature of it, being stuck out in the middle of nowhere with a supernatural force taking over the town, no way out, no help, food and supplies running short, one person who could see what was going on but the town hated him.THEN......about half way through...... it turns out it's the big bad corporation who were experimenting etc etc etc, why can no one write something that's original, someone on here mentioned Under The Dome, same, half way through it's the big bad corporation and so on.If it was up to me I'd say no to a season 2, there is no need for it at all, remove the show from the remote location there is no show!

pachomar84 I gotta say, after 5-6 episodes, the series seem to have lost completely any plot direction it could have had. We start off with the protagonist, a guy who is hated in the town he lives (apparently a small town in Alaska), and we understand that it's because he's a "freak". We are shown of his ability to see ghosts and talk to them. Then in the first episode he's trying to leave the town for good, when an earthquake happens and the bus he was on crashed. From this point on he say that recent deaths after the earthquake left different ghosts which he used to see. More vengeful and angry than the others From here on it develops a few stories, characters and different scenarios. But at some point it seems that the directors or whoever was in charge of the plot had no idea on what to do. First the ghosts start killing, its never explained why. Then we are introduced to a corporation that might have caused the earthquake and some kind of disruption in the gate from which souls are supposed to move when they die. Then for some reason we start seeing egg-like plants that...attract/? people and they, when they come out, they are....ghosts possessing the bodies? It's never clarified. The ending makes complete no sense. I literally watched the entire episode and was wondering what the heck they actually did to fix the gate-thing So many thing unnecessary introduced, never explained and never fully developed. The characters are really poor developed, Most of the time you will wonder "What are they doing? Are they even thinking?". The acting is quite poor (it really seems with each episode that the actor had no idea what expressions to make, they were just repeating what they read in the scrips The main character is bland, never explained what his real powers are, his personality is completely random, and never gets to be even likable. Not to mention the rest of the cast. It's a real shame, it could have been good but honestly the writers really needed to think through the story or the reason they wanted to use on why everything was happening (or what the heck happened overall in the season)

vatigue I'm rating it a solid 5, because I actually was entertained enough to watch the whole season. That rarely happens with bad shows. The first two episodes are pretty bad. But the show gets better and better after that, before it starts dropping in quality again at around episode 7 or 8. The last three episodes increased the facepalm-value and ended in a last episode that completely ruined the barely existing like I had going for the show. Despite some of the other reviews, I found the acting okay overall. With what script they had, all seemed to have done their best. D'Onofrio felt a bit off considering his other performances while Meat Loaf was doing great. The writing and dialogues seem to depend on the writer and episode. (one example of many: Avan Jogia tells D'Onofrio to not run away from conflicts because they just keep following you. 5 mins. Later in the episode he runs away from the group to avoid conflict...) The core idea had me watch it, and with a higher production value and proper, consistent writing, it could have been a good show. Not great, but good enough to stay in mind in a positive way. Sadly, the writing is inconsistent. Some episodes work, while most of them don't. Some even negate the progress from the episode that aired just before. I can get over bad CGI if the story is catchy and I'm entertained. Some of the caracters act clever or logical in one episode but completely dumb and cliché in the next one. The whole series jumps in quality and story from episode to episode. Also, while Avan Jogia is supposed to be the main character, he rarely even shows up or gets anything to say in most episodes. The last episode made me lower the score 0,5 points because it completely negated the character development of two people again. Give it a go if you have nothing else to watch. But you definitely won't miss anything if you pass.